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Ronald Storrs · 1937 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1937. Cloth. Smart early edition of the autobiography of Ronald Storrs, profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Second impression.In publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with fourteen monochrome plates, including a fr...

Dear Sarah Bernhardt the Leash

Francoise Sagan · 1989 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Macmillan, 1989; 1991. First edition. Cloth. A very smart pair of very scarce first English language and first UK editions respectively, in original unclipped dust wrappers. A very smart pair of very scarce first editions by prolific French author Francoise Sagan - &ap...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books

£528.00 (€632.88 | $697.52 | ¥111,385)

London, John Murray, 1835. Cloth. A decoratively bound set of Boswell's famous The Life of Samuel Johnson including the rarer two volumes of Johnsoniana. Complete in Ten Volumes. Volume X contains additional title pages for Volumes I - VIII to the rear. With an armorial n...

Select Memoirs of Port Royal to Which Are Appended Tour to Alet; Visit to Port Royal; Gift of an Abbess, Biographical Notices &C.

M A Schimmelpenninck · 1829 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, J and A Arch, 1829. Leather. An attractive set of M A Schimmelpenninck's Select Memoirs of Port Royal. A British writer in the anti-slavery movement, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck produced many publications of a religious nature. Whilst struggling with her own belief...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana; a Collection of Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings of Samuel Johnson in Ten Volumes

James Boswell · 1859 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

London , Henry G. Bohn , 1859. Leather. A uniformly bound set of this well known biography regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; with many claiming it to be the greatest biography written in English. New edition, with numerous addi...

Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, Both Printed and Manuscript and Digested in the Manner of Mr Bayle&Apos;S Historical and Critical Dictionary

Andrew Kippis, D.D., F.S.A. · 1778 · Rooke Books

£735.00 (€881.00 | $970.98 | ¥155,053)

London , Printed by W. and A. Strahan for C. Bathurst et al, 1778-1793. Cloth. A scarce set of Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, down to the Present times: Collected from t...

The History of Henry Fielding

Wilbur L Cross · 1918 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London , New Haven Yale University Press, 1918. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Wilbur Cross' History of Henry Fielding. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Illustrated throughout all three volum...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1826 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Oxford, Talboys and Wheeler; William Pickering, 1826. Leather. The Pickering edition of Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson, bound in full calf. With an engraved frontispiece of Boswell to the second volume, and a folding facsimile to the third volume. Part of th...

Charles Dickens a Gossip About His Life, Works and Characters in Six Divisions

Frederick Barnard; Thomas Archer · 1871 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, Cassel and Company Ltd, c1890. Paperback. The original six divisions of Archer's charmingly illustrated biographies Originally supplied to subscribers only. "Written in a spirited and attractive style..The characters which Charles Dickens has created are living, m...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Cloth. Eight volumes of Lockhart's influential biography of Sir Walter Scott. Large-paper edition, of which six hundred copies were printed - this is the publisher's copy, and is not numbered. This biography h...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1839 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

Edinburgh , Robert Cadell, 1839. Leather. A complete set of this biography of renowned poet Sir Walter Scott. Second edition. This biography has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson. It was published a great number...

Public Characters 1799 - 1807 in Six Volumes

Richard Phillips · 1799 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

London , For Richard Phillips, 1799-1807. Leather. A collection of Richard Phillips' Public Characters, short biographies of eminent public figures. An important contemporary reference. Normally seen as single volumes for up to £150-£200 per volume. A good run, somewhat...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

Edmund Lodge · 1827 · Rooke Books

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

London, Harding, Lepard, & Co, 1827-1828. Cloth. An absolutely exemplary edition of Lodge's selected portraits of the juggernauts of British history. Sir Edmund Lodge (1756-1839) was a distinguished herald; serving many years as an officer of arms, and writing extensively...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1839 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

Edinburgh; London, Robert Cadell, John Murray and Whittaker & Co. 1839. Cloth. A second edition, 10 volume set of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. Second edition. 10 volumes, complete. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, 1771 1832, was a prolific Scottish historical novelis...

Ravel Life and Works

Rollo H. Myers · 1960 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London, Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A musical biography exploring the connection between the inner life of the artist, as well as the aspirations and deceptions revealed in the works of Maurice Ravel. First edition. Featuring the original unclippe...

The Lost Prime Minister a Life of Sir Charles Dilke

David Nicholls · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Hambledon Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A biography of the British politician Sir Charles Dilke, who would have been Prime Minster in 1885 were it not for a well-publicised divorce case. With monochrome photographs, and frontispiece of Charles Dilke. In 1885, Dilk...

Penfriends from Porlock

A. N. Wilson · 1988 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of A. N. Wilson's collection of biographical writing. Ranging from Tolstoy to Henry James, Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch, Wilson's anthology provides shrewd insights into the lives of many famous na...

Jonathan Swift

Victoria Glendinning · 1998 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.01 | ¥5,272)

London, Hutchinson, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography of Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author and pamphleteer, who is best known for his works 'A Tale of a Tub', 'Gulliver's Travels', and 'A Mo...

A Little Learning the First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work by Evelyn Waugh. With original, price clipped, dustwrapper. First edition of this work. This autobiographical work has several pages of illustrations throughout. Arthur Evelyn St....

A Walk with a White Bushman

Laurens Van Der Post, Jean Marc Pottiez · 1986 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1986. First edition. Cloth. An insightful work regarding modern issues and personalities. This work is a transcript of a series of interviews with Jean Marc Pottiez, noted to the flyleaf as a fellow 'Eurafricasian.' The interviews are parti...