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The True State of England. Containing the Particular Duty, Business and Salary of Every Officer, CIVIL and Military in All the Publick Offices of Great Britain
Anonymous · 1729 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, C. King, and J. Stagg, 1729 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce guide to the public offices of Great Britain in the early eighteenth century. A scarce first edition.With 'complete lists of the Lords and gentlemen of his Majesty's most hon…
The Manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle Preserved at Castle Howard
Historical Manuscripts Commission · 1897 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, By Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this publication of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, presenting manuscripts held at Castle Howard by the Earl of Carlisle. The first editio…
Report on the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd,1884
Raphael Meldola; William White · 1885 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)
London, Macmillan & Co, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Raphael Meldola and William White's guide to the 1884 Colchester earthquake. The first edition of this work.With four plates, two of which are folding, and further vignette illustrations. Collated, co…
The Poll Book for the Parts of Lindsey, in the County of Lincoln
Anonymous · 1841 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
Lincoln, James Drury, 1841 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce record of the 1841 parliamentary election in the Lindsey region of Lincolnshire. A vanishingly scarce first edition.This work records the details of a parliamentary election in the Lindsey r…
John Wyndham or the Gospel Among the Fishermen
Rev. George Shaw · 1878 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and decoratively cloth-bound Christian novel with themes of sailing and fishing, written by the Reverend George Shaw. The first edition. A very scarce work.In the publisher's original decorative clo…
Two Thousand Years of Gild Life; or an Outline of the History and Development of the Gild System from Early Times, with Special Reference to Its Application to Trade and Industry; Together with a Full Account of the Gilds and Trading Companies of Kingston-Upon-Hull from the 14th to the 18th Century
Rev. J. Malet Lambert · 1891 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)
Hull, A. Brown & Sons, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this extensive history of the guilds in England, illustrated throughout with many plates. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. An extensive account on the his…
First and Last Loves
John Betjeman · 1952 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
London, John Murray, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of essays on architecture, from English writer John Betjeman. First edition. Illustrated with a folding plate and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated complete. A collection…
Winter Frost
R. D. Wingfield · 1999 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, Constable, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this fifth gripping Detective Inspector Jack Frost novel by R. D. Wingfield. First edition, first impression. The fifth Jack Frost novel. A thrilling murder mystery following the slove…
A Cambridge Staircase
The Author of "A Day of My Life at Eton" [George Nugent Bankes] · 1883 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce account of a day spent at the University of Cambridge. First edition. Very scarce. A detailed and comprehensive account of a day at the University of Cambridg…
The Book of the Lodge, or, Officer&Apos;S Manual
Rev. G. Oliver · 1849 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)
London, R. Spencer, 1849. First edition. Cloth. George Oliver's detailed study on freemason lodges, a scarce copy of the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work.This is a detailed work on the lodges of Freemasonry. The author discusses the history of masonry, a…
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986 · Rooke Books
£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)
London, Faber & Faber, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of Ishiguo's award winning novel set in post Second World War Japan. The first edition, second issue of Kazuo Ishiguro's Whitbread Book of the Year winning second novel.In the publishe…
Hornblower in the West Indies
C. S. Forester · 1958 · Rooke Books
£105.00 (€125.86 | $138.72 | ¥22,145)
London, Michael Joseph, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the C. S. Forester's final Hornblower novel, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The final novel…
Printing to-Day
John C. Tarr · 1945 · Rooke Books
£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)
London, Oxford University Press, 1945. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this history of printing, richly illustrated and with the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. A fascinat…
Joan la Romee: A Drama
Frank Harris · 1926 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
Nice/New York, Imprimerie Nicoise/Frank Harris Publishing Co. 1926. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this play from Irish-American editor and writer Frank Harris. First edition. A little-known play following the life of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France, ho…
Perversite
Francis Carco · 1925 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
Paris, J. Ferenczi et Fils, 1925. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this mystery story from French author Francis Carco, in the original French. French. First edition. Set in the underworld of the Paris slums, this mystery story follows the life of a young prost…
The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe
Barry Cunliffe [editor] · 1994 · Rooke Books
£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression, of this illustrated historical work on Europe. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with forty-six colour images across twenty-five plates, nineteen maps, and many in-te…
Odtaa: A Novel
John Masefield · 1926 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)
London, William Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel from English writer John Edward Masefield, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. An adventure novel which opens with establishing narrative describing the fictional nati…
Two Addresses Delivered at the Dedication of a New Transmitter of Radio Free Europe Beamed to Hungary
Frederic R. Dolbeare; Gyula Dessewffy · 1951 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
Stamford, The Overbrook Press, 1951. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce program and record of the two addresses spoken at the ceremony inaugurating the new service of Radio Free Europe for Hungary. First edition. Limited to three hundred copies. A program and record…
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts & the Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford
Horace Walpole · 1840 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)
London, Richard Bentley, 1840-1866. Leather. A smart five volume set of the collected letters of English writer Horace Walpole, with one volume from another set of his letters. Six volumes, mixed set. Five volumes of a six volume set and one volume of a nine volume set. Each vol…
A Letter to the Rev. E.B. Pusey
George Miller · 1840 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
London, Duncan and Malcolm , 1840 . First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce, first edition of George Miller's letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey surrounding the state of the Church. The first edition. This very scarce work contains a letter written by George Miller, a former …