Letteratura

The Marriage Feast and Other Stories

Par Lagerkvist · 1955 · Rooke Books

£14.99 (€17.97 | $19.81 | ¥3,163)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of stories from Par Lagerkvist. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. In a navy cloth binding ...

The Killer Reaction

John Newton Chance · 1969 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Robert Hale and Company, 1969. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this crime novel by John Newton Chance. John Lymington (1911–1983) was born John Richard Newton Chance in London. He was a prolific writer of short stories, children's literature, mystery ...

The Money Harvest

Ross Thomas · 1975 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thriller novel from Ross Thomas. The first edition of this work. Ross Thomas is best known for his witty thrillers that expose the mechanisms of professional politics. In a red cloth binding with orig...

Wycliffe and the Beales

W. J. Burley · 1983 · Rooke Books

£32.99 (€39.55 | $43.59 | ¥6,962)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel featuring W. J. Burley's popular character, Charles Wycliffe. The Beales, a strange, reclusive family living on the edge of Dartmoor in Ashill House, consist of Simon, an old man enti...

Red Rope

Francis Gerard · 1939 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this crime thriller by Francis Gerard. The first edition of this work. 'Red Rope' is the tale of the gripping hunt for a murderer who uses red rope of the finest silk to hang his victi...

The Dead Sleep for Keeps

Bevis Winter · 1955 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this work by Bevis Winter. Bevis Winter was a British crime writer who published under several pseudonyms. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound. Light rubbing and bumping to the boards. Spine faded...

Company of Spears the Sabre&Apos;S Edge an Act of Courage Man of War

Allan Mallinson · 2003 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Bantam Press, 2003 - 2007. First edition. Cloth. This is a four volume set of signed first editions of this selected works by Allan Mallinson. All volumes signed by Mallinson to the title page. Allan Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army...

Comeback the Edge Straight

Dick Francis · 1988 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Michael Joseph, BCA, 1988 - 1991. Cloth. A collection of three novels by Dick Francis. Comeback and Straight are first edition first printing. The Edge is the third impression. Dick Francis was a jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. F...

Kill Me

Bill James · 2000 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Bill James' seventeenth crime thriller in his Harpur and Iles' mystery series. Uncommonly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped photographic dustwrapper, design...

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by Graham Greene. Graham Greene was an English novelist and author regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century for his thrillers and his more serious novels. Doctor Fischer of Gen...

Berlin Game

Len Deighton · 1983 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the Len Deighton thriller, 'Berlin Game&apos. 'Berlin Game' is a 1983 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the first of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and so...

Threatening Eye

Lesley Grant-Adamson · 1988 · Rooke Books

£28.99 (€34.75 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, Faber & Faber, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this clever thriller, 'Threatening Eye', by Lesley Grant-Adamson. A tragedy draws the life of two men together; one restless as he awaits the shame which will surely follow if and when the p...

Prater Violet

Christopher Isherwood · 1946 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Isherwood's novel, based on his experience on a film set. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English novelist. While living in Hollywood, California, Is...

Off the Record Including William Mcshakespeare and Judgement Day and the Bird and Toad in the Stalls and Mr Christmas Strikes Back and the Commissar

Guy Morgan · 1960 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, The Merrythough Press, 1960-1962. First edition. Paperback. A handsome first edition of Guy Morgan's Off the Record. With 6 frontispieces each created by a different artist: John Worsley, Cecil Gill, John Tribe, Maureen Roffey, Jane Brown, and Bernard Lodge. An au...

Weird Tales Magazine March 1939, Volume 33 Number 3

Farnsworth Wright (Editor) · 1939 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Indianapolis, Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1939. Paperback. An early 20th century issue of this interesting American magazine. Contains the second printing of the Quest of Iranon by HP Lovecraft. The first was in the Galleon in 1935. Both printings are extremely scarce....

The Flying Squadron

Richard Woodman · 1992 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , John Murray, 1992. First edition. Hardback. A handsome first edition, referencing copac, of Richard Woodman's 'The Flying Squadron.' Illustrated with a map. From the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, who is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy durin...

Hardy the Writer

F B Pinion · 1990 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, Macmillan, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of F B Pinion's 'Hardy the Writer&apos. Pinion observes and comments on the scientific philosophy, and Christian theology in Hardy's work against the background of Victorian restraint. In a cl...

My Son&Apos;S Story

Nadine Gordimer · 1990 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this family story set in South Africa by Nadine Gordimer. Signed by Gordimer to the title page. In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. Dustwrapper is smart, with ...

A Game for Heroes

James Graham · 1970 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thrilling adventure novel from Harry Patterson. The first of Patterson's works to written under his pseudonym James Graham. With an illustrated fine dustwrapper by Coppola, as well as an illustrated ma...

The Good Apprentice

Iris Murdoch · 1985 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1985. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this Iris Murdoch novel. Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke. After Mark, still high, falls t...