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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...

Thank You, Fog

W H Auden · 1974 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.15 | ¥14,556)

London, Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by W H Auden. 'Thank You Fog' is a posthumous book of poems by Auden, containing poems written mostly in 1972 and 73. Wystan Hugh Auden[1] (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an...

A Cold Coffin

Gwendoline Butler · 2000 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

London, HarperCollins, 2000. First edition. Cloth. 'A Cold Coffin' is a John Coffin crime novel by Gwendoline Butler. in the original unclipped dustwrapper. First edition, first impression. Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (1922 - 2013) was a British writer of myster...

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier · 1997 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of Charles Frazier's much-loved novel, 'Cold Mountain&apos. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who wal...

Wine of Violence

Priscilla J. Royal · 2003 · Rooke Books

£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)

London, Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first printing of this medieval mystery by Priscilla J. Royal. Signed by the author to the title page. Priscilla Royal was inspired in her writing by Ellis Peters and her character of Brother Cadfael. Some of her othe...

Village of Stone

Xiaolu Guo · 2004 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)

London, Chatto and Windus, 2004. Cloth. A scarce copy of Xiaolu Guo's Village of Stone, being an uncorrected proof copy of the first English edition Translated from the original Chinese by Cindy Carter. In original illustrated paper wraps. Externally, generally smart with...

Bird

Jane Adams · 1997 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this mystery novel from Jane Adams. Jane Adams (born 1960, Leicester) is a British writer of psychological thrillers. Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995. In a black clot...

Final Exposure

Paul Mansfield · 1957 · Rooke Books

£31.99 (€38.34 | $42.26 | ¥6,749)

London, Collins, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first Edition of Mansfield's first novel First Edition The Collins Crime Club was an imprint of UK book publishers William Collins & Co Ltd and ran from May 6, 1930 to April 1994. It was not a book club in the usual sense of ...

Little Boy Blue

Edward Bunker · 1981 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

New York, Viking, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Edward Bunker's 'Little Boy Blue&apos. A semi-autobiographical account of a boy's descent into rebelliousness and a life of crime. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Ext...

Mickelsson&Apos;S Ghosts

John Gardner · 1982 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by John Gardner. Mickelsson's Ghosts is John Gardner's final novel and follows the story of Peter Mickelsson, a former football player and current Professor of Philosophy who is driv...

The Pilgrim of Hate

Ellis Peters · 1984 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Macmillan Limited, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A handsome first edition of the tenth installment in Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael series. Cadfael, an ex-crusader now monk, solves a murder committed in medieval Winchester. Ellis Peters (1913-1995) was an English au...

Crooked Hearts

Robert Boswell · 1987 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of Robert Boswell's 'Crooked Hearts&apos. The first publication by Robert Boswell, this novel describes a family's move to Southern America. In original unclipped dustwrapper in a qua...

The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin

Brian Freemantle · 1979 · Rooke Books

£62.99 (€75.50 | $83.21 | ¥13,288)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the hugely popular Brian Freemantle's Charlie Muffin series. The far East beckons the hapless hero Charlie Muffin as the floating 'University of Freedom' is set alight with the American and Br...