Biografia

The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson

Izaak Walton · 1864 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1864. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of the short biographies written by Izaak Walton. A collection of the five short biographies written by Izaak Walton, an English writer best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (1653). With s...

The Last Million

Ian Hay [Major General John Hay Beith] · 1918 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The final of three volumes of this good humoured account of army life from British soldier Major General John Hay Beith. First edition. A collection of the author's good-humoured accounts of army life, describing w...

A Cardinal of the Medici: Being the Memoirs of the Nameless Mother of the Cardinal Ippolito de&Apos; Medici

Mrs Hicks Beach · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Cambridge , At the University Press, 1937. First edition. Leather. An early impression of this intriguing fictional autobiography told from the perspective of Ippolito de' Medici's mother. This impression published two months after the first. Bound in full crushed m...

Coleridge, the Clark Lectures 1951-52

Humphry House · 1953 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Humphry House's critical work on Coleridge, from the libraries of James Reeves and Martin Seymour-Smith. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A volume of three lectures on C...

Life and Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns; P. Hatley Waddell · 1867 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

Glasgow, David Wilson, 1867. Leather. Two smart volumes on the life and works of Scottish poet Robert Burns, with colour illustrations. Complete in two volumes. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title vignette, and eighteen plates, nine of which are ...

An Autobiography: Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie · 1977 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

London, Collins, 1977 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful association copy of Agatha Christie's posthumously published autobiography, inscribed by her widower, the archaeologist and academic Max Mallowan. The first edition.Inscribed by Agatha Christie's husband of fo...

Dickens to His Oldest Friend: The Letters of a Lifetime from Charles Dickens to Thomas Beard

Charles Dickens; Walter Dexter [ed] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

New York, Putnam, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The limited and vanishingly scarce first edition of this work featuring letters from the noted Charles Dickens to his friend Thomas Beard. The vanishingly scarce first edition, limited to only 500 copies. In the publisher's o...

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

James Anthony Froude [ed.] · 1883 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this set, comprising the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, annotated by her husband and leading Victorian writer, Thomas Carlyle. The first edition of this set, complete in three volumes. Uniformly ...

The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby

Sir Henry Slingsby · 1836 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown et al, 1836 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this work, combining the first publication of Slingsby's diary, with a reprint of his trial and further related papers. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated wit...

Authors and I

C. Lewis Hind · 1921 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London , John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon copy of this charming biographical collection recounting the author's experiences with other writers. First edition. In the original quarter cloth, with paper covered boards. Undated, dated ...

Life of William Blake

Alexander Gilchrist; William Blake · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,475.00 (€1,768.00 | $1,948.56 | ¥311,161)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. Cloth. The second and expanded edition of Alexander Gilchrist's illustrated biography on the life and work of William Blake. The second, expanded edition.Complete in two volumes.An insightful biography on the life and work of William Blake,...

Just My Story

Stephen Donoghue · 1923 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Hutchinson and Co, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated autobiography from English flat-race jockey, Stephen Donoghue. The first edition of this work. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. Rebound in very smart ...

The Dictionary of National Biography 1961-85

Lord Blake [ed]; C. S. Nichols [ed] · 1981 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981-90. First edition. Cloth. Three volumes of reference works on notable British figures throughout history, all in their original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped d...

Memoires de la Vie de Jacques-Auguste de Thou

Jacques-Auguste de Thou · 1713 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Amsterdam, Francois l'Honore, 1713. Vellum. The second edition in French of the autobiography of Jacques Auguste de Thou, complete with illustrations. The second edition in French, originally published in Latin in 1620. the first to be illustrated.The memoirs of Jacques-...

The Spike Milligan Letters, Spike Milligan&Apos;S Transports of Delight, and Small Dreams of a Scorpion

Spike Milligan · 1972 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson; M. & J.Hobbs, 1972-7. First edition. Hardback. London: Sidgwick & Jackson; M. & J.Hobbs, 1972-7. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 6.5"; 7.5" by 8.5"; 9" by 5.5". None stated. Three first edition works by and about Spike Milligan...

Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends

1901 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 1901 . First edition. Cloth. A well presented first edition of the recollections of English poet and novelist, Jean Ingelow, with the original, vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. The first edition.Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the ...

Sunshine and Shade or the Life Story of Caroline Elliott Theaker

Caroline Elliott Theaker · 0 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Lincoln, W. K. Morton, c1905. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this autobiography from Caroline Elliott Theaker. First edition. Very scarce. With two portrait plates. The autobiography of Caroline Elliott Beaker, an English social reformer. With chapters on her schooldays...

The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman

H. Halliday Sparling · 1924 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1924. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting in-depth study of the founding and production of the Kelmscott Press, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A fascinating study on the founding of the Kelmscot...

Charles Sackville Pelham, Lord Worsley: An Appreciation

Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough · 1924 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce appreciation of the life of Charles Sackville Pelham, Lord Worsley who was killed in action during the First World War. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and...

Richard Waldo Sibthorp: A Biography

Rev. J. Fowler · 1880 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, W. Skeffington & Son, 1880. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce biographical work on Anglican priest Richard Waldo Sibthorp. First edition. Scarce work. With a frontispiece. The life of Richard Waldo Sibthorpe, an Anglican Pastor of St. James&apo...