Letteratura

The Tapestry

Robert Bridges · 1925 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Privately Printed, 1925. First edition. Leather. A scarce anthology of poems written in Neo-Miltonic Syllabics by Robert Bridges, a limited edition of only one hundred and fifty copies. The scarce first limited edition, limited to one hundred and fifty unnumbered copie...

Love and Loss, or Remembering by Night

Anna de Bary · 1949 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce collection from English poet Anna de Bary. With a loosely inserted letter from the author. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's ori...

The Three Gods

Maurice Collis · 1970 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this intriguing novel surrounding the court of Queen Jezebel, written by Maurice Collis. The first edition, first impression. Signed by the author, inscribed "For my dear friend Alva, on the ...

A Century of Scarlet: A Centenary Catalogue

David G. Kirby; David Cory · 1987 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Cambridge, Rupert Books, 1987 . First edition. Cloth. A signed and vanishingly scarce bibliographical work about Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, celebrating the centenary of 'A Study in Scarlet', with newly commissioned illustrations. A very scarce work.  No. 013 of an...

Jasmine

Bharati Mukherjee · 1989 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this novel based on the author's own experiences of dislocation, signed by the author. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. Set in the 1980s, this novel...

There But for the

Ali Smith · 2011 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, Pantheon Books, 2011. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first US edition of this novel from Scottish author Ali Smith, signed by the author. First US edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. Miles Garth, an 'ethical consultant' atte...

The Birds of America

Lorrie Moore · 1998 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardback. A signed first edition of this New York Times bestselling short-story collection from Lorrie Moore. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. 'Birds of America' comprises a selecti...

The Lexian Chronicles: Full Circle

Harry Gallan · 2004 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Plymouth, Markosia Enterprises, 2004. First edition. Paperback. A very smart first edition of the debut novel from British fantasy writer Harry Gallan, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and embossed by the author to the title page, with a letter of authenticity and s...

Our House in the Last World

Oscar Hijuelos · 1983 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

New York, Persea, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this debut novel from American writer Oscar Hijuelos, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Following the life of a Cuban family in the United States during the 1940s,...

Three Fiction Works by Michel Faber

Michel Faber · 2001 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Canongate, 2001-08. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of three first impression fiction works by Michel Faber, a lovely exploration of the author's oeuvre, each volume is signed. Three fiction works by Michel Faber, a set of two novels and one short story collecti...

The Way I Found Her; the Colour

Rose Tremain · 1997 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson; Chatto & Windus, 1997-2003 . First edition. Cloth. Signed first editions of two works of fiction from award winning English author Rose Tremain. Present here are two first editions, first impressions, both flat signed by Tremain to the title page.In...

The Swimming Pool Season

Rose Tremain · 1985 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A signed example of the first edition of Rose Tremain's about a family who decide to create the most beautiful swimming pool of all time. Flat signed by the author to the title page.The first edition, first impression....

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

Jonathan Coe · 2010 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Viking, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this picaresque novel from British author Jonathan Coe, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. A picaresque plot, told by the title character as he jour...

The Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition, first impression of Barbara Trapido's tragi-comic novel, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the origin...

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead · 2019 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Fleet, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, signed by the author Colson Whitehead. The first UK edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust...

Judith Paris a Novel

Hugh Walpole · 1931 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1931. Cloth. The limited edition of Judith Paris from the Herries Chronicles by Hugh Walpole, with the author's signature. An early limited edition of the work. One of 350 large paper copies printed in August 1931. With author's sig...

Fall of Giants

Ken Follett · 2010 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Macmillan, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical novel from Welsh author Ken Follett, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. The first of the Century Trilogy. A historical novel foll...

On the Frontier

Bret Harte · 1884 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1884 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this collection of three short stories from American writer Bret Harte. The true first edition of this work, published prior to the US first edition.In a signed half morocco bindin...

The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox

Henry Cockton · 1849 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Willoughby & Co, [1849]. Leather. A humorous novel by Henry Cockton, following the mischievous escapades of a ventriloquist who wrecks havoc in his small town. An entertaining Victorian novel following a man who decides to teach himself ventriloquism, after seeing a pe...

Esther: A Young Man&Apos;S Tragedy: Together with the Love Sonnets of Proteus

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · 1895 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

Boston, Copeland and Day, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. The limited edition, first US edition, of this volume of verses and sonnets from English poet and writer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. The first US edition of these works.One of five-hundred limited edition copies printed on Dutch...