Letteratura

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the sixth major novel of successful postmodernist author John Fowles. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced...

Alarms and Diversions

James Thurber · 1957 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition anthology of short stories and essays by James Thurber, inscribed by the author. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Ins...

A Maggot

John Fowles · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A specially bound signed Limited Edition of the first edition of John Fowles's postmodern historical novel, set between May 1736 and February 1737, in which Fowles examines historiography, the nature of history, and crim...

English Prose Selections

Henry Craik · 1893 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1893-1922. Leather. Four leather bound volumes of Henry Craik's English Prose Selections. The first four of five volumes of English Prose Selections, edited by Henry Craik. The first volume is a first edition copy and the other three copies are...

The Monk. A Romance.

M. G. Lewis [Matthew Lewis] · 1795 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London , Privately Printed [B. Fawcett and Co.], c1890 . Leather. A scarce limited edition of Mathew Lewis's infamous and celebrated gothic novel, in beautiful half crushed morocco Zaehnsdorf bindings. A scarce late nineteenth century Limited Edition of Lewis's gothi...

The Works of Thomas Moore Vol. VI

Thomas Moore · 1819 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris , Galignani, 1819. First edition. Leather. A first Galignani edition of this volume of works by Thomas Moore. Volume VI from the Works of Thomas Moore. This volume includes Odes of Anacreon-Little's Poems, being the first Galignani edition. Thomas Moore was an Iri...

The Red Chipmunk Mystery

Ellery Queen · 1948 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.51 | $103.07 | ¥16,460)

London, Collins, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated first edition of this children's novel by Ellery Queen. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by E. A. Watson. Written by Ellery Queen, the pseudonym of American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay...

The Killing Kind

John Connolly · 2001 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of the third novel from Connolly's Charlie Parker detective series. First edition, first impression of The Killing Kind by John Connolly in the original publisher's cloth bin...

Half a War

Joe Abercrombie · 2015 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Harper Voyager , 2015. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impression of this coming-of-age tale by Joe Abercrombie, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to title page. Third and final volume in Joe Abercrombie&apo...

The Flower of Old Japan; Poems

Alfred Noyes · 1907 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

New York, The Macmillan Company , 1907-13. First edition. Cloth. A lovely pair of anthologies containing the poems by Alfred Noyes, first US editions in uniform publisher's bindings. Alfred Noyes was an English poet and playwright. Here are The Flower of Old Japan, seco...

Death of a Sweep; Death of a Policeman

M. C. Beaton [Marion Gibbons Chesney] · 2011 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Constable; CR Crime , 2011-14. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first impressions of these Hamish Macbeth murder mysteries by Marion Chesney. Two first editions, first impressions. Murder mysteries by Scottish author Marion Chesney, featuring her popular character of Hamis...

The Don and the Undergraduate

William Edmund Wood Collins · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1899. First edition. Leather. Scarce first edition of this tale by William Collins in a smart Bickers signed binding, author's presentation copy. Work of fiction set in Oxford by William Collins, Welsh-first class cricketer and author,...

Devices and Desires; a Certain Justice

P. D. James · 1989 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

London, Faber and Faber , 1989-97. First edition. Cloth. Two bright first editions of these Adam Dalgliesh mysteries by Phyllis Dorothy James. Two first editions, first impressions. Mysteries by Phyllis James, English novelist and life peer. Nos. eight and ten of James's ...

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. The first impression of Thackeray's important historical novel, complete with the original Thackeray plates. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses' on page...

Agent No. 5

James Corbett · 1945 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1945. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this thrilling spy novel by James Corbett, enclosed in the original pictorial dust wrapper. Agent No. 5 tells the story of British Military Intelligence Agent Ralph Peterson as he...

Abracadaver

Peter Lovesey · 1972 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan, 1972. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this gripping crime novel by British author Peter Lovesey in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Abracadaver by Peter Lovesey in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Â...

The Thing About Joe Sullivan, Poems 1971-1977

Roy Fisher · 1978 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Manchester, Carcanet, 1978 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition, first impression of this collection of poetry by Roy Fisher, signed and dated by the author. First edition, first impression of this poetry anthology by Roy Fisher in the original publisher's paper ...

The Blessing Way

Tony Hillerman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the gripping novel which launched Tony Hillerman's career. First UK edition. The first of the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. Two anthropology professors take a summer research trip o...

Wheel Fortune

Karen Campbell · 1973 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.53 | ¥8,230)

London, Collins, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon to see first edition of a gripping suspense novel by Karen Campbell. The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent printings listed.Inscription to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To Juliet, as always wi...

The April Robin Murders

Craig Rice; Ed McBain · 1958 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, Random House, 1958. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this mystery novel by Craig Rice and Ed McBain. The first edition, first impression of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper...