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My Enemy&Apos;S Enemy
Kingsley Amis · 1962 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A collection of short stories by popular humorous novelist Kingsley Amis. The first edition of this short story collection, held in original price-clipped dustwrapper. Sir Kingsley Amis was a popular English novelist, poet, cr…
Girl, 20
Kingsley Amis · 1971 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K edition of this novel by Kingsley Amis. This novel is a dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. It follows the antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who is a pillar of the establishment.…
Out of the Ark or Creatures Facetious in Cut and Doggerel
Randall Davies · 1930 · Rooke Books
£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)
London, Peter Davies, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A humorous work comprising of several short lyrics on various animals. Lacking original dustwrapper. The first edition. Illustrated throughout, with numerous designs by various authors. Each illustration, has a short, humorous ve…
Foxon English Verse 1701-1750
D. F. Foxon · 1975 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. An attractive volume of this reference guide to 18th century English poetry. Complete in two volumes in a handsome slipcase.A catalogue of seperately printed poems with notes on contemporay collected editionsAn i…
Max Fritz and Hob a Tale of Adventure
C R Coleridge · 1892 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
London, National Society's Depository, c1892. First edition. Cloth. A late nineteenth century novel, illustrated throughout by W S Stacey. Believed first edition. Undated. dated using Copac and inscription to the recto of half-title page. With a publisher's catalogue t…
The Black Diaries: An Account of Roger Casement&Apos;S Life and Times with a Collection of His Diaries and Public Writings
Peter Singleton-Gates; Maurice Girodias · 1959 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
[Paris], The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition biography of diplomat and Irish nationalist Roger Casement, illustrated, with dust wrapper. A smart copy of the first edition. One of a limited edition run: 'the special edition of The Black Diari…
Early Northern Wairoa
John Stallworthy · 1916 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
Dargaville, The Wairoa Bell and Northern Advertiser Printing Works, 1916. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce history of the New Zealand region, written and signed by a local Member of Parliament who loved his community. Early Northern Wairoa, a vanishingly scarce loc…
Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
Lafcadio Hearn · 1902 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition a beautifully illustrated collection of folk tales and insightful studies which enlighten Western audiences on Japanese culture. The first edition of Kotto: Being Japanese Curios with Sundry Cobwebs, …
The Great Lone Land
Capt. W. F. Butler [William Francis Butler] · 1872 · Rooke Books
£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1872 . Cloth. The third edition of Butler"s classic Canadian travel narrative, illustrated and retaining the large coloured folding map of his route. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding with gilt vignette and blind st…
Death Goes to a Party
Michael Jaffe · 1942 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
New York , Phoenix Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this American detective novel, retaining its striking and scarce original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original beige cloth binding. First edition. Complete with th…
2 Vols Masterpieces by Hiroshige and Selections from Hokusai"S Views of Mount Fuji
Utagawa Hiroshige; Katsushika Hokusai · 1914 · Rooke Books
£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)
Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, c1905-[1914]. Paperback. Two very scarce early Hasegawa woodblock albums, comprising twenty-four beautifully printed reproductions after Hiroshige and Hokusai, in the striking original pictorial wrappers. In the publisher"s original dark grey pictorial paper …
The Ingoldsby Legends Mirth & Marvels
Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Harris Barham] · 1909 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
[London], William Heinemann, 1909. Cloth. A beautifully Rackham-illustrated book of fantastical tales and poems written and compiled by cleric Richard Harris Barham. An Edwardian edition of this captivating collection of folklore tales, myths, and poems. A copy of the 1909 Chris…
Pilgrimage: Memorials of a Journey
S.F.A. Coles · 1931 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, The Columbia Press, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of a poetry anthology focusing on the travels of an English journalist, with a signed inscription to a friend. The limited edition of Pilgrimage: Memorials of a Journey, a charming anthology, writte…
Memoirs of the Wesley Family; Collected Principally from Original Documents
Adam Clarke · 1823 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, J. & T. Clarke; J. Kershaw, 1823. First edition. Leather. The first edition of a scarce biography observing how the founding family of Methodism became among the most respected in British history. The first edition of Memoirs of the Wesley Family, a biography on the dist…
Paris Und Umgebung: Handbuch Fur Reisende
Karl Baedeker · 1923 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1923 . Cloth. A richly illustrated interwar Baedeker guide to Paris, with seventeen maps and forty-one plans. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Nineteenth edition. Illustrated with seventeen maps and forty-one plans and ground plans,…
2 Vols England As It Is, Political, Social, and Industrial, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
William Johnston · 1851 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, John Murray, 1851 . Leather. The first edition of this extensive survey of Britain at the close of the early Victorian period, examining the social consequences of industrialisation alongside politics, labour, poverty, education and the national economy. In contemporary …
The Lord of the Isles
Sir Walter Scott · 1815 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
Edinburgh; London, Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 . Leather. The fifth edition of Scott's sweeping historical poem of Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn, issued in the same year as the first. In a contemporary full calf binding. Fif…
The Roman Catacombs; or, Some Account of the Burial-Places of the Early Christians in Rome
Rev. J. Spencer Northcote · 1857 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)
Philadelphia , Peter F. Cunningham, 1857 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this mid-nineteenth century account of the Roman catacombs, illustrated with folding plates. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Illustra…
The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World
C.E.M. Joad · 1943 · Rooke Books
£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)
London, Faber and Faber, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated tale of a soldier searching for promised post-war world, illustrated by Mervyn Peake throughout. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original beige clo…
Quest for Sita
Maurice Collis · 1947 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
New York, The John Day Company , 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition copy of this charmingly illustrated retelling of the 'The Ramayana' by Maurice Collis, with drawings by Mervyn Peake. The first US edition. In the publisher's original black c…