Letteratura

Dead Heat

Caroline Carver · 2003 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Orion, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this fast-paced thriller, being a terrifying and shocking journey into the heart of a wild jungle. First edition. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. "Georgia Parish never regretted leaving Nulgarra, norther...

Cast the First Stone

Jane Adams · 1996 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London, Macmillan , 1996. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this haunting suspense novel, being the second thriller from Jane Adams. First edition. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original photographic unclipped dustwrapper, designed by Richard...

The Wychford Murders

Paula Gosling · 1986 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Macmillan, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this novel by Paula Gosling. The first of two novels by Paula Gosling to feature Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbot. Gosling is an American crime writer, who published her first novel 'A Running Du...

The Coup

John Updike · 1978 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1978. Cloth. A signed, limited edition copy of this thought-provoking novel by John Updike. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number 227. The Coup, a lauded novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made...

Eton Crop

Bill James · 1999 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London, Macmillan, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Bill James' sixteenth crime thriller in his Harpur and Iles' mystery series. Uncommonly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped photographic dustwrapper, designed...

Double Deuce

Robert B. Parker · 1992 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Viking, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker. Signed by the author to the recto free-end paper. "Pulsing with raw power and moral complexity, Double Deuce is the kind of no-holds-barred action thriller only Robert B. Pa...

Atlantic Fury

Hammond Innes · 1962 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Collins, 1962. First edition. Cloth. 'Atlantic Fury' is a novel by Hammond Innes set on a part real, part imaginary island called Laerg in the Atlantic. In original dustwrapper designed by Michael Harvey and maps to endpapers. First edition. Ralph Hammond Inn...

A World of Strangers

Nadine Gordimer · 1958 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this controversial novel, which was banned for twelve years in Gordimer's native South Africa. Signed by the author to the title page. In a burgundy cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. ...

Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A Riviere bound edition of Gray's poems and letters with monochrome tipped-in illustrations. With a black and white portrait tipped-in to frontispiece, a decorative title page, decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. With a bio...

Fenwick&Apos;S Career

Mrs Humphry (Mary A Ward) · 1906 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Harper, 1906. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of Mary A Ward's novel 'Fenwick's Career', in two volumes. A limited edition, number 24 of 250 and signed by the author. Illustrated by Albert Sterner. Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) was ...

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1912 · Rooke Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. Vellum. A scarce edition de luxe of the Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. In a lovely vellum binding Limited edition, number thirty-one of a limited print run of five-hundred, signed by the publishers. Printed on English hand-made paper. J...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Walter Scott · 1854 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Leather. A beautifully bound and illustrated copy of Sir Walter Scott's famous poem The Lay of The Last Minstrel. A long narrative and historical poem, The Lay of The Last Minstrel was originally published in 1805 and follows an ag...

Illustrations of Hudibras Sixty Portraits of Celebrated Political and Literary Characters, Impostors and Enthusiasts Alluded to Butler in His Hudibras.

Samuel Butler; R Cooper · 1821 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)

London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821. Leather. A wonderful collection of portraits of characters from Samuel Butler's mock heroic poem. With each plate by R Cooper. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Gre...

Odes and Other Poems

Ronald Campbell Macfie · 1919 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , John Murray, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of Odes and Other Poems. Ronald Campbell Macfie was not only a poet but also a medical doctor and a science writer with interests in eugenics and evolution. He criticised Darwinism and theorised about...

The Curtains of Yesterday

Elizabeth Sewall Glenn · 1956 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Baltimore, The Wansborough Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. This is a signed first edition of this work of literary critcism by Elizabeth Sewall Glenn. Inscribed by Glenn to fellow author Eric Forbes-Boyd. In a cloth binding. Externally, sound with some rubbing and bumping. ...

Poems and Miscellaneous Verse

J. Wells Thatcher · 1913 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Knapp, Drewett and Sons, 1913. Cloth. An extensive and varied collection of poetry, including translations by Ovid and Horace, Songs and humorous verse. Presentation copy from J Wells Thatcher to his 'Darling daughter, Maud&apos. Thatcher collated all these poems...

Blue Goops and Red: A Manual of Polite Deportment for Children Who Would Be Good, Showing How and How Not to Behave Everywhere

Gelett Burgess · 1909 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful didactic children's book that takes as its theme 'turning over a new leaf', from an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s First Edition. The...

Ulick and Soracha

George Moore · 1926 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of George Moore's novel, 'Ulick and Soracha', held in the original dustwrapper. First edition. Limited edition, number 384 of 1,250. Signed by the author. The dustwrapper is designed by...

Fibulae

The Hon. Stephen Coleridge · 1889 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench and Co. 1889. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Fibulae a collection of poems by The Hon. Stephen Coleridge. A signed copy with a dedication in ink by the author to front free endpaper. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge (1854-1936) was an English author...

Christmas Formula and Other Stories

Stella Benson · 1932 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Joiner and Steele, William Jackson, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An limited edition signed first edition of this collection of short stories by Stella Benson. With a frontispiece. This is number 11 of the Furnival Book Series. There is a note tipped in stating the &apos...