Biografia

Three Works Published by Black Sparrow Press

James Broughton; Wright Morris; Bradford Morrow; Et Al. · 1981 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1997. First edition. Cloth. A fine collection of three works published by The Black Sparrow Press in Santa Rosa, two of which are signed and one with a signed letter from the author. Limited edition. Bound in the publisher"s quarter cloth....

Memoirs of My Dead Life

George Moore · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, William Heinemann, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiography from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore. First edition. The wistful, melancholic, and graceful autobiography of George Augustus Moore, an Irish novelist, short-st...

Lettere

Alfredo Catalani · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Milan, A cura dell'Istituto di Alta Cultura , 1946. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce limited edition containing the letters of Italian operatic composer, Alfredo Catalani. One of three hundred numbered copies bound in the publisher's full blue morocco. Th...

Here Lies: An Autobiography

Eric Ambler · 1985 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A signed first impression of the autobiography of author and screenwriter Eric Ambler, celebrated for his many spy novels. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original un...

Boswell&Apos;S London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland 1763-1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764

James Boswell; Frederick A. Pottle [ed.] · 1951 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1951-1953. Cloth. Three very smart trade editions from the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. A collection of the private papers, journals and travel works of James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist and lawyer, best know...

Charles Howard: An Autobiography

Charles Howard · 2014 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Piston Power Press Ltd , 2014. First edition. Cloth. An extensive autobiographical work from Charles Howard, a successful vintage and classic car dealer. The first edition of this very scarce volume. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Charles Ho...

The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948-1955

Cecil Beaton · 1973 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the fourth volume of diaries from British photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton. First edition. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. The diaries of Sir Cecil Walter Hardy ...

The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922 16

352087 A/c Ross [T. E. Lawrence] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955 . First edition. Leather. An exceptional limited edition example of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force. A first edition, limited issue, with this copy being no. 150 of 2,000 copies produced.In the publisher&apo...

Sergeant Shakespeare

Duff Cooper · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this intriguing study into a lesser known period of Shakespeare's life, during which the author proposes he spent as a soldier. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publ...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay]; George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First edition. Leather. A first edition set containing the biography and correspondence of Lord Macaulay, bound in half crushed morocco. The first edition.Uniformly bound in half crushed morocco, with attractive gilt detailing to the spin...

Joseph Fouche

Stefan Zweig; Alzir Hella [trans.]; Olivier Bournac [trans.] · 1935 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1935 . Leather. An attractively bound French language translation of Stefan Zweig's biography of enigmatic French statesman Joseph Fouche. Translated from the original German into French by Alzir Hella and Olivier Bournac.In a half morocco signed b...

Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings

Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas R. Lounsbury · 1892 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A complete three volume first edition of this detailed study on the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer, from American literary historian Thomas Lounsbury. Complete in three volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontisp...

Memoirs of the Count de Grammont

Count Anthony Hamilton; Horace Walpole · 1928 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head LTD, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Antoine Hamilton's memoirs of his brother-in-law Philibert de Gramont. A limited edition of one thousand copies. This is an out-of-series complimentary copy.From the library of Sir Campbell Stua...

A Trilogy on Iris Murdoch

John Bayley · 1998 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Duckworth, 1998-2001. First edition. Cloth. A charming trilogy from British academic and writer John Bayley on his wife Iris Murdoch. Complete in three volumes. First edition. A collection of works on Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, an Irish and British novelist and philosophe...

Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years Book One of the Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon

Edward Thomas; Eleanor Farjeon · 1958 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of the letters of Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon from the last four years of his life. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A ...

Random Recollections of the Midland Circuit

Robert Walton · 1869 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Chiswick Press , 1869. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of anecdotes, written by Robert Walton during his travels around Britain. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This is the first series...

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Privately Printed, 1922. Cloth. A pirated edition of the first volume of Frank Harris' controversial autobiography. A privately printed pirated edition of the first volume of Frank Harris' controversial memoir.The book gives a graphic account of Harris's ...

Theodore Waterhouse 1838-1891: Notes of His Life and Extracts from His Letters and Papers

Theodore Waterhouse · 1894 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

Not Stated, Private Circulation, 1894. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this work on the life and writings of Theodore Waterhouse. First edition, printed for private circulation. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece and two plates. Collated com...

Contemporary Portraits: Fourth Series

Frank Harris · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the fourth series of Frank Harris's collection of sketches of notable public figures, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original unclip...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

John Wilson Croker [ed]; James Boswell · 1848 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, John Murray, 1848. Leather. James's Boswell's important biography on the popular English writer, Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker and bound in full calf. The new edition. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece featuring p...