Narrativa e romanzi

The Sorrows of Jupiter

Julius · 1904 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Greening & Co Limited, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A scarce fantasy sci-fi work about Greek Gods, the first edition, signed by the author. The first edition of this scarce work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, recipient's name has been rubb...

The Collected Short Stories

Jeffrey Archer · 1997 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. Leather. A signed limited edition copy of Jeffrey Archer's short stories, sumptuously bound in full crushed morocco with the original slipcase. No. 620 of 1,000 limited edition copies in a full crushed morocco binding with the origi...

Submerged

A. L. Barker · 2002 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Virago , 2002. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this short story collection from Audrey Lilian Barker. The very scarce first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. With a newspaper clipping of a dedicatio...

The Nights of Straparola, the Novellino, & Ser Giovanni

W. G. Waters [translator] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Lawrence & Bullen Ltd. 1894-1897. First edition. Cloth. The first translated editions of these limited edition volumes, illustrated throughout. Five volumes. First thus. Translated by William George Waters, a British scholar, biographer, and historian of the Italian Re...

In the Frame

Dick Francis · 1976 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Michael Joseph, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling novel from British steeplechase jockey and crime writer Dick Francis, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to a label pasted onto the title page. Horse artist Charl...

King Cobra

Mark Channing · 1933 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the very scarce first edition of Mark Channing's first Captain Colin Gray science-fiction adventure novel. The very scarce first edition, first printing of this work by Mark Channing, the ...

Heat Wave

Penelope Lively · 1996 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Viking, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this compassionate novel from British writer Penelope Lively, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Depicting a quaint cottage life t...

Sacred Country: A Novel

Rose Tremain · 1992 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this award-winning novel from English author Rose Tremain, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author...

Family and Friends

Anita Brookner · 1985 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this familial novel from English writer Anita Brookner, limited to two hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, of whi...

Deceits of Time

Isabel Colegate · 1988 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this mysterious novel from British author Isabel Colegate, limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. First edition. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author, o...

The Hidden Kingdom

M. Lynn Hamilton · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Melbourne, N. Wentworth-Evans, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing Lost Race Utopia novel set in remote Australia by M. Lynn Hamilton. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Promotional letter from the publisher ...

To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy Comprising Rites of Passage, Close Quarters and Fire Down Below

William Golding · 1991 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Faber and Faber, 1991. First edition. Hardback. A lovely signed limited edition copy of William Golding's trilogy of nautical novels set in the early 19th century. A limited edition specially bound copy. (Number 3 out of 400).Signed by the author to the colophon.Â...

Skyraft

Charles Clarke · 1937 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Newnes, 1937. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon science fiction novel on time travel, the first edition, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Inscribed by the author to the title page, "To "33", affectionately, Charles Clark, Ramsay".In the ori...

When the Cat&Apos;S Away

Kinky Friedman · 1988 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York, Beach Tree Books, William Morrow, 1988 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Kinky Friedman's highly entertaining mystery novel about the disappearance of a star cat, and Columbian drug cartels. The first edition, first printing of this novel.Flat si...

A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840

Richard Doyle; J. Hungerford Pollen · 1885 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this entertaining journal kept by a teenaged Richard Doyle, which his comical illustrations throughout. The first edition.A journal kept by Richard Doyle in his youth in the year 1840. Doyle kept this...

Who Goes Home

Maurice Edelman · 1953 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Allan Wingate and the Book Society, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this novel from British Labour Party politician, journalist and novelist Maurice Edelman, with the original dust wrapper designed by Mervyn Peake. The first edition of this work in ...

The Godwulf Manuscript

Robert B. Parker · 1974 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.80 | $1,182.42 | ¥188,817)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of the first instalment in Robert B. Parker's 'Spencer' series, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing with the Houghton Mifflin 'C&apos...

The Orphan Angel

Elinor Wylie · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Elinor Wylie's unusual 1920s novel in which she reimagines the life of Percy Shelley, and has him travel to the New World in an America Ship, rather than dying at a young age. A signed limi...

Knights and Dragons and No Place for an Angel

Elizabeth Spencer · 1965 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Company; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965-9. First edition. Cloth. Two signed first edition novels by Elizabeth Spencer, in their original dust wrappers. The true first edition, first printing to 'Knights and Dragons' and the first...

Here Is Einbaum

Wright Morris · 1973 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Cloth. A limited edition, signed copy of Wright Morris's fiction novel about a women and her fake husband as they try to flee Nazi Germany, bound with Earle Gray. Limited edition. Number 90 out of 226. Printed July 1973 in Santa Ba...