Biografia

Life of Goethe Volumes I and II

Heinrich Duntzer · 1883 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Macmillan, 1883. First edition. Cloth. A detailed analysis of the life and work of Goethe, translated from the original German. First edition in publisher's original binding. Scarce. Illustrated throughout, with a frontispiece to volume one, a fold-out facsimile o...

Coleridge Fille: A Biography of Sara Coleridge

Earl Leslie Griggs · 1940 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Oxford University Press, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this biography, following the life and work of English author Sara Coleridge, with the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's very scarce unclipped du...

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser · 1919 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

New York, Boni and Liveright , 1919. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming biographical series of men, each of which had influenced the author's life, written by acclaimed American novelist, Theodore Dreiser. The first edition. In the publisher's o...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.08 | ¥55,904)

London, John Murray, 1835. Leather. A smartly bound set of Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson, featuring illustrations and valuable additions. Complete in ten volumes. Celebrated work of Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the greatest E...

Squire: Memories of Charles Davies Sherborn

J. R. Norman [John Roxborough Norman] · 1944 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, George G. Harrap & Company Ltd. 1944. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of Charles Davies Sherborn, inscribed by Agnes Arber to W. T. Stearn, with a letter. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth bi...

The Rise and Progress of Sir Tomothy Buncombe, Kt. And M.P. An Extra-Moral Biography

[Alexander Johnstone Wilson] · 1886 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Manchester, John Dale, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce biographical work on a man called Sir Timothy Buncombe by Alexander Johnstone Wilson. The first edition. A scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written anonymously...

The Life of Mrs. Godolphin

John Evelyn · 1848 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, William Pickering , 1848. Vellum. An affectionate biography dedicated to the life and religious education of Margaret Godolphin, bound in full signed vellum binding. The second edition of this work. In full Bickers and Son vellum binding, with marbled endpapers.An inti...

Memorials of the Life and Works of Thomas Fuller D.D.

Arthur T. Russell · 1844 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, William Pickering, 1844. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed biographical work on English churchman and historian, Thomas Fuller. A biographical account of the life and works of Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian. Now remembered as a prolific author, pa...

Life of Lord Chesterfield: An Account of the Ancestry, Personal Character & Public Services of the Fourth Earl of Chesterfield

W. H. Craig · 1907 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1907. First edition. Leather. A very smart first edition of this biographical work on Lord Chesterfield, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twenty-seven plates. Coll...

Life of Lord Jeffrey

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of Lord Cockburn's touching biographical work on his lifelong friend, Lord Francis Jeffrey from the library of Andrew Carnegie The first edition.Complete in two volumes. Bound in half calf...

Lives of Cardinal Alberoni, the Duke of Ripperda, and Marquis of Pombal, Three Distinguished Political Adventures of the Last Century. Exhibiting a View of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal During a Considerable Portion of That Period

George Moore · 1814 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, J. Rodwell, 1814. Leather. The second edition of George Moore's immense biographical work on three prominent political adventurers of the eighteenth century. Second edition. George Moore's extensive biographical work on Cardinal Alberoni, an Italian cardinal ...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay; George Otto Trevelyan · 1877 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1877. Leather. A smart second edition set of the life and letters of British historian Lord Macaulay, written by his nephew. Complete in two volumes. Second edition. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. The life and letters of Thomas Bab...

A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Cloth. A bright first edition, first printing of Edmund Wilson's essays, sharing his thoughts on the social and political issues of the time. The first edition, first printing of this work in the publisher's original cloth b...

The Pictorial Biography of Adlai Ewing Stevenson Governor of Illinois

John M. Crane; John Hersey · 1952 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Washington, American Historical Publications, 1952. Magazine. A scarce first edition of this campaign publication on Governor Adlai Ewing Stevenson, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A campaign publication to in...

Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society

Samuel Smiles · 1893 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, John Murray, 1893. Cloth. A smart illustrated copy of this biography of Scottish naturalist Thomas Edward. New edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, nine plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life of Thomas Edward, a Scottish naturalist w...

Lafcadio Hearn Containing Some Letters from Lafcadio Hearn to His Half-Sister, Mrs. Atkinson.

Nina H. Kennard · 1912 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first American edition of this illustrated biography on Lafcadio Hearn, written by Nina H. Kennard. The first U.S edition. First published in 1911 by Eveleigh Nash. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece an...

A Collection of Works on Mervyn Peake

John Batchelor; John Watney; Maeve Gilmore; Sebastian Peake · 1974 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Duckworth; Michael Joseph; Allen Lane; Lennard Publishing, 1974-1989. First edition. Cloth. Four smart first editions of these biographical works on English writer and artist Mervyn Peake. Four volumes. First editions. A collection of biographical works on Mervyn Laure...

Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief

Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar · 1898 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898. Cloth. The thirtieth edition of this autobiographical work on Lord Roberts of Kandahar's years in India. The thirtieth, new edition in one volume. First published in 1897. Illustrated with a monochrome portrait frontispiece and for...

My Early Life (1869-1914)

M. K. Gandhi; Mahadeo Desai [editor] · 1949 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege for Oxford University Press, 1949. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce copy of this autobiographical account of the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi. Later printing, originally published in 1932. Very scarce work. Illustrated with...

Letters to Somebody: A Retrospect

Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson · 1922 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1922 . First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this collection of letters by the Right Honorable Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, inscribed by the author to Stephen G. Constance. First edition. Bound in half calf with cloth boards. Inscri...