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Contemporary Playwrights: Arthur Miller

Ronald Hayman · 1970 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Heinemann, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this enlightening examination of Arthur Miller's plays. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.British critic and biographer, Ronald Hayman di...

Six Feet of the Country

Nadine Gordimer · 1956 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of this powerful short-story collection from Novel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. First edition, first impression. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. Nadine Gordimer was a widely ...

A Collection of First Editions from Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury · 1976 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London; New York, Secker & Warburg; Alfred A. Knopf; Harper & Row, 1976-1987. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of three first edition volumes from English author Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury. Three volumes. Written by Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, an English author and...

The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton; J. A. St. John · 1848 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1848-1858. Leather. A smart leatherbound set of the prose works of English writer and civil servant John Milton. Complete in five volumes. Bohn's Standard Library. With a portrait frontispiece to volumes one, two, and three. A collection of the pros...

Which Way to Mecca, Jack?

William Peter Blatty · 1960 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, Bernard Geis Associates [Random House], 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated humorous work from American writer William Peter Blatty. First edition. Illustrated throughout. The author's debut novel. A humorous look at both the au...

I Advance with a Loaded Rose

Douglas Blazek · 1969 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

San Francisco , Twowindows Press, 1969. First edition. Paperback. A smart limited edition of this collection of poetry from Polish-American author Douglas Blazek, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to six hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number two. This co...

A New Year&Apos;S Greeting from Black Sparrow Press: To Lean Back Into It

Charles Bukowski · 1998 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First edition. Hardback. A smart limited edition hardcover copy of this collection of poetry from Charles Bukowski, as part of the New Year's Greetings Series by Black Sparrow Press. First edition. Limited to two hundred and twenty-s...

Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House

Wright Morris · 1970 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novella from American writer Wright Marion Morris, signed by the author. First edition. Limited to two hundred copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, numbered, and signed by the auth...

The English Miss

R. H. Mottram · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charming novel from English writer Ralph Hale Mottram. First edition. A novel dealing justly with the notion of girlhood in times of war, exploring the movement and intensity of this unprecedent...

A Loose Herd of Texans & Texas Rhapsody: Memories of a Native Son

Bill Porterfield · 1978 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Texas; New York, Texas A&M University Press; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978-1981. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes from American writer Bill Porterfield. Two volumes. First edition. Written by Bill Porterfield, an American author who was one of the first...

Creek Mary&Apos;S Blood & the Snowblind Moon

Dee Brown [Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown]; John Byrne Cooke · 1980 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Simon and Schuster, 1980-1984. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition novels from American writers Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown and John Byrne Cooke. Two volumes. This set contains: Creek Mary's Blood, 1980. First trade edition...

Under the Moons of Mars: Uncorrected Galley Proof

Sam Moskowitz [Ed.] · 1970 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York; Chicago; San Francisco , Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, uncorrected galley proof copy of Sam Moskowitz's history and anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines between 1912 and 1920. An uncorrected ...

Awake and Rehearse

Louis Bromfield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company , 1929 . Hardback. The autographed, limited edition of Louis Bromfield's compelling collection of short stories, bound in the publisher's foil cover housed in the original slipcase. Autographed limited edition. Published the same...

Hamlet, Revenge!

Michael Innes; [John Innes Mackintosh Stewart] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of this thrilling detective novel by Michael Innes, revolving around a production of Hamlet. The first U.S. edition, first printing, typo to page 120 with 'Lord Appleby' for 'L...

Money from Holme

Michael Innes; [John Innes Mackintosh Stewart] · 1964 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this brilliant thriller by Michael Innes, from his own library. The author's own copy from his library.The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This t...

The Comedians

Graham Greene · 1966 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, The Bodley Head, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A beautiful first edition copy of this political novel set in Haiti Graham Greene novel. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'The Comedians' is Greene's novel...

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene · 1951 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Graham Greene's most popular novels, following a tumultuous love affair during the Second World War. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapp...

High Island, and, the Price of Stone

Richard Murphy · 1974 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York; Winston-Salem, Harper & Row; Wake Forest University Press, 1974-85. First edition. Cloth. The first U.S. edition of two anthologies of poems by Richard Murphy, smart copies containing his selected works. Two first U.S. edition anthologies of poems by the Anglo-Irish ...

The Ice Storm

Rick Moody · 1994 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First edition. Hardback. A first edition copy of this widely acclaimed novel by Rick Moody, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original uncli...

The Wandering of Desire

Marion Montgomery · 1962 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1962. First edition. Cloth. An advance review copy of Marion Montgomery's debut novel, 'The Wandering of Desire', with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding...