Narrativa e romanzi

Unholy Crusade

Dennis Wheatley · 1967 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Hutchinson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed presentation copy of 'Unholy Crusade&apos. Inscribed by the author: 'For D. Denham, With kindest remembrances from Dennis Wheatley&apos. A first edition. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to ...

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach · 2012 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A US first edition of this work about a junior baseball player. he novel focuses on the best year of the Westish basebell team, which Henry Skrimshander joins. Chad Harbach (1975-) is an American author and editor. In a cloth ...

Selected Novels of Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope · 1992 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,232)

London, Bloomsbury, 1992 - 1998. Cloth. A five volume collection of novels by Joanna Trollope. Titles are: The Men and the Girls A Spanish Lover The Best of Friends Next of Kin Other People's Children The Best of Friends is signed by Joanna Trollope to the title page. Joa...

Deadly Admirer a Kate Kinsella Mystery

Christine Green · 1992 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,060)

New York, Walker, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed first American edition of this UK crime novel. Kate Kinsella is both a private investigator and an Registered Nurse. Her worlds collide when she finds a client amongst her patients - a paranoid fellow nurse who ...

Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady

Michael Pearce · 1999 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London, Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Michael Pearce's second novel in the witty and fascinating Dmitri Kameron series. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped illustrated dustwrapper, designed...

Lavengro the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

George Borrow · 1914 · Rooke Books

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

London, Edinburgh and Boston, T N Foulis, 1914. Leather. A beautifully illustrated edition of George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel. In a signed morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt stamp to front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrated plates tipped i...

In the Shadow of Purple a Royal Romance

George Gilbert · 1902 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.05 | ¥45,344)

London , John Long. 1902. Cloth. An historical novel by George Gilbert. George Gilbert is a pseudonym for Mary Lucy Arthur. Signed by the author, to the recto of front endpaper. Very unsually a signed copy. This work is based on the romance and life of Maria Fitzherbert. Fitzh...

A Writer&Apos;S Notes on His Trade

C. E. Montague · 1930 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition, being number 3 of 700, signed by H. M. Tomlinson, author of the introductory essay. With a woodcut portrait of C. E. Montague to title page by Percy Smith and with a prefatory note by M. Montague, the w...

Les Femmes Ecrivains: Oeuvres Choisies

M. F. Lhomme · 0 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,870)

Paris , Librairie de L'Art, c1900. Leather. An interesting selection of works from female writers in French. Featuring a frontispiece and several portrait illustrations throughout. In a signed binding of R. Carswell and Son, Belfast, label to front pastedown. In a half ca...

The Works of Henry Fielding in Ten Volumes

Henry Fielding · 1784 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.97 | $1,981.72 | ¥316,354)

London, W. Stragan et al, 1784. Leather. Scarce complete set of this edition of Henry Fielding's brilliantly humourous and satirical works. A New Edition. With an essay on the life and genius of the author, and to which is now added, The Fathers; or, The Good-natured Man....

Saint James&Apos;S or the Court of Queen Anne an Historical Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.07 | $3,831.32 | ¥611,618)

London, John Mortimer, Parry, Blenkarn and Co. 1844. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ainsworth's romance. A presentation copy, signed by the author and addressed to the illustrator of Ainsworth's portrait frontis, Daniel Maclise. Direct from the library ...

Wolfert&Apos;S Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected

Washington Irving · 1855 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

New York, G. P. Putnam & Co. 1855. First edition. Leather. The first edition, third printing of this Irving anthology, bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, with lovely gilt dentelles. First edition, third printing. Publisher's address in the title imprint is ch...

The Inner Harbour

Wilbert Snow · 1926 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

New York, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce anthology, written and signed by American poet and influential educator and political figure in Connecticut Wilbert Snow. The Inner Harbour, a very scarce poetic anthology, written and signed by Am...

Hollow Sea: A Novel

James Hanley · 1938 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of Hanley"s maritime novel "Hollow Sea", drawn from his seafaring experience. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author...

Bookman&Apos;S Holiday: A Recreation for Booklovers

Holbrook Jackson · 1945 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

London, Faber and Faber Limited , 1945. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed presentation copy of this literary criticism from Holbrook Jackson, previously owned by his brother. A signed presentation copy given by the author to his brother, Charlie. Inscribed to the front...

The Fooliam a Satire with Apologies to Pope and High Priests of Literature

Edwin Alfred Watrous · 1916 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Boston; Toronto, The Gorham Press; The Copp-Clark Company, Limited, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition and presentation copy of this humorous reflection on literary culture. A very scarce presentation of this humorous poetic title by Edwin Alfred Watrous.W...

Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam

Holbrook Jackson · 1899 · Rooke Books

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

London, David Nutt, 1899 . First edition. Paperback. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this critical work on Edward Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam by Holbrook Jackson, inscribed by the author to his brother. The first edition of this workAn association copy, i...

A Link with the River

Desmond Hogan · 1989 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a collection of short stories relating to the Emerald Isle, written by a novelist praised for his poetic imagery. The signed first edition of A Link With the River, short stories by Desmond...

Tunnel

Stanley Johnson · 1984 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Heinemann, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of Stanley Johnson's political thriller dramatising the construction of the Channel Tunnel. The signed first edition of The Tunnel, a thriller written by writer and former Conservative Member of Parli...

Grass for His Pillow: Tales of the Otori Book Two

Lian Hearn [Gillian Rubinstein] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London , Macmillan , 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart signed first edition of the second novel in the historical fantasy trilogy, Tales of Otori. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work. Signed by the author to half title pag...