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Sporting Days
John Colquhoun · 1866 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed commentary of the sporting life of the author. First edition. A detailed commentary on the sporting life of the author, with chapters on sea-fowl shooting, deer-driving, loch s…
The Mysterious Amazonia
Gastao Cruls; J. T. W. Sadler [Trans.] · 1944 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)
Rio de Janeiro , Zelio Valverde, 1944 . Paperback. A very scarce, first English edition of this exhilarating Lost World novel set in the Amazon jungles, written by Brazilian novelist Gastao Cruls. The first English edition, with the first edition being published in Brazil in 192…
Clear Waters
Owen Rutter · 1936 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
London, Michael Joseph, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this scarce novel set in Borneo from English historian and travel writer, Owen Rutter. The first edition. Signed by the author to the title page, with an additional inscription to the front endpaper …
The Mystery of Elias G. Roebuck and Other Stories
W. L. Alden · 1896 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)
London, A. D. Innes & Co. 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of this collection of science-fiction and fantasy tales written by American author and diplomat, W. L. Alden. The first edition, bound in the publisher's original blue cloth. Very scarce wor…
The Terror of Villadonga
Geoffrey Household · 1936 · Rooke Books
£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)
London, Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) LTD, [1936]. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first U.K. edition of this exciting adventure novel by Geoffrey Household, an illustrated work set in Spain. The uncommon first U.K. edition of this work. Published in the U.S. as 'The Spa…
Poems by Thomas Hood, Illustrated by Birket Foster; Poems by Thomas Hood, Again Illustrated by Birket Foster
Thomas Hood · 1872 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)
London, E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1872 . Leather. Two beautifully illustrated volumes of the poetry of Thomas Hood, with plates by Birket Foster. In a beautiful signed binding by Sotheran. Two volumes bound in one, being the first and second series of Birket's illustrated edition…
Here, of All Places
Osbert Lancaster · 1959 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, John Murray, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this pictorial history of domestic architecture. First thus. Illustrated throughout with many full-page images. A revised and expanded omnibus version of Pillar to Post and Homes Sweet Homes, this eng…
The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World
C. E. M. Joad · 1943 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1943. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this tale following a soldier as he searches for the promised post-war better world, illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. The first edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust w…
The History and Directory of Walsall, Containing Its Antiquities, and a Modern Survey of Its Improvements, a Description of Its Public Edifices, and an Enumeration of Its Local and Commercial Advantages
Thomas Pearce · 1813 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
Birmingham, Thomson and Wrightson, 1813. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition topographical history on the English market town Walsall, illustrated with a folding frontispiece. The first edition of this very scarce work.A topographical study on the history and ant…
The Economic Position of the British Labourer
Henry Fawcett · 1865 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
Cambridge and London, Macmillan and Co, 1865. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on economics by the leading academic Henry Fawcett. The first edition of this uncommon work.An interesting study on the economics of the British labourer by the noted econom…
Eileen&Apos;S Journey: History in Fairyland
Ernest Arthur Jelf · 1899 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)
London, John Murray, 1899 . Cloth. A beautiful example of the 'popular edition' of Ernest Arthur Jelf's work of children's fantasy fiction, in the original 19th century dust wrapper. The 1899 'Popular Edition' of this very scarce work, which was fir…
Riders in the Chariot
Patrick White · 1961 · Rooke Books
£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel set in 1950s Australia, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This work was written by…
Jungle Terror
Harvey Wickham · 1920 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling novel from American author Harvey Wickham, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With a colour frontispiece. A new man-made terror comes to the jungle, the white flame wh…
Rafnaland: The Strange Story of John Heath Howard
William Huntington Wilson · 1900 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)
New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1900. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated lost race novel from American author Huntington Wilson. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one plate. Collated complete. The story of John Heath Howard, who claims to h…
Newman&Apos;S Guide to Darjeeling and Neighbourhood
1927 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
Calcutta, W. Newman & Co. Limited, 1927. Paperback. An illustrated travel guide to Darjeeling, with folding maps. Eighth edition. Illustrated with fifteen plates and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A travel guide to Darjeeling and the surrounding areas, with direct…
Reminiscences of Transatlantic Travellers
Charles T. Spedding · 1926 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1926. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of anecdotes from transatlantic travels. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine images across twenty-two plates. Collated complete. A collection of reminiscences an…
Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories for Children
Julian Hawthorne · 1880 · Rooke Books
£895.00 (€1,072.79 | $1,182.43 | ¥188,758)
London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1880. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce anthology of children's tales by Julian Hawthorne, a charming collection in the original cloth. The first edition of this very scarce work, with no record of it having been sol…
Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade
Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1876 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1876. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this lesser known political work by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The first edition of this lesser known work by poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, an essay in which he criticises the political views of Th…
The Sirens an Ode
Laurence Binyon · 1928 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)
London, Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1928. Cloth. A long form poem by Laurence Binyon, this being a revised edition. A revised edition.'The Sirens' is a long ode by Laurence Binyon, a poem set on the sea.Binyon was a noted war poet who is best known for his work 'For …
Book of the Three Dragons
Kenneth Morris · 1930 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)
New York and Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Kenneth Morris's reworking of a classic Welsh legend, illustrated throughout by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. The first edition, first printing. The scarce trade issu…