Biografia

Behind the Wainscot: Autobiography of a Mouse

Cicely Fulcher · 1903 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Andrew Melrose , 1903. Cloth. A scarce children's book following the charming friendship between a girl and a mouse. An early edition of this scarce work. First published in 1901. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. This children's story follo...

The Marquis of Montrose

John Buchan · 1913 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Buchan's biography of the Marquis of Montrose, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and eleven maps and plans. Collated complete. A ...

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew. King of the Beggars - Containing His Life - a Dictionary of the Cant Language and Many Entertaining Particulars of the Extraordinary Man.

Robert Goadby · 1812 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Everton , W. Salter and sold by W. Crosby's & Co. 1812 . Leather. An excellently bound, new edition of Robert Goadby's entertaining "autobiography" of English rogue Bampfylde Moore Carew. Bound by J. Fellowes in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. A new edi...

The Autobiography of William Simpson, R.I. (Crimean Simpson)

William Simpson; George Eyre-Todd · 1903 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First edition. Vellum. A limited edition copy of William Simpson's insightful illustrated autobiography, one of only one hundred copies. A limited edition of one hundred copies, of which this is numbered twenty, published at the same time as...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

James Fitzmaurice Kelly · 1913 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this authoritative biography on Miguel de Cervantes. The first edition of this scarce work.Bound by Hatchards. A brilliant biography on the life and works one of the greatest Span...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Sir George Otto Trevelyan · 1893 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1893. Leather. A smart copy of the popular edition of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, from his nephew. Popular edition. A record of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, a British historian, p...

Lettres Du P. Didon a Un Ami

P. Didon · 1902 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

Paris, Perrin et Cie. 1902. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of letters from French friar Henri Louis Remy Didon, in the original French. French. With a portrait frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. A collection of the letters of Henri Louis Remy D...

Correspondance inãƒâ©Dite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868, Avec Une Notice Biographique Par Daniel Bernard; Les Grotesques de la Musique; Mãƒâ©Moires de Hector Berlioz Comprenant Ses Voyages En Italie, En Allemagne, En Russie Et En Angleterre, 1803-1865

Hector Berlioz; Daniel Bernard · 1879 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1879-1887. Leather. Four uniformly bound collections of Berlioz's correspondence and memoirs, with his satirical work on the world of classical music. Four works, uniformly bound in quarter calf bindings with marbled boards and end papers.A lovely se...

Moholy-Nagy: Experiments in Totality

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy · 1950 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's biography of her husband, the Hungarian painter and photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The first edition, first printing, with 'first edition' and D-Z code to colopho...

Voices: A Memoir

Frederic Prokosch · 1983 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1983. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first printing of this vivid autobiography from American writer Frederic Prokosch. The first edition, first printing of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Frederic Prokos...

Journal 1936-1937 and Paris Journal 1937-1939

David Gascoyne · 1978 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, The Enitharmon Press, 1978-80. First edition. Cloth. Both volumes of David Gascoyne's journals, with one volume being inscribed by the author and presented to his friend Anthony Brode. The first edition, first impressions. The author's presentation copy to &...

John Stuart MILL: As Some of the Working Classes Knew Him

George Jacob Holyoake · 1873 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Trubner & Co. 1873 . First edition. Disbound. The first edition of this very scarce commemorative work written by George Jacob Holyoake in attempt to defend the reputation and legacy of John Stuart Mill after his death. First edition. Very scarce work. Unbound. Written...

While the Dixie Boils: Camp-Fire Yarns

Robert Harding · 1939 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, RT.S.-Lutterworth Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of autobiographical stories from Robert Harding, the editor for 'The Boy's Own Paper&apos. The first edition. A very scarce work. Illustrated with monochro...

The Secret Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Pompadour

Jules Beaujoint · 1885 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Remington & Co. 1885. Cloth. A translated edition of the memoirs of Madame de Pompadour, a member of the French court and official mistress of King Louis XV. Translated edition, first published in the original French in 1873. The memoirs of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, M...

The Memoirs of Baron Thiãƒâ©Bault (Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army)

Baron Thiébault; Arthur John Butler [editor] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. The complete two volume set of Baron Thiébault's memoir, translated by Arthur John Butler. Complete in two volumes. First translated edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and folding plate to volume one, and a fr...

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

Nicholas Tucker · 2003 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Cambridge , Wizard Books , 2003. Paperback. A lovely first edition of this unique exploration of Philip Pullman's work. First edition Signed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's paperback.This work includes a biography and literary analysis of award ...

Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and His Art

Max Beerbohm · 1920 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this illustrated collection of memories relating to English actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. First US edition. Uncommon edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four plates, ...

Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography

E. D. Cuming: Sir Theodore Cook · 1926 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second impression of this biographical work on George Osbaldeston, an English politician and sportsman. The first edition, second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome p...

Willoughby Hyett Dickinson 1859-1943: A Memoir

Hope Costley White · 1956 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Gloucester, Privately Printed by John Bellows Limited, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce biography of British Liberal politician Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, signed by his wife Elizabeth. First edition. Very scarce. Signed by Elizabeth Dickin...

La Vie de Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini; Leopold Leclanche · 1881 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

Paris, A. Quatin, 1881. Leather. A French edition of this important autobiography on the life of sixteenth century artist Benvenuto Cellini. Translated into French by Leopold Leclanche, with notes and an index by M. Franco.The autobiography of the Italian goldsmith Benvenuto C...