Narrativa e romanzi

The Moonstone: A Dramatic Story, in Three Acts

Wilkie Collins · 1877 · Rooke Books

£18,500.00 (€22,175.18 | $24,441.09 | ¥3,902,926)

[London], Charles Dickens & Evans, Crystal Palace Press, 1877 . First edition. Leather. A beautiful example of Wilkie Collins's very scarce stage adaptation of 'The Moonstone', a work never widely published, and 'privately printed for the convenience of the...

A Collection of Novels by Ethel M. Dell

Ethel M. Dell · 1921 · Rooke Books

£1,975.00 (€2,367.35 | $2,609.25 | ¥416,664)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd; Hutchinson & Co.; Ernest Benn Limited, 1921-1939. First edition. Cloth. A charming and bright collection of novels from Ethel M. Dell, with the original dust wrappers. Nineteen volumes. Some scarce works. Written by Ethel May Dell Savage, a Bri...

Murder Most Foul

Gordon Ashe [John Creasey] · 1942 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, John Long, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the very scarce first edition of this murder mystery, the sixth novel in the Patrick Dawlish series. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work.Written by John Creasey, under his pseudonym Gordo...

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy

Len Deighton · 1976 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Len Deighton's exciting spy novel. A first edition of the work, in smart, black cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper and decorative endpapers. Len Deighton is a British aut...

A Plunge Into Space

Robert Cromie; Jules Verne · 1891 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.54 | $455.79 | ¥72,784)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, [1891]. Cloth. The second edition of Robert Cromie's famous Utopian novel, this second edition with a preface by Jules Verne, and a frontispiece. The second edition, with a preface by Jules Verne.This issue without preliminary leaves, the f...

Possessed

Jack Woodford · 1946 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York, The Woodford Press, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Jack Woodford's thrilling novel about a young woman who fears she may be possessed. The first edition of this work, in the vibrantly illustrated publisher's original dust wrapper. Fl...

All of a Piece: New Essays

E. V. Lucas · 1937 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays from humorist E. V. Lucas, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With illustrated frontispiece. A collection of essays including: Oil&ap...

Three Hundred & Sixty Five Short Quotations from Horace

Horace; H Darnley Naylor · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Shaftesbury, The High House Press , 1935. Leather. A scarce limited edition of this anthology of quotations from Horace by H Darnley Naylor. Limited edition of 215 copies, of which nos. 1 to 15 are printed on hand-made paper and signed by both the compiler and translator, and ...

Lelia

George Sand · 1833 · Rooke Books

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

Paris, Henri Dupuy; L. Tenre, 1833. First edition. Leather. A very scarce complete two volume second printing of George Sand's philosophical French novel. In the original French.While each title page refers to these as a fictional second edition, the true second edition w...

And Call It Accident

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1939 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London , Hutchinson & Co. 1939. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of the novel And Call it Accident by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. A first edition copy. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific English novelist who had a r...

The Mary Jane and Other Stories

Joan E. Cass · 1958 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, The Educational Supply Assocation, 1958. First edition. Paperback. A first edition of this scarce collection of illustrated children's stories, signed by the author Joan E. Cass. A first edition of The Mary Jane and Other Stories, signed by author Joan E. Cass to ...

Jill the Reckless

P. G. Wodehouse · 1920 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Herbert Jenkins, c1921. Cloth. The seventh printing of this successful novel by P. G. Wodehouse. Popular novel by GP Wodehouse, first published in 1920 in New York. This is the seventh impression of the UK edition, dated via Jisc. Following the adventures of heroine J...

The Centenary Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens · 1910 · Rooke Books

£1,575.00 (€1,887.89 | $2,080.80 | ¥332,276)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1910-1911. Cloth. A centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens in a smart thirty-six volume set, with numerous illustrations. The centenary edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.A stamp depicting Charles Dickens is a...

Mantissa

John Fowles · 1982 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1982 . First edition. Cloth. A fine copy of the Limited Edition first US edition of John Fowles's 1982 novel, signed and in the original slip case with pictorial onlay by Pablo Picasso. The first US edition, first impression. Number four-hund...

The Lessing Murder Case

Sydney Horler · 1935 · Rooke Books

£94.00 (€112.67 | $124.19 | ¥19,831)

London, Collins, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, signed copy of this thrilling mystery novel by best-selling author, Sydney Horler. The scarce first edition, second impression. Published in the same month as the first. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding...

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 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...

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...

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...

Carte Blanche

Jeffrey Deaver · 2011 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Great Britain, Hodder & Stoughton, 2011 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of the thirty seventh James Bond novel, signed by the author and with the ticket to the book signing. First edition, first impression of Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver in the o...