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The White Paternoster and Other Stories

T. F. Powys · 1930 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1930. Cloth. A handsome signed, limited edition copy of this short-story collection from T. F. Powys. Signed by the author to the colophon.A special edition of this work, limited to three hundred and ten copies, of which three hundred are for sale. ...

Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1859 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Edward Moxon & Co, 1859. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second issue, of this Arthurian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, focusing on the story of King Arthur and Guinevere. The first edition, second issue of this work, with the printer's imprint to the ve...

The White Llama, Being la Venganza Del Condor

V. G. Calderon; Richard Phibbs [trans.] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce limited edition of Calderon's thrilling tale, illustrated by Clifford Webb and in a Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding. Number 44 of 75 numbered and specially bound copies produced.The first En...

Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong

William Nicholson · 2001 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Mammoth; Egmont, 2001-2002. First edition. Cloth. Two excellent signed first editions from William Nicholson's fantasy trilogy, 'Wind on Fire&apos. Signed by the author to the title pages. The first edition, second impression of 'Slaves of the Mastery&a...

Keystone

Peter Lovesey · 1983 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Macmillan, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A terrific signed first edition of this Peter Lovesey murder mystery, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page.The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's orig...

A Case of Spirits

Peter Lovesey · 1975 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

London, Macmillan , 1975. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this Victorian-era detective novel from Peter Lovesey, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's origin...

Wobble to Death

Peter Lovesey · 1970 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the first Sergeant Cribb novel from British writer Peter Lovesey, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. The first Sergeant Cribb novel, and the author...

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears · 1997 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1997. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical mystery novel, signed by the author and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. Signed by the author to the title page. In the origin...

Mutant

Lewis Padgett [Henry Kuttner]; [C. L. Moore] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

New York, Gnome Press Inc, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of science fiction stories by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this collection, first printing. In the publisher's original cloth ...

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Philip Pullman · 2010 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Edinburgh, Canongate, 2010. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression limited edition of this novel from English writer Philip Pullman, signed by the author with the original slip case. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title...

The Nameless

Ramsey Campbell · 1981 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. 1981. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this thrilling novel from English horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell, signed by the author. First US edition, first printing. Signed by the author to the title page. Barbara Waug...

The Oxford Book of Ballads

Arthur Quiller-Couch [ed.] · 1920 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. Leather. A collection of ballads compiled by Arthur Quiller-Couch, beautifully bound in crushed half morocco by Birdsall. Bound in crushed half morocco by Birdsall with their binder's stamp to the front blank. This collection of English bal...

In Mischief Again

L. C. Silke · 1896 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited , 1896. Cloth. A very scarce Victorian children's book about a mischievous boy under the concerned watch of his grandparents. The sixth impression of this very scarce volume. With a contemporary prize bookplate to the front pastedown,...

A House for Mr Biswas

V. S. Naipaul · 1961 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,996.65 | $3,302.85 | ¥527,422)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this brilliant novel on a man finding success in a postcolonial world by V. S. Naipaul, signed by the author. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper. &...

Herself in Love and Other Stories

Marianne Wiggins · 1987 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Collins, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories from American author Marianne Wiggins, signed by the author. First UK edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. A collection of nine short storie...

Books One to Four of the Jesse Jameson Series

Sean Wright · 2003 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Crowswing Books, 2003-2004. First edition. Paperback. A set of four first paperback edition volumes from the Jesse Jameson fantasy series by British author Sean Wright, signed by the author. Four volumes of a six volume set, lacking volumes five and six. First paperbac...

The Cry of the Icemark

Stuart Hill · 2005 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Somerset, The Chicken House, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of the first novel in the Icemark Chronicles from British author Stuart Hill, signed by the author. With the original slip case. First edition, first impression. Signed by the...

A Summer Bird-Cage

Margaret Drabble · 1963 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Margaret Drabble's debut novel, signed by the author. The first edition, second impression, published in June 1963, following the first impression of March 1963.Signed by the author to the t...

The Tiger in the Smoke, the China Governess, Cargo of Eagles, the Allingham Case-Book

Margery Allingham · 1952 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1952-1969. First edition. Hardback. The first and first U.K. editions of four crime novels by so-called 'Queen of Crime' Margery Allingham, with the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first impression of The Tiger in the Smoke (1952),...

My Son&Apos;S Story

Nadine Gordimer · 1990 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A signed first UK edition of this story about a family torn apart by political struggles and adultery, written by the Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline. S...