Narrativa e romanzi

The Week-End Book

1932 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932. Leather. A smartly bound new edition of this illustrated anthology of poetry, plays, and meditations on leisure activities. New edition. First published in 1924, going through numerous editions due to its immense popularity. Illustrated throug...

John Wyndham or the Gospel Among the Fishermen

Rev. George Shaw · 1878 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1878. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and decoratively cloth-bound Christian novel with themes of sailing and fishing, written by the Reverend George Shaw. The first edition. A very scarce work.In the publisher's original decorative c...

Winter Frost

R. D. Wingfield · 1999 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Constable, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this fifth gripping Detective Inspector Jack Frost novel by R. D. Wingfield. First edition, first impression. The fifth Jack Frost novel. A thrilling murder mystery following the slo...

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1986 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Faber & Faber, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second issue, of Ishiguo's award winning novel set in post Second World War Japan. The first edition, second issue of Kazuo Ishiguro's Whitbread Book of the Year winning second novel.In the publis...

Hornblower in the West Indies

C. S. Forester · 1958 · Rooke Books

£105.00 (€125.86 | $138.72 | ¥22,152)

London, Michael Joseph, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the C. S. Forester's final Hornblower novel, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The final nov...

Perversite

Francis Carco · 1925 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Paris, J. Ferenczi et Fils, 1925. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition of this mystery story from French author Francis Carco, in the original French. French. First edition. Set in the underworld of the Paris slums, this mystery story follows the life of a young pro...

Odtaa: A Novel

John Masefield · 1926 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, William Heinemann, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel from English writer John Edward Masefield, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. An adventure novel which opens with establishing narrative describing the fictional na...

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1993 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression, of Kim Stanley Robinson's second novel in his vast 'Mars' science fiction trilogy. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper....

Montes the Matador

Frank Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first U. S. edition of this brilliant collection of five stories by Frank Harris, signed by the author. The first U. S. edition, first printing. This first U. S. edition was published ten years after the first Londo...

Three Books of Song

Henry Wadsworth Longefellow · 1872 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this poetical work from American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. First edition. Three books of poetry entitled: Tales of a Wayside Inn, Judas Maccabaeus, and A Handful of Translations,...

An Additional Volume to the Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---Y W----Y M-----E: Written, During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &C. In Different Parts of Europe.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · 1767 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1767 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce, additional volume of the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, published posthumously from "recovered manuscripts", although controversially considered to be fake. The first edition.Very scarce...

Cavanagh Forest Ranger, a Romance of the Mountain West

Hamlin Garland · 1910 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Hamlin Garland's popular Western romance, this copy being thrice signed by Garland. The first edition.Author's presentation copy, with an inscription to the rec...

The Princess&Apos; Blankets

Carol Ann Duffy · 2008 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Templar Publishing , 2008 . First edition. Hardback. A signed, limited edition of this enchanting fairy tale written by Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations by Catherine Hyde. Limited edition, with this copy being number 339 out of 500 copies printed. Signed...

Scripta Manent

Alfred Bovet; Philippe Godet · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Neuchatel, Attinger Freres, 1887. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound limited edition work on the autograph collection of Alfred Bovet, signed by Bovet himself. The first edition of this scarce limited edition. Limited to six hundred copies, of which this is numbered five ...

Helen of Lowbole

Una L. Silberrad · 1924 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, John Long Limited, 1924. Cloth. Una L. Silberrad's very scarce novel about a headstrong women living in a little rural village, in the original, vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. A later edition, first published in 1913. In the publisher's original cloth with...

Fred Markham in Russia; or, the Boy Travellers

W. H. G. Kingston · 1858 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Griffith and Farran, 1858. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this W. H. G. Kingston adventure novel, complete with seven illustrated plates. The very scarce first edition of this work from W. H. G. Kingston, who is widely known for his array of boy...

Devil of a State

Anthony Burgess · 1961 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Heinemann, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novel from British author Anthony Burgess, based on his experiences in Bandar Seri Begawan. First edition. Loosely based on Burgess's own experiences during his time in Brunei, on the island of B...

At Bertram&Apos;S Hotel

Agatha Christie · 1965 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1965 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Agatha Christie's intriguing detective novel set at Bertram's Hotel, as amateur sleuth Miss Marple is hoping for a relaxing London break. The first edition.In the original price-cli...

To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy Comprising Rites of Passage, Close Quarters and Fire Down Below

William Golding · 1991 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Faber & Faber, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. Brian Aldiss's own fine example of the signed limited edition of William Golding's trilogy of nautical novels set in the early 19th century. The first edition, first impression of this work.A signed limited edition,...

Ivanhoe and the Antiquary

Sir Walter Scott · 1821 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1821 . Leather. Scarce Galignani editions of two of Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley' novels, attractively bound in full morocco. Two works bound in six volumes.Both published in Paris in 1821 by A. & W. Galignani, present here are the no...