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Gay Roads Challenge to Love What Would You Buy the Charmed Circle Romance Is Passing by

Marjorie M. Price; Marjorie Moore; Cicely Colpitts; Juliet Armstrong; Nina Bradshaw · 1939 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)

London, Mills & Boon, Limited, 1939-53. First edition. Cloth. Five charming romances published by Mills & Boon each with colourful cover illustrations. Five volume set of romance novels published by Mills & Boon during and post World War II. First editions of the works, exclud...

The Skull Beneath the Skin

P. D. James · 1982 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Faber and Faber, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this thrilling Cordelia Gray novel from James. First edition. Set in a reconstructed Victorian castle on the fictional Courcy Island, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the death threats rece...

Beyond the Blue: The Story of a Great Adventure

Stacey Blake · 1920 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Books Limited, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart very scarce first edition of this exciting story of interplanetary travel from Stacey Blake. First edition. With the front panel of the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper stuck to the front board. Very scarce work detaili...

Gulliver Joe

Jonathan Quick [Cecil Eldred Hughes; E. Harold Begbie] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Isbister and Company Limited, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce illustrated first edition of this charming novel from Quick, with the front panel of the original dust wrapper. First edition. Very scarce work. With the front panel of the original dust wrapper. I...

1929-1960 5vol a Collection of Romance Novels

Michael Arlen; Irwin R. Franklyn; E. M. Hull; Matthew Finch; Glendon Swarthout · 1929 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London; New York, The Universal Library Co.; WM Collins Sons & Co. Ltd; Hutchinson & Co.; Dennis Dobson; Random House, 1929-1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of very scarce romance novels from Arlen, Franklyn, Hull, Finch, and Swarthout. Five volumes. Very scarce....

Lost Men in the Grass

Alan Griff · 1940 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this beautifully illustrated work from Griff. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Have you ever looked closely into the grass? This work explores the new and astonishing world you can find...

Yesterday&Apos;S Spy

Len Deighton · 1975 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition. Cloth. An extremely smart first edition copy of Len Deighton's spy novel, in the original dust wrapper. A smart first edition of the work in original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. In the ...

Fruit of the Desert

Richard Barry · 1920 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this lost race adventure novel by Richard Barry. A first edition of the work, in the original publisher's maroon cloth binding. This work is a Lost Adventure novel by American au...

A Collection of Novels by Ethel M. Dell

Ethel M. Dell · 1913 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd; T. Fisher Unwin; Hutchinson & Co; Wright & Brown, 1913-1938. First edition. Cloth. A charming collection of romance novels by British author, Ethel May Dell. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding, in a variety of colours.Compris...

Balance of Power

Richard North Patterson · 2003 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan, 2003 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first UK edition of this political thriller by American author, Richard North Patterson. This work is in the original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, in the original, unclipped dus...

Without Trace

Katherine John · 1990 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Century, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A well presented, signed first edition of this work of crime fiction by Welsh author, Katherine John. This is a first edition of the work, in the original publisher's smart black cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust...

The Great Way; Flaming Felicia; Sunrise; Repent at Leisure; Beloved Enemy

Anne Duffield; Horace Fish · 1924 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1924-1950. First edition. Cloth. A charming collection of novels by Anne Duffield and Horace Fish. This collection features novels in original publisher's cloth binding, with the original, charming dust wrappers, all of which are unclippe...

New Wine at Cock-Crow

G. U. Ellis · 1937 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first U.K. edition of this lesser known novel by G. U. Ellis, author's presentation copy with an inscription to the front endpaper. The scarce to see first U.K. edition.In the original unclipped du...

The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Sax Rohmer · 1932 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Methuen & Co LTD, 1932. Cloth. The first Dr. Fu-Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer, an exciting crime novel, a 1930s reprint in the original dust wrapper. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.The first novel in which the master criminal Dr. Fu-Manchu appears, collecting shor...

Peter Priggins, the College Scout

[Joseph Hewlett]; Theodore Hook · 1841 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Henry Colburn, 1841. First edition. Leather. An uncommon novel following the life of a novel following the life of a college scout, the first edition complete with plates by Phiz. The first edition of this uncommon work.Complete in three volumes.A comical novel followi...

Raffles the Amateur Cracksman

E. W. Horung · 1934 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd, [1934]. Cloth. Fourteen exciting 'Raffles' short stories, including stories from 'The Amateur Cracksman' and 'The Black Mask&apos. A movie tie-in edition, for the 1930 'Raffles' featuring Ro...

The Bat Flies Low

Sax Rohmer · 1935 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

New York; Chicago, A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1935. Cloth. An early American reprint of this unique novel by Sax Rohmer, in which a mysterious ancient Egyptian mystery comes to life. An undated early American reprint, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of ...

Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future

Evelyn Waugh · 1953 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's satire, set in a dystopian future, from the library of the son of Joyce Gill, his life-long friend. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, wi...

Bucket Nut and Monkey Wrench

Liza Cody · 1992 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1992-1994. First edition. Cloth. Two bright first editions from Liza Cody's well-known Eva Wylie series, featuring a professional wrestler as the protagonist. First edition, first impression copies of two novels in the publisher's original cl...

Bucket Nut; Monkey Wrench

Liza Cody · 1992 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1992-1994. First edition. Cloth. Two bright first editions from Liza Cody's well-known Eva Wylie series, featuring a professional wrestler as the protagonist. First edition, first impression copies of two novels in the publisher's original cl...