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The Hedge Witch; the Fascination

Cari Thomas; Essie Fox · 2022 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, HarperVoyager; Orenda Books, 2022-2023. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful pair of signed limited editions, including a 'Threadneedle' novella from Cari Thomas and a gothic novel from Essie Fox. Both copies are limited numbered signed editions. Complete with ...

Angela Carter&Apos;S Book of Fairy Tales

Angela Carter · 2005 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Virago Press, 2005. Cloth. An excellent illustrated anthology of Angela Carter's fairy tales, this copy previously owned by her publisher and close friend, Carmen Callil. The first of this collection, comprising stories brought together from two previous collectio...

Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

Michelle Paver · 2004 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.57 | $488.90 | ¥78,081)

London, Orion, 2004-2020. First edition. Cloth. A very smart six volume set from Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, signed by the author. Six volumes. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author. Written by Michelle Paver, a British novelist best kno...

A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth & Beyond the Mountains

Francesca Gibbons · 2020 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.13 | $74.00 | ¥11,818)

London, HarperCollins Publishers, 2020-2021. First edition. Cloth. Two excellent first edition volumes from the A Clock of Stars Series by British author Francesca Gibbons, signed by the author. Two volumes. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author. Each volume ha...

Wild and Wicked Things

Francesca May · 2022 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Orbit, 2022. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition, first impression of this dark magic romance novel from English author Francesca May, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Limited to two thous...

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Emma Torzs · 2023 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Century, 2023. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this thrilling novel from American writer Emma Torzs, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Limited to two thousand numbered copies, of whic...

A Good Enough Mother

Bev Thomas · 2019 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, Faber and Faber, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition of this thrilling novel from British crime writer Bev Thomas, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. One of six hundred exclusive signed first edition copies, of which this is nu...

Open Season & Savage Run

C. J. Box · 2002 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Robert Hale Limited, 2002-2003. First edition. Cloth. Two scarce first UK editions of these Joe Pickett novels from prolific American author Charles James Box Jr. signed by the author. Two volumes. First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title p...

A Snow Garden, the Music Shop, & Miss Benson&Apos;S Beetle

Rachel Joyce · 2015 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Doubleday, 2015-2020. First edition. Cloth. Three smart first edition, first impression novels from British writer Rachel Joyce, signed by the author. Three volumes. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Written by Rachel Joyce, a Bri...

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Agatha Christie · 1960 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1960 . Cloth. A brilliant and festive collection of short stories from the renowned Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, this copy being the second impression. The first edition, second impression, published the same year as the first. In the pu...

Murder in the Mews

Agatha Christie · 1937 · Rooke Books

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

London, Odhams Press Limited, [1937]. First edition. Cloth. The first Odham's edition of this collection of four exciting Poirot mysteries from Agatha Christie, this edition published the same year as Collins' Crime Club. The first Odhams edition of this work, with C...

David

D. H. Lawrence · 1926 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Martin Secker, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biblical drama play by modernist author D. H. Lawrence, a limited edition of five hundred copies. The first edition, limited to five hundred copies.A lesser known play by the renowned author D. H. Law...

The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher

Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Mr. Theobald, Mr. Seward and Mr. Sympson [ed.] · 1750 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)

London, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 . First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound ten volume first complete collected edition of the works of these two celebrated Renaissance dramatists. The first complete edition of the works of these two dramatists, complete in ten v...

Five Have Plenty of Fun; Five Go to Mystery Moor; Five Have a Mystery to Solve

Enid Blyton · 1954 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1954-1962 . First edition. Cloth. A delightful collection of the first editions of three of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' novels, each in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of each of these three ...

The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Sax Rohmer · 1938 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Methuen & Co, 1938. Cloth. A 1930s printing of the first Dr. Fu-Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer, in the original dust wrapper. First published in 1913, this is the 1938 twentieth edition of the first novel in which the master criminal Dr. Fu-Manchu appears.In the publisher&...

A Study in Drowning

Ava Reid · 2023 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Del Rey in association with Goldsboro Books, 2023. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed limited edition of Ava Reid's New York Times bestselling fantasy novel, in a limited red and gold foiled binding, and a striking sprayed fore edge. A limited edition, being nu...

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Hodderscape in association with Goldsboro Books, 2023. First edition. Cloth. The limited edition, signed first edition of the first instalment in L. R. Lam's epic fantasy 'Dragon Scales' duology, with the striking sprayed edges. The limited edition, firs...

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan · 1915 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of John Buchan's celebrated espionage novel. The first edition. A thriller, which follows the 'man on the run' Richard Hannay just before the outbreak of the First World War...

A Collection of Signed Modern Science Fiction, Detective and Mystery Novels

Various · 2002 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.49 | $1,711.16 | ¥273,283)

London, Various , 2002-2024. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic collection of signed modern mystery, detective, thriller and sci-fi novels, all fine in the fine unclipped dust wrappers. All signed by the respective author. Thirty-eight volumes make up this superb collection of...

Life in the Dark; the Small Boat of Great Sorrows

Dan Fesperman · 1999 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Herts; London, No Exit Press; Bantam Press , 1999-2003. First edition. Cloth. A fine pair of signed thrillers from Dan Fesperman, including one of one hundred signed copies of 'Life in the Dark&apos. Two lovely signed novels from Dan Fesperman. The first edition, first i...