Narrativa e romanzi

Mrs. Craddock

William Somerset Maugham · 1902 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, William Heinemann, 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel on late Victorian society and a woman's place in it by W. Somerset Maugham. The first edition, first impression.'Mrs. Craddock' follows an attractive and rich young woman who ...

Gad&Apos;S Hill Place and Charles Dickens

Edwin Harris · 1910 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Roschester, Edwin Harris & Sons, 1910 . First edition. Leather. The scare first edition of Edwin Harris' wonderful study of Dickens' association with Gad's Hill Place, with a signed letter from the author to the founder of the American Dickens' Fellowship. ...

The Book of Dead Days; the Foreshadowing; My Swordhand Is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick · 2003 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Orion Children's Books , 2003-2006. First edition. Cloth. A delightful trio of signed young adult novels by Marcus Sedgwick, each complete with their original unclipped dust wrapper. The first editions, first impressions of these works. Signed by the author to ea...

Milton&Apos;S Paradise Regained

John Milton; L. C. Martin [editor] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Milton's Paradise Regained, edited by L. C. Martin. With a portrait frontispiece. Connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, this epic poem in blank verse pro...

The Seven Seas Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1913 · Rooke Books

£1,490.00 (€1,785.98 | $1,968.51 | ¥314,245)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913-1926. Cloth. A smart complete twenty-seven volume set of this limited edition of the works of Rudyard Kipling, signed by the author. Complete in twenty-seven volumes. The Seven Seas edition. Volume one is signed by the author to the ha...

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson · 2011 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Doubleday, 2011. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of the best-selling debut novel of Steve Watson, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. With the original advertising postcard. Both a Sunday Times...

The Golden Bowl

Henry James · 1905 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.86 | ¥48,508)

London, Methuen & Co, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A scarce to see first U.K. edition of 'The Golden Bowl', published only a few months after the first U.S. edition. The scarce first U.K. edition of this work, first impression, this UK first edition is complete in one...

Household Ghosts

James Kennaway · 1961 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Longmans, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of James Kennaway's novel set in the Scottish lowlands, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original clipped dust wrapper. This work was written ...

Night Cargoes: A Smuggling Story

Nicholas Cavanagh · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Peter Lunn , 1946. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this thrilling smuggling story set in the 18th century. A very scarce first edition of this work. With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper.An exciting young adult fiction ab...

The Dream and the Business

John Oliver Hobbes [Pearl Mary Teresa Richards] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this brilliant novel from Anglo-American novelist John Oliver Hobbes. First edition. A brilliant novel exploring the distinctive personalities found in Society life and life on the stage. Following two fas...

The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, The Fortune Press, 1926 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this work collecting the satires of Lord Alfred Douglas, bound in quarter morocco. The first edition, limited to 550 copies. Bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. The collected...

The Romance of Lohengrin

Bernard Capes · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Dean & Son, Ltd. 1905 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this romance novel based on Wagner's Opera, written by Bernard Capes. The first UK edition. Uncommon work. Bound in the publisher's tan cloth variant. Written by prolific Victorian a...

The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book

Randolph Caldecott · 1882 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, George Routledge & Sons, [1882]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of nursery rhymes, brightly illustrated throughout by Randolph Caldecott. The first edition. Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the University of Oxford l...

Seven Types of Ambiguity

William Empson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,162)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important work of literary criticism by William Empson, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. First state binding, with the title in gilt.In the original unclipped dus...

Love Among the Haystacks

D. H. Lawrence · 1930 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of this posthumously published collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence, in the original dust wrapper. A limited edition first edition, with this copy being no. 533 of 1,600 copies produced.In the o...

The Pilgrim on the Earth

Julian Green · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, The Blackamore Press; Harper and Brothers, 1929 . First edition. Vellum. A richly illustrated limited edition of Julian Green's mysterious tale, with colour wood engraved plates by Rene Ben Sussan. A first edition thus.No. 230 of of 375 copies for sale, being one ...

Piers Plowman the C-Text and Its Poet (1966), and, Medieval Literature and Antiquities Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle (1987).

E. Talbot Donaldson ; Niall Rudd et al., and, Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton [editors] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London ; Cambridge, Frank Cass and Company Ltd ; D. S. Brewer, 1966-1987. Hardback. These uncommon, fascinating works of twentieth-century Medieval literary criticism, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of Medieval Literature and Anti...

Amazement

James Blyth · 1907 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, John Long, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce novel by James Blyth about a lost young woman who is taught about the world of music and art. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. A vanishingly scarce novel. T...

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe; Thomas Seccombe [intro] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated edition of Rudolf Raspe's novel about the adventures of a fictional German nobleman, with illustrations by William Strang and J. B. Clark. An illustrated edition. First published in 1785. Illustrated wit...

Attacks of Taste

Evelyn B. Byrne [ed]; Otto M. Penzler [ed] · 1971 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

New York, Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Cloth. A signed limited edition of this collection of essays by a host of popular authors such as Agatha Christie and J. R. R. Tolkien on their early literary influences, with this copy being presented to the celebrated queen of crime, Agatha ...