Narrativa e romanzi

A Child Possessed

R. C. Hutchinson · 1964 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition story steeped in affectious charm, written by British best-selling novelist R.C. Hutchinson. The first edition of this work. In the original unclipped dust wrapper and publisher's original cloth bin...

The Emperor&Apos;S Bracelet

Manning Coles [Adelaide Frances Oke Manning; Cyril Henry Coles] · 1947 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, University of London Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charmingly illustrated novel, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates and many in-text and full-page image...

The Ides of March

Thornton Wilder · 1948 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this epistolary novel by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. First edition. An epistolary novel dealing with the characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assass...

Tommy Carteret

Justus Miles Forman · 1905 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this illustrated novel from American writer Justus Miles Forman. Firs UK edition. Scarce work. Illustrated a colour frontispiece and three colour plates. Collated complete. A tale follo...

The Moles of Death

John Dellbridge [Frederick Joseph de Verteuil] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, The Diamond Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this science fiction novel from Trinidad-born British author John Dellbridge, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A...

A Romance of Two Centuries

Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie · 1919 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Alpine, New Jersey, Platonist Press, [1919]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce Near Future science fiction novel set in 2025, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. The first edition of this very scarce work.Review copy, with a stamp to the title page.'A Rom...

The Supreme Mystery

J. H. Symons · 1917 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1917. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce time travel science fiction novel by J. H. Symons. The first edition of this very scarce work.A thrilling science fiction novel in which a scientist sends the spirit of a medium into va...

Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor

Mervyn Peake · 1967 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1967. Hardback. A smart edition of Mervyn Peake's first published work, a colourfully illustrated yet darkly humorous children's tale. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A 1960s edition of this incredibly popular dark children&...

Lucian&Apos;S Wonderland

Lucian of Samosata; St J. Basil Wynne Willson [trans.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1899 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of St J. Basil Wynne Willson's translation of Lucien's ancient Latin satire, authored in the second century AD. The first edition thus. Translated from Lucien of Samosat...

Alphabet Gallery an ABC of Contemporary Illustrators

Gina Pollinger [ed] · 1999 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Mammoth, 1999. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated showcase of art from popular children's book illustrators, commissioned to raise money for 'The Dyslexia Institute&apos. The first edition.In the publisher's original ...

The House Prefect

Desmond Coke · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Humphrey Milford, 1923. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated and bright copy of Desmond Coke's scarce fiction novel, illustrated by H. M. Brock. A later edition, first published in 1908.Illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock with a colour frontispiece and five coloured pl...

Bayete! "Hail to the King": A Novel

G. H. Nicholls · 0 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, c1923. Cloth. A smart copy of this very scarce work from G. Heaton Nicholls. Very scarce work. Written in the wake of the First World War, this novel explores the events that occur when a brooding spirit settles on the lands of Kodje Mountain. Wri...

Cleopatra

H. Rider Haggard · 1926 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London , George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1926. Cloth. A smart reprint H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel, with scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A 1926 reprint of H. Rider Haggard's historical fantasy novel. First published by George G. Harrap & Compa...

When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

H. Rider Haggard · 1919 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting adventure novel from popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with two leaves of black and white star charts. Collated, complete. Following the adven...

Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales

H. Rider Haggard · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1920. Cloth. An early edition of this short story collection from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. T. Werner publishing information pasted over the original J. Arrowsmith details to the title page. A collection of short s...

Kemlo and the Star Men

E. C. Eliott; [Reginald Alec Martin] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this popular Kemlo novel, part of the children's science fiction series. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.The seventh n...

The Scapegoat

Jocelyn Brooke · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this novel ruminating on childhood by Jocelyn Brooke, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this post-war novel exploring themes of childhood and masculinity. This work, w...

Chaka: An Historical Romance

Thomas Mofolo; Sir Henry Newbolt; F. H. Dutton · 1931 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

Oxford; London, International Institute of African Languages & Cultures; Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of this great Sesotho novel, a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of the Zulu Emperor Shak...

The Virgin of the Sun

H. Rider Haggard · 1922 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this thrilling adventure novel set in South America by the popular author H. Rider Haggard. The first UK edition of this work in the publisher's original tan cloth binding, with brow...

The Wanderer&Apos;S Necklace

H. Rider Haggard · 1914 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel concerning Norseman Olaf in the eighth century. The first UK edition of this work in the scarce variant brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to th...