Narrativa e romanzi

The Strawberry Marten

Pauline Glen Winslow · 1973 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of The Strawberry Marten by Pauline Glen Winslow. "A first novel that is strange and compulsive." "We believe that this book, gripping and deeply moving, introduces a new novelist of a most unusual talent." In a na...

The Witch Hill Murder

Pauline Glen Winslow · 1977 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Collins, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel from Pauline Glen Winslow. Featuring the recurring character, Superintendent Capricorn. In a red cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with only some slight bumping. ...

The Kindly Vision

Florence Lawford · 1931 · Rooke Books

£174.00 (€208.57 | $229.88 | ¥36,709)

London, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of one of Florence Lawford's novels. Bound in cloth with an unclipped dustwrapper Dated from COPAC. Little is known about the author, Florence Lawford. She wrote many other novels, includin...

When We Were Romans

Matthew Kneale · 2007 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Picador, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Matthew Kneale's 2007 novel When We Were Romans. The title page includes a personalised dedication from the author in black ink. Matthew Kneale is a bestselling author, whose previous work includes Eng...

Cast a Yellow Shadow

Ross Thomas · 1968 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.91 | $72.65 | ¥11,601)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of Cast a Yellow Shadow by Ross Thomas. Ross Thomas (born February 19, 1926, in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is best kno...

The Pirate and the Three Cutters

Captain Frederick Marryat · 1854 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Leather. A scarce copy of this novel by Captain Frederick Marryat. Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was a British Royal Navy officer and novelist, now known as an early pioneer of the sea story, or nautical fiction. Illustrated with a frontisp...

Self Knowledge, a Treatise Showing the Nature and Benefit

John Mason · 1825 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, C and C Whittingham, 1825. Leather. A handsome pocket sized edition of John Mason's famous and popular work. Treatise on Self-Knowledge was first published in 1745 and went through several editions. This edition is in a pocket-sized format. With an engraved title ...

The School of Man

Francois Genard · 1753 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

Dublin, Lockyer Davis, 1753. First edition. Leather. A popular pseudo-courtesy book by Francois Genard. Translated from the French This is the first Dublin edition of this book. To which is prefixed a key to the satyrical characters interspersed in the work. Popular pseudo-cou...

Ask Mamma;" or, the Richest Commoner in England

Robert Smith Surtees · 1858 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this 19th Century novel, by Robert Smith Surtees. First Edition. With illustrations by John Leech: colour plates and black and white vignettes. Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was ...

Marietta a Novel

T. Adolphus Trollope · 1862 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce work by Thomas Adolphus Trollope. Complete in two volumes. Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810 – 1892) was born in Bloomsbury, London on 29 April 1810, was the elder brother of Anthony Trollope,...

Tales of My Landlord Second Series the Heart of Mid-Lothian

Sir Walter Scott · 1893 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.50 | $103.05 | ¥16,456)

London, John C Nimmo, 1893. Leather. A nicely bound copy of Sir Walter Scott's seventh Waverley novel. With bright tartan endpapers of the Scott clan tartan. Bound without title page, date and publisher's information sourced from Copac. The Heart of Midlothian was or...

The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason

ed. Rev John Mitford · 1853 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London, Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. Leather. A collection of the letters between Thomas Gray and William Mason to which are added some letters addressed by Gray to the Rev. James Browne, D.D. Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. This is a first edition of this work...

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

Lord Lytton · 1891 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1891. Leather. A scarce limited 'Edition de Luxe' of The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lord Lytton being number 196 of 500 copies. With twenty- seven engravings on steel from drawings by Roberts, Maclise and other artists including front...

Modern Accomplishments: Or, the March of Intellect

Catherine Sinclair · 1838 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,875)

London, William Whyte and Co. 1838. Leather. An early copy of this popular novel first published in 1836, in a charming fine binding. Seventh Thousand. Catherine Sinclair (1800-1864) was a Scottish children's writer. She was the fourth daughter of Sir John Sinclair, 1st B...

Literary Gleanings: Original & Selected, with Illustrative Notes

Late Robert Malcolm, Esq. · 1850 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London, E. Malcolm, 1850. First edition. Leather. A very scarce collection of Literary Gleanings: Original & Selected, with Illustrative Notes by the Late Robert Malcolm, Esq. First edition. This compilation was collected by Robert Malcolm during his leisure time and it was hi...

Dalziels&Apos; Illustrated Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith · 1865 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Ward and Lock, 1865. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this decorative and fully illustrated compendium of Goldsmith's work, including the seminal 'Vicar of Wakefield&apos. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and extensive gilt and blind-stamped decorat...

Wild Berries

Yevgeny Yevtushenko · 1981 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan, 1981. First edition. Paperback. An uncorrected proof copy of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko's first novel. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was one of the most famous post-Stalin generation of Russian poets, as well as a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, pu...

Anglo-American First Editions Part Two: West to East

I.R. Brussel · 1936 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Constable and Co Ltd, 1936. Hardback. A lovely copy of the second part of J. T. Brussel's extensive catalogue of British and American first editions. Comprehensively detailing the first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before in A...

The Shadow of Arvor: Legendary Romances and Folk-Tales of Brittany

Edith Wingate Rinder · 1896 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

Edinburgh, Patrick Geddes, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition collection of short folk tales and romances taken from Brittany. Includes stories such as 'Ronan the Silent' and 'Gwennolaik', translated and retold by Edith Wingate Rinder. In ...

Latterday Symphony

Romer Wilson · 1927 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Romer Wilson. With a decorative title page. Bound with publisher's advertisements to the rear of the text. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book c...