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Is He Popenjoy?

Anthony Trollope · 1878 · Rooke Books

£775.00 (€928.96 | $1,023.88 | ¥163,501)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1878. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Anthony Trollope's humorous novel, 'Is He Popenjoy?', in the publisher's original cloth binding. A humorous nineteenth-century novel narrating the story of the Marquis of Brot...

Framley Parsonage

Anthony Trollope · 1861 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1861. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this instalment of Anthony Trollope's 'Chronicles of Barsetshire', a series praised for their insight into Victorian life and society. The fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's &apo...

The Secret Service Man & Heart Cut Diamond

Sydney Horler · 1929 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. First edition. Cloth. Two first edition thriller novels by Sydney Horler, 'Heart Cut Diamond' and 'The Secret Service Man&apos. Two compelling thriller spy novels by Sydney Horler, both first editions of these works. Heart Cu...

Novels of Peter Cheyney

Peter Cheyney · 1945 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Collins, 1945-51. First edition. Cloth. Four first edition spy novels by noted British novelist Peter Cheyney, in their original pictorial dust wrappers. Four thrilling spy novels by Peter Cheyney.Included in this set are the following works: I'll Say She Does!, ...

Specimens of the Early English Poets

George Ellis · 1790 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)

London, Edwards, 1790. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of Specimens of the Early English Poets in full straight grain morocco binding. First edition. In a full straight grain morocco binding. Includes one portrait frontispiece by Holbein of Henry Howard Earl of Su...

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey · 2001 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression, of Peter Carey's Man Booker Prize winning Australian novel 'True History of the Kelly Gang&apos. A signed first edition, first impression of this work, in the original uncl...

The High Window

Raymond Chandler · 1946 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Cleveland and New York, Tower Books, The World Publishing Company, 1946 . Cloth. An exceptionally bright edition of Raymond Chandler's detective novel, published four years after the first edition. An early edition of Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring Los Ange...

The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler · 1949 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional copy of the first US edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first US edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months afte...

Playback

Raymond Chandler · 1958 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, The Thriller Book Club, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first Thriller Book Club edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. The first Thriller Book Club edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler&...

Playback

Raymond Chandler · 1958 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring Philip Marlowe. The first edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler's final completed novel. In the publisher's original pri...

The Kellys and the O&Apos;Kellys

Anthony Trollope · 1859 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1859 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition thus of this amusing novel from Anthony Trollope, set in rural Ireland. The first edition thus of this mid nineteenth century Anthony Trollope novel. First published in three volumes in 1848, this is the ...

Love Is Blind

William Boyd · 2018 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London , Viking , 2018. First edition. Cloth. An exclusive signed edition of William Boyd's Love is Blind. First exclusive signed edition of this work. This novel is set at the end of the nineteenth century and follow Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician. Love is bli...

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald · 1979 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London , Collins, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize winning novel Offshore, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition first impression copy of this work. Offshore is a novel that explores the emotional res...

Galahad at Blandings

P. G. Wodehouse · 1965 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Wodehouse's brilliant comic novels set at Blandings Castle. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Galahad at Blandings' is the ninth novel in Wod...

Our Village

Mary Russell Mitford · 1893 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1893. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of Hugh Thomson's illustrated edition of Our Village by Mary Mitford. The first Hugh Thomson edition, second impression. In a signed straight grain morocco binding by Truslove and Hanson. Profusely illustra...

Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan · 2014 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.66 | $336.89 | ¥53,797)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 2014. First edition. Cloth. A stunning first English edition, first impression signed work of Richard Flanagan's savagely beautiful Booker Prize winning novel Narrow Road to the Deep North. The first English edition, first impression of this wor...

Studies in Contemporary Biography

James Bryce · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1903. First edition. Leather. James Bryce's study of contemporary biography in a signed Harrison & Son binding, the first edition. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of studies in contemporary biography by James Bryce, including ...

Solar

Ian McEwan · 2010 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition. Cloth. Signed first impression of this satirical novel by Ian McEwan, a lovely copy. First edition, first impression of this work. A satire by Ian McEwan, concerning a Novel-prize physicist who seeks a solar-based solution to climate...

The Enclosure

Susan Hill · 1961 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Hutchinson of London , 1961. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of Susan Hill's brilliant first novel, written at the age of 15. Signed by the author with dedication. Scarce first edition of this novel. Written by the author of acclaimed titles such as &ap...

Restoration

Rose Tremain · 1989 · Rooke Books

£56.00 (€67.12 | $73.98 | ¥11,814)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A lovely, first edition copy of Rose Tremain's historical novel, 'Restoration', which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. A compelling historical novel, set during the reign of King Charles II of Eng...