Narrativa e romanzi

No Marks for Trying

Stella Allan · 1975 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.80 | ¥9,067)

London, Macdonald and Jane's, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart and uncommon copy of this romantic novel, being number fourteen in the Troubadour series. First edition. Neatly signed and personally inscribed by the author; "For Joy and Ellie, in friendship and with love...

The Book and the Brotherhood

Iris Murdoch · 1987 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,280)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Iris Murdoch's 'The Book and the Brotherhood&apos. In an attractive dustwrapper designed by Tom Phillips. The novel follows a group of friends from their days at Oxford through middle age, f...

Art and Lies a Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Jeanette Winterson · 1994 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work, signed by author Jeanette Winterson. First edition, first impression in the original dustwrapper featuring the oil painting 'Poeta Rimasto Sneza Parole' by Massimo Rao. Jeanette Winterso...

A Soldier Erect, or, Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy

Brian W. Aldiss · 1971 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,761)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A humorous work of fiction from novelist, Brian W. Aldiss. First edition. Brian Aldiss is best known for his science fiction novels, as he was greatly influences by H.G.Wells. Some of this other books include 'N...

A Close Run Thing

Allan Mallinson · 1999 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.72 | $277.44 | ¥44,290)

London, Bantam Press, 1999. First edition. Cloth. This is a signed first edition of this work by Allan Mallinson, still preserved in its glassine wrap. Allan Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army. He is best known for writing a series of novels ...

Blacklist

Sara Paretsky · 2003 · Rooke Books

£33.99 (€40.74 | $44.91 | ¥7,169)

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart first American edition of Sara Paretsky's twelfth crime thriller in her A V. I. Warshawski series. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Sara Paretsky is best known for her detective novels a...

Risking It All

Ann Granger · 2001 · Rooke Books

£27.99 (€33.55 | $36.98 | ¥5,903)

London, Headline Book Publishing, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Ann Granger's 'Risking It All&apos. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Signed by the author. A nice clean copy. Patricia Ann Granger (b.1...

A Sense of Reality

Graham Greene · 1963 · Rooke Books

£246.00 (€294.87 | $325.00 | ¥51,882)

London, The Bodley Head, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A scarce uncorrected proof copy of this collection of Graham Green's short stories. This is a first edition softcover with dustwrapper. These stories are the first time Greene departs from his usual material of moral an...

A River Town

Thomas Keneally · 1995 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,489)

London, Sceptre, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this Thomas Keneally novel. Signed by the author to the title page. 'This is the tale of a reluctant hero, an endearing, if flawed, man whose stubborn conveying is nearly his undoing.' Thomas Mich...

The Bee&Apos;S Kiss

Barbara Cleverly · 2006 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,216)

New York, Carroll and Graf, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling mystery novel set in 1926 by Barbara Cleverly. Signed by the author to the title page. First US edition. With 'Bee's Kiss' cocktail bookmark inserted to rear. In a red cloth binding with origina...

Rumours of War

Allan Mallinson · 2004 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Bantam Press, 2004. First edition. Cloth. This is a signed first edition of this work by Allan Mallinson. Allan Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army. He is best known for writing a series of novels chronicling the fictional life of Matt...

A Homecoming for Murder a Sheriff Grover Bramlett Mystery

John Armistead · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,543)

New York, Caroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1995. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of 'A Homecoming for Murder' by John Armistead. Armistead's highly enjoyable Sherriff Grover Bramlet revists the fictional town of Sheffield, Mississippi, where the col...

The Best of Friends

Joanna Trollope · 1995 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Bloomsbury, 1995. First edition. Cloth. The first signed edition of this novel by Joanna Trollope. First edition. Held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. Joanna Trollope is an English writer. Her novel Parson Harding's Daugh...

Cuddy - Plus One

Jeremiah Healy · 2003 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,761)

Norfolk, Crippen & Landru, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed, limited edition of Healy's short story collection Cuddy - Plus One. With separate pamphlet of 'The Safest Little Town in Texas' by Jeremiah Healy. Signed by the author. Limited edition of 250, numb...

Desert Noir

Betty Webb · 2001 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,270)

Scottsdale , Poisoned Pen Press, 2001. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Lena Jones mystery novel by Betty Webb. Signed by the author to the title page. Betty Webb is a former journalist and the author of a series of detective stories set in Arizona. She has stat...

The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Rennie Airth · 2004 · Rooke Books

£32.99 (€39.54 | $43.58 | ¥6,958)

London, Macmillan, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this detective novel from Rennie Airth. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Rennie Airth is a South African novelist who currently resides in Italy. Airth has also worked as ...

The Walkaway

Scott Phillips · 2002 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Tuscon , Dennis McMillan, 2002. First edition. Cloth. An as new copy of this limited edition novel from Scott Phillips. Signed and numbered by the author. Scott Phillips is an American writer primarily of crime fiction in the noir tradition. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, and...

The Sunday Macaroni Club

Steve Lopez · 1998 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,707)

Harpenden , No Exit Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A numbered, signed first edition furiously energetic American crime novel. With the assistance of a jaded ex-FBI agent who managed it once before, Assistant DA Lisa Savitch is determined to nail the Sunday Macaroni Club - ...

Holy Fools

Joanne Harris · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of this novel set in seventeenth-century France from Joanne Harris. In 2012 Harris became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have ac...

Trial by Fury

Elizabeth Ferrars · 1989 · Rooke Books

£18.99 (€22.76 | $25.09 | ¥4,005)

London, Collins Crime Club, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this work of espionage, from author Elizabeth Ferrars. First edition thus, published with the Collins Crime Club, Collins' intention was to publish three new crime books on the first Monday of every m...