Narrativa e romanzi

The Moon Is Down

John Steinbeck · 1942 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel fashioned for theatre adaptation from American writer John Steinbeck. First edition. Second state with correction to page 112. With the original price-clipped dust wrapper. The story of...

Selecta Poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii; Poems in English and Latin, on the Archers, and the Royal-Company of Archers

Archibald Pitcairne · 1726 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

Edinburgh, Not Stated, 1726-1727 . First edition. Leather. Two very scarce first edition of early eighteenth century works of poetry. bound together in a modern quarter morocco binding. In both Latin and English.Two very scarce works of poetry bound together.The first of these...

The Outcry

Henry James · 1911 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Methuen and Co, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Henry James's entertaining final completed novel, 'The Outcry&apos. The first edition. Originally conceived as a three-act play, this work was converted into a novel in 1911 and was the last no...

The Shropshire Racket

Stephen L. Robertson · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Sheed & Ward, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this parody of the work of A. E. Housman by Stephen L, Robertson, with illustrations by Thomas Derrick. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated by Thomas Derrick with monochrome vignettes. This v...

The Backward Shadow

Lynne Reid Banks · 1970 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this sequel to Lynne Reid Banks' 'The L-Shaped Room', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped du...

Wet Magic

Edith Nesbit · 1923 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1923. Cloth. An uncommon to see copy of one of Edith Nesbit's popular children's fantasy novels, an illustrated mermaid adventure. The first edition to be published by T. Fisher Unwin, having previously been published by T. Werner Laurie....

Deliverance

James Dickey · 1970 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Dickey's debut novel, about a group of four middle-aged men who encounter danger in the backwaters of Georgia. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrappe...

Chaucer&Apos;S Dream-Poems

James Winny · 1973 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of three of Chaucer's early poems, a review copy with publisher's request. First edition. A review copy with the original request from the publishers. A study of three of Chaucer...

Portrait of Mimosa

David Arkell · 1958 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, W. H. Allen, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this pleasant novel of romance and mystery, written by Reginald Arkell's son, David Arkell. The first edition of this scarce work. With the publisher's very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Set within ...

The Liberty of Love

James Blyth [Henry James Catling Clabburn] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, F. V. White & Co. Ltd. 1909. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this very scarce novel from British author James Blyth. First edition. Very scarce. Opening on a conversation between a General and his wife, sharing their concerns for their daughter Millicent, a se...

The Green Mare

Marcel Ayme · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, The Fortune Press, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition in English of this entertaining novel by Marcel Ayme. A variant of this edition, issued without plates. An unusual issue of the first edition in English of this work.'The Green Mare', originall...

The Persian Adventurer: Being the Sequel of "the Kuzzilbash

J. B. Frazer [James Baillie Fraser] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830 . First edition. Leather. The scarce three volume first edition of James Baillie Fraser's thrilling romance 'The Persian Adventurer&apos. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in three volumes.The work of Scot...

The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort

Theodore Martin · 1875 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1875-6. Cloth. The first two volumes of Theodore Martin's biography on the Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, the husband to Queen Victoria. The fourth edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece to both volumes and four monochrom...

Eva Luna, the Stories of Eva Luna, & Daughter of Fortune

Isabel Allende; Margaret Sayers Peden [translator] · 1989 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hamish Hamilton; Flamingo, 1989-1999. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first UK editions of novels from Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Three volumes. First UK edition. Written by Isabel Angelica Allende Llona, a Chilean-American writer noted for her magical r...

Ben Nevis Goes East & the Lunatic Republic

Compton Mackenzie · 1954 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1954-1959. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart first editions of these comedic novels from Scottish author Compton Mackenzie. Two volumes. First edition. Written by Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histor...

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen · 1938 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this moving novel from Irish-British writer Elizabeth Bowen. First edition. Following the story of a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thom...

A House for Mr Biswas

V. S. Naipaul · 1961 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel on a man finding success in a postcolonial world by V. S. Naipaul, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper. &...

The Glimpses of the Moon: A Novel

Edmund Crispin · 1978 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition, fourth impression of Edmund Crispin's last novel, featuring the amateur detective Gervase Fen. The first edition, fourth impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, ...

Herself in Love and Other Stories

Marianne Wiggins · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Collins, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories from American author Marianne Wiggins, signed by the author. First UK edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A collection of nine short storie...

The Giant, O&Apos;Brien

Hilary Mantel · 1998 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Fourth Estate, 1998. First edition. Cloth. Hilary Mantel's haunting novel about the eighteenth century giant Charles Byrne, the first impression, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Gia...