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The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown; the Summons; Bloodhounds; Upon a Dark Night; Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose; the Vault

Peter Lovesey · 1994 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, Little, Brown and Company , 1994-99. First edition. Cloth. A brilliant set of six signed first editions by British author Peter Lovesey. Signed by the author to the title pages. The first edition, first impressions of these works. All complete with the publisher&apos...

Waxwork

Peter Lovesey · 1978 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition of this gripping Sergeant Cribb mystery novel by Peter Lovesey. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression. Complete with the publisher's original clipped dust wr...

Invitation to a Dynamite Party

Peter Lovesey · 1974 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this Sergeant Cribb novel from British writer Peter Lovesey, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. A Sergeant Cribb novel. The government and the poli...

Richard Bolitho - Midshipman

Alexander Kent [Douglas Reeman] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Hutchinson, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this Bolitho story from British writer Alexander Kent, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Richard Bolitho, only sixteen, waits in Portsmouth to join the Gorgon. H...

Loveykins

Quentin Blake · 2002 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2002. First edition. Hardback. A fantastic signed first edition of this classic Quentin Blake children's book about an unlikely friendship. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impression, complete with the full number l...

More Spring Flowers and Summer Blossoms

F.; M. · 1849 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Thomas Dean and Son, [1849]. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce anthology of verse and prose, strikingly illustrated, included with a hand-coloured frontispiece. A vanishingly scarce work.Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, a hand-coloured title page, and four mono...

The New Pantheon, or an Introduction to the Mythology of the Ancients

W. Jillard Hort · 1809 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)

London, T. Davison, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. Hardback. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Jillard Hort's uncommon children's primer on Greek and Roman mythology. Inscribed by the author to a front blank: 'Revd. Mr Fawcett with the A...

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 0 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Griffith, Farran and Co, c1817. Leather. An uncommon vignette edition of Thomas Moore's romantic poem, smartly bound in half calf by Palmer Howe. The vignette edition of this work.Bound in signed half calf by Palmer Howe and Co, with marbled boards and decorative ...

Little Infamies

Panos Karnezis · 2002 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Jonathan Cape , 2002. First edition. Paperback. An excellent signed first edition of this short-story collection by Greek writer Panos Karnezis. Signed by the author to the title page. First edition, first impression. In the publisher's original pictorial wraps....

Only Killers and Thieves

Paul Howarth · 2018 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, One (Pushkin Press), 2018. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of the author's debut novel. Signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. The author's debut novel. In 1895, on a scorch...

I Was a Rat! or the Scarlet Slippers

Philip Pullman · 1999 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Doubleday, 1999. First edition. Hardback. A terrific first edition of Philip Pullman's children's novel loosely based on the popular folktale 'Cinderella&apos. Signed by the author to the title page. The first edition of this work. No dust wrapper as is...

Len Deighton: An Annotated Bibliography, 1954-1985

Len Deighton; Edward Milward-Oliver · 1985 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Maidstone, The Sammler Press, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of this limited edition bibliography of the work of Len Deighton, inscribed by Deighton himself. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.One of ...

The Key of Life

Sir Philip Gibbs · 1948 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Hennel Locke Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon sci-fi novel by Sir Philips Gibbs, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper. 'The Key of Life' f...

Out in the Open

Jesus Carrasco; Margaret Jull Costa [translator] · 2015 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Harvill Secker, 2015. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this novel from Spanish writer Jesus Carrasco, a signed presentation copy also signed by the translator. First edition, first impression. The author's presentation copy, signed ...

My Name Is Legion

A. N. Wilson · 2004 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hutchinson, 2004. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this novel from English writer Andrew Norman Wilson, signed by the author. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page with an inscription that reads: "to Ama...

Stardrift and Other Fantastic Flotsam

Emil Petaja · 1971 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

California , Fantasy Publishing Company, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Emil Petaja. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. With a frontispiece. A collection of fourteen short sto...

Down the River

H. E. Bates · 1937 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. E. Bates's charming tale, signed by the celebrated illustrator of the work, Agnes Miller Parker. Signed by Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter Agnes Miller Parker to the front free endpap...

West India Lights

Henry S. Whitehead · 1946 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition of Henry Whitehead's posthumously published collection of weird fiction, in the original striking dust wrapper designed by Ronald Clyne. The first collected edition. In the original, unclipped d...

The Best of Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber · 1974 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1974. Cloth. The first book club edition of this anthology, collecting together the best tales of Fritz Leiber, who has signed the volume. The first book club edition, with the gutter code E 22 to page 299.Signed by the author to the title page...

The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton; Thomas Newton [ed.] · 1854 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, George Routledge and Co. 1854 . Leather. A sumptuously bound, illustrated edition of the collected poetical works of Milton, in a signed prize binding from Sotheran and Bickers. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven further plates by William Harvey. Collated, compl...