Biografia

A Collection of Correspondence

Various [ed. by Viola Meynell]; Various [ed. by Margaret Spence]; Johnson Ball; A.N.L Munby [intro. Nicolas Barker]; Various [ed. by Christopher Hewett] · 1952 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London; Kineton;, Jonathan Cape; Rupert Hart-Davis; George Allen & Unwin; The Roundwood Press; Scolar Press; Taranman/Carcanet, 1952-1984. Cloth. Six first editions of works centered on correspondence and letters, including those from John Ruskin and a various popular figures ...

The Autobiographical Trilogy: The Blossoming World; the World in Ripeness; the Vanished World

H.E. Bates · 1969 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Michael Joseph, 1969-1972. First edition. Cloth. The complete autobiographical trilogy of the life of English novelist H.E. Bates, both a nostalgic and inspiring read for those wishing to pursue a literary career. The first editions of the Autobiographical Trilogy of E...

Hannah More

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1888 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , W. H. Allen and Co. 1888. Cloth. Hannah More by Charlotte M. Yonge, from the Eminent Woman Series edited by John Henry Ingram (1842 - 1916) was an English biographer and editor. Hannah More (1745 - 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be s...

A Doctor&Apos;S Life: The Diaries of Hugh Selbourne M.D. 1960-63

David Selbourne [ed.] · 1989 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1989. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of this engaging series of diary entries from physician Hugh Selbourne. First edition. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper.A series of entries taken from the diary of Hugh Selbourne, who kept...

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1912. Cloth. Robert Louis Stevenson's memoir of his friend Fleeming Jenkin. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. Originally published in 1888 alongside other works, this is its first issue in separate form. Fleeming Jenkin was an engine...

Ways of Escape

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London , The Bodley Head , 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression copy of the second volume of Graham Greene's unconventional autobiography. A first edition, first impression copy of this work. Ways of Escape is the second volume of the autobi...

Early Reminiscences 1834-1864

Sabine Baring-Gould · 1923 · Rooke Books

£210.00 (€251.75 | $277.49 | ¥44,316)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of the early memoir of Sabine Baring-Gould, reflecting on his first thirty years of life during the Victorian era. The scarce first edition of this work.Publisher's compliment slip loo...

William Dyce 1806-1864: A Critical Biography

Marcia Pointon · 1979 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London , Clarendon Press, 1979. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this biography of Scottish author, William Dyce. Illustrated with numerous plates to the rear, and a coloured frontispiece. In a red cloth binding with original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, wit...

The Life of the Rev. John Hough, D.D.

John Wilmot · 1812 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

London, White and Cochrane, 1812. Hardback. A very scarce biography of John Hough. An English bishop of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Hough was best known for a confrontation brought about by his election as president of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was Bisho...

The Life of Richard Steele

George A. Aitken · 1889 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, WM. Isbister Limited, 1889. Cloth. Two very smart volumes containing the biography of Richard Steele, with illustrations. Two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece and two plates. Volume two is illustrated with frontispiece and two plates. Collated compl...

An Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Day

James Keir · 1791 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, John Stockdale, 1791 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce biography of eighteenth century abolitionist and writer Thomas Day. This is the first and only contemporary biography of the astonishing philanthropist-eccentric, best known as the autho...

V.R. I Her Life and Empire

The Marquis of Lorne, The Duke of Argyll · 1901 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.73 | $77.96 | ¥12,451)

London, Harmsworth Bros Ltd, 1901. Cloth. A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated work on the life of nineteenth-century British monarch, Queen Victoria. Published the year of Queen Victoria's death. A comprehensive biography of the life and empire of nineteenth-centu...

Who Tells Me True

Michael Strange [Blanche Oelrichs] · 1940 · Rooke Books

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

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this memoir Blanche Oelrichs, known as Michael Strange. The personal copy of English socialite, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, with an inscription from the author. Presenting a first edition...

Clio and My Aunt Bertha

John T Winterich · 1942 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York, The Marchbanks Press, 1942. Paperback. An uncommon, signed copy of this biographical work by John T Winterich regarding his Aunt Bertha. Gift inscription from the author to F B Adams to the title page. 'F B A from J T W&apos.  The work is in an envelope with th...

Marcel Proust _ A Biography _ Volume Two

Painter, George D. · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York Vintage/Random House Paperback Octavo wraps, 424 pp. Very good

How I Photographed People (Signed Copy)

Hustler,Tom · 1979 · Richard Thornton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Focal Press This is a Fine Copy of this Book in black cloth with silver lettered title to spine,in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket that has just one tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the rearcocer.no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price clipped and this...

Free At Last Diaries 1991-2001

Benn,Tony (Signed Copy) Edited By Ruth Winstone · 2003 · Richard Thornton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Arrow Books This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original soft cover.Signed by Tony Benn on the Title Page.Tight copy with some tanning to the page,8vo 738pp First Edition 1st Impression [2003] Very Good No Jacket First Edition 1st Printing Walsall 4to

Hannah The Complete Story (Signed Copy)

Hauxwell,Hannah with Barry Cockcroft · 1991 · Richard Thornton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Century This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the edges of the wrapper with some rubbing to the head of spine and along top edge of the front cover.Not Price clipped.T...

Daughter of the Dales The World of Hannah Hauxwell (Signed By Hannah Hauxwell)

Hauxwell,Hannah with Barry Cockcroft · 1990 · Richard Thornton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Century This is a Very Good + Copy of this hardcover book in grey cloth with red title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket but rubbed a little at head of spine.Not price clipped.This copy has been SIGN...

And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (Signed Copy)

Norman,Barry · 2002 · Richard Thornton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Simon and Schuster This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's hardcover cloth in a Fine Dust-Jacket,which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the d/j.Not Price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED without dedication by Barry Norman on the Title page.The book has ...