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The Stalking Horse

Jill McGown · 1987 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.46 | ¥14,765)

London, Macmillan, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this Jill McGown murder mystery novel. 'With her usual insight into human behaviour, Jill McGown has created a novel full of tension and suspense.' In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustw...

The Artful Egg

James McClure · 1984 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Macmillan, 1984. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this murder mystery novel from James McClure. The seventh in the Kramer and Zondi novels series. In a black cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is smart, with just...

Wilde West

Walter Satterthwaite · 1991 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.19 | ¥8,014)

New York, Walter Satterthwaite, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Satterthwaite's fictionalised account of Oscar Wilde's time in the American West. 'A tense mystery, a perverse comedy, 'Wilde West' is a brilliant novel that includes, as ...

Watchman

Ian Rankin · 1988 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Bodley Head, 1988. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this sinister spy thriller from Ian Rankin. The book tells the story of Miles Flint, a surveillance officer who works for MI5. In a grey cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, ...

The Philadelphian

Richard Powell · 1957 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Richard Powell's The Philadelphian. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Richard Pitts Powell (1908 –1999) was an American novelist. In the 1940s, Powell be...

I Am the Only Running Footman

Martha Grimes · 1986 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A bright, clean first UK edition of I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and an unclipped dustwrapper. First UK Edition. Martha Grimes, b.1931, is an...

The Case of the Fear Makers

John Newton Chance · 1967 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

London, Robert Hale, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Publisher's cloth covered boards with silver lettering. A first edition which is complete with the original pictorial dust jacket. John Lymington (1911-1983) was born John Richard Newton Chance in London. He was a prolific ...

Reflex

Dick Francis · 1980 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by Dick Francis. "Aided only by a natural wit and a knowledge of cameras, he unwillingly began picking his way through, facing on the way not only ferocious enemies but the traps and uncertaintie...

The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler · 1837 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Allan Bell and Co, 1837. Cloth. A collection of poetry by the popular seventeenth century poet, Samuel Butler, complete in two volumes. Poetry by seventeenth century poet, Samuel Butler. Complete in two volumes. Issued in a small pocket size and bound in ornate cloth b...

Bubu de Montparnasse

Charles-Louis Philippe · 1924 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.71 | $277.42 | ¥44,301)

Paris, Aux Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. Leather. A limited edition of this French Novel. Illustrated with fifteen watercolours by Charles Laborde. Limited to 500 copies. Number 489, printed on vellum paper. Charles-Louis Philippe was a French novelist. This is his best known ...

The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay. In Two Volumes

Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. Leather. A wonderful collection of Lord Macaulay's contributions to the Knight's Quarterly Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as miscellaneous poems and inscriptions. Featuring ...

The Minor Poems of William Cowper of the Inner Temple Parts I and II

William Cowper · 1818 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, John Sharpe, 1818. Leather. A beautifully illustrated collection of poems by Cowper. William Cowper (1731 – 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of eve...

Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

Sir Egerton Brydges · 1824 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.40 | ¥39,027)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824. Leather. An attractive edition of this bibliographical works of the poet Lord Byron. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet (30 November 1762 – 8 September 1837) was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Me...

The Pilgrims of the Rhine

E Bulwer-Lytton · 1841 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Frederick Fleischer, 1841. Leather. A new edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Pilgrims of the Rhine. With a preface addressed to Lytton's brother, Henry Bulwer-Lytton. This is volume III from Fleischer's Complete Works of Edward Lytton Bulwer. Bookplat...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper.

William Cowper · 1855 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, George Routledge. 1855. Leather. An illustrated collection of poetry and translations from a forerunner of the Romantics, William Cowper. Engraved illustrated frontispiece portrait of William Cowper with illustrations throughout. Introductory picture-sketch of his life...

A Collection of Works from Edmonston and Douglas

Various · 1865 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.74 | ¥67,506)

Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1865. Leather. A scarce collection of nineteenth century works published by Scottish publishers, Edmonston and Douglas. Bound from the parts. Containing "Sheep-Farmers and Drovers", "Convicts by a Practical Hand", "Wayside Thoughts of an Asoph...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith; prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury · 1886 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, John C Nimmo, 1886. Leather. A colour illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. With one hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations by Poinson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 a...

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott; J Logie Robertson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£17.99 (€21.56 | $23.77 | ¥3,795)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1921. Leather. A complete collection of Sir Walter Scott's poems and fragments of verses. Illustrated frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout Europe...

Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott · 1877 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1877. Leather. The poetical anthology from Walter Scott with tipped in plates. Featuring six of the original tipped-in Photographs, including a frontispiece of Scott. In a full morocco binding. Externally, a little rubbed to the spine and boards....

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne Written by Himself

W. M. Thackeray · 1901 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1901. Leather. An attractively bound near fine copy of this historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In a handsome prize binding, with a gilt crest to the front board, and a presentation bookplate to the front pastedown of Leamington Municipa...