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My Official Wife
Richard Henry Savage · 1892 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)
London, George Routledge and Sons, 1892. Leather. A scarce copy of Richard Henry Savage's My Official Wife. In an attractive leather binding. Known for adventure books which were in keeping with his own somewhat daring and glamorous life as a military officer and writer in …
The Brook Kerith and Aphrodite in Aulis
George Moore · 1929 · Rooke Books
£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1929-30. First edition. Vellum. Two signed and limited edition works by George Moore. Both volumes signed by Moore. Aphrodite in Aulis is the first edition and number 820 of a limited 1825 run. The Brook Kerith is number 234 of a limited 375 copies…
A Volume of Handwritten Poetry by Fanny Crofton to Her Sister
Fanny [Crofton] · 1831 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)
London, Handwritten, 1831. Leather. A volume of handwritten poetry by 'Fanny' to her sister Mary Crofton, dated 1831 from Cadogan Place in London. The poems are neatly written, sometimes in a portrait and sometimes a landscape orientation. They generally cover romantic…
Grandma&Apos;S Attic Treasures: A Story of Old-Time Memories
Mary D Brine · 0 · Rooke Books
£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,852)
London, Griffith and Farran, c1881. Leather. A beautifully illustrated children's story, 'Grandma's Attic Treasures: A Story of Old-Time Memories' written by Mary D Brine. In a charming decorative leather binding, profusely illustrated throughout. With 37 ill…
Reveries of a Bachelor
Ik Marvel [Donald Grant Mitchell] · 0 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, C. H. Clarke, c1853. Leather. A interesting work by the american author and essayist, Donald Grant Mitchell, illustrated throughout. Binder's label of Pring and Price to rear pastedown. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates. A work from American author, Donald…
Sesame and Lilies
John Ruskin · 1901 · Rooke Books
£38.99 (€46.74 | $51.51 | ¥8,226)
London, George Allen, 1901. Leather. An attractively bound pair of essays by critic and philanthropist, John Ruskin. Containing two lectures: Of King's Treasuries and Of Queen's Gardens. Fifty-fourth thousand in original form, with new preface. In an Allman's and …
The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1919 · Rooke Books
£84.99 (€101.87 | $112.28 | ¥17,930)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1919. Leather. A scarce edition of this collection of the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Bound by Bickers and Son (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). Heavily influenced by his poetic predecessors, in particular John Keats and the …
Poems by Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray · 1937 · Rooke Books
£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)
Eton, Riccardi Press Fount of the Medici Society Limited, 1937. Vellum. A collection of the poetry of Thomas Gray, privately printed by Eton College. Including a leaving gift dedication page. With many of Gray's famous odes, epitaphs, and elegies. In a vellum binding with a…
The Gaberlunzie&Apos;S Wallet
James Ballantine · 1843 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
Edinburgh, John Menzies, 1843. First edition. Leather. A signed first edition of 'The Gaberlunzie's Wallet' by James Ballantine. Inscribed by the author James Ballantine, who wrote under the pseudonym 'Jot.' With numerous illustrations on steel and wood …
The Pleasures of Imagination
Mark Akenside · 1803 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1803. Leather. An illustrated copy of The Pleasures of Imagination by Mark Akenside. With three engraved plates, a frontispiece and a critical essay by Anna Barbauld. Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician. In this, his most famous work, h…
Borland Hall and Olrig Grange
Hermann Kunst · 1872 · Rooke Books
£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)
London, Macmillan and Co. 1872-74. Fine Binding. Two beautifully bound volumes of poetry by Hermann Kunst, from the library of Sir Charles Tennant in a signed binding. Hermann Kunst is a pseudonym for Walter Charles Smith, a hymnist, poet and minister of the Free Church of Scotl…
Illustrations of the Bible Volume I & II
Westall and Martin · 1835 · Rooke Books
£825.00 (€988.89 | $1,089.94 | ¥174,049)
London, Edward Churton, 1835. First edition. Leather. 96 full page illustrations of Biblical scenes each with the accompanying text rarely seen. Very crsip and unusually clean copy direct from a Regency Country house library, so a one owner book. The descriptions accompanying th…
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. In Two Volumes
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1849 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1849-50. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this satirical bildungsroman novel by popular Victorian novelist, William Thackeray. William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical bildungsroman novel, featuring his alter-ego Arthur Pendennis. With…
A Selection of Nine Pamphlets on Varying Topics, Mostly to Do with Christianity and Religion.
Various · 1877 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)
London, Various Publishers, c1846-78. Leather. A collection of nine pamphlets, being extracts from various sources, bound in one volume with a handwritten title page listing content. Previously owned by F. T. Colby with bookplate to front pastedown, also with an ink inscription …
The Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins and T. Warton with Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes.
Rev. George Gilfillan; Charles Cowden Clarke. · 1863 · Rooke Books
£162.00 (€194.18 | $214.02 | ¥34,177)
London, James Nichol, 1863 . Leather. A full leather bound volume, with gilt detailing to the spine. This volume contains information regarding the lives of Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins and Thomas Warton, in addition to their poetical works. There is wear to the extremities…
The Master and Modern Spirit and Freedom Through Right Thinking
Lewis C Strang · 1924 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Roland Publishing Company, 1924-25. Leather. A signed two volume set of theology and philosophy works by Lewis C. Strang. Both volumes are special deluxe editions limited to five hundred (Master) and three hundred (Freedom) copies of which these are numbers 17 and 9. Sig…
The First Book of Poetry for the Use of Schools Intended As Reading Lessons for the Younger Classes
W F Mylius, [Charles and Mary Lamb] · 1811 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)
London, M J Godwin, 1811. First edition. Leather. A scarce, early first edition of this book of poetry for schools. By Charles and Mary Lamb, published under the pseudonym W. F. Mylius. With two engravings: a frontispiece and one further plate, both illustrative of the plate. Th…
Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)
London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A Riviere bound edition of Gray's poems and letters with monochrome tipped-in illustrations. With a portrait to frontispiece, a decorative title page, decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. With a biographical introduction by hi…
May Day with the Muses
Robert Bloomfield · 1822 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Bloomfield's poem, 'May Day with the Muses&apos. Bloomfield was a celebrated poet in his time, known for being a working class, self-educated writer. Celebrated in the context of simila…
Poems and Letters
Thomas Gray · 1867 · Rooke Books
£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)
London, Chiswick Press, 1867. Leather. A collection of the poems of Thomas Gray, including his best-known work, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard. With an Etonian prize dedication page to the front. Illustrated throughout with four tinted plates. Bound by Riviere (binder&ap…