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Peter Lovesey · 1983 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Macmillan, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A terrific signed first edition of this Peter Lovesey murder mystery, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page.The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's orig...

A Case of Spirits

Peter Lovesey · 1975 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Macmillan , 1975. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this Victorian-era detective novel from Peter Lovesey, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's origin...

Widows Wear Weeds

A. A. Fair [Erle Stanley Gardner] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£186.00 (€222.98 | $245.77 | ¥39,251)

London, Heinemann, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this Cool and Lam novel from American author Erle Stanley Gardner. First UK edition. A Cool and Lam novel. Donald Lam and his secretary Elsie Brand are on a coffee break when Nicholas Baffin joins them ...

Wobble to Death

Peter Lovesey · 1970 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the first Sergeant Cribb novel from British writer Peter Lovesey, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. The first Sergeant Cribb novel, and the author...

Plot and Counterplot

Dennis Wheatley · 1959 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Hutchinson, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling novel from British author Dennis Wheatley. First edition. Following British secret agent Gregory Sallust, who is tasked with infiltrating a Nazi organisation in Switzerland to disrupt their...

The Mirror and Other Poems

Leonard Clark; Walter de la Mare · 1948 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Allan Wingate, 1948. First edition. Cloth. An anthology of the poems of Leonard Clark, a first edition copy presented by the author of John Heath-Stubbs. The first edition, first impression.Author's presentation copy, with his inscription to the recto of the front...

Bellamira; or, the Fall of Tunis

Richard Sheil [Richard Lalor Sheil] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, John Murray, 1818 . First edition. Unbound. A bright example of the vanishingly scarce first edition of Richard Lalor Sheil's historical tragedy about the fall of Tunis. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this historical tragedy from Irish politician, writer ...

Nada the Lily

H. Rider Haggerd · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of this exciting illustrated historical novel by the popular H. Rider Haggard. The first edition, first issue, with the publisher's catalogue to the rear dated February 1892 as cal...

Montezuma&Apos;S Daughter

H. Rider Haggard · 1893 · Rooke Books

£128.00 (€153.45 | $169.13 | ¥27,012)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first issue of Haggard's gripping adventure novel, an interesting work with commentary on the colonisation of South Africa, with illustrations throughout. The first edition, first issue, with ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J. K. Rowling · 2007 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Bloomsbury, 2007. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing true first edition of J. K. Rowling's seventh and final novel in her beloved Harry Potter series. The stated first edition.Complete with the adult variant of the original unclipped dust wrapper. This final instal...

The Alchemist

[Mary Robson Hughes] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, William Darton Jun, 1818. First edition. Leather. A scarce moral novel for young girls by the popular Georgian author Mary Robson Hughes, the first edition, complete with a frontispiece. The first edition of this scarce work.A charming moral tale for children, followin...

Fabulous Histories. Designed for the Instruction of Children, Respecting Their Treatment of Animals

Sarah Trimmer · 1811 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, J. Johnson and Co, 1811. Leather. Sarah Trimmer's popular Georgian novel for children, in which she educates on the proper treatment of animals. 'Fabulous Histories' is the most popular work of Sarah Trimmer. First published in 1786, this is the ninth ed...

Fear to Tread

Michael Gilbert · 1953 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this mystery crime thriller from English solicitor and author Michael Gilbert. First edition. Following the gradual discovery by Mr. Wetherall, a middle-aged, mild-mannered headmaster, that even a num...

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Helen Simpson · 1935 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Helen Simpson's historical novel set in 17th-century Hanover, inscribed by famed playwright and actor, Noël Coward. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Inscribed by celeb...

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears · 1997 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical mystery novel, signed by the author and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Signed by the author to the title page. In the origin...

A Selection of Science Fiction Works

Various · 1975 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

New York; London, Advent; Harper and Row; Nelson Doubleday; Robson Books et al , 1975-1990. First edition. Cloth. A terrific selection of science fiction books, all complete with the publishers' striking unclipped dust wrappers. An attractive collection of fifteen science...

Lyra&Apos;S Oxford

Philip Pullman · 2003 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford , David Fickling Books , 2003. First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of Philip Pullman's novella, featuring heroine Lyra Belacqua from his popular trilogy 'His Dark Materials&apos. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original cloth binding...

The Shadow in the Plate

Philip Pullman · 1986 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this Sally Lockhart mystery from Philip Pullman. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.This is the second Sally Lockhart mystery, taking ...

The Blinding Light: A Tale

Colin Collins · 1910 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

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...

Manipulus Vocabulorum: A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language

Peter Levins; Henry B. Wheatley [editor] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, The Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, 1937. Cloth. A smart reprint of this English to Latin dictionary believed to be the first English rhyming dictionary. Reprinted from the English English Text Society edition of 1867. An English-to-Latin dictionary ori...