Narrativa e romanzi

Seven Simeons, a Russian Tale

Boris Artzybasheff · 1937 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Cassell and Company Limited , 1937. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful, first edition, copy of this illustrated Russian folktale. The first UK edition, published simultaneously with the American first edition. In the publisher's green cloth binding with the origina...

The Voyage out

Virginia Woolf · 1927 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

London, Duckworth, 1927. Cloth. An excellent copy of noted Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out. Cheap edition, being one of 1000 copies printed from the Harcourt Brace sheets, with US imprint on copyright page. Lacking the original dust wrapper....

Dangerous Honeymoon

Axel Kielland; Carolyn Hannay · 1946 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Collins, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A lovely scarce first U.K. edition of this thrilling novel set in Nazi Berlin by Axel Kielland. The scarce first U.K. edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Dangerous Honeymoon' opens in a bomb shattered Berlin, f...

The Village Book

Henry Williamson · 1930 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London , Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Vellum. A charming, signed and limited first edition of this collection of nature short stories by Henry Williamson. A first limited edition copy of this work by Henry Williamson. This edition was limtied to five hundred and four co...

Swan Song

John Galsworthy · 1928 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , William Heinemann , 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart limited first edition, first impression copy of Swan Song, which is also signed by the author. A limited, first edition, first impression copy of this work by John Galsworthy, with the misprint to page forty-four...

Here&Apos;S Richness! an Anthology of and by James Agate

James Agate; Osbert Sitwell · 1942 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London , George G. Harrap & Co, 1942. First edition. Leather. A lovely signed, limited edition copy of this anthology of James Agate's works. This volume was limited to one hundred copies, of which ninety were for sale. This copy is number number eighty. The volume is als...

Along the Arno

Brian Glanville · 1956 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1956 . First edition. Cloth. The signed scarce first US edition, first impression of this novel by Brian Glanville with the original dust wrapper. The first US edition, first impression of Along the Arno by Brian Glanville in the original ...

What Crime Is It?

Dorothy Gardiner · 1956 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1956 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition, first printing of Dorothy Gardiner's novel with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of What Crime Is It? by Dorothy Gardiner in the original publisher&ap...

Myra Breckinridge

Gore Vidal · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Anthony Blond, 1986 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Gore Vidal's satirical novel in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal in the original publisher's binding and unclipped du...

Mystery in the Channel

Freeman Wills Crofts · 1931 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London , W. Collins Sons & Co, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Freeman Wills Crofts' captivating novel , Mystery in the Channel. First edition of this work. Mystery in the Channel is a wonderful novel from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, featuring Ins...

Everything Under

Daisy Johnson · 2018 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2018 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression of Daisy Johnson's successful debut novel with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Everything Under by Daisy Johnson in the original publisher's bin...

Illywhacker

Peter Carey · 1985 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Boston, faber and faber, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Peter Carey's award winning novel with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of Illywhacker by Peter Carey in the original publisher's binding and...

Rites of Passage

William Golding · 1980 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Faber & Faber, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of William Golding's award winning novel Rites of Passage, with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of Rites of Passage by William Golding in original publisher&...

What a Carve Up!

Jonathan Coe · 1994 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Viking , 1994. First edition. Paperback. A signed copy of Jonathan Coe's popular 1980s satire. A first edition, third impression. Paperback. Signed by the author. Jonathan Coe's popular satire on British politics under the Conservative government of Margaret ...

The Cornhill Magazine January 1860-June 1861

William Makepeace Thackeray [ed.] · 1860 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London , Smith, Elder & Co. 1860-1861. First edition. Cloth. The first three volumes from The Cornhill Magazine, edited by William Makepeace Thackery and with illustrations throughout. The Cornhill Magazine was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the ...

The Moor&Apos;S Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie · 1995 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1995. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this award-winning novel by Salman Rushdie, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. The Moor's Last Sigh is Salman Rushdie's fifth novel, first published in 1995. It is set in the cities of Bombay...

Alentejo Blue

Monica Ali · 2006 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Doubleday, 2006 . First edition. Cloth. A fine, signed and numbered Limited Edition of Monica Ali's Portuguese-set second novel. A signed, limited edition first edition, first impression of British-Bangladeshi novelist Monica Ali's second novel, the follow up...

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Len Deighton · 1982 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

London, Hutchinson, 1982. First edition. Cloth. Smart first edition of Len Deighton's historical novel, complete with dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A historical novel by Len Deighton, telling of the 220th Fighter Group of the US Eighth A...

The Story of General Dann and Mara&Apos;S Daughter Griot and the Snow Dog

Doris Lessing · 2005 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London and New York, Fourth Estate, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A scarce signed first edition and first printing of Doris Lessing's dystopian sequel. First Edition and first printing signed copy of The Story of General Dann by one of Britain's greatest novelists. In...

Trent&Apos;S Own Case

E. C. Bentley; H. Warner Allen · 1936 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,303)

London, Constable & Co LTD, 1936. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this sought after murder mystery sequel by Edmund Clerihew Bentley and H. Warner Allen, uncommon to see in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.The long ...