Narrativa e romanzi

Roll of Honour

Eric Linklater · 1961 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Eric Linklater's novel 'Roll of Honour&apos. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 - 7 November 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, trav...

The Winter Queen

Boris Akunin · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this historical mystery novel set in nineteenth-century Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, and is best known for h...

The Sky and the Forest

C. S. Forester; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith · 1948 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,711)

London, Michael Joseph, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of one of Cecil Scott Forester's renowned tales of naval warfare. Featuring the original unclipped dustwrapper. Forester's other works include; 'The African Queen', 'A Ship of the Line...

Streetwalker

Jonathan Gash · 1959 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,382)

London, The Bodley Head, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Jonathan Gash. The first UK edition of this controversial fictionalised account of the life of a prostitute in London's West End. 'Streetwalker' was published anonymously, bu...

This Little World

Francis Brett Young · 1934 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, William Heinemann, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this first edition novel by Francis Brett Young. The first edition. Written to the verso of front endpaper is 'The first 25 copies of 'This Little World' taken from the machine have been spe...

The Face of a Madonna

Thomas Armstrong · 1964 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.80 | ¥9,070)

London, Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition novel by Thomas Armstrong. "In this book [Armstrong] tells of another Yorkshire, further removed in time but still, as she has always been, the greatest of English counties." "Thomas Armstrong paints the high middle ...

Play Dead

Harlan Coben · 1991 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, Piatkus, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling novel from Harlan Coben. "A nonstop, closely-knit thriller from start to finish, Play Dead takes us careening through suspense, intrigue, and mistaken identity." With original photographic...

Spun Silk

William J. Elliott · 1947 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, Gerald G. Swan, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this romantic thriller by William J. Elliot, in its scarce original dustwrapper. This is the third appearance of 'Silk', the man of five personalities and fifty face. In a blue cloth binding with ...

Voices on the Wind

Evelyn Anthony · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hutchinson, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by British author Evelyn Anthony. The first edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Evelyn Anthony wrote mostly historical novels and thrillers. This novel follows Katharine Alfurd, a woman w...

The Empress Eugenie

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1938 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Longmans Green and Co, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' play 'The Empress Eugenie&apos. Lowndes was a prolific writer and had her works adapted for screen several times, including by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. This ed...

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr Abraham Adams

Henry Fielding · 1929 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, John Lane, 1929. Cloth. An illustrated edition of Henry Fielding's first full-length novel comic novel. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from Lon...

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Susan Wittig Albert · 1997 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York, Berkley, 1997 - 2007. First edition. Cloth. Nine first edition copies from Albert's 'China Bayles Mysteries' series All First Editions Bound in paper with unclipped dust wrappers Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940) is a mystery writer from Vermilion County...

Exercise Hoodwink

Maurice Procter · 1967 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Hutchinson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel from Maurice Procter's 'Chief Inspector Martineau Investigates' series. Procter is best known for his series of police procedural novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Marti...

The Desperate Hours

Joseph Hayes · 1955 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Hayes' taut drama that follows what happens when the home of an ordinary family is invaded by a trio of escaped criminals. First edition thus, third impression. With pictorial unclipped dustwrapper. Joseph...

A Cold Coffin

Gwendoline Butler · 2000 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, HarperCollins, 2000. First edition. Cloth. 'A Cold Coffin' is a John Coffin crime novel by Gwendoline Butler. in the original unclipped dustwrapper. First edition, first impression. Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (1922 - 2013) was a British writer of myster...

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier · 1997 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of Charles Frazier's much-loved novel, 'Cold Mountain&apos. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who wal...

Wine of Violence

Priscilla J. Royal · 2003 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of this medieval mystery by Priscilla J. Royal. Signed by the author to the title page. Priscilla Royal was inspired in her writing by Ellis Peters and her character of Brother Cadfael. Some of her othe...

Village of Stone

Xiaolu Guo · 2004 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,437)

London, Chatto and Windus, 2004. Cloth. A scarce copy of Xiaolu Guo's Village of Stone, being an uncorrected proof copy of the first English edition Translated from the original Chinese by Cindy Carter. In original illustrated paper wraps. Externally, generally smart with...

Bird

Jane Adams · 1997 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this mystery novel from Jane Adams. Jane Adams (born 1960, Leicester) is a British writer of psychological thrillers. Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995. In a black clot...

Final Exposure

Paul Mansfield · 1957 · Rooke Books

£31.99 (€38.35 | $42.26 | ¥6,749)

London, Collins, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first Edition of Mansfield's first novel First Edition The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 6, 1930 to April 1994. It was not a book club in the usual sense of ...