Fantascienza e fantasy

The Toynbee Convector

Ray Bradbury · 1988 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short science fiction from American author Ray Bradbury. First edition. A collection of twenty-three tales which begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives and then ...

The Blinding Light: A Tale

Colin Collins · 1910 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Greening and Co. Ltd , 1910. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce science fiction novel centring on the invention of a powerful ray. The first edition of this very scarce title. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This science fiction novel depicts the conse...

The Wishful Think

Bernard Newman · 1954 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

London, Robert Hale Limited, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this Cold War era sci-fi novel by Bernard Newman. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Wishful Think' is a sci-fi novel, following a man ...

Mutant

Lewis Padgett [Henry Kuttner]; [C. L. Moore] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

New York, Gnome Press Inc, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of science fiction stories by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this collection, first printing. In the publisher's original cloth ...

Dark Tides

Eric Frank Russell · 1962 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

London, Dennis Dobson, 1962. First edition. Cloth. This first edition, first impression of a collection of short science fiction stories by the celebrated author Eric Frank Russell, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work.With ...

The Fifth Galaxy Reader; the Artificial Man; Shadows 2

H. L. Gold [ed.]; L. P. Davies; Charles L. Grant [ed.] · 1961 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

New York, Doubeday and Company , 1961-1975 . Cloth. A wonderful selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, including two short story collections and L. P. Davies' suspenseful tale. Comprising the first edition of 'Shadows 2' and Book Club editions of &apo...

Green Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 1993 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression, of Kim Stanley Robinson's second novel in his vast 'Mars' science fiction trilogy. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper....

The Quickening of Caliban: A Modern Story of Evolution

J. Compton Rickett · 1893 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, [1893]. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of J. Compton Rickett's only science-fiction novel, surrounding the evolution of a new species of human. The first edition of this scarce work.In the publisher's original green ...

A Woman of the Ice Age

L. P. Gratacap · 1906 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

New York, Brentano's, 1906. First edition. Hardback. A scarce science fiction novel set in the Ice Age by Louis Pope Gratacap, the first edition of this thought provoking work. The first edition of this scarce work.'A Woman of the Ice Age' is a science fiction n...

The Loafers of Refuge

Joseph Green · 1965 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the first U.K. edition of Joseph Green's first full-length sci-fi novel. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, in the original wraparound. 'The Loafers of ...

The Bitter Pill

A. Bertram Chandler · 1972 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Melbourne, Wren, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this brilliant sci-fi novel by A. Bertram Chandler, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Bitt...

The White King of Manoa

Joseph Hatton · 1899 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon historical sci-fi novel, featuring Sir Walter Raleigh, a smart author's presentation copy. The first edition of this uncommon work.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the fro...

The End of It All

Jack Danvers [Camille Auguste Marie Caseleyr] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, William Heinamann, 1962 . First edition. Cloth. An uncorrected proof copy of Jack Danvers's very scarce thriller, set in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. An uncorrected proof of this very scarce work, with the publication date and intended price handwritten t...

Doctor Therne

H. Rider Haggard; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this exciting science fiction novel from popular Victorian writer H. Rider Haggard. First edition. Following a smallpox epidemic that sweeps across England. Written as an attack on the anti-v...

A Demigod

[Edward Payson Jackson] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this science fiction novel which looks into eugenics, an uncommon work written by Edward Payson Jackson. The first edition of this uncommon work.'A Demigod' follows aa Eugenics programmes f...

Les Robinsons Lunaires

G. Le Faure · 1893 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Paris, E. Dentu, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling late nineteenth century science fiction novel about a lunar voyage, illustrated throughout by Fernand Fau. In the original French.The first edition of this science fiction novel, in which a famil...

The Prince of Atlantis

Lillian Elizabeth Roy · 1929 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

New York, The Educational Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition science fiction novel by Lillian Elizabeth Roy, concerning the flight of Atlanteans from a destroyed Atlantis. The first edition of this uncommon work.'The Prince of Atlantis' is a...

The Great Prince Shan

E. Phillips Oppenheim · 1922 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of E. Phillips Oppenheim's thrilling science fiction novel, set in the near future. The first US edition, first printing, published in March 1922. The first edition in book form; this work ...

Newaera; a Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination

Edward G. Herbert · 1910 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, P.S. King & Son, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Edward Geisler Herbert's science fiction novel about a socialist utopia in decline. The first edition of this early twentieth century work of speculative fiction.Herbert's novel - which he use...

Wasp-Waisted Arabella

John Bagley · 1936 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition of this comical science fiction novel about immortality and the fountain of youth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.A comical novel, following the young Adolphus, w...