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Jeanette Winterson · 2000 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2000 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart signed first edition, first impression of this creative work of fiction by Jeanette Winterson. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In publisher's original black cloth b...

Solar

Ian McEwan · 2010 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2010 . First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of Ian McEwan's comical satire novel, Solar, in the original slipcase. A first edition, first printing, limited edition copy of Ian McEwan's comic novel, Solar, signed by the author, in...

Stars of the New Curfew

Ben Okri · 1988 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The signed presentation copy of a short story collection of military curfew in Lagos written by eminent Nigerian writer and Booker Prize winner Ben Okri. The signed presentation copy of The Stars of the New Curfew, writte...

11 Vols Crowner John Mystery Novels

Bernard Knight · 2000 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Severn House Publishers Ltd.; Simon and Schuster , 2000-2009. First edition. Cloth. An extensive eleven-volume run of Bernard Knight"s Crowner John mysteries, including five signed first editions, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers. In the publisher&apo...

Signed First Edition Novels by Conn Iggulden

Conn Iggulden · 2004 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Harper Collins, 2004-2010. First edition. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of signed first editions from the popular Emperor and Conqueror series by Conn Iggulden. A three volume set.All volumes signed to the title pages by the author.The first editions.In publishe...

Linda Tressel

Anthony Trollope · 1868 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868 . First edition. Leather. Volume II only of the vanishingly scarce first edition of Anthony Trollope's cautionary tale, in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe signed binding. A vanishingly scarce first edition. Volume II only of...

The Works of John Morley

John Morley · 1898 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1898-1901. Leather. A uniformly bound set of a collection of some of the literary works of John Morley. The set consists of Diderot in two volumes, Voltaire, Rousseau in two volumes, Critical Miscellanies in three volumes and Studies in Literature. Jo...

Temple Bar a London Magazine Volumes III, VI, IX, X, XI, XIV, XVI, XVII and XIX

Various Authors; George Augustus Sala (ed) · 1862 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.19 | $911.74 | ¥145,610)

London, Office of "Temple Bar" and Richard Bentley, 1862-1867. Leather. A nine-volume set of Temple Bar, in attractive half-calf bindings with gilt detailing and marbled boards. Temple Bar was a London journal, issued monthly with a cover price of one shilling and was original...

The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. With the Life of the Author

Henry Fielding · 1784 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London , W. Strahan et al. 1784. Leather. A set of the works of Henry Fielding, the eighteenth-century novelist and dramatist. New edition, to which is added The Fathers, or, The Good Man Containing Love in Several Masques, The Temple Beau, The Author's Farce, The Pleasur...

Lady Wedderburn&Apos;S Wish, a Tale of the Crimean War

James Grant · 1870 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1870. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this scarce novel by Scottish author James Grant, complete here in three volumes. Grant was prolific as an author, writing nearly 100 books throughout his life. He is suspected of Jacobite sympathies, hav...

Down River

Stephen Gallagher · 1989 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London, New English Press, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this detective novel, featuring the selfish police officer Johnny Mays. When petulant, selfish police officer Johnny Mays meets an unpleasant end, his former friend Nick Frazier attempts to scratc...

Seven Times the Wind

Irene Dayton · 1977 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Peterborough , Windy Row Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this collection of poetry from Irene Dayton. Inscribed by Dayton to the front endpaper to Robin Gregory, with four lines from 'A Woman Charming', and a typed letter signed by Dayton. In a ...

A Darkness More Than Night

Michael Connelly · 2001 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Orion, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition novel by Michael Connelly Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defence attorney Mickey ...

Sweet Dreams

Michael Frayn · 1973 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Collins, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by English playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. Signed by author to the title page. First edition, first impression. The work follows the story of a man who dies and goes to heaven. Within heaven, he i...

No Marks for Trying

Stella Allan · 1975 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.54 | $56.81 | ¥9,072)

London, Macdonald and Jane's, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart and uncommon copy of this romantic novel, being number fourteen in the Troubadour series. First edition. Neatly signed and personally inscribed by the author; "For Joy and Ellie, in friendship and with love...

The Book and the Brotherhood

Iris Murdoch · 1987 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Iris Murdoch's 'The Book and the Brotherhood&apos. In an attractive dustwrapper designed by Tom Phillips. The novel follows a group of friends from their days at Oxford through middle age, f...

Art and Lies a Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

Jeanette Winterson · 1994 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work, signed by author Jeanette Winterson. First edition, first impression in the original dustwrapper featuring the oil painting 'Poeta Rimasto Sneza Parole' by Massimo Rao. Jeanette Winterso...

A Soldier Erect, or, Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy

Brian W. Aldiss · 1971 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A humorous work of fiction from novelist, Brian W. Aldiss. First edition. Brian Aldiss is best known for his science fiction novels, as he was greatly influences by H.G.Wells. Some of this other books include 'N...

A Close Run Thing

Allan Mallinson · 1999 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London, Bantam Press, 1999. First edition. Cloth. This is a signed first edition of this work by Allan Mallinson, still preserved in its glassine wrap. Allan Mallinson is an English author and was an officer in the British Army. He is best known for writing a series of novels ...

The Hardening Ground

Shaun Traynor · 1974 · Rooke Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

London, O'Brian and O'Keeffe, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Shaun Traynor's 'The Hardening Ground', signed by the author. The Northern Irish poet's first collection, 'The Hardening Ground' sees "poems of place and of con...