Narrativa e romanzi

Young Earnest: The Romance of a Bad Start in Life

Gilbert Cannan · 1915 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1915 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exceptionally scarce novel surrounding the triumphs and trials of a young man named Earnest, in the original, very scarce, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce wo...

Jungle Girl

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1933 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,690)

London, Odhams Press Limited, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this popular Edgar Rice Burroughs novel set in Cambodia, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first U.K. edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'Jungle Gir...

The Spoils of Poynton

Henry James · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, William Heinemann, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel by Henry James, following the fate of a family and their country house. The first edition in the second state binding, with nine tulips to the front board. 'The Spoils of Poy...

Down the River

H. E. Bates · 1937 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. E. Bates's charming tale, signed by the celebrated illustrator of the work, Agnes Miller Parker. Signed by Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter Agnes Miller Parker to the front free endpap...

Ashenden or the British Agent

W. Somerset Maugham · 1928 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, William Heinemann, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Somerset Maugham's collection of thrilling tales about life as a member of the British Intelligence during the First World War. A first edition, first impression. Stott A37 a.William Somerset...

Sembal

Gilbert Cannan · 1922 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first US edition of Gilbert Cannan's social novel, described by the publisher as a 'study of a certain type of Jewish temperament, with its fierce intellectualism and fierce smoldering passion&apos. Th...

The Semi-Attached Couple

Emily Eden · 1955 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, The Folio Society, 1955. Cloth. The Folio Society edition of Emily Eden's romance novel, in the original glassine and slipcase and illustrated with wood engravings by Dorothea Braby. The Folio Society edition. First published in 1860. In the publisher's orig...

The Opener of the Way

Robert Bloch · 1974 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Jersey, Neville Spearman Limited, 1974. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of this collection of fantasy and horror stories by Robert Bloch, in the original dust wrapper. The uncommon first UK edition. First published in 1945 in America. Many of the stories fi...

The Ship of Ishtar

A. Merritt · 1973 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Tom Stacey, 1973. Cloth. A fine copy of this evocative fantasy novel by A. Merritt, with illustrations. A first thus, published in this series which aims to 'make available again some of the best books by the best authors of our time [..] that have been unobtainab...

West India Lights

Henry S. Whitehead · 1946 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition of Henry Whitehead's posthumously published collection of weird fiction, in the original striking dust wrapper designed by Ronald Clyne. The first collected edition. In the original, unclipped d...

And Afterward, the Dark

Basil Copper · 1977 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.68 | $117.58 | ¥18,770)

Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1977 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of this collection of seven spooky tales from Basil Copper, including his celebrated sci-fi short novel set in the future, 'The Flabby Men' The first edition. A fine example, in the publishe...

Billy Barnicoat, a Fairy Romance for Young and Old

Greville MacDonald · 1922 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fantasy novel by Greville MacDonald, strikingly illustrated. The first edition of this uncommon work. A charming fairy romance fantasy novel by Greville MacDonald. The novel follows a youn...

A Mirror for Observers

Edgar Pangborn · 1954 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

New York, Doubleday & Company Inc, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant sci-fi novel about two Martians in Massachusetts by Edgar Pangborn. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'A Mirror For Observers' ...

The Wanderer

Fritz Leiber · 1967 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the first U.K. edition of Fritz Leiber's brilliant sci-fi novel following a wandering planet. The first U.K. edition, first impression.In the original unclipped first issue dust wrapper.First published as ...

The Best of Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber · 1974 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1974. Cloth. The first book club edition of this anthology, collecting together the best tales of Fritz Leiber, who has signed the volume. The first book club edition, with the gutter code E 22 to page 299.Signed by the author to the title page...

Sinister Barrier

Eric Frank Russell · 1948 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Reading, Pennsylvania, Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Eric Frank Russell's debut novel, an influential science-fiction novel work illustrated throughout by Edd Cartier. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth ...

Great Stories of Science Fiction

Murray Leinster [ed.]; Clifton Fadiman [intro.]; Theodore Sturgeon; Anthony Boucher; Lewis Padgett; et al. · 1951 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

New York, Random House, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition copy of this anthology of science fiction stories by Theodore Sturgeon, Anthony Boucher, and many others. The first edition, third printing of this work in the publisher's original pictorial clot...

A Playwright&Apos;S Adventures

Frederick Reynolds · 1831 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this fictional account of a playwright's life by Frederick Reynolds, bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Bound in crushed half morocco. Illustrated by W. H. Bro...

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories

A. T. Quiller-Couch · 1900 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1900 . First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Arthur Quiller-Couch's collection of ghost stories, featuring fifteen of his classic tales. The first US edition, published the same year as the first UK. Bound in the original c...

Nine Ghosts

R. H. Malden [Richard Malden] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.30 | ¥92,797)

London, Edward Arnold & Co, 1944 . First edition. Cloth. The second impression of R. H. Malden's thrilling collection of ghost stories, inspired by the works of the author's personal friend, M. R. James. The second impression of this work, which was first published t...