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Private Heat
Robert E. Bailey · 2002 · Rooke Books
£19.99 (€23.96 | $26.41 | ¥4,217)
New York, M. Evans and Company, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first printing of this crime thriller by Robert E. Bailey. Robert Bailey was a private investigator for twenty years, before turning towards fiction, writing action packed novels due to his experien…
The Sixth Sense
Irene Dayton · 1970 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
Peterborough , Windy Row Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this collection of poetry from Irene Dayton. Irene Dayton was an author, who also wrote 'The Panther's Eye', and 'In Oxbow of Time's River&apos. Inscribed by Dayton to …
Dead Heat
Caroline Carver · 2003 · Rooke Books
£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,436)
London, Orion, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this fast-paced thriller, being a terrifying and shocking journey into the heart of a wild jungle. First edition. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. "Georgia Parish never regretted leaving Nulgarra, northern …
Cast the First Stone
Jane Adams · 1996 · Rooke Books
£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.25 | ¥12,655)
London, Macmillan , 1996. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this haunting suspense novel, being the second thriller from Jane Adams. First edition. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original photographic unclipped dustwrapper, designed by Richard I…
The Wychford Murders
Paula Gosling · 1986 · Rooke Books
£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)
London, Macmillan, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this novel by Paula Gosling. The first of two novels by Paula Gosling to feature Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbot. Gosling is an American crime writer, who published her first novel 'A Running Duck…
The Coup
John Updike · 1978 · Rooke Books
£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)
New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc, 1978. Cloth. A signed, limited edition copy of this thought-provoking novel by John Updike. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number 227. The Coup, a lauded novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made t…
Eton Crop
Bill James · 1999 · Rooke Books
£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.69 | ¥5,061)
London, Macmillan, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Bill James' sixteenth crime thriller in his Harpur and Iles' mystery series. Uncommonly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the original unclipped photographic dustwrapper, designed b…
Double Deuce
Robert B. Parker · 1992 · Rooke Books
£47.99 (€57.52 | $63.40 | ¥10,124)
London, Viking, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker. Signed by the author to the recto free-end paper. "Pulsing with raw power and moral complexity, Double Deuce is the kind of no-holds-barred action thriller only Robert B. Park…
Atlantic Fury
Hammond Innes · 1962 · Rooke Books
£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.22 | ¥7,381)
London, Collins, 1962. First edition. Cloth. 'Atlantic Fury' is a novel by Hammond Innes set on a part real, part imaginary island called Laerg in the Atlantic. In original dustwrapper designed by Michael Harvey and maps to endpapers. First edition. Ralph Hammond Innes…
A World of Strangers
Nadine Gordimer · 1958 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this controversial novel, which was banned for twelve years in Gordimer's native South Africa. Signed by the author to the title page. In a burgundy cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Ex…
Artis Logicae Rudimenta with Questions on Aldrich&Apos;S Logic
Henry Aldrich · 1832 · Rooke Books
£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)
Oxford, J H Parker; J Vincent, 1832-1836. Leather. Two fantastic scarce little educational textbooks. A revised edition of Aldrich's lasting Compendium Artis Logica, bound with an exercise book regarding the former text. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered board…
Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray · 1874 · Rooke Books
£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.40 | ¥39,027)
London, Chiswick Press, 1874. Leather. A Riviere bound edition of Gray's poems and letters with monochrome tipped-in illustrations. With a black and white portrait tipped-in to frontispiece, a decorative title page, decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. With a biogr…
Fenwick&Apos;S Career
Mrs Humphry (Mary A Ward) · 1906 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)
London, Harper, 1906. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition of Mary A Ward's novel 'Fenwick's Career', in two volumes. A limited edition, number 24 of 250 and signed by the author. Illustrated by Albert Sterner. Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) was a …
Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling · 1912 · Rooke Books
£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. Vellum. A scarce edition de luxe of the Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. In a lovely vellum binding Limited edition, number thirty-one of a limited print run of five-hundred, signed by the publishers. Printed on English hand-made paper. Jos…
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54
Edward Abbott Parry · 1903 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)
London, Sherratt and Hughes, 1903. Leather. A finely bound copy of Dorothy Osborne's letters to Sir William Temple. Illustrated, with three plates. In a Hatchards of London binding with gilt stamped detailing to the spine. Edited by English judge and dramatist Edward Abbott…
Virtue in Humble Life: Containing Reflections on Relative Duties, Particularly Those of Masters and Servants. Thoughts on the Passions, Prejudices and Tempers of Mankind, Drawn from Real Characters Fables Applicable to the Subjects
Jonas Hanway · 1777 · Rooke Books
£790.00 (€946.93 | $1,043.64 | ¥166,656)
London, Dodsley, Sewell and Bew, 1777. Leather. Jonas Hanway's two-volume work, designed to improve the morality of servants. Second edition, corrected, and enlarged. Jonas Hanway (August 12, 1712 September 5, 1786), English traveller and philanthropist, was born at Portsmo…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Walter Scott · 1854 · Rooke Books
£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Leather. A beautifully bound and illustrated copy of Sir Walter Scott's famous poem The Lay of The Last Minstrel. A long narrative and historical poem, The Lay of The Last Minstrel was originally published in 1805 and follows an agei…
Illustrations of Hudibras Sixty Portraits of Celebrated Political and Literary Characters, Impostors and Enthusiasts Alluded to Butler in His Hudibras.
Samuel Butler; R Cooper · 1821 · Rooke Books
£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.11 | ¥101,259)
London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821. Leather. A wonderful collection of portraits of characters from Samuel Butler's mock heroic poem. With each plate by R Cooper. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Green…
A Tour in Germany, and Some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire in 1820, 1821, 1822
John Russell · 1828 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
Edinburgh, Constable and Co. 1828. Cloth. Volume XXIX from the Constable's Miscellany series. Both volume I and II with illustrated title pages. Direct from the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at Titley Cour…
Odes and Other Poems
Ronald Campbell Macfie · 1919 · Rooke Books
£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)
London , John Murray, 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first and only edition of Odes and Other Poems. Ronald Campbell Macfie was not only a poet but also a medical doctor and a science writer with interests in eugenics and evolution. He criticised Darwinism and theorised about t…