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True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey · 2001 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression, of Peter Carey's Man Booker Prize winning Australian novel 'True History of the Kelly Gang&apos. A signed first edition, first impression of this work, in the original uncl...

The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler · 1949 · Rooke Books

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

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional copy of the first US edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first US edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months afte...

Love Is Blind

William Boyd · 2018 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London , Viking , 2018. First edition. Cloth. An exclusive signed edition of William Boyd's Love is Blind. First exclusive signed edition of this work. This novel is set at the end of the nineteenth century and follow Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician. Love is bli...

Our Village

Mary Russell Mitford · 1893 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1893. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of Hugh Thomson's illustrated edition of Our Village by Mary Mitford. The first Hugh Thomson edition, second impression. In a signed straight grain morocco binding by Truslove and Hanson. Profusely illustra...

Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan · 2014 · Rooke Books

£255.00 (€305.66 | $336.89 | ¥53,797)

London , Chatto & Winduss, 2014. First edition. Cloth. A stunning first English edition, first impression signed work of Richard Flanagan's savagely beautiful Booker Prize winning novel Narrow Road to the Deep North. The first English edition, first impression of this wor...

Studies in Contemporary Biography

James Bryce · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1903. First edition. Leather. James Bryce's study of contemporary biography in a signed Harrison & Son binding, the first edition. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of studies in contemporary biography by James Bryce, including ...

Solar

Ian McEwan · 2010 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition. Cloth. Signed first impression of this satirical novel by Ian McEwan, a lovely copy. First edition, first impression of this work. A satire by Ian McEwan, concerning a Novel-prize physicist who seeks a solar-based solution to climate...

The Enclosure

Susan Hill · 1961 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.49 | $502.03 | ¥80,168)

London, Hutchinson of London , 1961. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of Susan Hill's brilliant first novel, written at the age of 15. Signed by the author with dedication. Scarce first edition of this novel. Written by the author of acclaimed titles such as &ap...

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies; or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

Anonymous · 1790 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, F. Power and Co, 1790. Cloth. The very scarce twelfth edition of this fascinating educational guide for the 'little masters and misses' of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Covering a variety of subjects. The twelfth edition of this very scarce eight...

The Myths: A Short History of Myth, the Penelopiad, and Weight. With an Original Essay by Philip Pullman

Karen Armstrong; Margaret Atwood; Jeanette Winterson; Philip Pullman · 2005 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.28 | $713.42 | ¥113,923)

London, Canongate, 2005. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful, signed, Limited Edition set of three retellings of classical myth by Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and Karen Armstrong. With an original essay on myths by Philip Pullman. No. 580 of 1500 signed, limited edition ...

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes · 2011 · Rooke Books

£108.00 (€129.46 | $142.68 | ¥22,785)

London, Jonathan Cape , 2011. First edition. Cloth. Signed first impression of this Booker Prize winning novel by Julian Barnes. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2011. The first edition, first impression of this work. Narrating of retired Tony Webster's reminiscences on his ...

Gerald Seymour&Apos;S Novels

Gerald Seymour · 1982 · Rooke Books

£496.00 (€594.53 | $655.29 | ¥104,641)

London, Bantam Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Harper Collins; Collins Harvill, 1982-2019. First edition. Cloth. Beautiful group of sixteen first impressions of the crime and espionage novels of Gerald Seymour, including some signed copies. Gerald Seymour is a British author known ...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Charles Dickens, · 1837 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€707.21 | $779.47 | ¥124,472)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1837 . First edition. Leather. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' immensely popular first novel. With many first issue points present, and illustrated throughout. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' first novel...

Jonah and His Mother

Montague Haltrecht · 1964 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work that tells the story of a young man struggling with his identity, written by Montague Haltrecht. A compelling tale of Jonah, a young man who struggles with his relationship with his mother, his s...

Acres and Pains

S.J. Perelman · 1972 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1972. Hardback. A signed, presentation copy of this humorous novel by noted American author S.J. Perelman, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. A humorous novel about a writer who moved from New York City to the Eastern American countryside and ex...

The Horses of Winter

A.A.T. Davies · 1967 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling crime novel by A.A.T. Davies, enclosed in its original dust wrapper. A thrilling crime novel about two psychopaths, Peter Keevil, the disillusioned scholar, and John Morann, the sed...

The Sporting Club

Thomas McGuane · 1968 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.85 | ¥31,434)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1968. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of this sporting novel by Thomas McGuane, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. The debut novel of twentieth-century American author Thomas McGuane, about a friendship rivalry between tw...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

Charles Dickens · 1837 · Rooke Books

£4,400.00 (€5,274.10 | $5,813.02 | ¥928,263)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1837 . First edition. Leather. The first edition in book form of Charles Dickens' first and immensely popular novel. With many first issue points present, and containing the two suppressed Buss plates. The first edition in book form of Charles Di...

The Season of the Witch

James Leo Herlihy · 1971 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel about a teenage runaway in New York City by James Leo Herlihy, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. A compelling novel by James Leo Herlihy. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of a teen...

Ode to the Dodo

Christopher Logue · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1981. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of poetry by English poet Christopher Logue, enclosed in the original dust wrapper. A collection of poetry by Christopher Logue written betweeb 1953 and 1978. Including 'Wand and Quadr...