Narrativa e romanzi

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens · 1857 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. The first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' renowned novel set in his classic dreary setting, illustrated by Phiz with all plates present. The first edition of this work, being bound from the parts, wit...

Monsignor Quixote

Graham Greene · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, The Bodley Head , 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Graham Greene's entertaining pastiche of 'Don Quixote&apos. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, clipped dust wrapper. A pastiche of the clas...

Island Nights&Apos; Entertainments

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London , Cassell and Company, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this charming collection of short stories by writer Robert Louis Stevenson, with illustrations throughout. This is a copy of the first UK edition, first impression with the price facing the half-ti...

Shakesperiana Catalogue of All the Books, Pamphlets, Etc Relating to Shakespeare

Shakespeare; John Wilson · 1827 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , John Wilson, 1827. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this catalogue of Shakespeare's works. A first edition volume of Shakesperiana Catalogue of all The Books, pamphlets, et relating to Shakespeare. To which are subjoined an account of the early quarto ...

Uneasy Relations

John Haylock · 1993 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London & Chester Springs, Peter Owen, 1993 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by John Haylock, signed, inscribed and dated by the author. First edition of Uneasy Relations by John Haylock in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wr...

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Tom Wolfe · 1966 · Rooke Books

£129.00 (€154.63 | $170.43 | ¥27,215)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1966. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this first collection of essays by Tom Wolfe, the first British edition. The first UK edition, preceded by the true first US edition of 1965. An anthology of essays by Tom Wolfe originally published in Esquir...

Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude · 1898 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.83 | $171.75 | ¥27,426)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. Leather. Essay collections by James Anthony Froude in beautiful uniform half calf bindings. Vols I and II of this collection of short essays concerned with a variety of topics, from history, to culture, philosophy, religion, literature, a...

The Wood Beyond and Killing the Lawyers

Reginald HIl · 1996 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996-1997 . First edition. Cloth. Two first edition, first impression works by crime fiction writer Reginald Hill. Two works by Reginald Hill in the original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrappers. The first editions, first impressio...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; [Edward Fitzgerald trans.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907. Leather. A sumptuously bound copy of this noted work, presented here in a highly decorative Bumpus binding, with exquisite gilt detail and watered silk pastedowns. The 1907 edition of the work. First published in this form by Quaritch i...

Flight of a Witch

Ellis Peters · 1964 · Rooke Books

£134.00 (€160.62 | $177.03 | ¥28,270)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition copy of this thrilling mystery novel by Ellis Peters, enclosed in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Part of the Felse series, Flight of a Witch tells the story of Annet Beck, a beautiful ...

Mezzotint

Compton Mackenzie · 1961 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of this novel by Scottish author Compton Mackenzie in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Mezzotint by Compton Mackenzie in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. This...

The Keys to the Street

Ruth Rendell · 1996 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Hutchinson, 1996 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this mystery fiction novel by Ruth Rendell, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition of The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapp...

Jones of Colorado

Ralph Steadman · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Ebury Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of sketches and stories about Jones the cat, by Ralph Steadman. First edition. While visiting his friend, Hunter S. Thompson, Steadman met Jones the cat. He decided to buy a new sketchbook to c...

The Fortunes of Oliver Horn

F. Hopkinson Smith · 1902 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A fictional historical tale set in the old South by Francis Hopkinson Smith. First edition. An exciting story of life in the Old South. Illustrated with 8 plates. Collated complete. Written by Francis Hopkinso...

Looking for Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker · 1980 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New York, Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this tale of kidnaping and corruption by Robert B. Parker. First edition. After being fired as protection for the eponymous Rachel Wallace, a lesbian feminist activist, Spenser hears that she has been k...

No Alibi the Best New Crime Fiction

Various; Maxim Jukubowski · 1995 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Manchester, Ringpull, 1995. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this impressive crime story anthology, this copy signed by nine of the contributors, including Val McDermid and Ian Rankin. The first edition.Signed by nine of the twenty-nine contributors to the head o...

Bony and the Kelly Gang

Arthur Upfield · 1960 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.89 | ¥24,894)

London, Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of Arthur Upfield's gripping novels in his Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte series. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dustwrapper."Bony and the Kelly Gang" is a novel set in a ...

Find the Innocent

Roy Vickers [William Edward Vickers] · 1959 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this thrilling detective novel by Roy Vickers. The first edition, first impression of this detective fiction novel by Roy Vickers, the penname of English mystery writer William Edward Vickers. ...

The Revelations of Inspector Morgan

Oswald Crawfurd · 1907 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Co, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Crime writer Anthony Berkeley's own copy of the first US edition of this thrilling collection of four detective short stories by Oswald Crawfurd. The first US edition of this collection of four short stories by Bri...

Elephant&Apos;S Work an Enigma

E. C. Bentley [Edmund Clerihew Bentley] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the first edition, first impression of E. C. Bentley's humorous and shocking 1950 novel, 'Elephant's Work&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work of fiction from novel...