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Clown Land
1824 · Rooke Books
£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)
London, Perry & Co. Limited, c1894. Paperback. A very scarce Victorian's children's work, containing nine poems about clowns and their adventures, colourfully illustrated. A vanishingly scarce work. Held institutionally at only three libraries; University of Cambridge,…
Enjoyment of Poetry with Other Essays in Aesthetics
Max Eastman · 1939 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Cloth. A smart new edition of this collection of essays from American writer Max Eastman, signed and inscribed by the author. New edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper dated 1942. A collection of essays in…
The Polaris Trilogy
Charles B. Stilson · 1966 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
New York, Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy and Company Inc, 1966-68. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition set of this intriguing science fiction trilogy following a Tarzan-like man, by Charles B. Stilson. The first edition, first printings, in book form. Each volume is in th…
Pitcherino: A Provincial Variation of the Modern Game of Pitch Descended from the More Ancient Game of All Fours
An Observer [George Hill, Jr.] · 1930 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
Houston, Rein Company, 1930. First edition. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of George A. Hill, Jr.'s scarce work on card games. A privately printed limited edition. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper with 'To Lamar Fleming, Esq. from his friend, Ge…
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
W. G. Burn Murdoch · 1908 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated travel guide to India and Burma from Scottish painter and travel writer William Gordon Burn Murdoch, signed in presentation to his sister. First edition. Signed by the author to the …
A Flight of Fancies
Norman Gale · 1926 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)
Old Bilton, Rugby, Norman Gale, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of this privately published volume of poems, with a signed letter from the author. The first edition of this work.With a signed letter from the author, Norman Gale, taped to the…
The Season of Comfort
Gore Vidal · 1949 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel centering on the relationship between a mother and her son, written by Gore Vidal, with a signed note from the author tipped-in. The first edition. With a note tipped-in to the half ti…
What Did I See?
William Jay Smith · 1962 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)
New York , The Crowell-Collier Press , 1962. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this charming children's book of weird and wonderful sights, signed by the author and published as part of a curated series. The first Crowell-Collier Press edition of this work in the ori…
Not in Israel
Guy Thorne; [Cyril Ranger Gull] · 1913 · Rooke Books
£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)
London, Cassell & Company LTD, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce novel by Guy Thorne, his presentation copy to the dedicatee of the novel. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Author's presentation copy, signed to the dedi…
Time of Hope
C. P. Snow · 1949 · Rooke Books
£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)
London, Faber and Faber, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the first chronological novel in the Strangers and Brothers series from C. P. Snow, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front endpaper. The first chronological novel in the…
Brown&Apos;S Requiem
James Ellroy · 1984 · Rooke Books
£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)
London, Allison & Busby, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of Jemes Ellroy's deut novel, a gripping crime tale set in L.A. signed by the author. The first U.K. edition, first impression. This U.K. edition was published three years after the U.S. first.Inscr…
Swallow-Flights
Louise Chandler Moulton · 1877 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1877. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first UK edition of this collection of poems by Louise Chandler Moulton. The very scarce first UK edition of this work, and the first to be published under this title. The work ea…
Paris Spleen 1869
Charles Baudelaire; Louise Varèse [trans.] · 1947 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
New York, New Directions, 1947. Cloth. Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems, translated into English by Louise Varèse. A later edition of the English translation of this work in a quarter cloth binding, with decorative paper boards, designed by Geo…
He
Andrew Lang; Walter Herries Pollock · 1887 · Rooke Books
£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)
London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1887 . First edition. Paperback. The uncommon first edition of this humorous contemporary parody of H. Rider Haggard's 'She', co-authored by Haggard's friend, Andrew Lang. The uncommon first edition of this work. Likely the secon…
With the Boer Forces
Howard C. Hillegas · 1987 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
Melville, Scripta Africana, 1987. Cloth. An excellent limited edition copy of this illustrated facsimile, offering insights into the Second Boer War. No. 218 of 1000 limited edition copies of this work in the publisher's original full leatherette binding with the original s…
The Disk: A Tale of Two Passions
Edward A. Robinson; George A. Wall · 1884 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)
Boston, Cupples, Upham and Company, 1884 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the scarce first edition of this fantastical science-fiction novel, inscribed by co-author George A. Wall. The scarce first edition of this work, in the red cloth variant of the publisher's bi…
The Heroes of Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
Charles Kingsley · 1929 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)
London, Macmillan & Co. 1929. Leather. A collection of stories about Greek heroes and mythology, by the noted Charles Kingsley, bound in full crushed morocco and a slipcase. Reprint. First published in December 1855. Bound in full crushed morocco with a cardboard slipcase. Ill…
So Much
Trish Cooke · 1994 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Trish Cook's delightful children's book, with a signed bookplate by the illustrator, Helen Oxenbury. The first US edition, first impression, in the publisher's original…
A View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction
Neil Gaiman · 2016 · Rooke Books
£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)
London, Headline, 2016 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this fascinating collection of non-fiction essays and writings by Neil Gaiman. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Flat signed by …
Elenchus Brown the Story of an Experimental Utopia Compiled by a Student of Battersea Polytechnic
Bertha Louisa Bowhay · 1929 · Rooke Books
£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)
London, H. R. Allenson, Limited, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An inscribed, first edition presentation copy of this very scarce satirical novel, with illustrations by Harvey Langdon. The first edition. Very scarce.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the illustrator: "H…