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Kill Me

Bill James · 2000 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Bill James' seventeenth crime thriller in his Harpur and Iles' mystery series. Uncommonly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped photographic dustwrapper, design...

Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work by Graham Greene. Graham Greene was an English novelist and author regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century for his thrillers and his more serious novels. Doctor Fischer of Gen...

Halo for Satan

Howard Browne · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Harpenden, No Exit Press, 1988. Cloth. A reprint of this mystery novel by Howard Browne. A No Exit Press reprint. Howard Browne was a science fiction and mystery writer who wrote under several pseudonyms. In a black cloth binding in an unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in exc...

Berlin Game

Len Deighton · 1983 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the Len Deighton thriller, 'Berlin Game&apos. 'Berlin Game' is a 1983 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the first of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and so...

Threatening Eye

Lesley Grant-Adamson · 1988 · Rooke Books

£28.99 (€34.75 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

London, Faber & Faber, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this clever thriller, 'Threatening Eye', by Lesley Grant-Adamson. A tragedy draws the life of two men together; one restless as he awaits the shame which will surely follow if and when the p...

Prater Violet

Christopher Isherwood · 1946 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Isherwood's novel, based on his experience on a film set. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English novelist. While living in Hollywood, California, Is...

Selected Novels of W.W. Jacobs

W. W. Jacobs · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Hodder and Stoughton; Methuen and Co, 1905 - 1914. Cloth. A collection of the nautical and adventure novels of W. W. Jacobs. Including: 'Captains All' (1905, fourth edition) 'Night Watches' (1914) 'Light Freights' (1909, eighth edition) Il...

Off the Record Including William Mcshakespeare and Judgement Day and the Bird and Toad in the Stalls and Mr Christmas Strikes Back and the Commissar

Guy Morgan · 1960 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London, The Merrythough Press, 1960-1962. First edition. Paperback. A handsome first edition of Guy Morgan's Off the Record. With 6 frontispieces each created by a different artist: John Worsley, Cecil Gill, John Tribe, Maureen Roffey, Jane Brown, and Bernard Lodge. An au...

Weird Tales Magazine March 1939, Volume 33 Number 3

Farnsworth Wright (Editor) · 1939 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

Indianapolis, Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1939. Paperback. An early 20th century issue of this interesting American magazine. Contains the second printing of the Quest of Iranon by HP Lovecraft. The first was in the Galleon in 1935. Both printings are extremely scarce....

Ss-Gb Nazi-Occupied Britain 1941

Len Deighton · 1978 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Book Club Associates, 1978. Cloth. Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous ...

The Flying Squadron

Richard Woodman · 1992 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , John Murray, 1992. First edition. Hardback. A handsome first edition, referencing copac, of Richard Woodman's 'The Flying Squadron.' Illustrated with a map. From the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, who is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy durin...

Hardy the Writer

F B Pinion · 1990 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, Macmillan, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of F B Pinion's 'Hardy the Writer&apos. Pinion observes and comments on the scientific philosophy, and Christian theology in Hardy's work against the background of Victorian restraint. In a cl...

Jane Austen the Matrix of Matrimony

Dr. T. Vasudeva Reddy · 1987 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Jaipur, Bohra Publications, 1987. Leather. A scarce literary study of marriage in the novels of Jane Austen. With the bookplate of Chris Viveash, noted Jane Austen scholar and contributor to the Jane Austen Society Report. Dr T. Vasudeva Reddy is a renowned poet, critic and no...

My Son&Apos;S Story

Nadine Gordimer · 1990 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London, Bloomsbury, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this family story set in South Africa by Nadine Gordimer. Signed by Gordimer to the title page. In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart. Dustwrapper is smart, with ...

A Game for Heroes

James Graham · 1970 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thrilling adventure novel from Harry Patterson. The first of Patterson's works to written under his pseudonym James Graham. With an illustrated fine dustwrapper by Coppola, as well as an illustrated ma...

The Good Apprentice

Iris Murdoch · 1985 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1985. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this Iris Murdoch novel. Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke. After Mark, still high, falls t...

The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin

Brian Freemantle · 1979 · Rooke Books

£74.99 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,825)

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...

The Twelve Deaths of Christmas

Marian Babson · 1979 · Rooke Books

£21.99 (€26.36 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

London, Collins Crime Club, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first Crime Club edition of this mystery novel by Marian Babson. Marian Babson is a pseudonym for Ruth Stenstreem. She is a mystery author with a large body of work that rotates in and out of print. In a red cloth bin...

Randle in Springtime

Geoffrey Cotterell · 1949 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1949. First edition. Cloth. An exciting post-war novel following the adventures of Howard Randle as he is sent to Hamburg, gets involved with black market trading and embarks on a love affair with Hilde Nahler, a wealthy German girl. First editio...

The Rival Queens a Countess Ashby de la Zouch Mystery

Fidelis Morgan · 2001 · Rooke Books

£16.99 (€20.37 | $22.45 | ¥3,585)

London, Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Cloth. 'The Rival Queens A Countess Ashby de la Zouch Mystery' by Fidelis Morgan in unclipped dustwrapper. First edition, first impression. A historical tale of artifice, gunpowder and murder in 17th Century London. In a c...