Narrativa e romanzi

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene · 1958 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Heinemann , 1958. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this brilliant black comedy novel by Graham Greene. The first edition, first impression of this work by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. A melodrama with undertones s...

Closing Time

Joseph Heller · 1994 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Simon and Schuster , 1994. First edition. Cloth. A lovely edition of the sequel to Catch 22, signed by the author to the front endpaper. The first UK edition of this work, in the original, translucent, unclipped dustwrapper.Signed by Joseph Heller to the front free end...

Characters and Passages from Note-Books

Samuel Butler · 1908 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1908. Leather. A nicely bound collection of character sketches by the noted poet and satirist Samuel Butler, an entertaining work on Stuart society. In a signed binding by Palmer Howe & Co, Manchester.A selection of entertaining character...

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope Hawkins · 1894 · Rooke Books

£1,290.00 (€1,546.25 | $1,704.28 | ¥272,065)

Bristol, J W Arrowsmith, 1894. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed first edition copy of Anthony Hope's adventure novel 'The Prisoner of Zenda&apos. With Hope's cut signature loosely inserted. The first edition, third state, as is usual with this work. Wi...

Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia

Brian W. Aldiss · 1970 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first US edition of this exciting and scarce science fiction novel by Brian W Aldiss. The first edition of this work. A scarce title. A science fiction novel by Brian W. Aldiss, one of the Grand ...

This Old Man

Gertrude Bone · 1925 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1925. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy inscribed by Gertrude and Muirhead Bone of this novella by Gertrude Bone. The first edition of this work, inscribed by Gertrude Bone to the front free endpaper "To Mr and Mrs Jordan Bottomley wit...

Gone Away

Frederick Cotton · 1888 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of this exciting foxhunting novel, a signed very scarce first edition. The first edition of this very scarce work.Author's presentation copy, with his inscription to the rec...

A Piece of My Mind Reflections at Sixty

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

New York, Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Edmund Wilson's essays, written when he was sixty, looking at a various of pressing global topics of the time. Inscribed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, the name ...

Work Suspended and Other Stories Written Before the Second World War

Evelyn Waugh · 1948 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1948. Cloth. A good copy of this collection of short stories by acclaimed author Evelyn Waugh. An early edition, published in 1948, six years after the first limited and signed edition. A collection of short stories by Evelyn Waugh. This collection ca...

Fragrant Harbour

John Lanchester · 2002 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Faber, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this moving novel set in Hong Kong during troubling times, signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, second impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original...

Blood of Victory

Alan Furst · 2002 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A pristine first edition copy of this novel by Alan Furst, signed to title page. The first edition, first impression of this work. A historical fiction set in the 1940s background, following I.A Serbin  as he is rec...

Birds without Wings

Louis de Bernieres · 2004 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Secker & Warburg, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression, of one of Louis de Bernieres' most popular historical fiction novels. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.Hatchard's wr...

Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations

Alexander McCall Smith · 1995 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, Canongate, 1995. First edition. Paperback. A fine signed first edition short story anthology pondering the subject of dating, written by the prolific Alexander McCall Smith. The first edition, first impression of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.A selec...

Duffy

Dan Kavanagh; Julian Barnes · 1980 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce, signed first edition of Julian Barnes' detective fiction series featuring the detective and ex-policeman 'Duffy&apos. Signed by Barnes under his pseudonymous name Dan Kavanagh. This novel was is...

In Honour Bound

Nina Bawden · 1961 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Longmans, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A superb copy inscribed and signed by the author of this mystery novel by Nina Bawden. The first edition of this work. The gripping story of a man who lost everything he had. What will a damaged man do to himself and others to adap...

Tom Brown at Oxford

Thomas Hughes · 1871 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1871. Leather. A signed copy of the popular Victorian novel 'Tom Brown at Oxford&apos. In a full morocco binding. A signed copy, in a full morocco binding.  With the author's inscription 'Sybil Irene Cutler with the best wishes of her ...

Headlong Hall

[Thomas Love Peacock] · 1816 · Rooke Books

£2,100.00 (€2,517.16 | $2,774.41 | ¥442,896)

London, T. Hookham, 1816. Leather. A lovely second edition of Thomas Love Peacock's first novel, from the library of the Bloomsbury founder Lytton Strachey. The second edition of this work; the first and second edition were published in the same year, and both are very sc...

Love Among the Ruins a Romance of the Near Future

Evelyn Waugh · 1953 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful signed limited edition dystopian novella, signed by Evelyn Waugh. A limited edition work, limited to three-hundred and fifty copies, of which fifty were signed by the author. This copy is numbered forty-eight.Sign...

A Smell of Burning

Margaret Lane · 1965 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this enthralling novel set against the backdrop of Morocco. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dustwrapper, designed by Duncan Grant.A ch...

The Sellout

Paul Beatty · 2016 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Oneworld, 2016. First edition. Paperback. A fine signed first edition of Paul Beatty's humorous Man Booker winning novel. The first edition, first impression of this work. This paperback is the true U.K. first, being published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus, and Gi...