Narrativa e romanzi

A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners

Jules Verne · 1874 · Rooke Books

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

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874 . First edition. Leather. The first UK edition of these two thrilling tales from Jules Verne, illustrated throughout and in a bright calf prize binding. The first UK edition of these two popular science-fiction adventure novels...

Edmund Dulac&Apos;S Picture Book for the French Red Cross

Edmund Dulac · 1916 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1916]. Cloth. An early edition of this collection of stories and artwork by the noted illustrator Edmund Dulac. An early edition. First published in 1915 in yellow cloth. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nineteen coloured plates. Colla...

King Albert&Apos;S Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World

Rudyard Kipling; Thomas Hardy etc · 1914 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, The Daily Telegraph, [1914]. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this tribute to King Albert, with contributions by important public figures and authors and illustrations by popular artists. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated ...

The Wizard

H. Rider Haggard · 1896 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. A first American edition of H. Rider Haggard's thrilling adventure novel, with decorative binding and monochrome plates by artist Charles Kerr. The first American edition of this work, published in 1896. First...

Waverley Novels

Sir Walter Scott · 1857 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Leather. A very smartly bound complete set of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. Complete in twenty-five volumes. The complete Waverley Novels, a series of novels originally released between 1814 and 1832, often called his 'M...

Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch

H. Rider Haggard · 1901 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1901 . First edition. Leather. A leather-bound, first edition of this historical romance novel by H. Rider Haggard, with illustrations by G. P. Jacomb Hood. First edition. Bound in contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards. Written by Engli...

Too Late the Phalarope

Alan Paton · 1953 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this powerful work by South African writer Alan Paton. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped...

Magpies in Picardy

T. P. Cameron WIlson · 1919 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce book of poetry by poet T. P. Cameron Wilson. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original publisher's cloth. This collection of poetry was written by T. P. Cameron Wilson ...

Mr. Meeson&Apos;S Will

H. Rider Haggard · 1888 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

London, Spencer Blackett, 1888 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition in book form of this exciting H. Rider Haggard adventure novel, illustrated throughout. The first UK edition in book form. This was preceded by a version printed as the "Summer Number" of the Illustrat...

Espedair Street

Iain Banks · 1987 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan London, 1987. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fictional novel following a bass guitar player's rise to fame, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper...

The History Man

Malcolm Bradbury · 1975 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this campus novel from Malcolm Bradbury. First edition. A satire of academic life in the "glass and steel" universities established in the 1960s which followed the "redbricks". Howard Kirk is a lect...

Difficulties of a Bridegroom

Ted Hughes · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Faber & Faber, 1995 . First edition. Cloth. A fine, first edition of this collection of short stories by Ted Hughes, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. This ...

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck · 1945 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, William Heinemann, 1945 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of John Steinbeck's classic American novel, set in Monterey during the Great Depression. The first UK edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Stei...

Debits and Credits

Rudyard Kipling · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S edition of this collection of stories and poems by Rudyard KIpling. The first U.S edition. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by the popular English author and poet Rudy...

The Wanderer&Apos;S Necklace

H. Rider Haggard · 1914 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated adventure novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and three black-and-white plates. Collated complete. ...

Actions and Reactions

Rudyard Kipling · 1909 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, with charming illustrations to accompany the text. First edition. Bound in the publisher's pictorial green cloth. Written by English...

Yet in My Flesh

M. E. Mitchell · 1933 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this science fiction novel pondering eugenics, by M. E. Mitchell. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This intriguing science fiction novel follows a...

Twelve Novels by Robert Neill

Robert Neill · 1951 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1951-1970. First edition. Cloth. First editions of twelve of Robert Neill"s historical novels, in their bright original dust wrappers. The first editions of these works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original dust wrappe...

Better Days or, a Millionaire of Tomorrow

Thomas Fitch; Anna M. Fitch · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Chicago, F. J. Schulte & Co. 1892 . Paperback. A new, revised edition of this science-fiction novel by husband and wife Thomas and Anna Fitch. A new, revised edition of the work, published the year after the first edition. Number eleven as part of the Ariel Library series. Bo...

One Came Back

Neil Bell · 1938 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London, Collins, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce, signed first edition of this novel set in the future, by Stephen Southwold, writing under the pseudonym of Neil Bell. First edition, bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, price-clippe...