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On the Outskirts

Michael Frayn · 1964 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,270)

London, Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of essays and observations on society from Michael Frayn. His columns for The Guardian and The Observer (collected in The Day of the Dog, The Book of Fub and On the Outskirts) are models of the c...

Hard Frost

R. D. Wingfield · 1995 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, Constable , 1995. First edition. Cloth. The fourth crime novel in R. D. Wingfield's series surrounding renowned protagonist, Detective Inspector Jack Frost. First edition. Featuring the original illustrated unclipped dustwrapper. Rodney David Wingfield was an Engl...

Perfectly Pure and Good

Frances Fyfield · 1994 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

London, Bantam Press, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this mystery novel from Frances Fyfield. Signed by the author to the title page. This is the second in Frances Fyfield's Sarah Fortune series of novels. In a blue cloth binding with original uncli...

Waxwings

Jonathan Raban · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, Picador, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Jonathan Raban's second novel. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, su...

Render Up the Body

Marianne Wesson · 1997 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,216)

London, Headline Feature, 1997. Paperback. An uncommon copy of Marianne Wesson's 'Render Up the Body', being an uncorrected proof copy of the first English edition. "In Render Up the Body, law professor and former federal prosecutor Marianne Wesson makes a thril...

Big Mouth

Blanaid McKinney · 2000 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,270)

London, Phoenix House, 2000. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of Blanaid McKinney's 'Big Mouth', being an uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. 'Big Mouth' was Blanaid McKinney's first collection of short stories to be published. In ...

Unholy Crusade

Dennis Wheatley · 1967 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Hutchinson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition signed presentation copy of 'Unholy Crusade&apos. Inscribed by the author: 'For D. Denham, With kindest remembrances from Dennis Wheatley&apos. A first edition. In a cloth binding with gilt lettering to ...

Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist

W. J. Burley · 1991 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel featuring W. J. Burley's popular character, Detective Charles Wycliffe. When the body of amateur flautist Tony Mills is found shot dead by his own gun on the secluded estate of Lo...

Devil&Apos;S Claw (2000), Paradise Lost (2001), Birds of Prey (2001), Partner in Crime (2002), Taking the Fifth (2003), Exit Wounds (2003), Day of the Dead (2003), Long Time Gone (2005), Dead Wrong (2006), Web of Evil (2007), Justice Denied (2007)

J. A. Jance · 2000 · Rooke Books

£311.99 (€373.97 | $412.18 | ¥65,800)

Sutton, Severn House Publishers, 2000 - 2007. First edition. Cloth. An eleven volume set of J. A. Jance's mystery novels. All first Editions except for Taking the Fifth In the original unclipped dustwrappers Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (1944 - ) is an award-winning American ...

Bad City Blues

Tim Willocks · 1991 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Macdonald, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling first novel from Tim Willocks. "Not only a tightly wound thriller, it is a novel which delves deep into its characters' psyches, laying them open to the hot, humid light of the delt...

The Juniper Tree and Other Tales by Grimm

Lore Segal Maurice Sendak · 1974 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, The Bodley Head, 1974. Cloth. A translated copy of The Juniper Tree, a German fairy tale collection by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928), a renowned American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best k...

Levkas Man

Hammond Innes · 1971 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thriller novel by British writer Ralph Hammon Innes. 'Levkas Man is an unusual interweaving of the academic and the violent that takes the reader into strange places against the background of Greek natio...

My Life Closed Twice

Nigel Williams · 1977 · Rooke Books

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,116)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1977. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Nigel Williams' first novel. A tale of a writer too absorbed in his past at Oxford to appreciate the present. In a cloth binding with original dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is smart, with some shelfwe...

On the Death of My Son a Young Man&Apos;S Account of Life After Death

Jasper Swain · 1974 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Turnstone Books, 1974. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first hardback edition of this touching story of how to deal with bereavement by Jasper Swain. Previously privately published in South Africa under the title Mike In paper-covered boards. Externally, smart, with j...

A Streak of Madness

Ian Cochrane · 1973 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,761)

London, Allen Lane, 1973. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this nostalgic novel about life in Ireland from Ian Cochrane. Ian Cochrane (7 November 1941 7 September 2004) was a novelist and creative writing teacher. His novels are known for dark humour and tragic endin...

First Light

Peter Ackroyd · 1989 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Peter Ackroyd's pastoral novel which reflects on the problem of time and the qualities of the English landscape. Peter Ackroyd (1949 -) is an English biographer and novelist who has a fascination with...

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach · 2012 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Fourth Estate, 2012. First edition. Cloth. A US first edition of this work about a junior baseball player. he novel focuses on the best year of the Westish basebell team, which Henry Skrimshander joins. Chad Harbach (1975-) is an American author and editor. In a cloth ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&Apos;S Nest

Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland · 2010 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A US first edition of this novel by Stieg Larsson, translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland. 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' is the third novel in Larsson's Millenium trilogy, which includes &apos...

Imperial Kelly

Peter Bowen · 1992 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

New York, Crown Publishers, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Peter Bowen's comic revisionist history. Mountain man Luther Kelly gets mixed up with Roosevelt and Churchill, joins the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill and sides with the Boers in South Africa in th...

Doctor at Large

Richard Gordon · 1955 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

London, Michael Joseph , 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of "Doctor at Large" by Richard Gordon. Featuring original dustwrapper and illustrated frontispiece. Other novels in series include "Doctor in the House" and "Doctor at Sea". In original cloth binding w...