Letteratura

Love and Friendship

Alison Lurie · 1962 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel in the original dustwrapper, by Alison Lurie. The first UK edition of Alison Lurie's first novel about two female faculty members in a male-dominated workplace. Alison Lurie won the Pulitzer Pr...

The Prisoner in the Mask

Dennis Wheatley · 1957 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London, Hutchinson of London, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this historical novel by Dennis Wheatley. 'This most thrilling, romantic and gay story of ten years in the young manhood of the Duke de Richleau in the France of the 'nineties shows the "pri...

Prayers and Graces with More Prayers and Graces

A M Laing · 1944 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1944 - 1957. First edition. Cloth. Two volumes of these little anthological volumes of poetry. Edited and compiled by Allan M Laing. Illustrated throughout by Mervyn Peake. The first edition of both volumes. 'Prayers and Graces' is signed wit...

Quiller Meridian

Adam Hall; Elleston Trevor · 1993 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Headline, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first English edition of 'Elleston Trevor's Cold War thriller, seventeenth in the Quiller series. With illustrated dustwrapper designed by David Bull. The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable sp...

Roll of Honour

Eric Linklater · 1961 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Eric Linklater's novel 'Roll of Honour&apos. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 - 7 November 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, trav...

The Winter Queen

Boris Akunin · 2003 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this historical mystery novel set in nineteenth-century Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, and is best known for h...

The Hole and Other Short Plays and Sketches

Norman Frederick Simpson · 1964 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Faber & Faber, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work of collected plays and sketches by Norman Frederick Simpson. N. F. Simpson was an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. This work includes his plays and sketches The...

The Sky and the Forest

C. S. Forester; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith · 1948 · Rooke Books

£64.99 (€77.90 | $85.86 | ¥13,710)

London, Michael Joseph, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of one of Cecil Scott Forester's renowned tales of naval warfare. Featuring the original unclipped dustwrapper. Forester's other works include; 'The African Queen', 'A Ship of the Line...

Streetwalker

Jonathan Gash · 1959 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.22 | ¥7,381)

London, The Bodley Head, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Jonathan Gash. The first UK edition of this controversial fictionalised account of the life of a prostitute in London's West End. 'Streetwalker' was published anonymously, bu...

This Little World

Francis Brett Young · 1934 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, William Heinemann, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this first edition novel by Francis Brett Young. The first edition. Written to the verso of front endpaper is 'The first 25 copies of 'This Little World' taken from the machine have been spe...

The Face of a Madonna

Thomas Armstrong · 1964 · Rooke Books

£42.99 (€51.53 | $56.79 | ¥9,069)

London, Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition novel by Thomas Armstrong. "In this book [Armstrong] tells of another Yorkshire, further removed in time but still, as she has always been, the greatest of English counties." "Thomas Armstrong paints the high middle ...

Play Dead

Harlan Coben · 1991 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Piatkus, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling novel from Harlan Coben. "A nonstop, closely-knit thriller from start to finish, Play Dead takes us careening through suspense, intrigue, and mistaken identity." With original photographic...

Green Song and Other Poems

Edith Sitwell · 1944 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1944. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poems by Edith Sitwell. First edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic. She was the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. In publishe...

Spun Silk

William J. Elliott · 1947 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, Gerald G. Swan, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this romantic thriller by William J. Elliot, in its scarce original dustwrapper. This is the third appearance of 'Silk', the man of five personalities and fifty face. In a blue cloth binding with ...

Voices on the Wind

Evelyn Anthony · 1985 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Hutchinson, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by British author Evelyn Anthony. The first edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. Evelyn Anthony wrote mostly historical novels and thrillers. This novel follows Katharine Alfurd, a woman w...

The Empress Eugenie

Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · 1938 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, Longmans Green and Co, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' play 'The Empress Eugenie&apos. Lowndes was a prolific writer and had her works adapted for screen several times, including by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. This ed...

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr Abraham Adams

Henry Fielding · 1929 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.88 | $105.67 | ¥16,874)

London, John Lane, 1929. Cloth. An illustrated edition of Henry Fielding's first full-length novel comic novel. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from Lon...

Love Lies Bleeding (1997), Lavender Lies (1999), Mistletoe Man (2000), Bloodroot (2001), Indigo Dying (2003), a Dilly of Death (2004), Dead Man&Apos;S Bones (2005), Bleeding Hearts (2006), Spanish Dagger (2007)

Susan Wittig Albert · 1997 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

New York, Berkley, 1997 - 2007. First edition. Cloth. Nine first edition copies from Albert's 'China Bayles Mysteries' series All First Editions Bound in paper with unclipped dust wrappers Susan Wittig Albert (born 1940) is a mystery writer from Vermilion County...

Exercise Hoodwink

Maurice Procter · 1967 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Hutchinson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel from Maurice Procter's 'Chief Inspector Martineau Investigates' series. Procter is best known for his series of police procedural novels featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Marti...

The Desperate Hours

Joseph Hayes · 1955 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of Hayes' taut drama that follows what happens when the home of an ordinary family is invaded by a trio of escaped criminals. First edition thus, third impression. With pictorial unclipped dustwrapper. Joseph...