Biografia

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

Gilbert J. French · 1860 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Manchester, Thomas Dinham, 1860. Leather. A lovely second edition of Gilbert French's biography on the life and work of the inventor Samuel Crompton, illustrated with folding plates. The second edition of this work.A biography on the life of Samuel Crompton.Crompton was a...

Ancestral Voices

James Lees-Milne · 1975 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting memoir about James Lees-Milne's life returning from World War Two. The first edition of this work. In the original price-clipped dustwrapper. A memoir about the life of James Lees-M...

Jamie an 80th Birthday Tribute from His Friends

1980 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A signed first and limited edition of this tribute work for James Hamish Hamilton, published for his eightieth birthday. The first edition of this work. Inscribed to the half-title, 'To Mollie and Clare, with love from ...

Fire and Sword in the Sudan a Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895

Rudolf C Slatin; F R Wingate · 1896 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Edward Arnold, 1896. Cloth. A bright and superior fourth edition copy of this popular bestselling memoir by the Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator Rudolf Carl von Slatin on his time in the Sudan. An unusually smart copy of this work, in it's original binding...

Memoirs of Barras Member of the Directorate

Paul Barras; George Duruy (ed.); Charles E. Roche (translator) · 1895 · Rooke Books

£196.00 (€234.97 | $258.99 | ¥41,362)

London, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. 1895-1896 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating english translation of the memoirs of Paul Barras, the renowned French politician, and one of the most powerful members of the Directory during the French Revolution. T...

Le Carnet de Campagne Du Commandant Giraud: Documents Recueillis, Classã©S Et Mis En Ordre

Commandant Jean-Baptiste Giraud [ed. by Commandant Léonce Grandin] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

Paris, Téqui, 1898. First edition. Leather. A very scarce and fascinating war dairy of a Napoleonic soldier who served in both the Egyptian Campaign and under Massena in the Peninsular War. Le Carnet de Campagne du Commandant Giraud (The Campaign Diary of Commander Giraud), a ...

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Faber and Faber, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of poetry by Hughes, reflecting on the death of Sylvia Plath, with unclipped dust wrapper. A first edition. In lovely condition. Bound in publisher's original blue boards, with the original un...

The Life of Nelson

Robert Southey · 1883 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Bickers and Son, 1883 . Leather. A smart, leather-bound edition of Southey's popular biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. In a contemporary full morocco binding. Illustrared with a frontispiece. A detailled account of the life of Horatio Lord Nelson, widely regarded ...

Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France

Edmund Gosse · 1918 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, William Heinemann, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A series of intriguing essays studying the thought of eminent French thinkers to rejuvenate French morale in the First World War, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of Three French Moralists, a series o...

Lettres Choisies de Mesdames de Sã©Vignã© Et de Maintenon

Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Maintenon [ed. by M. De Lévizac] · 1812 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Dulau et Co. 1812. Leather. The fifth edition of selected letters from both Madame de Sévigné and Madame de Maintenon, two brilliant sources for the Sun King's reign. The fifth edition of Lettres Choisies de Mesdames de Sévigné (Selected Letters of Madame de Sévig...

Paul Hogarth&Apos;S American Album: Drawings 1962-65 with Notes from a Journal

Paul Hogarth · 1973 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A limited first edition of this visual travel journal from artist Paul Hogarth, documenting his visits to America in the 1960s. First edition. No. 45 of a limited edition.   In the publisher's original pictorial ...

I&Apos;LL Mature When I&Apos;M Dead

Dave Barry · 2010 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Connecticut, [Easton Press], [2010]. First edition. Leather. A lovely signed first edition memoir in handsome full Morocco, in original sealed shrink wrap. The first signed edition of this 2010 memoir.  Bound in handsome original full morocco binding by Easton Press. With gilt...

Anecdotes of Painting in England; a Catalogue of Engravers

Horace Walpole; George Vertue · 1786 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, J. Dodsley;, 1786 . Leather. Composed by Horace Walpole from the notebooks of John Vertue, this is a wonderful mixed early set of this study of British art and society during the early eighteenth century Present here are four volumes of the five volume 1786 set of thes...

Voyages de Mr. Le Chevalier Chardin

Jean Chardin · 1711 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

Amsterdam, Jean Louis de Lorme, 1711. First edition. Leather. The scarce first complete ten volume edition of Chardin"s celebrated travels in Persia and the East, offering a detailed early European account of Persia in the late 17th century. In the original French.Complete wit...

The War in Eastern Europe

John Reed · 1916 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated account of American journalist John Reed's  second trip after the first World War began, in the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.   The first edit...

Old-Soldier Sahib

Private Frank Richards · 1936 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, faber & Faber, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of soldier Frank Richard"s autobiographical account of soldering abroad, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.In the publisher"s original blue cloth binding. In the uncommon original price clipp...

John le Carrã© and the Secret Heart

Adam Sisman; Suleika Dawson · 2015 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Bloomsbury; Mudlark, 2015-2022. First edition. Cloth. Two first editions of biographies that delve into the author who shaped espionage fiction, including his definitive biography and an intimate memoir written by his lover. The two first editions of intriguing biograp...

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising; Peeling the Onion

Gunter Grass; Ralph Manheim [Trans.]; Michael Henry Heim [Trans.] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Secker & Warburg; Harvill Secker, 1966-2007. Cloth. Two very smart first UK editions by Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, combining his politically charged drama with his candid memoir, complete with the original dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth and pap...

Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell; Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell 1912-45

Lawrence Durrell; Gordon Bowker; Michael Haag · 1996 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Sinclair-Stevenson; Profile Books, 1996-2025. First edition. Cloth. Two very smart first editions of these substaintial biographies of Lawrence Durrell, exploring his life, personal relationships, and early career, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In ...

Shakespeare&Apos;S England an Account of the Life & Manners of His Age Volume I and Volume II

Various · 1917 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1917. Cloth. A smart and richly illustrated pair of volumes on the history of Shakespeare's social, geographical and political world. A smart pair of richly illustrated volumes on the writings, life, and environs of William Shakespeare.Richly illu...