Letteratura

Scott Bicentenary Essays Selected Papers Read at the Sir Walter Scott Bicentenary Conference

Walter Scott; Alan Bell · 1973 · Rooke Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A copy of Scott Bicentenary Essays, a collection of papers from assorted academics and scholars from across the world. Includes 'Scott and Old Norse Literature' by John M. Simpson, 'Scott's For...

Charlie the Fox

John Budden · 1932 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Country Life Limited, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by John Budden. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour, a British Painter known for his paintings of hunting and horses. This work displays Armour's skills beautifully with eight full pag...

The Green Hills of Earth

Robert A Heinlein · 1951 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Chicago , Shasta Publishers, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Robert A Heinlein's short science-fiction work 'The Green Hills of Earth&apos. In original unclipped dustwrapper. With the illustrated bookplate of William J Jenkins to front pastedown. &ap...

The Alleys of Eden

Robert Olen Butler · 1981 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

New York, Horizon Press, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A first US edition of Robert Olen Butler's 'The Alleys of Eden&apos. A Pulitzer Prize winning fiction writer, this is Butler's first novel based on the American-Vietnamese War. In a quarter cloth binding with ...

The Seersucker Whipsaw

Ross Thomas · 1967 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

New York, William Morrow & Company, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Ross Thomas' 'The Seersucker Whipsaw&apos. Best known for his thrillers, Thomas often delves into the workings of professional politics and exposes them with wit and drama. In a quarte...

A Kind of Loving

Stan Barstow · 1960 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Stan Barstow's premiere, and best known novel. With original unclipped dustwrapper. A Kind of Loving was an extremely popular work and the first of a trilogy of works by Barstow about the character V...

Slides

David Plante · 1971 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Macdonald, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of David Plante's 'Slides&apos. A twisted and compelling novel about five friends who develop an alternative, dark world around themselves. In a cloth binding with original dustwrapper. Externally, sma...

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A novel by twentieth century author Graham Greene. The first edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party' follows narrator Alfred Jones and his experiences with Dr Fisc...

The Moor&Apos;S Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie · 1995 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1995. First edition. Cloth. The UK first edition of Salman Rushdie's fifth novel. 'The Moor's Last Sigh' traces four generations of the narrator's family through the Indian cities of Mumbai and Kochi. Rushdie weaves real historic...

A Grave Coffin

Gwendoline Butler · 1998 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London, Harper Collins, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel by Gwendoline Butler. Gwendoline Butler (August 19, 1922 in South London, England. January 5, 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the ...

A Trouble of Fools

Linda Barnes · 1988 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime thriller by Linda Barnes. Linda "Nancy" Barnes (born December 6, 1949) is an American mystery writer. In a paper covered binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart....

The Darkness of the Body

David Plante · 1974 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this novel by David Plante. David Plante is an American novelist who has been published extensively in magazines such as The New Yorker and the Paris Review. Dustwrapper illustrated with an original d...

The Paper Men

William Golding · 1984 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this novel by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding. "Ferociously powerful, unpredictable, unclassifiable 'The Paper Men' is as idiosyncratic and original as anything William Golding has ...

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis

George Lyttelton; Rupert Hart-Davis; Rupert Hart-Davis · 1979 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, John Murray, 1979 - 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first three volumes (of six) of the famous correspondence between the two literary Englishmen. Covering letters from the period 1955 to 1958. Edited and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. Title pages of volumes two and ...

Murder Starts from Fishguard

Howard Charles Davis · 1966 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.91 | $85.88 | ¥13,715)

London, John Long, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Howard Charles Davis' spy novel set on the shores of Ireland. The story follows Hugh Rudd as he discovers the body of a spy who should never have left East Germany and follows the mystery home, to Limerick ...

The Black Weever

Ronald Wills · 1952 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Allan Wingate, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Ronald Wills' tale of suicide and blackmail set against his common backdrop of an aquarium. A rare work with an even rarer dustwrapper. Wills is known for his character portrayal and it becomes the task...

The Devil&Apos;S Novice

Ellis Peters · 1984 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

New York, William Morrow and Company Inc, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of the eighth Brother Cadfael books. Brother Cadfael is the fictional main character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edit...

A Long Way to Shiloh

Lionel Davidson · 1966 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.92 | $72.66 | ¥11,605)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thriller novel from Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. In an orange cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with ju...

Samuel Palmer&Apos;S Italian Honeymoon

Edward Malins · 1968 · Rooke Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,854)

London, Oxford University Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Malins' 'Samuel Palmer's Italian Honeymoon&apos. Samuel Palmer (1805 – 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was ...

The Horn of Roland

Ellis Peters · 1974 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this story of death and romance set in the Alps by famed British author, Edith May Pargeter OBE. Includes an illustrated plate with a map of the Himmelhof and Gries-Am-See area. The past comes back to haunt Luca...