Biografia

The Life of Jameson

Ian Colvin · 1922 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two-volume biography of British colonial poltician Leander Starr Jameson. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's blue cloth. Volume I is illustrat...

A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953-1972; Ancient As the Hills: Diaries, 1973-1974; People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust; Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975-1978

James Lees-Milne · 2000 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, John Murray , 2000-2001. Paperback. A bright set containing the diaries of English writer and country house expert, James Lees-Milne. New paperback editions of these works. Offering four volumes from this run of James Lees-Milne's diaries. Lees-Milne was an Engl...

Tutti Frutti

Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau · 1834 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Bach and Co, 1834. First edition. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce first UK edition of this travel memoir by German nobleman Prince Hermann Puckler-Muskau. The very scarce first UK edition of this work, published the same year as the German first edition.In the original ...

Kate Greenaway

M. H. Spielmann; G. S. Layard · 1905 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this highly illustrated work on English artist and writer Kate Greenaway. First edition, second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifty-three colour plates, and numerous in-text im...

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon

Edward Earl of Clarendon; Edward Hyde · 1759 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.81 | $1,155.93 | ¥184,587)

Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition. Leather. A scarce sought after large paper issue of the first edition of Edward Hyde's autobiography. The first edition, the scarce and sought after folio issue.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and eng...

James MILL

Alexander Bain · 1882 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1882. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this insightful biography on the life of James Mill, by the friend of his son, Alexander Bain. The first edition. An insightful biography on the life of the important Scottish economist, politica...

The Verdict of Bridlegoose

Llewelyn Powys · 1927 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The limited first edition of this charming series of anecdotes concerning the author's time living in America. The first edition, limited to 900 copies for sale, this copy being number 123.In the publisher's original...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1827 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. Leather. Thomas Moore's touching and insightful biography on the satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan, complete with a frontispiece and one folding plate. Complete in two volumes.The fifth edition.An enlightening and symp...

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

Henry Miller · 1947 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of Henry Miller's travel memoir about his year long road trip from the East to West Coast of America. The first U.K. edition, first impression. Previously published in the U.S. in 1945.In the ori...

My Early Life

Winston Churchill · 1930 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.27 | $1,684.35 | ¥268,970)

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. Cloth. A first edition of Churchill's moving illustrated autobiography of his early life. This first edition, first impression, first state with eleven titles to the half-title, in the second binding state, denoted by five lines...

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert · 1966 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

London, Heinemann, 1966-1976. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated set of the first five volume of Winston Churchill's authorized biography, detailing his life from birth to the start of the Second World War. The first five volumes of the official biography of Winston Chu...

Raymond Peynet: Den Lille Poet

Carl Johan Elmquist; Raymond Peynet · 1966 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Kobenhavn, Samlerens Forlag, 1966. First edition. Paperback. A vanishingly scarce little work on the French cartoonist Raymond Peynet, and his charming 'lovers' drawings. The first edition. Illustrated by Raymond Paynet with his monochrome 'Lovers' cartoon...

Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey · 1921 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of English Queen, Victoria. First edition. This work was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A...

Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen

Anonymous · 1890 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Newman, Graham & Co, c1900 . Cloth. A fantastic two volume photobooks containing portraits of 19th century British Conservative and Unionist statesmen. Complete in two volumes.A collection of large photographs portraying the Conservative and Unionist British statesmen ...

Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories

Martin Birnbaum · 1920 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Elkin Mathews, 1920 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely example of the scarce first UK edition of this collection of reminiscences about Oscar Wilde. The scarce first UK edition of this work, which was initially published six years prior in the US as a limited edition wor...

The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad; Ingrid Christophersen [translator] · 2003 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Little, Brown, 2003. First edition. Cloth. A smart first translated edition of this non-fiction book about the bookseller Shah Muhammad Rais, signed by the author. First translated edition. Signed by the author to the title page. A non-fiction book written about bookse...

From Cairo to Siwa, Across the Libyan Desert with Armoured Cars

Major T. I. Dun; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood [foreword] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.34 | $640.71 | ¥102,314)

Cairo, Messrs E. & R. Schindler, 1933 . Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the second edition of Major Dun's account of his travels across the Libyan desert, illustrated throughout with beautiful prints and photographs. The second edition of this work, published in the ...

My Political Life

L. S. Amery · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Hutchinson, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes of the biography of British Conservative Party politician and journalist L. S. Amery. Two volumes of a three volume set, lacking volume three which was published in 1955. First edition. Volume one,...

Helen&Apos;S Tower

Harold Nicolson · 1937 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Constable and Co. Ltd. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates, with genealogical tables to ...

To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume One: Infants of the Spring and Volume Two: Messengers of Day

Anthony Powell · 1976 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, William Heinemann, 1976-1978. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impressions of the first two books of Anthony Powell's memoirs, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first edition, first impressions of these two books from Powell's four-vo...