Rooke Books

Antiquarian bookseller specialising in rare and hard to come by works from the last 500 years.

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Through the Rooke-ing Glass No. 31 is out now and ready to be read over on our website! Some of our most unusual new arrivals are featured, including an exceptionally scarce Czechoslovakian folding paper theatre, and a 1682 treatise on Christianity.

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A pleasing copy of the first edition of Kitty Black's English language translation of these three works of drama from Jean-Paul Sartre is currently available on our website.

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Currently available on our website is this incredibly unusual voice recording souvenir from the Empire State Observatory, on an aluminium disc phonograph record.

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A first edition work from nineteenth century nature writer John Richard Jeffries, known for his beautiful depictions of rural England in both fiction and non-fiction.

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A signed first edition of this memoir by American poet, playwright, and actress Blanche Oelrichs, often known by her nom de plume, Michael Strange.

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The delightful first edition of this scarce volume, published in 1930 for the British Polar Exhibition.

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Currently available on our website is the third impression of E. M. Forster’s, ‘A Passage to India’.

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A signed first edition copy of Kathleen Gable’s memoir on the life of her husband, American film star Clark Gable.

A touching tribute to the ‘King of Hollywood’.

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Head over to https://t.co/zMZYqT9OwB where a wide range of our works are currently available for 30% off!

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A first edition delightfully interactive children’s tale from author Prescott Holmes, better known for his works on American history.

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A smart first edition of this exciting standalone Agatha Christie novel, following a witness to a crime two years after the incident occurred.

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Currently available on our website is this first edition collection of short stories by English author and humourist, P.G. Wodehouse.

Including 'The Smile That Wins', 'Cats Will Be Cats', 'Best Seller', and more.

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A lovely collection of stories and tales of chivalry and romance, edited by British writer Dorothy Margaret Stuart. Including the tales of Guy of Warwick, Richard the Lion-Heart, William of Palermo, King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, and more. 

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The first edition of Agatha Christie's thrilling Poirot mystery, in the original dust wrapper.

Published during the Second World War, ‘Sad Cypress’ was the first Poirot novel to be partly set in a courtroom.

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Philip Carmichael’s ‘The Man From The Moon’ is a very scarce fantastical children’s science fiction novel about the adventures of a man living on the moon, with illustrated plates from Frank Watkins.

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Available on our website is this scandalous work by James McNeill Whistler, written partly in response and partly as a transcript of Whistler's famous and controversial libel suit against John Ruskin.

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Part biographical, part historical, and part descriptive, this little book all about clowns is perfect for the circus-lover. It includes chapters on clowns around the world, clown music, clowns on horseback, and more 🤡

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A vanishingly scarce panorama of 'Cinderella' containing colourful figures from the fairy tale, intended to be played with.

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Currently available on our website is this finely bound limited edition French translation of 'The Third Man', Graham Greene's important novelised screenplay, illustrated here with plates from the 1949 film.

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Set in California 1962, and adapted into a film by Tom Ford in 2009, currently available on our website is the first U.K. edition of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable novel, complete with the original dust wrapper.

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