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Warrington As It Was, As It Is and As It Might Be.
[Herbert Langton] · 1892 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)
Warrington, Sunrise" Publishing Company, 1892. First edition. Leather. A very scarce copy of this informative work on Warrington written by Harbert Langton. A First edition of the work. Very scarce. Rebound in half vellum. This informative work by Herbert Langton describes Warri…
Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Len Deighton · 1982 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work of wartime fiction by Len Deighton. A first edition of the work. In the publisher's original cloth and original unclipped dust wrapper. This historical novel is written by British author …
A Case for the Baron
Anthony Morton [John Creasey] · 1945 · Rooke Books
£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this Baron story from Morton. First edition. The Baron, John Mannering, receives a visit from Superintendent Bristow of New Scotland Yard, asking for his help to solve a mystery in …
The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Elizabeth Smart · 1978 · Rooke Books
£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,559)
London, Jonathan Cape and Polytantric Press, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this inspirational work from Elizabeth Smart. First edition. A magnificent work exploring the life of a thirty-one year old woman, with four children by a faithless lover, as s…
Unfinished Business
Cary Lucas · 1947 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of this crime fiction novel set in Mexico. A first edition in original publisher's black cloth binding and original unclipped dust wrapper. This work is one of the Inner Sanctum Mystery…
Close Up; Xpd
Len Deighton · 1972 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
London; New York, Jonathan Cape; Alfred A. Knopf, 1972-1981. First edition. Cloth. A pair of first edition novels by British author Len Deighton. These novels are both first editions, with XPD being the first US edition, published during the same year as the UK edition. Close Up…
P. Moran, Operative
Percival Wilde · 1947 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)
New York, Random House , 1947. First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of this collection of humorous detective stories, following the stories of Pete Moran, an unsuccessful student of detection. An uncommon first edition of this work in original publisher's cl…
The Gun and Mr. Smith
John Godey; [Morton Freedgood] · 1947 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)
New York, The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company Inc, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A superior copy of Morton Freedgood's first mystery novel, a gripping crime work, a smart example of the first edition. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.…
William and the Tramp
Richmal Crompton · 1952 · Rooke Books
£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)
London, George Newnes, 1952. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression copy of this collection of Just William stories, with illustrations throughout, and the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original c…
Too Late the Phalarope
Alan Paton · 1953 · Rooke Books
£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)
London, Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the Alan Paton's powerful second novel, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Alan Ste…
Newaera; a Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination
Edward G. Herbert · 1910 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)
London, P.S. King & Son, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Edward Geisler Herbert's science fiction novel about a socialist utopia in decline. The first edition of this early twentieth century work of speculative fiction.Herbert's novel - which he uses …
Margaret Dunmore or, a Socialist Home
J. H. Clapperton [Jane Hume Clapperton] · 1894 · Rooke Books
£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)
London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1894 . Paperback. The second edition of philosopher Jane Clapperton's vanishingly scarce socialist novel, about a utopian method of communal living. The second edition of this work, which was first published in 1888. Both contemporary edition…
Town and Country in Southern France
Frances Stang · 1937 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to the towns and villages of southern France. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-seven plates. Collated complete. A charming travel work on the auth…
Spencer Farm with Some Account of Its Owners
G. L. Way; Rev. Lewis Way · 1845 · Rooke Books
£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)
Sudbury, George Williams Fulcher, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A scarce First Edition of letters from G. L. Way and his son the Rev. Lewis Way, signed by the Reverend. This is a very scarce First Edition of the work, signed by one of the authors, the Reverend Lewis Way. This work…
Torquay. Queen of English Watering Places
W W Quatremain · 1911 · Rooke Books
£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)
Sevenoaks, J Salmon, 1911. First edition. Paperback. A beautiful collection of watercolour paintings of Torquay, by English landscape artists William Wells Quatremain. This work is a First Edition in this format, in original publisher's paper wraps. William Wells Quatremain…
The Public School Word-Book
John S. Farmer · 1900 · Rooke Books
£53.00 (€63.53 | $70.02 | ¥11,178)
London, Hirschfeld Brothers, 1900. First edition. Hardback. A comprehensive glossary of words, phrases and turns of expression used in Public Schools around 1900. A First Edition of this uncommon work, in publisher's boards. This interesting and amusing work documents the u…
A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist
T. Baron Russell · 1905 · Rooke Books
£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed first edition of this vanishingly scarce work in which the author makes predictions about society one hundred years in the future. The first edition of this very scarce work. A US edition, also very scarc…
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks · 1973 · Rooke Books
£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,889)
London, Duckworth, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Oliver Sacks's Hawthornden Prize winning account of his treatment of the survivors of the sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's origi…
The Lost Cavern and Other Tales of the Fantastic
Gerald Heard · 1949 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, Cassell and Company, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first UK edition of this collection of science fiction short stories by Gerald Heard. The first UK edition, first impression, published the year after the first US edition.The work of journalist and '…
A Voyage to Purilia
Elmer Rice · 1930 · Rooke Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)
London, Victor Gollancz, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this science fiction novel from Pulitzer prize winning American playwright Elmer Rice. The first UK edition, first impression.First appearing in the New Yorker between October and December 1929, Rice&a…