Letteratura

Hand in Glove

Ngaio Marsh · 1962 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1962 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this captivating murder mystery novel surrounding events at a high-society party, written by Ngaio Marsh. The first edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, wi...

The Loved One

Evelyn Waugh · 1948 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Evelyn Waugh's "Anglo-American Tragedy", with illustrations by Stuart Boyle, in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. Dated using Jisc from copies held at the Br...

Mountolive, and, Clea

Lawrence Durrell · 1959 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Faber and Faber, 1959-60. First edition. Cloth. Later impressions of the final two novels in Lawrence Durrell's important 'Alexandria Quarter&apos. The final two volumes in Lawrence Durrell's brilliant 'Alexandria Quartet&apos.Each volume is in the ...

A Change of Climate, an Experiment in Love, the Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Hilary Mantel · 1994 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Viking; Fourth Estate, 1994-2014. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of three brilliant first edition works by Hilary Mantel, two novels and a short story collection. A smart set of three first edition fiction works by Hilary Mantel, each volume in their original unclip...

Eating People Is Wrong

Malcolm Bradbury · 1959 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the debut novel of Malcolm Bradbury, a smart copy of this academic novel. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Malcolm Bradbury's debut novel, a romance set in p...

Helliconia Spring, and, Helliconia Summer

Brian Aldiss · 1982 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1982-83. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition set of the first two volumes in Aldiss' brilliant 'Helliconia' trilogy, a fantastic sci-fi epic. Each volume is a first edition, first impression, in the original unclipped dust wrapper...

Pavements at Anderby

Winifred Holtby; Vera Brittain [ed.]; H.S. Reid [ed.] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, Collins, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this posthumously published collection of short stories by Winifred Holtby, the author of James Tait Black Memorial Prize winning novel 'South Riding&apos. The uncommon first edition, first impression,In th...

A New Life; Pictures of Fidelman; the Tenants; Rembrandt&Apos;S Hat

Bernard Malamud · 1962 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode; Eyre Methuen, 1962-1973 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK editions of four works from American novelist and short story writer Bernard Malamud, each in the original dust wrapper. The first UK editions, first impressions, of four works from the P...

Pocahontas, or, the Nonparell of Virginia

David Garnett · 1933 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of David Garnett's fictionalised account of the life of Pocahontas, in the striking original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.Illu...

Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel

Tracy Chevalier · 2000 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

New York, Dutton, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition first printing of this historical novel from American-British writer Tracy Chevalier. First US edition, first printing. Set in seventeenth-century Delft, Holland, this historical novel was inspired by local...

Death Comes As the End

Agatha Christie · 1945 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)

London, The Crime Club by Collins , 1945 . Cloth. The second impression of this murder mystery novel, commencing in Ancient Egypt more than 4000 years ago, written by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. The first edition, second impression, published the same year as the firs...

Poems 1926-1930

Robert Graves · 1931 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of poems by Robert Graves penned between 1926 and 1930. The first edition.The poetry in this collection was authored between 1926 and 1930, and had either never before been published...

Rocannon&Apos;S World

Ursula K. le Guin · 1979 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A fine first U.K. hardback edition of the debut novel of esteemed sci-fi author Ursula K. le Guin. The first U.K. hardback edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Rocannon's World&apos...

Christina Alberta&Apos;S Father

H. G. Wells · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart example of the first edition of H. G. Wells's novel of social realism and social criticism. The first edition, first impression of Wells's novel.Wells's novel is set in early 1920s London, and foll...

Early Stories

Daphne du Maurier · 1954 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.54 | ¥209,848)

London, Bantam Books, 1954 . First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first edition of this collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. The tales in this collection were first published in the late 1920s. The vanishingly scarce first edition, first impression of this wo...

The Sandcastle

Iris Murdoch · 1957 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1957 . First edition. Cloth. The second impression of Iris Murdoch's novel about a middle-aged teacher who becomes romantically entangled with a young artist. The first edition, second impression. Published in the same month as the first impressio...

Imperial Earth

Arthur C. Clarke · 1975 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Arthur C. Clarke's thrilling 1970s science fiction novel, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper...

A Notebook on William Shakespeare

Edith Sitwell · 1948 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A series of essays and notes on the plays of Shakespeare, from British poet and critic, Edith Sitwell. The first edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Containing essays on King Lear, Mac...

The Dynasts: A Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon

Thomas Hardy · 1910 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1910. Cloth. A smart copy of this closet drama from English Victorian writer Thomas Hardy. With a portrait frontispiece. A closet drama in verse and prose, being an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hu...

The Oxford Book of French Verse, Xiiith Century - Xixth Century

St. John Lucas [ed.] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1907. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of Lucas' anthology of French verse, attractively bound in a full calf binding. The first edition of this work in a full calf binding, with a gilt crest to the front board and gilt detailing t...