Letteratura

Battlecruiser

Douglas Reeman · 1997 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Heinemann, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Reeman's fine work of naval fiction. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper. In original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally,...

The Bad Detective

H.R.F. Keating · 1996 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A signed second impression of the first edition of this crime novel concerning an unlikely anti-hero - the bend policeman. While the corrupt DS Stallworthy would be content to retire to the seaside, his wife Lily dreams of paradis...

Find My Way Home a Nick Sharman Thriller

Mark Timlin · 1996 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A signed, near-pristine copy of this scarce hardback first edition of the crime thriller 'Find My Way Home', by Mark Timlin (billed as Britain's leading writer of 'hardboiled' detective fiction). Aft...

Another World

Pat Barker · 1998 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Viking, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this work by Pat Barker. Pat Barker is an English writer and novelist who has won many awards for her fiction which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. In a cloth binding in original ...

The Gigantic Shadow

Julian Symons · 1988 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Black Dagger Crime, 1988. Cloth. A signed copy of this crime novel by Julian Symons. 'Bill Hunter made his living by asking uncomfortable questions of the rich and famous. But when the tables were turned, and one of his 'victims' dug up a secret from Hun...

Late Payments

Michael Z. Lewin · 1986 · Rooke Books

£18.99 (€22.77 | $25.09 | ¥4,007)

London, Macmillan, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this detective novel from Michael Z. Lewin in its original dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. In a brown cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart, with just som...

The Flail and the Fish

Francis Gerard · 1949 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Macdonald, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel of Revolutionary France from Francis Gerard. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper designed by Broom Lynne. From the writer of "Emerald Embassy", "Sorcerer's Shaft", "Flight and Fear" an...

Aunt Dimity&Apos;S Death

Nancy Atherton · 1992 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.88 | $118.91 | ¥18,991)

New York, Viking, 1992. First edition. Cloth. 'Aunt Dimity's Death' is the mystery first novel by Nancy Atherton. Signed author's presentation copy dated 1992 with ink dedication to title. First edition in unclipped dustwrapper. Nancy Atherton is an America...

Death and the Oxford Box

Veronica Stallwood · 1993 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Macmillan, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Veronica Stallwood's Death and the Oxford Box. Bound in paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and an unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by author. First edition. Veronica Stallwood is a British auth...

Born of Man and Woman

Richard Matheson · 1954 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

Philadelphia, The Chamberlain Press, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of gripping science fiction works. This is the first anthology of Matheson's works, named after the first story in this book and his first published short story 'Born...

Jacquot and the Angel

Martin O'Brien · 2005 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Headline, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this crime thriller from Martin O'Brien. Signed by the author to the title page. "In a gripping and skilfully crafted novel, Martin O'Brien serves up a murderous slice of French country life, lac...

Every Move You Make

David Malouf · 2006 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition copy of Malouf's seven short stories in the Australian Outback. Signed by Malouf on title page. The stories tell of the lives of bookish boys, taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers ...

Whitefire

Geoffrey Glover-Wright · 1983 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Glover Wright's intricate and fast-paced adventure thriller. Neatly signed by the author to the title page, dated 3rd May 1988. Featuring the original unclipped illustrated dustwrapper, designed by C...

The Cold Truth

Jonathan Stone · 1999 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

New York , St Martin's Press, 1999. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of this crime thriller written in the same vein as The Silence of the Lambs. Signed by the author to the title page. In a red cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very s...

The Poetical Works of James Thomson

James Thomson; Patrick Murdoch · 1849 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, William Tegg and Co. 1849. Leather. A copy of the poetical works of the Scottish poet, James Thomson. With a frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Includes 'A Life of the Author' by the Reverend Patrick Murdoch. James Thomson (1700-1748) was a Scottish p...

English Odes

Edmund W Gosse · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, C Kegan Paul & Co. 1881. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this critical work by Edmund Gosse, featuring the poetry of numerous celebrated English poets. First Edition. In a signed J Ramage and Co Binding. This anthology consists of a variety of poetry from ...

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

William Edmondstoune Aytoun · 1868 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. Leather. A collection of the poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun. Twentieth edition. Including his best-known work of verse, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Bound by Bickers (binder's ink stamp to front endpaper) Willi...

Lavater&Apos;S Looking-Glass; or, Essays on the Face of Animated Nature, from Man to Plants

Lavater, Sue, & Co. [Johann Casper Lavater] · 1800 · Rooke Books

£2,985.00 (€3,578.51 | $3,944.26 | ¥629,923)

London, Richardsons; Symonds; Lackington, Allen, and Co. 1800. First edition. Leather. A really very scarce copy of this collection of essays on man and nature. First edition, in a attractive leather binding. By Johann Caspar Lavater, a Swiss poet and physiognomist. With engra...

Moore&Apos;S Irish Melodies

Thomas Moore · 1779 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Longman & Co, c1858. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of Moore's Irish Melodies, in a lovely leather binding. In a handsome Hayday binding. Engraved throughout with illustrations by D Maclise, an Irish history, literary and portrait painter and illust...

Rufus Hickman of St Botolph&Apos;S and Other Stories and Sketches

Lord Moncrieff · 1898 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Edinburgh, Printed for Private Circulation by William Blackwood and Sons, 1898. Leather. A presentation copy of this collection of short stories by Lord Moncrieff. Signed, 'To H. S. H. Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar from the author, October 1899&apos. On 27 November 1851 ...