Narrativa e romanzi

Free Fall

William Golding · 1959 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Faber and Faber, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. Author Brian Aldiss's copy of the first edition of William Golding's fourth novel following an English painter who is held in a German POW camp in the Second World War. The first edition, first impression.In the p...

No Word of Love

A. L. Barker · 1985 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press , 1985. First edition. Cloth. A scarce engrossing collection of short stories from A. L. Barker, with a signed and dated inscription from the author. The first edition thus of this collection. With three of the stories having been pub...

The Statement

Brian Moore · 1995 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Bloomsbury, 1995. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed first edition of this thrilling novel set in the south of France, from acclaimed author Brian Moore. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.The Statement is a thriller set i...

The History of the Book War: Fair Book Prices Versus Publishers&Apos; Trust Prices

The Times · 1907 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, The Times, 1907. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce essay concerning the dispute of British publishers with The Times Book Club, from the library of William Foyle, the co-founder of Foyles bookshop. A very scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. ...

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel · 2012 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,578)

London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition first edition, first impression of Hilary Mantel's award-winning sequel to 'Wolf Hall', signed by the author, in the pictorial cloth. A first edition, first impression of this work, and one of ...

A Natural Curiosity

Margaret Drabble · 1989 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Viking, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this insightful novel from English writer Margaret Drabble, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Limited to one hundred and fifty co...

A Natural Curiosity

Margaret Drabble · 1989 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Viking, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this insightful novel from English writer Margaret Drabble, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Limited to one hundred and fifty co...

Tell It Me Again

John Fuller · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting novel from English writer John Fuller, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of whic...

The Case of the Eighteenth Ostrich

Colin Curzon; [Peter Cooper] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1944. First edition. Cloth. An exciting spy drama novel by Peter Cooper, the first edition, in the very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the original very scarce price-clipped dust wrapper.'The Case of the Eighte...

The Crystal Man

Edward Page Mitchell; Sam Moskowitz · 1973 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

New York, Doubleday & Company Inc, 1973. First edition. Cloth. An anthology of the brilliant short stories of Edward Page Mitchell, the first edition, signed by the editor, Sam Moskowitz. The first edition.Signed by the editor to a loosely inserted note, "Nov. 20, 1973, Import...

Sinbad a Romance

C. Kay Scott [Frederick Creighton Wellman] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this delightful novel following the romance of two New York intellectuals. The very scarce first edition, first printing.Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper...

The Overcoat

Nikolai Gogol; Costance Garnett [trans.] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)

Verona, Bodoni, 1975 . Cloth. A beautifully produced and scarce limited edition of Gogol's short story 'The Overcoat', illustrated with etchings by Pietro Annigoni, and signed by him. A scarce, limited edition work. Number 49 of 160 copies of this work produced...

Who Is Angelina?

Al Young · 1975 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Al Young's moving novel about race in 1970s America. The first edition, first printing, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Insc...

Three &Apos;Daw&Apos; Science Fiction Novels

Egon Friedell; George H. Smith; Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1972 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, Daw Books, 1972-78 . First edition. Paperback. Three first edition science fiction novels, including a signed copy of 'Stormqueen! by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and two novels based on 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds' by the iconic H. G...

Chad Hanna

Walter D. Edmonds · 1940 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company , 1940. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this drama romance novel in the original unclipped dust wrapper, signed by the author Walter D. Edmonds. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the page followi...

Faster! Faster!

Patrick Bair · 1950 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode , 1950 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this dystopian fable written by Patrick Bair, inscribed to Sir Edwin Herbert. The first edition.Inscribed by the author 'For Sir Edwin & Lady Herbert - who sheltered a jaguar. Patrick Ba...

Watchers of the Dark

Lloyd Biggle Jr. · 1966 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel by Lloyd Biggle Jr. signed by both the author and by fellow sci-fi writer, William F. Temple. The first edition. Signed by the author to fellow science-fiction writ...

Lydia Bailey

Kenneth Roberts · 1947 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

New York, Doubleday & Company Inc, 1947. Cloth. A smart limited edition copy of this exciting historical fiction novel set in Haiti, signed by the author. A limited edition of one-thousand and fifty copies, of which this is numbered three-hundred and ten.Signed by the author t...

The Venus Project

M. E. Patchett · 1963 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Leicester, Brockhampton Press, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Mary Patchett's scarce sci-fi novel about an alien crash landing in the Australian outback. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work, in the publisher's original ...

Hawthorne&Apos;S Faust

William Bysshe Stein · 1953 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting work of literary criticism, looking into Hawthorne's use of Faustinan symbols in his works. From the library of Nathaniel Hawthorne specialist, Norman Holmes Pearso...