Biografia

Sporting Days and Sporting Stories of Turf and Chase

J. Fairfax-Blakeborough [John Fairfax-Blakeborough] ; Sir Alfred E. Pease [introduction] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Phillip Allan & Co, 1925. First edition. Cloth. This scarce first edition, first impression of John Fairfax-Blakeborough's illustrated, personal history of racing and hunting, introduced by the British Liberal Party politician Sir Alfred Pease. The first edition, ...

The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler

Rev. John W. Burgon · 1859 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, John Murray, 1859. First edition. Leather. A pleasantly bound memoir of Scottish advocate and historian, Patrick Fraser Tytler. The first edition of this work, with no further edition remarks. Bound in half calf, with gilt decoration to the spine and marbled endpapers...

Recollections of a Military Life

General Sir John Miller Adye · 1895 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of John Adye's memoir of his military life between the years 1854 and 1882. The first edition.British soldier and amateur artist General Sir John Miller Adye served in the Crim...

Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont

[Anthony Hamilton] · 1714 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, J. Round; W. Taylor; J. Brown; W. Lewis; J. Graves, 1714. First edition. Leather. The first edition in English of this scarce memoir on the life of Count Philibert de Gramont, and the courts of Charles II and Louis XIV. The first edition in English of this scarce work....

Autobiography of Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf · 1960 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1960-69. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of the complete autobiography of Leonard Woolf, a set of first editions in their original dust wrappers. The first editions, first impression.Complete in five volumes.Each volume is in the original unclipped...

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby · 1992 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Nick Hornby's autobiography, in which he explores his lifelong relationship with football. A smart copy of the first edition. The first edition, first impression.Inscribed by the author to the title...

Byron

André Maurois · 1934 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1934. First edition. Leather. A uniformly bound two-volume set of the first edition, seventh printing of Maurois' biography of the notable Romantic poet Lord Byron. The first edition, seventh printing of this work, in a two-volume set, uniformly bo...

Memoirs de Philippe de Commynes

R. Chantelauze · 1881 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. 1881. Leather. The memoirs of French writer and diplomat Philippe de Commines, with illustrations. In the original French. French. Illustrated edition. Illustrated with four chromolithographic plates and numerous wood-cuts. Collated com...

Time I Was Dead: Pages from My Autobiography

Cecil Aldin · 1934 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 1934. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated autobiography from Cecil Aldin, a signed limited edition copy. First edition. Limited to one hundred copies of which this is number forty-three. Signed by the autho...

The Martian: A Novel

George du Maurier · 1897 · Rooke Books

£66.00 (€79.12 | $87.21 | ¥13,928)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this illustrated semi-autobiographical novel from Franco-British writer George du Maurier. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page images....

Between the Cupolas: A "Light and Airy" Record

W. [Wilfred Whitten] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Headley Bros. 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce memoir by Wilfred Whitten, relating his schooldays at a Quaker school in Yorkshire. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Wilfr...

William Pitt, Atterbury

Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

Bernard Tauchnitz , Leipzig , 1860. First edition. Leather. A very scarce work containing two biographies by Lord Macaulay, smartly bound in half morocco. The first edition of this very scarce work. Published as part of Leipzig's Tauchnitz editions, under their Collection...

Just a Little Bit of String

Ellaline Terriss · 1955 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Hutchinson, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The compelling autobiography of popular actress and singer Ellaline Terriss, signed by the author to her "luncheon partner" William Foyle, co-founder of Foyles bookshop, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. The firs...

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland · 1922 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922. Cloth. The second volume of Hamlin Garland's autobiography, and illustrated volume signed by the author/ An early edition, published the year after the first edition.Inscribed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "This i...

Fred Bason&Apos;S Diary

Fred Bason; Nicolas Bentley [ed] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Wingate, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical collection of diary entries from the writer Fred Bason, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original cloth with the very ...

Life of Frank Buckland

George C. Bompas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1903. Cloth. A smart biography of Frank Buckland, written by his brother-in-law George C. Bompas. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880), was an English surgeon, zoologist, ...

The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington

Colonel John Montmorency Tucker · 1846 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Willoughby and Co. 1846. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated biography of British statesman, Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington. Illustrated with a frontispiece, two folding plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life of Field Marsha...

The Life of Wellington

W. H. Maxwell (William Hamilton Maxwell) · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Bickers & Son , 1890. Leather. The new edition of Maxwell's illustrated biography of the Duke of Wellington, in a Bickers full calf prize binding. The new edition. Illustrated with a monochrome portrait frontispiece, headpieces, illuminated letters and twelve mon...

A Note on Religion

H. Rider Haggard · 1927 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this short work in which H. Rider Haggard explains his unorthodox personal religious beliefs. The vanishingly scarce first and only separate edition of Haggard's expositio...

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck · 1958 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

London, Heinemann, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of John Steinbeck's narrative about the marine specimen collecting trip he undertook with his great friend, Ed Ricketts, in 1940. The first UK edition, first impression of John Steinbeck's non ficti...