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Rupert&Apos;S Fun & Puzzle Book and the Rupert Annuals for the Years 1995 to 2007

Mary Tourtel; Alfred Bestall · 1983 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Optimum Books; Pedigree Books Limited; Express Newspapers, 1983-2006. First edition. Hardback. A collection of smart first edition Rupert Bear books filled with stories and illustrations, two of which are signed by the illustrator. Ten volumes. First edition. Both The ...

A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840

Richard Doyle; J. Hungerford Pollen · 1885 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this entertaining journal kept by a teenaged Richard Doyle, which his comical illustrations throughout. The first edition.A journal kept by Richard Doyle in his youth in the year 1840. Doyle kept this...

Who Goes Home

Maurice Edelman · 1953 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Allan Wingate and the Book Society, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this novel from British Labour Party politician, journalist and novelist Maurice Edelman, with the original dust wrapper designed by Mervyn Peake. The first edition of this work in ...

The Godwulf Manuscript

Robert B. Parker · 1974 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 1974. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of the first instalment in Robert B. Parker's 'Spencer' series, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing with the Houghton Mifflin 'C&apos...

The Orphan Angel

Elinor Wylie · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A signed limited edition of Elinor Wylie's unusual 1920s novel in which she reimagines the life of Percy Shelley, and has him travel to the New World in an America Ship, rather than dying at a young age. A signed limi...

Knights and Dragons and No Place for an Angel

Elizabeth Spencer · 1965 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

New York and London, McGraw-Hill Book Company; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965-9. First edition. Cloth. Two signed first edition novels by Elizabeth Spencer, in their original dust wrappers. The true first edition, first printing to 'Knights and Dragons' and the first...

The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems

David Morley · 2015 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Manchester, Carcanet, 2015. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this award winning collection of poetry, inscribed by the author David Morley. The first edition, first impression.Inscribed by the author to the title page: "To Jonathan and Paula, with love David". I...

Here Is Einbaum

Wright Morris · 1973 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Cloth. A limited edition, signed copy of Wright Morris's fiction novel about a women and her fake husband as they try to flee Nazi Germany, bound with Earle Gray. Limited edition. Number 90 out of 226. Printed July 1973 in Santa Ba...

Quill

Robert Steiner · 1973 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

New York , Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this offbeat novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.Scarce signed inscription by the author to the free endpaper title.In the publisher's original unclipp...

The Chestnut Tree

Evelyn Page · 1964 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

New York , The Vanguard Press, Inc. 1964. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this work centred on the tightly-knit residents of a small hotel, inscribed by the author A very scarce first edition of this work.Signed inscription by the author to the front fr...

I Wake from a Dream of a Drowned Star

S. P. Somtow · 1992 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Eugene, Axolotl Press, 1992. First edition. Leather. A very smart deluxe limited edition of this beautiful novella from Thai-American writer S. P. Somtow. First edition. Deluxe limited edition of seventy-five copies, bound in leather and signed, of which this is number forty-s...

The Breaks

Richard Price · 1983 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this insightful novel from American writer Richard Price, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the front endpaper with an inscription. Follo...

Nine Mysteries (Four Joyful, Four Sorrowful, One Glorious)

Reynolds Price · 1979 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

North Carolina, Palaemon Press, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this collection of short mysteries from American writer Reynolds Price, signed to the rear. First collected edition. Limited to three hundred and nine signed copies. Signed to the rear ...

For the Defence

Benjamin Leopold Farjeon · 1891 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, Trischler & Company, 1891 . Cloth. An extremely scarce, early edition of this work of crime fiction by Benjamin Farjeon, signed by the author. An early edition of the work, published the same year as the first edition. Fifteenth thousand. Very scarce. Bound in the publ...

The Collected Works of Louis Tracy

Louis Tracy · 1904 · Rooke Books

£2,350.00 (€2,817.26 | $3,105.20 | ¥495,919)

London, T. Sealey Clark; Ward, Lock & Co. Limited; F. V. White & Co. Limited; C. Arthur Pearson LTD; Digby, Long & Co, 1904-07. Cloth. Eleven entertaining and scarce works by Louis Tracy bound in four volumes, a smart set including two inscriptions from the author. A collectio...

The White Crown and Other Stories

Herbert Dickinson Ward · 1894 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce anthology of tales by American author, Herbert Dickinson Ward. The first edition of this scace work.Signed by the author to a 'Bryn Mawr Book Fair' bookplate t...

Hospitality for Murder

Gerard Fisher · 1959 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Ives Washburn, Inc, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce murder mystery thriller by Gerard Fisher. The first edition of this scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Bob Ritter.A suspense filled crime novel, in which an ...

The Gold Tree

J. C. Squire · 1917 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

London, Martin Secker, 1917 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of J. C. Squire's limited edition collection of short stories, in the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy of this limited edition, inscribed...

Washington, D.C.

Gore Vidal · 1967 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1967 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Gore Vidal's novel, following the families of a Senator, and an influential newspaper publisher. Flat signed by Gore to the title page.The first edition, first printing, in the publi...

Hortensius: Friend of Nero

Edith Pargeter · 1937 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

New York, The Greystone Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this historical novel from English author Edith Pargeter, with illustrations. First US edition, originally published in the UK in 1936. Signed by the author to a bookplate at the front of th...