Narrativa e romanzi

The Killing Kind

John Connolly · 2001 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of the third novel from Connolly's Charlie Parker detective series. First edition, first impression of The Killing Kind by John Connolly in the original publisher's cloth bin...

Half a War

Joe Abercrombie · 2015 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Harper Voyager , 2015. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of this coming-of-age tale by Joe Abercrombie, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to title page. Third and final volume in Joe Abercrombie&apo...

Death of a Sweep; Death of a Policeman

M. C. Beaton [Marion Gibbons Chesney] · 2011 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Constable; CR Crime , 2011-14. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impressions of these Hamish Macbeth murder mysteries by Marion Chesney. Two first editions, first impressions. Murder mysteries by Scottish author Marion Chesney, featuring her popular character of Hamis...

The Don and the Undergraduate

William Edmund Wood Collins · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1899. First edition. Leather. Scarce first edition of this tale by William Collins in a smart Bickers signed binding, author's presentation copy. Work of fiction set in Oxford by William Collins, Welsh-first class cricketer and author,...

Devices and Desires; a Certain Justice

P. D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Faber and Faber , 1989-97. First edition. Cloth. Two bright first editions of these Adam Dalgliesh mysteries by Phyllis Dorothy James. Two first editions, first impressions. Mysteries by Phyllis James, English novelist and life peer. Nos. eight and ten of James's ...

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. The first impression of Thackeray's important historical novel, complete with the original Thackeray plates. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses' on page...

Agent No. 5

James Corbett · 1945 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1945. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this thrilling spy novel by James Corbett, enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. Agent No. 5 tells the story of British Military Intelligence Agent Ralph Peterson as he...

Abracadaver

Peter Lovesey · 1972 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Macmillan, 1972. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this gripping crime novel by British author Peter Lovesey in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Â...

The Blessing Way

Tony Hillerman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the gripping novel which launched Tony Hillerman's career. First UK edition. The first of the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. Two anthropology professors take a summer research trip o...

Wheel Fortune

Karen Campbell · 1973 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, Collins, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon to see first edition of a gripping suspense novel by Karen Campbell. The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent printings listed.Inscription to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To Juliet, as always wi...

The April Robin Murders

Craig Rice; Ed McBain · 1958 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York, Random House, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this mystery novel by Craig Rice and Ed McBain. The first edition, first impression of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper...

The Way We Die Now

Charles Willeford · 1988 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York, Random House , 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this popular detective novel by Charles Willeford, with a letter from the publishers. The first edition. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrappe...

The Noose

Philip Macdonald · 1930 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London , W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1930. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition copy of this thrilling crime novel by Philip Macdonald. The uncommon first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. The thrilling story of Colonel Anthony Gethryn as h...

Violent Ends: Comprising Belle and the Brothers Rico

Georges Simenon · 1954 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Hamish Hamilton , 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of these classic crime stories by Georges Simenon. The first UK edition. Comprising of, 'Belle', and 'The Brothers Rico&apos. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with the ...

The Prime of Life, a Novel

John Brophy · 1954 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Collins, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this 1950s novel from John Brophy, about a man in love with his son's fiancé. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy, addressed t...

Gemma Bovery

Posy Simmonds · 1999 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Jonathan Cape, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A delightful first edition, first impression of this tragicomic graphic novel. A first edition, first impression copy of this graphic novel. Posy Simmonds is a British newspaper cartoonist, writer and illustrator of children...

Home Is the Prisoner

Jean Potts · 1960 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of this scarce mystery novel by Jean Potts, enclosed in Gollancz iconic yellow dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this work, a scarce copy. Sixth thriller by Jean Potts, American author of myster...

The Dogs of Riga; Sidetracked; the Fifth Woman

Henning Mankell · 2000 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, The Harvill Press, 2000-01. First edition. Cloth. Three novels in the 'Kurt Wallander' mystery series by Henning Mankell, bright first English impressions. First English language editions, first impressions. Comprising three novels from Swedish crime author H...

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Evelyn Waugh · 1957 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Evelyn Waugh's semi-autobiographical novel in the original dust wrapper. First US edition of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, A Conversation Piece, by Evelyn Waugh in the ori...

All Suspect

Kenneth Methold · 1960 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Macdonald & Co, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A rather super copy of this very scarce first edition copy of this thrilling crime novel by Kenneth Methold. The very scarce first edition. Held institutionally in only five UK libraries. In the publisher's full cloth bi...