Letteratura

An Old Drama Three Encounters with Jack the Ripper

Michael Gardner · 1969 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Leicester, Black Knight Press, 1969 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce limited editon short story describing three encounters with the infamous Jack the Ripper. Signed by the printer, Duine Campbell. The very scarce first edition of this Limited Edition short story about...

The Angel&Apos;S Game

Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 2009 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2009. First edition. Hardback. A signed, UK first edition copy of The Angel's Game, by best-selling author, Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The first translated edition. First impression. Signed by the author. In the publisher's original cloth bin...

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes · 2011 · Rooke Books

£109.00 (€130.67 | $144.03 | ¥23,002)

London , Jonathan Cape, 2011. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful, first edition, first impression of Julian Barnes' Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending, signed by the author. This is a first edition, first impression copy of this work. Signed by the author t...

Falling Angels

Tracy Chevalier · 2001 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, HarperCollins , 2001. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition, first impression of Tracy Chevalier's novel set during in twentieth century, signed by the author. A New York Times bestseller by Tracy Chevalier, author of international bestsellers The Girl wit...

Oh, Play That Thing

Roddy Doyle · 2004 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A flawless, first edition copy of the second book of 'The Roundup Series' by Irish author Roddy Doyle, signed by the author to the title page. A compelling novel narrating the life of Henry Smart, a young Irish boy g...

Espresso Tales

Alexander McCall Smith · 2005 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Edinburgh, Polygon, Birlinn Ltd , 2005. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this second novel in the 44 Scotland Street series by Alexander M. Smith, signed by the author. First edition, first impression of this work. Second novel in Alexander McCall Smith's &...

Continual Dew a Little Book of Bourgeois Verse

John Betjeman · 1977 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, John Murray; W. & J. Mackay Limited, 1977. Cloth. A superb facsimile of an early poetry collection by John Betjeman, signed by the author. Signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper.Including the original publisher's bookmark.The 1977 facsimile of thi...

Restless

Restless · 2006 · Rooke Books

£67.00 (€80.32 | $88.53 | ¥14,139)

London, Bloomsbury , 2006. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first impression of this spy novel by William Boyd, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this book by Scottish author William Boyd, one of the first novels to deal with the British Security Coord...

The Blue Afternoon

William Boyd · 1993 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first impression of William Boy's award-winning novel, signed by the author. Novel by Scottish author William Boyd, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1993, and the Los Angeles Times Book P...

Tinker Tailor... " a Child&Apos;S Guide to the Professions

A.P. Herbert · 1922 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1922. Cloth. A.P. Herbert's early 20th century children's work about careers and professions, a signed presentation copy from the author to his acquaintance, the physician Dr William Hale-White. A collection of verses and poems about differ...

A Certain Justice

P. D. James · 1997 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Faber and Faber , 1997. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this Adam Dalgliesh novel by P. D. James, signed by the author. Successor of Original Sin in the police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh series, following the mysterious murder of Venetia Aldridge,...

The World of William Clissold

H. G. Wells · 1926 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

London, Ernest Benn LTD, 1926. First edition. Vellum. A very special signed limited edition of H. G. Wells' longest novel, a unique copy inscribed by Wells himself. The first limited edition, limited to 198 copies.Signed by H. G. Wells to the limitation page to Volume I.C...

The Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1836 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, William Pickering, 1836-43. Leather. The collected works of the pre-Romantic Thomas Gray, a wonderful collection which includes a detailed life of the poet. Complete in five volumes.Bound by J. Clarke.The collected poems and letters of Thomas Gray. Also including his v...

Looms of Life

Herman Scheffauer · 1908 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

New York and Washington, The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of an early poetry collection by Herman Scheffauer, the author's presentation copy. First edition.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto to the front...

Aphrodite in Aulis

George Moore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.82 | $204.81 | ¥32,710)

London, William Heinemann , 1930. First edition. Vellum. First edition of George Moore's romantic novel, limited and signed by the author in a pleasing full leather binding. A limited edition of one-thousand, eight-hundred, and twenty-five copies, this one of nine-hundred...

The Legendary Ballads of England and Scotland

John S. Roberts [ed.] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1890. Leather. A collection of English and Scottish classic ballads in a full calf prize binding. A collection of famous ballads from England and Scotland compiled by John S. Roberts for the "Chandos" classics series. In a full calf Bickers signed...

Songs of the Maid and Other Ballads

John Huntley Skrine · 1896 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of John Huntley Skrine's very scarce 1896 volume of ballads and lyrical poets. A presentation copy of the very scare first edition of this collection of poetry from John Huntley Skrine. ...

The Dales of the Arcady

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe · 1918 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Erskine Macdonald, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of this wonderful collection of short verses from socialite Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. A signed first edition of the first published work from English socialite, heiress and author Dorothy Una Ratcli...

Tales of an Empty Cabin

Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin (Grey Owl) · 1936 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Lovat Dickson Limited , 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this work, one of a limited printing signed by the author and extra illustrated, complete with its scarce glassine wrap. The first edition of this work, limited to two-hundred and fifty c...

Love in the Ruins

Walker Percy · 1971 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

New York, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this wildly popular novel by noted American author Walker Percy, in the original dust wrapper. Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the...