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Household,Geoffrey. Rogue Male. Chatto & Windus, 1939.
Price: US$52.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, LIBRARY REBIND, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Household.. Rogue Male.. Chatto & Windus, London 1939, 1939.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third printing. Hardback. Octavo. 271pp. Original blue cloth with red spine titles. Light wear and fading otherwise near very good indeed in a slightly edge chipped and faded, very good dust jacket. 3rd impression in The Services Library series dust jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male. Chatto and Windus, London, UK, 1939.
Price: US$119.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, first edition, second impression, Chatto and Windus, 1939, London UK. This book is in very good condition - some fading on spine; ghost of pencil price on ffep and small seller's sticker on inside of cover; pages tanning. Photos available if required.
Seller: Secondhand Books 'n' Things, Ross Creek, VIC, Australia
Household (Geoffrey). Rogue Male. Chatto & Windus, London, 1939.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, cut signature of author affixed to front free endpaper. 8vo. Title printed in red & black within ruled border. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in silver. Lacking dust-jacket. Spine slightly sunned, overall VG+. The first edition of the Bristol-born Household's most famous work, a classic of thriller fiction, with (an admittedly unnamed) Hitler firmly in the author's sights. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. p763.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Household, Geoffrey. ROGUE MALE. Chatto and Windus, London, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-270 [271] [272: printers statement], original lavender cloth, spine stamped in white. The story of a British man who hunts a European dictator (read: Adolf Hitler), he gets the man in his cross hairs but does not shoot. He is captured, tortured, and escapes, back to England, where he is hunted by the dictator's secret agents. "This is a nightmarish novel, filled with breathless chases, fascinating detail work, and images that will haunt you for days after reading." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 382-384. Filmed in 1941 as Man Hunt with Walter Pidgeon, later filmed as a television movie. Upper page edges dust soiled, spine somewhat faded, a clean, very good copy. (20282)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male. Chatto and Windus, 1939.
Price: US$608.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: THE BOOK THAT REDEFINED A GENRE; SIGNED BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Rogue Male is a classic thriller published in 1939 by Chatto and Windus. The 1939 novel is a clear precursor of the Fleming and Forsyth novels. This was Geoffrey Household's masterpiece and redefined the genre of the hunted man. Originally filmed in 1941 and then again in 1977 starring Peter O'Toole. Benedict cumberbatch is to star in a new film adaptation of Rogue Male which he will also co-produce. The film is now in development. This copy is without a DJ and is described is a first edition second impression. The cloth boards are now faded but the silver terrain on the spine is complete. The cloth boards of the book are protected by a removable mylar film. The book is a presented in a bespoke clam shell case which is a rich purple to compliment the original book. The book is described as FAIR but has a unique attribute it is signed by Benedict Cumberbatch CBE; one of Britain's finest actors and will surely be one of the 21st Century greats of stage and screen. This is a rare opportunity to buy a copy of a book that redefined a genre. In an article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 2 August 2016 Cumberbatch told Patrick Foster of The Daily Telegraph that Rogue Male was "the most treasured of English novels". Cumberbatch will produce and star in this film and he will bring his own style and skill to this film. Could this be an Oscar winner in the making. Bradgate Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Bradgate Rare Books, Leicester, United Kingdom
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey (1900-1988). Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt]. London: Chatto and Windus, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression, with later state / printing of the jacket. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 271 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine. With the 'sniper' design dust-jacket priced at 4/6 (earliest jackets were priced 7/6). Page edges are age-toned, fugitive-coloured cloth has some expected soiling and discolour but nothing serious, owner name in pencil to pastedown, and also on a label to jacket flap, later discreet bookplate/label to pastedown, attractive jacket has some older mends and repair, touched-up in places. Shows well, and an affordable alternative to the full-priced 7/6 jacket. A very good copy of a scarce novel, a masterpiece of the "what if." school of espionage fiction; the thrillers of Geoffrey Household greatly influenced the writing of Ian Fleming. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. p763. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.616-7.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey.. Rogue Male.. Chatto and Windus, London., 1939.
Price: US$4803.24 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue in purple cloth. Octavo. pp [vi], 271. Highly influential and a cornerstone of any thriller collection.Faint traces of of bookplate removal on front pastedown. Near fine in the very scarce first issue (price 7/6) dustwrapper which is very good, faded at the spine, faintly stained at tail of spine, rubbed, chipped and slightly torn, with repairs to the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male. Chatto & Windus, UK, 1939.
Price: US$6404.32 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household First Edition Chatto & Windus 1939. A fine book with only one small date inscription to ffep. Completely unblemished throughout and without foxing. Covers are unmarked with no toning to spine. In original VG+ pictorial dust jacket, not clipped and correctly priced at 7/6. Hubin.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey (1900-1988). Rogue Male [aka Man Hunt]. London: Chatto and Windus, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$9606.48 + shipping
Description: [Classic man-hunt adventure] FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY, with an original 4-page advert/order form. Octavo, pp.[vii]; 271; [1], imprint. Publisher's brown card softcovers, with printed label to upper, handwritten details to spine. Contents clean, some wrinkling and lean to spine, covers lightly handled. A very good copy indeed, housed in a leather-spined clamshell box. An extremely scarce proof copy with a loose order form from Basil Blackwell, describing this novel as 'A Thriller of Thrillers'. The published book is a celebrated rarity in jacket however this is the first proof we have encountered, with none having appeared at auction. The thrillers of Geoffrey Household greatly influenced the writing of Ian Fleming. Hubin; Crime Fiction IV. p763. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming The Bibliography pp.616-7.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom