Narrativa e romanzi

The Lighthouse

Alison Moore · 2012 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Salt publishing, 2012. First edition. Paperback. A signed first edition first impression of Alison Moore's Booker Prize shortlisted novel. This signed first edition, first impression of Alison Moore's debut novel 'The Lighthouse' was shortlisted for...

Netherland

Joseph O'Neill · 2008 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Fourth Estate, 2008. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Joseph O'Neill's popular novel following the life of a Dutchman in the wake of 9/11, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. Signed by the author to the title ...

The Green Fields Beyond

Evelyn Hart · 1995 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Surrey, Severn House, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Evelyn Hart's romantic novel. This signed first edition of well-loved author Evelyn Hart's 'The Green Fields Beyond' sets a romantic tale against the backdrop of the brink of the se...

Afterwards

Rachel Seiffert · 2007 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,225)

London, Heinemann, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition copy of Rachel Seiffert's novel 'Afterwards&apos. Seiffert is a Booker Prize shortlisted author for her novel 'The Dark Room&apos. Signed to the title page, with the author's signature a...

A Fairy Garland Being Fairy Tales from the Old French

Charles Perrault; Madame d'Aulnoy; Count Anthony Hamilton · 1928 · Rooke Books

£980.00 (€1,174.67 | $1,294.72 | ¥206,685)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1928. Vellum. A signed limited edition of Edmund Dulac's beautifully illustrated collection of French short stories, illustrated in colour throughout. A signed limited edition, being numbered five-hundred and eighty of one-thousand copi...

Handley Cross, or Mr Jorrocks&Apos;S Hunt

Robert Surtees · 1926 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

Bath, George Bayntun, 1926. Leather. A handsome copy of Robert Surtees's nineteenth century classic focusing on the adventures of a grocer turned Master of Fox Hounds, in a signed Bayntun half crushed morocco binding. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist a...

The Hessian Prisoner

H. E. Bates; Edward Garnett (Foreword) · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930. Cloth. A limited edition signed work by the English author, H. E. Bates, with an illustrated frontispiece by John Austen. Limited edition copy, being number 440 of 500. Signed by the author. This being No. 2 of the Furnival Books. Wit...

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Len Deighton · 1982 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Hutchinson, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this fascinating historical novel by Len Deighton, best known as one of the top three spy novelists of his generation. This work is set in Britain in early 1944 and is noted by critics to successful...

The Wind Blows over

Walter de la Mare · 1936 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, Faber and Faber, 1936. Cloth. A scarce signed, limited edition copy of this collection of short stories by Walter de la Mare. Limited edition of seventy five copies, of which this is number fifty eight. Signed by de la Mare to the colophon. Printed on English hand-made...

Mr Barrett&Apos;S Secret and Other Stories

Kingsley Amis · 1993 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Hutchinson, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of short stories by Kingsley Amis. First edition, first impression, with complete number line. In the original dustwrapper designed by Mark Edwards. Contains the stories: Mr Barrett's Sec...

Beyond the Fall of Night

Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford · 1990 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction work, signed by Gregory Benford. First edition, first impression, with complete number line. Signed by Benford to the title page. Beyond the Fall of Night begins with the ...

Henry Et Caton

Iris Murdoch · 1980 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Paris, Gallimard, 1980. Cloth. A French language edition of this novel by Iris Murdoch. Signed by an inscription from the author to her friend, Isla Fletcher, in Amsterdam. 'With all fond wishes to Isla Fletcher in Amsterdam&apos. Translated into French by Suzanne Mayoux....

The Secret of Annexe 3

Colin Dexter · 1986 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1986. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detective fiction novel from the popular 'Inspector Morse' series by Colin Dexter. Signed by the author. This is the seventh novel in the Morse series and begins following the murder of a...

Scribbleomania; or, the Printer&Apos;S Devil&Apos;S Polichronicon: A Sublime Poem

Anser Pen-Drag-on [William Henry Ireland] · 1815 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1815. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of a fascinating series of satirical poems poking fun at the current literary scene, written by the devilish yet talented Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. The first edition of Scribbl...

Les Lunes Poetiques Des Deux-Mondes

J.-P.-R. Cuisin · 1840 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,264)

Paris, Le Bailly, 1840 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce 1840 reissue of the first edition of Cuisin's eccentric Romantic panorama of nocturnal Paris, illustrated with nine striking lithographic plates. In a contemporary quarter green straight-grained morocco bind...

The Novels of Francis Brett Young, Severn Edition: Marching on Tanga; the Black Diamond; the House Under the Water; This Little World; White Ladies; They Seek a Country; the City of Gold

Francis Brett Young · 1935 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

London, William Heinemann, 1935-1950. Cloth. A scarce set of the Severn edition novels by author of the Mercian novels Francis Brett Young, with City of Gold signed by Young. Seven of the scarce Severn Edition novels, written by English novelist and poet Francis Brett Young, w...

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray; Arthur Pendennis [ed.] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.74 | ¥137,087)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1891-1893. Leather. A complete thirteen volume set of the works of the nineteenth century satirical novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, in signed bindings. Complete in thirteen volumes.In half blue calf bindings, with marbled boards, endpapers, and...

Simon Scarrow Signed First Edition

Simon Scarrow · 2006 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Headline Review, 2006-2010. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic set of signed and inscribed first edition copies of the complete Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. A complete quartet.The first editions.All four volumes signed by the author to the title pages.In the publish...

The Devil in Vienna

Doris Orgel · 1979 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

New York, The Dial Press, 1979. Cloth. Signed edition of Orgel's eminent semi-autobiographical work about the unlikely friendship between two young girls in 1938 Vienna. Second printing.In publisher's original red cloth binding. With clipped dust wrapper.Signed by th...

Dark Tales of Time and Space

Sean Wright · 2005 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

King's Lynn, Crowswing Books, 2005. First edition. Cloth. First-edition signed set of Sean Wright's young-adult science-fiction-fantasy classic. Includes two first editions, one paperback and one cloth with unclipped dust wrapper. Both copies signed by author to titl...