Narrativa e romanzi

All on a Summer&Apos;S Night

Maurice Edelman · 1969 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this novel concerning power and inner conflict, inscribed by the author Maurice Edelman. The first edition of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped...

A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London , Cassell and Company, 1892. Leather. A lovely leather signed binding of this introduction to English literature. A twelfth edition of A First Sketch of English Literature, being twenty-eighth thousand. This book is a sketch of English writers from the Celts to the rei...

L&Apos;Assommoir

Emile Zola; Arthur Symons · 1928 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, T. Werner Laurie LTD, 1928. Vellum. A lovely limited edition of one of Emile Zola's best known works, looking at alcoholism. Signed by the translator, Arthur Symons. A limited edition, limited to one-thousand copies numbered and signed, this copy numbered six-hund...

Play Power

Richard Neville · 1970 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition. Cloth. The interesting essays of the prominent counterculture figure Richard Neville, in a decorative and colourful dust wrapper designed by Martin Sharp. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Lac...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith; Austin Dobson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904. Leather. Oliver Goldsmith's celebrated novel in a prize binding signed Mudie, beautifully illustrated by Hugh Thomson. One of the most popular novels among Victorians, The Vicar of Wakefield was originally published in 1766, and concerns fa...

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A specially bound signed Limited Edition of the first edition of John Fowles's postmodern historical novel, set between May 1736 and February 1737, in which Fowles examines historiography, the nature of history, and crim...

The Monk. A Romance.

M. G. Lewis [Matthew Lewis] · 1795 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.54 | ¥209,848)

London , Privately Printed [B. Fawcett and Co.], c1890 . Leather. A scarce limited edition of Mathew Lewis's infamous and celebrated gothic novel, in beautiful half crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf bindings. A scarce late nineteenth century Limited Edition of Lewis's gothi...

The Redundancy of Courage

Timothy Mo · 1991 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1991. Cloth. A lovely limited edition of this novel by Timothy Mo, signed by the author and in the original glassine wrapper. Limited edition of The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and glassine...

Half a War

Joe Abercrombie · 2015 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Harper Voyager , 2015. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of this coming-of-age tale by Joe Abercrombie, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to title page. Third and final volume in Joe Abercrombie&apo...

The Don and the Undergraduate

William Edmund Wood Collins · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1899. First edition. Leather. Scarce first edition of this tale by William Collins in a smart Bickers signed binding, author's presentation copy. Work of fiction set in Oxford by William Collins, Welsh-first class cricketer and author,...

The Prime of Life, a Novel

John Brophy · 1954 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Collins, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this 1950s novel from John Brophy, about a man in love with his son's fiancé. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy, addressed t...

The Dogs of Riga; Sidetracked; the Fifth Woman

Henning Mankell · 2000 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, The Harvill Press, 2000-01. First edition. Cloth. Three novels in the 'Kurt Wallander' mystery series by Henning Mankell, bright first English impressions. First English language editions, first impressions. Comprising three novels from Swedish crime author H...

Focus One

A Pearse; B Rajan · 1945 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,803)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A very neat first edition of this collection of critical analysis of contemporary literature. First edition of this work. An excellent collection of literary criticism with contributions from D.S. Savage, George Woodcock, Pete...

Waltzburg: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

[Frances Rose] · 1833 · Rooke Books

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

London, Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. 1833. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce nineteenth-century novel by Frances Rose, a presentation copy from the author to members of her family, with the family bookplate to the front pastedown. A fascinating early nin...

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey · 2010 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

2010, faber and faber, 2010 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first printing of this novel by Peter Carey inspired by his move to America in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey in the original p...

No Wooden Overcoat

John Paddy Carstairs · 1959 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London , W. H. Allen, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed, first edition copy of this thriller staring Garway Trenton, by John Paddy Carstairs. A first edition copy of this work. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper:For Lisa Partner de Luxe! Some nonsense fo...

Flowering Wilderness

John Galsworthy · 1932 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1932 . First edition. Leather. The first limited signed edition of this novel by award winning novelist John Galsworthy in the original acetate dust wrapper. The first limited edition of Flowering Wilderness by John Galsworthy in the original pub...

Fables

T. F. Powys · 1929 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first limited edition copy of this collection of fables by T. F. Powys, a wonderful collection inscribed by the author. Signed by the author to the limitation page.The first limited edition work, limited to 750 copi...

The Coal Carrier

Rosalie Liguori-Reynolds · 1976 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Johannesburg, Perskor Publishers, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition signed copy of this work by Rosalie Liguori-Reynolds, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition copy of this work. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. This novel f...

Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie · 2005 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2005. First edition. Hardback. A signed, second impression of this intriguing novel by Salman Rushdie, exploring the politics of Kashmir. A second impression of the first edition. Signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Publishers original binding wi...