Biografia

Boy: Tales of Childhood

Roald Dahl · 1984 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1984. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, with the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. An engross...

Frank Harris: My Life and Loves

Frank Harris · 1960 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Paris , The Obelisk Press , 1960. Paperback. A very smart, complete set of Frank Harris' controversial autobiography, each volume presented in the original glassine wrap. Published by the Obelisk Press, who also published the first edition, decades prior. Complete in four...

Frank Harris: His Life and Adventures: An Autobiography

Frank Harris; Grant Richards [Intro.] · 1947 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Richards Press, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Frank Harris' autobiography, inscribed by the editor Martin Secker to fellow editor, and member of the Bloomsbury group, Roger Senhouse. The first edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. S...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thomas Moore · 1827 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. Leather. Thomas Moore's touching and insightful biography on the satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Complete in two volumes.The fifth edition.An enlightening and sympathetic memoir on the life and work of Richard Brins...

Vita Di Vittorio Alfieri Da Asti Scritta Da Esso

Vittorio Alfieri · 1817 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Italia, Co'Caratteri Di Didot, 1817 . Vellum. A vellum-bound copy of the autobiography of Italian playwright, poet and author, Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri. Bound in full vellum. First published posthumously in 1806, this work contains the autobiography of Italian poet and aut...

Souvenirs D&Apos;Enfance Et de Jeunesse

Ernest Renan · 1883 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1883. Leather. A smartly bound fourth edition of this autobiographical work from French Orientalist Joseph Ernest Renan, in the original French. French. Fourth edition. An autobiographical contemplation on childhood, exploring the author's memories of...

Alfred Edward Housman: Recollections

Katharine E. Symons; A. W. Pollard; Laurence Housman; R. W. Chambers; Alan Ker; A. S. F. Gow; John Sparrow · 1936 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Bromsgrove , Bromsgrove School , 1936. First edition. Cloth. A limited work of five hundred copies, being a series of recollections about English poet and scholar, A. E. Housman. A limited edition of five hundred copies. Published at Bromsgrove School, which is where Housman a...

Twenty Years a-Growing

Maurice O'Sullivan · 1933 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this refreshing autobiography from Irish author Maurice O'Sullivan. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Containing the highly enj...

Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman, Commencing in 1787

Philo Scotus [Philip Barrington Ainslie] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co , 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition autobiography of Scottish merchant, Philip Barrington Ainslie, including an account of his time working in Jamaica. The very scarce first edition of this work. In the original blue cl...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1949. Cloth. A new edition of this two volume set of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson. Complete in two volumes. New edition. An important biography exploring the life of Samuel Johnson, an English poet, essayist, biographer an...

Life of Sir Thomas More

Sir James Mackintosh · 1844 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. Vellum. A first edition of this very scarce biography of Sir Thomas More from Scottish historian Sir James Mackintosh. First edition. Very scarce. With a portrait frontispiece. The life of Sir Thomas More, vener...

Notes of a Son and Brother

Henry James · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of Henry James's autobiographical work, one of the last books James saw to the press before his stroke in December 1915, and his death three months later. The first edition UK edition, publis...

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

Jacques Casanova [Giacomo Girolamo Casanova]; Arthur Machen [trans.] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Privately Printed, 1894 . Hardback. Eleven volumes only of this limited edition set of the memoires of the eighteenth century Italian adventurer and author, Casanova. Eleven volumes only of a twelve volume work. Lacking volume V.This edition was limited to 1000 numbere...

Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883

Edward Fitzgerald; William Aldis Wright [ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of letters sent from Edward Fitzgerald to life-long friend, Fanny Kemble. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with two plates...

The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford

Sir John Bramston · 1845 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,962)

London, The Camden Society, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed autobiography of English lawyer and politician Sir John Bramston the Younger. First edition. The autobiography of Sir John Bramston the Younger, an English lawyer and politician who ...

The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Madame D&Apos;Arblay

Frances Burney [Madame d'Arblay] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Bickers and Son Ltd, 1911. Cloth. The diaries and letters of Frances Burney, of which fascinatingly portray 18th-century English society, complete here in two volumes. The posthumously published diaries and letters of English satirical novelist Frances Burney, later Ma...

Rectors of Two Essex Parishes and Their Times (from the 13th Century to the 20th Century)

Rev. F. W. Austen · 1943 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Colchester , Benham and Company Limited, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this charming biographical series, concerning the rectors of two Essex parishes. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a monochrome...

The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence; Harry T. Moore [editor] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart complete two volume set of the first edition of this collection of correspondence by renowned English writer David Herbert Lawrence. Complete in two volumes. First edition. The collected letters and correspondence of David...

Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self

Edward Gordon Craig · 1931 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the life of English actress Dame Alice Ellen Terry. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed exploration ...

Correspondance

Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle]; Henri Martineau [editor] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

Paris, Le Divan, 1933-1934. Hardback. A complete ten volume set of this limited edition collection of the correspondence of the French writer known as Stendhal, in the original French. French. Complete in ten volumes. Limited to one-thousand eight-hundred and twenty-five copie...