Scienza e natura

After Doomsday

Poul Anderson · 1963 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of this exciting science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, set after the Earth has been destroyed. The first U.K. edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'After Doomsday...

Astra and Flondrix

Seamus Cullen · 1976 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Allen Lane, 1976. Paperback. A proof copy of this erotic high-fantasy novel set in a post-atomic world, a unique novel by Seamus Cullen. The proof copy of this work.'Astra and Flondrix' is a unique and curious erotic post-atomic fantasy novel, following the s...

The Land of the Lost

Roy Norton · 1925 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce science fiction Lost World novel by Roy Norton, the first edition in book form in the original dust wrapper. The first edition in book form of this very scarce work, first serialized from March to August 1...

The Mouse on the Moon

Leonard Wibberley · 1962 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition of Leonard Wibberley's entertaining and satirical science fiction novel. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.The third of the author's Mouse&ap...

The Annotated Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Roy Pilot; Alvin Rodin · 1996 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Indianapolis, Wessex Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A first thus edition of this annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel concerning a discovery of living dinosaurs in South America. The first thus edition of this annotated work in the publi...

The Birds of Somersetshire

Cecil Smith · 1869 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, John Van Voorst , 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition ornithological work into the birds of Somerset. The first edition of this work.Contemporary ink inscription dated 1870 to the front endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.A comprehensive s...

The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life

[Richard Jesfferies] · 1880 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1880. Cloth. The first illustrated edition of this work on natural history and agriculture, with illustrations throughout by Charles Whymper. The first illustrated edition. First published in 1878 by the same publisher. Illustrated with a monochrome...

Indoor Studies

John Burroughs · 1895 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Cloth. A smart new Riverside edition of this collection of essays from American naturalist John Burroughs. New Riverside edition. Scarce. A collection of essays on subjects including: science and literature, Henry D. Thoreau, Matthe...

The Justification of Andrew Lebrun

Frank Barrett; [Frank Davis] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition novel, a science fiction novel based around suspended animation. The first edition of this scarce work.'The Justification of Andrew Lebrun' follows the eponymous character, a clockmaker and...

The Scarlet Empire

David M. Parry · 1906 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this satirical and dystopian novel by David M. Parry, illustrated by Hermann C. Wall. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Illustrated by Hermann C. Wall with a co...

The Sack of London by the Highland Host: A Romance of the Period

Jingo James · 1900 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce and unusual science fiction novel, following a Scottish clan who march on London in response to an unflattering cartoon. The first edition. In the publisher's ori...

The Great Stone of Sardis: A Novel

Frank R. Stockton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this science fiction novel from American writer Frank Richard Stockton, with illustrations. First UK edition, published the same year as the US edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty...

Arsareth: A Tale of the Luray Caverns

B. C. Warren · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

New York, A. Lovell & Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling lost race novel from American author Benjamin Clark Warren. First edition. Scarce work. 'Set in antebellum Virginia, where a treasure trove unpacks the story of one the Ten Lost ...

The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related by Several of Those Implicated and Others; and Now First Set Forth

The Earl of Desart · 1897 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this utopian novel from the Earl of Desart. First edition. A fantasy utopian novel set abord the good ship the Detrimental, featuring the discovery of a lost race. Written by William Ulick ...

An American Emperor: The Story of the Fourth Empire of France

Louis Tracy · 1897 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart illustrated first edition of this exciting novel from prolific writer Louis Tracy. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A thrilling adventure novel set in th...

Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign

Thomas Laslett · 1875 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce work exploring timber and timber trees. First edition. Scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A handy book and botanical treatise on home and foreign timber for ship and ho...

The Flying Legion

George Allan England · 1920 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co, 1920. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this exciting adventure sci-fi novel by George Allan England, in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An exciting Near Future sci-fi novel, a ten...

Lentala of the South Seas

W. C. Morrow · 1908 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. First edition. Cloth. An exciting and romantic science fiction novel by W. C. Morrow, complete with colourful plates. The first edition thus, being the first available edition, previously published in an unseen edition by The Succes...

The Masked Battery

Harold Wintle · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, A. M. Alexander, 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of this fantasy novel, concerning a magic spring which causes amnesia, by the journalist Harold Wintle. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original clot...

The Throne of Saturn

S. Fowler Wright · 1951 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, William Heinemann, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this imaginative collection of science fiction stories from S. Fowler Wright, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition. Unusually published earlier in the United States in 1949...