Narrativa e romanzi

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Thomas Stothard

Daniel Defoe · 1820 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.43 | $2,510.18 | ¥400,716)

London, T Cadell and W Davies, 1820 . Leather. Two beautifully bound volumes of this famous adventure work. Robinson Crusoe is presented to the reader as an autobiography of Robinson, a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island. The works discusses his encou...

Foundation and Earth

Isaac Asimov · 1986 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Grafton Books, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first UK edition of this science fiction novel from Isaac Asimov, the last of the 'Foundation' sequels in the series. First UK edition. With the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.'Foundation an...

Opus: A Selection from the First 200 Books

Isaac Asimov · 1980 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1980. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Isaac Asimov's second 'Opus' collection, comprising samples from an array of his diverse works. An uncommon first UK edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped du...

Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction the Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction Forgotten Life

Brian Aldiss · 1965 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

London, Faber and Faber; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Jonathan Cape Ltd; Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1965-1988 . First edition. Cloth. A fine collection of first edition works from British writer Brian Aldiss, in the original unclipped dust wrappers.  All copies in this set are first edit...

Pair of Works on John Betjeman

Bevis Hillier · 1984 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, John Murray, 1984-1988. First edition. Cloth. Two fine, first edition works of literary criticism on English poet, writer, and broadcaster John Betjeman by Bevis Hillier, both in the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. Both in the original bright, unclipped dust ...

Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage a Portrait of Jane Austen

B. C. Southam; David Cecil · 1968 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul; Constable and Company Ltd. 1968-1978. First edition. Cloth. A fine pair of literary works on Jane Austen, one with a colour frontispiece and fourteen colour plates, both in the original bright, unclipped dust wrappers. Both works are the first...

Ginger Pye

Eleanor Estes · 1951 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an award-winning children's novel centered on an American family and their new puppy, written with empathy, humour and tenderness. The first edition of Ginger Pye, a children's bo...

The Twins

Edward Shirley · 1904 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1904]. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce children's narrative poem of twinhood and mischief by Edward Shirley, charmingly illustrated throughout by John Hassall. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with p...

Outward Bound from Liverpool

Edouard Peisson; C. R. Benstead [trans.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Methuen & co, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. Inspired by the Titanic, this is the very scarce first English language edition of Edouard Peisson's maritime adventure novel about an ocean liner hell-bent on achieving a speed record on a transatlantic voyage. With a pu...

Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces

Samuel Johnson · 1774 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, T. Davies, 1774 . First edition. Leather. A first and second edition set of this wonderful collection of miscellaneous prose and poetry from early in the career of Samuel Johnson, complete in three volumes. A mixed edition set.Volumes I and II are present in the second...

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850 · Rooke Books

£680.00 (€815.08 | $898.38 | ¥143,414)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition of Charles Dickens's celebrated Victorian bildungsroman, with illustrations throughout from Phiz. The first edition in book form of this work.A mixed issue, with the following first ...

La Colombe

Alexandre Dumas · 1850 · Rooke Books

£3,800.00 (€4,554.85 | $5,020.35 | ¥801,431)

Bruxelles , Librairie du Pantheon, 1850. First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce first edition of this slim volume from Alexandre Dumas, preceding the first publication in France. The first edition, preceding the book's first publication in France under the title Hi...

Clues or Leaves from a Chief Constable&Apos;S Note Book

William Henderson · 1889 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,668)

Edinburgh , Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier , 1889. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this rare collection of detective's anecdotes, highlighting late 19th-century crime in industrial cities. Author's presentation copy, with his inscription ...

Gazooka and Other Stories

Gwyn Thomas · 1957 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition collection of short stories by Gwyn Thomas, in original unclipped dust wrapper. A very scarce first edition of the short story collection by influential Welsh writer, dramatist and radio broad...

The King&Apos;S Messengers and the Distant Hills

Rev. William Adams · 1898 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of two Christian allegories by Oxford theologian, Rev. William Adams. In the publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt. First edition. Illustrated with a fro...

The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke · 1979 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.65 | $336.89 | ¥53,780)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Clarke"s Hugo Award–winning novel of grand engineering ambition and humanity"s next great leap into space, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original b...

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John Wyndham · 1979 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.90 | ¥24,887)

London, Michael Joseph, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Wyndham"s tense survival tale of a remote island expedition confronting a hostile subterranean organism, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original green cloth bin...

Uncle Stephen

Forrest Reid · 1945 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1945. Cloth. An early edition of Forrest Reid"s sensitive novel of a lonely boy and the quiet, formative bond with his uncle, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. First publishe...

Pere Goriot: Scenes from Parisian Life

Honore de Balzac · 1887 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Leather. A handsome limited edition of Balzac"s Père Goriot, the great Parisian novel of ambition, sacrifice, and social climbing, bound in a half morocco binding by Geo. Winstanley. Bound in a half morocco binding with marbled paper b...

Jane Austen

B.C. Southam; Sheila Kaye-Smith; G.B. Stern; Robert Liddell; Mary Lascelles; Constance Pilgrim; Joan Rees; George Holbert Tucker · 1944 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.43 | ¥79,089)

London; Manchester, Routledge & Kegan Paul; Cassell and Company Ltd; Longmans; Oxford University Press; William Kimber; St. Martin's Press; Carcanet, 1944-1983. Cloth. London; Manchester: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Cassell and Company Ltd; Longmans; Oxford University Press; ...