Narrativa e romanzi

Six Novels by Bruce Marshall

Bruce Marshall · 1947 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Collins; Constable, 1947-1960 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of six first edition novels by Bruce Marshall, each in their original, bright and unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of six first edition novels written by prolific Scottish author, Bruce Marshall. Ea...

Somewhere a Voice

Eric Frank Russell · 1965 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant anthology of sci-fi stories by Eric Frank Russell. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of seven science fiction short stories and novellas...

Moominland Midwinter

Tove Jansson; Thomas Warburton · 1958 · Rooke Books

£1,395.00 (€1,672.13 | $1,842.99 | ¥294,302)

London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of the sixth Moomin book, written and illustrated by Tove Jansson, uncommon to see in the original dust wrapper. The first English language edition, first impression, translated by Thom...

Maiwa&Apos;S Revenge

H. Rider Haggard · 1891 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1891. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of this short H. Rider Haggard novel, following a hunter set on revenge. The first illustrated edition of this work in the publisher's original red pictorial cloth binding with white end papers. I...

The Steam House (Part I. ): The Demon of Cawnpore

Jules Verne; A. D. Kingston [trans.] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893 . Cloth. A smart English language translation of Jules Verne's novel 'The Demon of Cawnpore', the first part of his larger work 'The Steam House&apos. An early UK edition of this work, which was first published i...

Death at the President&Apos;S Lodging

Michael Innes · 1936 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, Gollancz, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the first John Appleby novel by Michael Innes. The first edition, first impression of this detective novel by the British writer Michael Innes.This was the first of Innes's novels featuring John Appleby, ...

A Fall of Moondust

Arthur C. Clarke · 1961 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this thrilling science-fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, reviewed as 'the most plausible and exciting book of its king that I have yet read' by Dennis Wheatley. The first UK edition, f...

The Great Train Robbery

Michael Crichton · 1975 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this exciting, best selling historical novel by Michael Crichton, the author of 'Jurassic Park&apos. The first UK edition. Published earlier in the same year in the U.S by Alfred A. Knopf. In ...

The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends, over Various Countries in Europe

Peter Parley [Samuel Griswold Goodrich] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, J. C. Derby & Co, 1855 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming novel about the travels of a group of characters across Europe in a balloon. The first edition of this work, by American author Samuel Griswold Goodrich, written under the pseudonym Pet...

Bracebridge Hall: Or, the Humourists

Washington Irving · 1896 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 . Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Washington Irving's episodic novel, in the original decorative cloth bindings, and scarce protective cloth dust wrappers. A two volume first edition thus, being the first edition of Irvi...

The Fall of Jerusalem and the Martyr of Antioch

Rev H. H. Milman (Henry Hart) · 1820 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, John Murray, 1820-22. First edition. Leather. Two first edition dramatic poetry works by Henry Hart Milman bound in one volume in full morocco. The first edition. Two works in one volumes. Bound in full morocco. This work features two dramatic poems by Henry Hart Mi...

Creezy

Felicien Marceau; J.A. Underwood [trans] · 1970 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York , Orion, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The first American edition of this novel by the French author Felicien Marceau about a Parisian model named Creezy. The first U.S edition and the first edition in English. Translated from the original French by J.A. Underwood. Wi...

The Tree of Hands

Ruth Rendell · 1984 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1984. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling suspense novel from Ruth Rendell. First edition. A suspense novel following the story of Benet and his mother, Mopsa, who had tried to stab him when he was a child. A recent death in t...

Poetry London X

Various; Tambimuttu [ed.] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Nicholson & Watson, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Volume 2, Number 10, of this brightly illustrated and highly regarded literary magazine Poetry London. The first edition of this work, Volume 2, Number 10, of Poetry London, in the publisher'...

H.M. S. Ulysses, the Guns of Navarone, & South by Java Head

Alistair MacLean · 1955 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Collins, 1955-1958. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition volumes from Scottish novelist, Alistair MacLean. Three volumes. First edition. Written by Alistair MacLean, a Scottish novelist of popular thrillers and adventure stories. This set includes the author...

The English Illustrated Magazine

Various · 1884 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1884-1891. First edition. Leather. Eight leather-bound volumes of the 'The English Illustrated Magazine' from October 1883 to September 1891. The first editions of these eight volumes in a half calf binding. Ink inscription to the first blan...

Four Volumes of First Edition Novels by Howard Spring; There Is No Armour a Sunset Touch These Lovers Fled Away Time and the Hour

Howard Spring · 1948 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Collins, 1948-57. First edition. Cloth. Four first edition fiction novels by Howard Spring, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition to all. Four Volumes.In the publisher's original cloth to all but 'Time and the Hour' and 'These ...

The Mind of the English Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Royal Society of St. George, London, St. George"S Day, 1920.

Rudyard Kipling · 1921 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

New York , Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce transcribed speech by Rudyard Kipling, in the original binding and the original glassine dust wrapper. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original quarter paper vel...

The Miniature

Eden Phillpotts · 1926 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.43 | $561.48 | ¥89,662)

London, Watts & Co, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this fantastical novel by Eden Phillpotts, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Inscribed by the ...

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting science fiction novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Following a smallpox epidemic that sweeps across England. Written as an attack on the anti-v...