Narrativa e romanzi

The Stalking Horse

Jill McGown · 1987 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,761)

London, Macmillan, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this Jill McGown murder mystery novel. 'With her usual insight into human behaviour, Jill McGown has created a novel full of tension and suspense.' In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustw...

The Artful Egg

James McClure · 1984 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

London, Macmillan, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this murder mystery novel from James McClure. The seventh in the Kramer and Zondi novels series. In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is smart, with just...

Wilde West

Walter Satterthwaite · 1991 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,012)

New York, Walter Satterthwaite, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Satterthwaite's fictionalised account of Oscar Wilde's time in the American West. 'A tense mystery, a perverse comedy, 'Wilde West' is a brilliant novel that includes, as ...

Watchman

Ian Rankin · 1988 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, Bodley Head, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this sinister spy thriller from Ian Rankin. The book tells the story of Miles Flint, a surveillance officer who works for MI5. In a grey cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, ...

The Philadelphian

Richard Powell · 1957 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Richard Powell's The Philadelphian. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Richard Pitts Powell (1908 –1999) was an American novelist. In the 1940s, Powell be...

I Am the Only Running Footman

Martha Grimes · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

London, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A bright, clean first UK edition of I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. First UK Edition. Martha Grimes, b.1931, is an...

The Case of the Fear Makers

John Newton Chance · 1967 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,270)

London, Robert Hale, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Publisher's cloth covered boards with silver lettering. A first edition which is complete with the original pictorial dust jacket. John Lymington (1911-1983) was born John Richard Newton Chance in London. He was a prolific ...

Reflex

Dick Francis · 1980 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London, Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Dick Francis. "Aided only by a natural wit and a knowledge of cameras, he unwillingly began picking his way through, facing on the way not only ferocious enemies but the traps and uncertaintie...

Bubu de Montparnasse

Charles-Louis Philippe · 1924 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,290)

Paris, Aux Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. Leather. A limited edition of this French Novel. Illustrated with fifteen watercolours by Charles Laborde. Limited to 500 copies. Number 489, printed on vellum paper. Charles-Louis Philippe was a French novelist. This is his best known ...

The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay. In Two Volumes

Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. Leather. A wonderful collection of Lord Macaulay's contributions to the Knight's Quarterly Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as miscellaneous poems and inscriptions. Featuring ...

Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

Sir Egerton Brydges · 1824 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,017)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824. Leather. An attractive edition of this bibliographical works of the poet Lord Byron. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Me...

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

E Bulwer-Lytton · 1841 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Frederick Fleischer, 1841. Leather. A new edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Pilgrims of the Rhine. With a preface addressed to Lytton's brother, Henry Bulwer-Lytton. This is volume III from Fleischer's Complete Works of Edward Lytton Bulwer. Bookplat...

A Collection of Works from Edmonston and Douglas

Various · 1865 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.77 | ¥67,489)

Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1865. Leather. A scarce collection of nineteenth century works published by Scottish publishers, Edmonston and Douglas. Bound from the parts. Containing "Sheep-Farmers and Drovers", "Convicts by a Practical Hand", "Wayside Thoughts of an Asoph...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith; prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury · 1886 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

London, John C Nimmo, 1886. Leather. A colour illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. With one hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations by Poinson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 a...

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne Written by Himself

W. M. Thackeray · 1901 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1901. Leather. An attractively bound near fine copy of this historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In a handsome prize binding, with a gilt crest to the front board, and a presentation bookplate to the front pastedown of Leamington Municipa...

The Adventures of Roderick Random Volumes I & II

Tobias Smollett · 1780 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, W. Strahan, J. Rivington & Sons, 1780. Leather. An uncommon illustrated copy of this novel by Tobias Smollett. Uncommon. Complete in 2 volumes bound in one. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish poet and author, best known for his picaresque novels, which influenc...

The Sacred Star July to December 1834; January to June 1835

Christian Instruction Society · 1835 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

London, James Paul , 1835. Leather. A charming little collection containing poetry, discussions of biblical stories, letters and addresses given to various Sunday Schools and advice. Delightfully illustrated with numerous engraved plates throughout. Rebound in a full calf bind...

Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

Robert Southey · 1829 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, John Murray, 1829. Leather. An uncommon two volume set of this work by Robert Southey. The work is 'an exposition of Southey's mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of the constitutional reform, support for high taxatio...

The Wanderings of Tom Starboard or, the Life of a Sailor

Isabella Jane Towers · 1830 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, John Harris, 1830. Leather. An illustrated copy of this work by Isabella Towers. A work of fiction following Tom Starboard, a sailor who found himself voyaging throughout Asia and the Pacific, this work was a delight amongst the young readership of its time. With a bea...

Ranke&Apos;S History of the Popes, Gladstone on Church and State the Life and Writings of Addison, Horace Walpole and Lord Bacon

T B Macaulay · 1851 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851-2. Leather. A collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay's essays, in a leather binding. Five essays bound in one volume. With his Ranke's History of the Popes, Gladstone on Church and State, The Life and Writings of Addi...