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The Island of Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer · 1956 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1956. Cloth. Sax Rohmer's thrilling murder mystery novel, in the colourful illustrated dust wrapper. A later impression, first published in 1941. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In this suspensef...

Eugenics and Education Reprinted from the "Eugenics Review" July, 1912

John Russell; Mrs. MacCoy Irwin · 1912 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Eugenics Education Society, c1912. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this pamphlet reprinted from the Eugenics Review of July 1912. Very scarce work. Two short essays reprinted rom the July 1912 issue of The Eugenics Review, a periodical acting as they official organ fo...

The New Science and Art of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools

A. Sonnenschein; H. A. Nesbitt · 1903 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1903. Cloth. A very scarce and informative work on arithmancy, previously owned by the noted mathematician David Singmaster. A new edition, originally published in 1870, with this edition modified and brought up to date by the authors. In the p...

Heaven & Hell

Aldous Huxley · 1956 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this companion volume to Huxley's book 'The Doors of Perception&apos. First edition. A companion volume to Huxley's challenging book 'The Doors of Perception', an autobiograp...

Rocannon&Apos;S World

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1979 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.30 | $101.72 | ¥16,244)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first UK edition of the debut novel of esteemed science fiction author Ursula K. le Guin. The first UK hardback edition, first impression.In the original price clipped dust wrapper.'Rocannon's World' i...

Heretics of Dune

Frank Herbert · 1984 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of Frank Herbert's fifth 'Dune' novel, one of his influential sci-fi novels. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Heretics of Dune&ap...

Sons of Solomon

C. Lestock Reid · 1931 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, John Long, Limited, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A scarce Lost Race adventure novel by C. Lestock Reid, the first edition. The first edition of this scarce work.'Sons of Solomon' follows a Lost Race in Africa, discovered by an Englishman whilst on a Safari.By ...

Providence Island

Jacquetta Hawkes · 1959 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1959. Paperback. A proof copy of this brilliant lost race novel by Jacquetta Hawkes. A proof copy.'Providence Island' sees a group of Oxford archeologists discover a hidden island inhabited by hunters with physic and artistic powers. The prot...

Edge of the World

George Brydges Rodney · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

New York, Duffield and Green, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A scarce Lost World sci-fi novel by American author George Brydges Rodney, the first edition, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first printing, of this scarce work.In the original price-clipped dust wrapp...

Lord of the Lonely Isle

Mark Winchester · 1940 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1940. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon lost race novel by the little known author Mark Winchester. The first edition, first impression, an uncommon work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'Lord of the Lonely Is...

The Captain of the "Mary Rose

W. Laird Clowes · 1892 · Rooke Books

£248.00 (€297.26 | $327.62 | ¥52,317)

London, Tower Publishing Co. LTD, 1892. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon near future novel by W. Laird Clowes, following a naval war between England and France. The first edition of this uncommon work, the red cloth variant.'The Captain of the "Mar...

Science-Fiction Carnival

Fredric Brown; Mack Reynolds [editors] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second printing of this collection of science fiction stories, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, second printing. A collection of thirteen exciting and entertaining science fi...

The Best from Startling Stories

Samuel Mines [editor] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from US pulp magazine Startling Stories. First edition, first impression. A scintillating collection of science-fiction tales representing the cream of the fiction...

Space on My Hands

Fredric Brown · 1951 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Chicago, Shasta Publishers, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of science fiction short stories from American writer Fredric Brown. First edition. A superb collection of nine short science fiction stories, sparkling with elements of fantastic ...

Worms of the Earth

Robert E. Howard · 1974 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Rhode Island, Donald M. Grant, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short fantasy stories from American writer Robert Ervin Howard, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with four plates. Collated complete. A collection of the Pict s...

A Requiem for Astounding, All Our Yesterdays, More Issues at Hand

Alva Rogers; Harry Warner Jr; William Atheling Jr · 1967 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Chicago, Advent Publishers INC, 1967-74. First edition. Paperback. A set of three scholarly critical works on science fiction, published by the first scholarly publisher of the genre, Advent. A set of three literary criticism works on science fiction, published by Advent:Publi...

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 2, 1936-1945

Michael Ashley · 1975 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, New English Library, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Part 2 of Ashley's history of American science fiction magazines, covering 1936 until 1945. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original un...

I Sing the Body Electric!

Ray Bradbury · 1970 · Rooke Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.52 | ¥31,222)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Ray Bradbury's brilliant collection of short stories, with a lovely example of the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition. Published in the US the previous year. In the publis...

The Bristol Avon

Ernest Walls · 1927 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the Bristol Avon, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a fro...

Our Rarer British Breeding Birds

Richard Kearton · 1899 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Kearton work on the ornithological wildlife in Britain. The first edition of this work.One of the many books based on wildlife in Britain by brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton, two of ...