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The Launching of Roger Brook

Dennis Wheatley · 1957 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, Hutchinson and Co , 1957. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling work of espionage, the first in the series with Wheatley's British secret agent protagonist, Roger Brook. Third impression of the first edition. Featuring original illustrated dustwrapper, and coloured il...

Telephone Poles and Other Poems

John Updike · 1963 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry by John Updike. Including titles such as 'Marriage Counsel', 'How to be Uncle Sam', and 'Old-Fashioned Lightning Rod&apos. In a cloth binding with uncli...

The Man Who Loved Chocolates

Denzil Batchelor · 1961 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,489)

London, Heinemann, 1961. First edition. Cloth. An attractive copy of this work of crime fiction by Denzil Batchelor. Batchelor (1906 –1969) was a British journalist, writer, playwright and broadcaster. He reported on cricket and rugby union for several newspapers, including &...

Service of All the Dead

Colin Dexter · 1980 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,088)

New York, St Martin's, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first US edition of this crime novel by Colin Dexter. Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930) is an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adap...

Sloop of War

Alexander Kent · 1972 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,489)

London, Hutchinson , 1972. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Alexander Kent's 'Sloop of War', featuring his well known protagonist, Richard Bolitho. With the original illustrated dustwrapper, and maps to the endpapers. "The year in which the American War ...

Zapata

John Steinbeck · 1991 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, Heinemann, 1991. First edition. Cloth. This is a first edition of this work by John Steinbeck. The previously unpublished introduction, commentary and script for the film Viva Zapata! In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with som...

The Wapshot Scandal

John Cheever · 1964 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.80 | ¥9,067)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this follow-up novel to Cheever's award-winning 'The Wapshot Chronicle&apos. The scandal of the title involves one of the Wapshot wives running off with an 18 year-old bagboy from the local ...

Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories

Lucius Shepard · 1997 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,012)

London, Orion, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first collected edition of these science fiction stories by Lucius Shepard. Including stories such as 'Human History', 'The Sun Spider', 'Beast of the Heartland' and many others. In a blue cloth bindi...

Deadly Admirer a Kate Kinsella Mystery

Christine Green · 1992 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,060)

New York, Walker, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed first American edition of this UK crime novel. Kate Kinsella is both a private investigator and an Registered Nurse. Her worlds collide when she finds a client amongst her patients - a paranoid fellow nurse who ...

Bad City Blues

Tim Willocks · 1991 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

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...

Day of Glory

Rene Behaine; Bernard Miall · 1949 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,325)

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this novel from Rene Behaine. ''The Day of Glory' continues the story of Michael and Catherine Varambaud now married and with one child, in the France which immediately ...

Stalker

Liza Cody · 1984 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

London, Collins, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this crime thriller from Liza Cody (and the third in the 'Anna Lee' series). Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to British mystery fiction. The entire Anna Lee ser...

Fell of Dark

Reginald Hill · 1971 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

London, The Crime Club Collins, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime novel from Reginald Hill. Reginald Charles Hill FRSL (3 April 1936 – 12 January 2012) was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier D...

The Bloody Ground

Bernard Cornwell · 1996 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,489)

London, Harper Collins, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this historical novel surrounding the American Civil War. First edition, first impression. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper, and a map of the Battle of Antietam. "The new novel in the Starbuck Ch...

The Happy Turning a Dream of Life

H. G. Wells · 1945 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1945. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of one of the final works by H. G. Wells. It contains some of Wells' reflections on his life and the world around him. In a cloth binding with paper-covered boards and original unclipped dustwrappe...

Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady

Michael Pearce · 1999 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London, Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Michael Pearce's second novel in the witty and fascinating Dmitri Kameron series. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped illustrated dustwrapper, designed...

Moonspender a Lovejoy Narrative

Jonathan Gash · 1986 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Collins , 1986. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Gash's Moonspender. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. John Grant (b.1933) is an English crime writer, who writes under the pen name Jonathan Gash. He is the author ...

Unconditional Surrender

Evelyn Waugh · 1961 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1961. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Waugh's conclusion of 'Men at Arms' and 'Officers and Gentlemen&apos. Featuring original illustrated dustwrapper. Described by the Sunday Times as "Admirably written, humorous.....

Trophies and Dead Things (1990) Pennies on a Dead Woman&Apos;S Eyes (1992) Point Deception (2001)

Marcia Muller · 1990 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.68 | ¥16,870)

New York, The Mysterious Press, 1990-2001. First edition. Cloth. Three first edition copies of mysteries by Marcia Muller Two volumes bound in half cloth, third volume bound in paper with gilt lettering. Unclipped dustwrappers Trophies and Dead Things and Pennies on a Dead Wom...

The Lady of the Lake: A Romance, in Two Volumes Founded on the Poem So Called by Walter Scott

Anonymous · 1810 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, Thomas Tegg, 1810. Leather. A very scarce first edition of this anonymous work based on Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. Though no author is printed, Thomas John Dibdin was the acknowledged author of The Lady of the Lake, a melodramatic romance in two acts (1810),...