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Jones of Colorado

Ralph Steadman · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Ebury Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of sketches and stories about Jones the cat, by Ralph Steadman. First edition. While visiting his friend, Hunter S. Thompson, Steadman met Jones the cat. He decided to buy a new sketchbook to c...

The Fortunes of Oliver Horn

F. Hopkinson Smith · 1902 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A fictional historical tale set in the old South by Francis Hopkinson Smith. First edition. An exciting story of life in the Old South. Illustrated with 8 plates. Collated complete. Written by Francis Hopkinso...

Looking for Rachel Wallace

Robert B. Parker · 1980 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

New York, Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this tale of kidnaping and corruption by Robert B. Parker. First edition. After being fired as protection for the eponymous Rachel Wallace, a lesbian feminist activist, Spenser hears that she has been k...

No Alibi the Best New Crime Fiction

Various; Maxim Jukubowski · 1995 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

Manchester, Ringpull, 1995. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this impressive crime story anthology, this copy signed by nine of the contributors, including Val McDermid and Ian Rankin. The first edition.Signed by nine of the twenty-nine contributors to the head o...

Bony and the Kelly Gang

Arthur Upfield · 1960 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.46 | $155.92 | ¥24,901)

London, Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of one of Arthur Upfield's gripping novels in his Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte series. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dustwrapper."Bony and the Kelly Gang" is a novel set in a ...

Find the Innocent

Roy Vickers [William Edward Vickers] · 1959 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this thrilling detective novel by Roy Vickers. The first edition, first impression of this detective fiction novel by Roy Vickers, the penname of English mystery writer William Edward Vickers. ...

The Revelations of Inspector Morgan

Oswald Crawfurd · 1907 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Co, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Crime writer Anthony Berkeley's own copy of the first US edition of this thrilling collection of four detective short stories by Oswald Crawfurd. The first US edition of this collection of four short stories by Bri...

Elephant&Apos;S Work an Enigma

E. C. Bentley [Edmund Clerihew Bentley] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent copy of the first edition, first impression of E. C. Bentley's humorous and shocking 1950 novel, 'Elephant's Work&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work of fiction from novel...

The Pageantry of Life

Charles Whibley · 1900 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

New York , Harper & Brothers, 1900. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this critical work on The Pageantry of Life. This is a first US edition of this collection of essays that explore the art and pageantry of life. Charles Whibley was an English literary journ...

Ask for Me Tomorrow

Margaret Millar · 1977 · Rooke Books

£43.00 (€51.55 | $56.82 | ¥9,074)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1977. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first UK edition of this thrilling novel by Margaret Millar, a scarce work. First UK edition of this work, preceded by the US edition published the year prior. A scarce copy. A mystery novel following the young lawyer...

Faceless Killers; the Dogs of Riga; the Man Who Smiled; Sidetracked; the Fifth Woman

Hanning Mankell · 2000 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, The Harvill Press, 2000-05. First edition. Cloth. Five bright first UK editions of the novels in the 'Inspector Wallander' series by Henning Mankell. Five novels in Swedish author Henning Mankell's 'Kurt Wallander' series to feature his charact...

Poems of Passion and Pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · 1912 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Gay & Hancock, 1912. Cloth. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most famous poetry collection, this edition beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Dudley Tennant. A very beautiful edition of the poetry of the American author Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Strikingly illustrated w...

Life&Apos;S Little Ironies

Thomas Hardy · 1898 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London; New York, Harper & Brothers, 1898. Cloth. A lovely collection of the short stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition containing nine of his popular tales. A collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy, this 1898 edition comprising of nine stories.This volume includes &apos...

The Chariot of the Flesh

Hedley Peek · 1897 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London; New York, Lawrence & Bullen, LTD; Longmans, Green & Co, 1897. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this brilliant sought after science fiction novel by Hadley Peek, an exciting example of Victorian sci-fi. The first edition of this very scarce work.A ...

Moral Emblems & Other Poems

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 1921. Cloth. A lovely illustrated copy of this collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. A Chatto & Windus edition of Moral Emblems & Other Poems written and illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Louis Stevenson. This collection of poems were fir...

The New Decameron: The Sixth Volume

Vivienne Dayrell [ed]; Gerald Bullet; Evelyn Waugh; et al. · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Basil Blackwell, 1929. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this sixth volume in the 'New Decameron' series, containing various pieces by a variety of authors including Evelyn Waugh. Modern retelling of the classical work of the 'Decameron,' the s...

Carte Blanche

Jeffrey Deaver · 2011 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Great Britain, Hodder & Stoughton, 2011 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of the thirty seventh James Bond novel, signed by the author and with the ticket to the book signing. First edition, first impression of Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver in the o...

Tales of Hearsay

Joseph Conrad; R. B. Cunninghame Graham · 1925 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, T. Fisher Unwin LTD, 1925. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this posthumously collected anthology of four stories by Joseph Conrad, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, with not subsequent printings listed.In the original unclipp...

Mustard and Cress: Their Surprising Adventures and the Downfall of Burdock

C.O. Murray · 1879 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1879. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, late nineteenth-century children's fairy tale about two little elves, Mustard and Cress, colourfully illustrated throughout. A delightful, late nineteenth-century children's tale about two l...

Morley Ernstein; or, the Tenants of the Heart

G. P. R. James · 1842 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1842. First edition. Cloth. The first american edition of George Payne Rainsford James' 'Morley Ernstein', complete with two volumes bound in one. The scarce first American edition. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. In the origi...