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Elkin Mathews Celebrates Its Centenary
Barbara Muir · 1988 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)
London, The Book Collector, 1988. Paperback. A very scare essay by Barbara Muir celebrating Elkin Mathews, signed by Muir to Brian Aldiss. A very scarce work.Signed by the author to Brian Aldiss to the front paste down. Extracted from 'The Book Collector', Volume 37 N…
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley · 1910 · Rooke Books
£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1910 . Leather. A beautiful copy of Charles Kingsley's children's classic, illustrated throughout by Linley Sambourne, and in a Bickers prize binding. In a signed prize binding by Bickers.Illustrated throughout with one-hundred vignettes from …
Free Fall
William Golding · 1959 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)
London, Faber and Faber, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. Author Brian Aldiss's copy of the first edition of William Golding's fourth novel following an English painter who is held in a German POW camp in the Second World War. The first edition, first impression.In the pub…
Snowdon: Sittings 1979-1983
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon; John Mortimer [intro.] · 1983 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Antony Armstrong-Jones's volume of portrait photographs of those who 'feature largely in the public imagination&apos. Flat signed to the verso of the front free endpaper 'Snowdon…
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley · 1892 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
London, John Murray, 1892. Leather. A smartly bound two-volume set exploring the life and career of influential English educator, Thomas Arnold. A later edition of this biographical work, complete in two volumes. In full maroon morocco binding, signed by J. P. Gray & Son. With …
Sir William Henry Flower: A Personal Memoir
Charles J. Cornish · 1904 · Rooke Books
£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this memoir of English surgeon Sir William Henry Flower, signed and inscribed by his wife. First edition. Signed by Georgiana Rosetta Smyth, the wife of Sir William Henry Flower who…
Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Margaret Thatcher · 2002 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, HarperCollins , 2002 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Margaret Thatcher's final novel, outlining her views on the challenges brought by the new millennium. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with ei…
The Pinetum, Report on the Unusual Intensity of the Frost of December 1860
George Gordon; Duncan Forbes · 1867 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)
London; Aberdeen, Henry G. Bohn; Simpkin Marshall & Co; Geo. Clark & Son, 1867-80. Leather. Two arboricultural works bound in one volume, by George Gordon and Duncan Forbes, Forbes' work being signed. Bound by Henderson & Bisset. Two volumes bound in one. 'Report on …
Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Advocate
Cosmo Innes · 1854 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)
Edinburgh, [The Bannatyne Club], 1854 . First edition. Leather. The uncommon first edition of this biography of the life of Scottish advocate Thomas Thomson, in a lovely signed binding by Henderson and Bissett. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.A biography of Scottish adv…
Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century, As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
Dr. Oskar Fischel; Max von Boehn; Grace Thompson · 1927 · Rooke Books
£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)
London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927 . Leather. The enlarged second edition of this beautifully illustrated study of nineteenth century dress, in a sumptuous Sangorski binding. First published in English in 1909, this is the revised and enlarged second edition.Volume I with forty, vo…
Mediaeval Military Architecture
George T. Clarke · 1884 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)
London, Wyman & Sons, 1884 . First edition. Leather. The two volume first edition of George T. Clarke's guide to mediaeval military architecture, in half calf signed bindings by Morrell. The two volume first edition of this work.A beautifully illustrated insight into the mi…
No Word of Love
A. L. Barker · 1985 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press , 1985. First edition. Cloth. A scarce engrossing collection of short stories from A. L. Barker, with a signed and dated inscription from the author. The first edition thus of this collection. With three of the stories having been publi…
The Statement
Brian Moore · 1995 · Rooke Books
£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)
London, Bloomsbury, 1995. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed first edition of this thrilling novel set in the south of France, from acclaimed author Brian Moore. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.The Statement is a thriller set in …
The History of the Book War: Fair Book Prices Versus Publishers&Apos; Trust Prices
The Times · 1907 · Rooke Books
£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)
London, The Times, 1907. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce essay concerning the dispute of British publishers with The Times Book Club, from the library of William Foyle, the co-founder of Foyles bookshop. A very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. Th…
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel · 2012 · Rooke Books
£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)
London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition first edition, first impression of Hilary Mantel's award-winning sequel to 'Wolf Hall', signed by the author, in the pictorial cloth. A first edition, first impression of this work, and one of 1,…
A Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress
James Robinson Planche · 1876 · Rooke Books
£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)
London, Chatto & Windus, 1876-1879 . First edition. Leather. A sumptuously bound first edition of James Robinson Planche's vibrantly illustrated study of historical dress, in signed bindings by Bayntun. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes.Examining in de…
Chequers: The Prime Minister&Apos;S Country House and Its History
Norma Major · 1996 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London , Harper Collins , 1996. Cloth. A fascinating historical exploration of the the country house of the Prime Minister, adorned throughout with colour illustrations. An excellent early copy of this historical work.Signed by the author to the title page. In the publisher&apo…
Poems of 1962
Linda Collin Wileman; Various · 1962 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)
Ilfacrombe, Arthur H. Stockwell LTD, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A scarce anthology of poems celebrating the publications of the year, signed by one of the contributors to W. A. Foyle. The first edition of this scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, also in a custom…
A Waterhen&Apos;S Worlds
Eliot Howard · 1940 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)
Cambridge, University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Eliot Howard's detailed study on waterhens, a signed first edition copy. The first edition.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, 'Gilbert Ashton, from E. H. May 1940&apos.Illustrated with two p…
The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1883 · Rooke Books
£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,375)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co, 1883 . Leather. A beautifully bound edition of Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson's works, in a full morocco signed binding by John Bumpus. A lovely collection of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in a signed John Bumpus full morocco …