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Walks Through London
David Hughson · 1817 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Sherwood, Neely & Jones; Murray, 1817. First edition. Leather. The illustrated first edition of the first volume of Hugh Davidson's illustrated guide to Regency London, in a tree calf binding. The first edition of this work. Volume I only of a two volume work. Illus…
Magiciens Et Logiciens
Andre Maurois · 1935 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
Paris, Editions Bernard Grasset, 1935 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of Maurois's examination of major English-language writers, a signed presentation copy from the author, complete with the original glassine. In the publisher's orignial wraps, complete …
The Toff and the Sleepy Cowboy
John Creasey · 1974 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1974 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of the fifty-sixth Toff mystery, featuring John Creasey's celebrated gentleman detective, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original black cloth bindin…
A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 1961 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Ward Lock & Co, 1961 . Cloth. In a vibrantly illustrated dust wrapper, this is a charming edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated Sherlock Holmes novel. First published in 1887, this is a wonderful mid-20th century edition of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&apo…
The Descent Into the Cave and Other Poems
James Kirkup · 1957 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)
London, Oxford University Press, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this collection of the poetry of English poet, translator and travel writer James Kirkup, in the original dust wrapper. A signed first edition, first impression. Flat signed to the title page…
A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate, and Brimham Crags
Thomas Pennant, [ed. by David Pennant] · 1804 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, C. Mercier and Co. 1804. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the final tour of Thomas Pennant, taking us through the beautiful northern regions of Northumbria and the Pennines. The first edition of A Tour from Alston-Moor to Harrowgate, and Brimham Crags, the fina…
Mervyn Peake: Twelve Poems 1939-1960
Mervyn Peake · 1975 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)
Hayes, Middlesex, BranÂs Head Books Ltd, 1975 . First edition. Paperback. A smart copy of this posthumous poetry collection by Mervyn Peake, combining twelve previously unpublished poems with nine drawings in an edition of just 350 copies, complete with the original glassine wr…
2vols in 1 Responsio Ad Librum Inscriptum, Triplici Nodo, Triplex Cuneus; Apologia Roberti S.R. E. Cardinalis Bellarmini
Robert Bellarmine · 1610 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)
Cologne [Colonia Agrippina], Johann Kinckius; Stephan Hemmerden, 1610 . Cloth. A scarce pairing of Bellarmine's major Catholic responses to James I in the explosive Jacobean controversy over the Oath of Allegiance. Rebound in modern brown cloth, endpapers renewed. Two clo…
Poems
George Sims · 1944 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)
London, The Fortune Press, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this collection of poetry from the English antiquarian bookseller and author, George Sims, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original blue clo…
A Little Boy Lost
W.H. Hudson · 1905 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
London, Duckworth & Co. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this charmingly illustrated novel exploring the complexities of childhood. The first edition. In the publisher's original beige cloth binding. With a frontispiece, twelve plates, and in tex…
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
Joseph Addison · 1718 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
Hague, Henry Scheurleer, 1718 . Leather. An attractive example of the very scarce first Hague edition of Addison's account of his travels in Italy, illustrated with folding engraved plates. The very scarce first Hague published edition of this work, first published in 1705.…
Tours in Wales
Thomas Pennant · 1810 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)
London, Wilkie and Robinson; J. Nunn; White and Cochrane et al, 1810 . First edition. Leather. The three volume first edition of Thomas Pennant's beautifully illustrated account of his late 18th century travels in Wales, with numerous plates, the majority of which are foldi…
The Cobham Journals. Abstracts and Summaries of Meteorological and Phenological Observations
Miss Caroline Molesworth; Eleanor A. Ormerod · 1880 · Rooke Books
£1,750.00 (€2,097.65 | $2,311.99 | ¥369,196)
London, Edward Stanford, 1880 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the scarce first edition of Eleanor A. Ormerod's publication of Caroline Molesworth's pioneering phenological observations. An important work from two significant Victorian-era female scien…
According to the Evidence; the Painswick Line
Henry Cecil · 1954 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, Chapman & Hall; Michael Joseph, 1954-1958 . Cloth. Two thrilling and entertaining novels about the British legal system from barrister and judge Henry Cecil, in the original dust wrappers. Two entertaining novels from Henry Cecil, a British barrister, judge, and a writer…
The Correlation of the Lower Chalk of South-East England
William James Kennedy · 1969 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)
Not Stated, Not Stated, 1969 . Cloth. A very scarce academic resource on the Weald from prominent geologist William Kennedy. Very scarce. Smartly bound in green cloth. Featuring a number of full-page graphs, followed by eight plates, numbered fifteen to twenty-two (bound out of …
Broad Grins; Eccentricities for Edinburgh
George Colman the Younger · 1839 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, H. G. Bohn, 1839. Leather. Two humorous collections of verse by the witty British dramatist, bound in one attractive quarter calf volume. The eighth edition of Broad Grins, with New Additional Tales in Verse, and the first edition of Eccentricities for Edinburgh, with Ne…
Cobett&Apos;S Manchester Lectures, in Support of His Fourteen Reform Propositions: Which Lectures Were Delivered in the Minor Theatre, in That Town, on the Six Last Days of the Year 1831
[William Cobett] · 1832 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)
London, at No.11 Bolt-Court, Fleet Street, 1832. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of the Manchester lecture series, delivered by political reformer, William Cobett. The scarce first edition series of lectures, delivered by William Cobbett between 26th and 31st Dece…
Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes
Various · 1940 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this early Mervyn Peake illustrated nursery-rhyme collection, retaining the original pictorial covers within a later cloth binding. Rebound in a later cloth binding, with the original pictorial front…
Shapes & Sounds
Mervyn Peake · 1941 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1941 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Mervyn Peake's first collected volume of poetry, one of 1,000 copies issued, preserved in the striking original unclipped dust wrapper. In the  publisher's original quarter cloth binding w…
Rhymes without Reason
Mervyn Peake · 1944 · Rooke Books
£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A desirable first edition of Peake's eccentric of nonsense verse, illustrated with sixteen colour illustrations by Peake, and complete with the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original…