Biografia

The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called the Mule

Gilbert J. French · 1860 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Manchester; London, Thomas Dinham & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1860. Leather. A second edition of Gilbert French's biography on the life and work of the inventor Samuel Crompton, illustrated with folding plates. Second edition. Illustrated with three plates and three fo...

All Manner of Folk, Interpretations and Studies

Edward Lear; Holbrook Jackson [editor] · 1912 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon work of literary criticism by Holbrook Jackson, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate ...

A Collection of First Edition Novels by Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler · 1972 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1972-1993. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five first edition novels from English author Eric Clifford Ambler. Five volumes. First edition. Written by Eric Clifford Ambler, an English author and screenwriter, noted for his thriller...

Two Kings of Uganda; or, Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza

Robert P. Ashe · 1889 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Robert Pickering Ashe's account of his missionary work in Uganda, and his encounters with two Kings of the nation. With a signed letter from the author. The scarce fi...

Les Douleurs Qui Esperent

Abbe Felix Klein · 1917 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Paris , Librairie Academique Perrin et Cie , 1917. Hardback. A very scarce volume recounting the Great War through the diaries of a French chaplain of the American ambulance service. The fifth edition of this very scarce work. Bound in marbled paper covered boards, with leathe...

The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales

Frank T. Bullen · 1899 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

New York, International Book and Publishing Co. 1899. Cloth. A smart illustrated edition of this semi-autobiographical novel from British writer Frank Thomas Bullen. Early edition, originally published 1898. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and one folding map. C...

Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1866 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

New York, W. J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1866. Cloth. A smart two volume set of this biographical work on Anglo-Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. Complete in two volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. A detailed study on the life of Richa...

Soliloquy of a Hermit

Theodore Francis Powys · 1916 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.71 | $277.42 | ¥44,301)

New York, G. Arnold Shaw, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this non fiction piece from British writer Theodore Francis Powys. First US edition. With a portrait frontispiece. An interesting non fiction work, containing the thoughts of the author at the be...

Left Hand, Right Hand! an Autobiography: The Scarlet Tree; Great Morning; Laughter in the Next Room; Noble Essences

Osbert Sitwell · 1946 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, Macmillan , 1946-1950 . First edition. Cloth. Exceptionally bright first editions of four volumes only of Osbert Sitwell's celebrated autobiography, retaining the original dust wrappers. The first editions, first impressions of volumes II-V of Osbert Sitwell'...

The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1910-1913 & 1914-1923

Franz Kafka; Max Brod [Ed.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1948-9 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of the diaries of Franz Kafka from 1910 to 1923, providing a detailed look at the thoughts and character of the influential novelist. First UK edition. Complete in two volumes. A bright pair, each wi...

The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift

Louis F. Swift; Arthur Van Vlissingen Jr · 1928 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Chicago , A. W. Shaw Company , 1928. Cloth. An excellent early printing of this biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift, the founder of a pioneering meat-packing business. The second printing, published two months after the first. With the publisher's original dust wrapper, ...

The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis

George Lyttelton; Rupert Hart-Davis · 1978 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, John Murray, 1978-1982. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first edition volumes of this set containing the correspondence between the Hon. George William Lyttelton and Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis. Four volumes of a six volume set. First edition. With a frontispiece to...

Lord Grey of Fallodon, K.G.

Lt.-Col. Hon. Arthur C. Murray · 1947 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Edinburgh, Reprinted for the Author by R. & R. Clark, Ltd. 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this biographical sketch of British statesman and politician Lord Grey of Fallodon, signed by the author. First thus, reprinted from The Quarterly Review of January 1934. Sig...

Gwyn Evans: The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet

Steve Holland · 2012 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Essex, Bear Alley Books, 2012. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this study of the life and work of Gwyn Evans who wrote on the Sexton Blake comic series. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated throughout. A detailed study into the life and work of Gwyn...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay]; Sir George Otto Trevelyan · 1888 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1888. Leather. A new edition of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, from his nephew. New edition. A record of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, ...

Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse

Stephen Haddelsey · 2008 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Gloucestershire, The History Press, 2008. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this history, which tells of the astonishing expeditions of Joseph Russell Stonehouse. The scarce first edition.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. This biographi...

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Volume 2, Volume 14, and Volume 15)

Charles Darwin; Numerous Editors · 1986 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 1986-2005. First edition. Cloth. A very smart set of three volumes from this definitive series containing Charles Darwins' correspondence. First editions.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.This set contains V...

Nelson

A. de Lamartine · 1859 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1859. Leather. A smart copy of this scarce biography of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson from French author Alphonse de Lamartine, in the original French. French. Scarce edition. Originally published in Le Civilisateur, this work explores the...

The Lives of Robert & Mary Moffat

John S. Moffat · 0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, c1890. Cloth. A smart twelfth edition of this illustrated biography of Scottish missionaries Robert and Mary Moffat. Twelfth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. The lives of Robert Moffat, a Scottish Congregatio...

The Lives of Dr. John; -Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; -Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson

Isaac Walton [Izaak Walton]; Thomas Zouch · 1817 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

York, Thomas Wilson and Sons, for Payne and Foss, 1817 . Leather. The two volume third edition of Isaac Walton's biographical writings, in calf bindings. The third edition of this work, which was first published in 1670.Complete in two volumes.With a frontispiece and four...