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Reminiscences

Justin McCarthy · 1899 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1899. First edition. Leather. An attractive two-volume set recounting the various notable figures met by Irish nationalist politician, Justin McCarthy. The first edition of this collection of memoirs from Irish nationalist, politician and historian,...

Lady Gregory&Apos;S Journals 1916-1930

Lennox Robinson [ed.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Putnam and Company Ltd , 1946. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this earnest collection of journal entries belonging to notable Anglo-Irish dramatist, Lady Gregory. The first edition, first impression. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.This intimate wor...

Sir William Henry Flower: A Personal Memoir

Charles J. Cornish · 1904 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this memoir of English surgeon Sir William Henry Flower, signed and inscribed by his wife. First edition. Signed by Georgiana Rosetta Smyth, the wife of Sir William Henry Flower w...

Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World

Margaret Thatcher · 2002 · Rooke Books

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

London, HarperCollins , 2002 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of Margaret Thatcher's final novel, outlining her views on the challenges brought by the new millennium. First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with ...

The Court of Napoleon: Or, Society Under the First Empire

Frank B. Goodrich · 1857 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857 . First edition. Leather. The sumptuous first edition of Frank B. Goodrich's study of the French court under Napoleon's rule, illustrated with vibrant chromolithographs. The first edition of this work, in the superb publisher's or...

The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala

George Augustus Sala · 1895 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Cassell & Company, 1895 . Leather. A fine example of the third edition of George Augustus Sala's autobiographical work, beautifully bound in half morocco. The third edition of this work, complete in two volumes.With a frontispiece to each volume.George Augustus Sa...

Private Correspondence of William Cowper with Several of His Most Intimate Friends

William Cowper · 1824 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Henry Colburn , 1824. Leather. A uniformly leather-bound early edition of these charming letters written by William Cowper. The second edition of set of works, complete in two volumes. Published in the same year as the first edition.In full calf binding. Both volumes ...

1936 a London Girl of the Eighties 1937 a London Home in the Nineties

Mary Vivian Hughes · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Oxford University Press, 1936-1937. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of first edition works recounting the author's life in London during 1880-1890, with illustrations throughout each. Two first edition works by Vivian Hughes. Both in the original...

Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale

C. L. Brightwell · 0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1858. Cloth. A smart copy of this semi-autobiographical work on Bernard Palissy, a French Huguenot potter. Illustrated throughout. An account of the life of Bernard Palissy, a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, gath...

In Memoriam Herbert Cushing Tolman

Various · 1926 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Nashville, Alpha of Tennesse, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce illustrated volume commemorating the life of Herbert Cushing Tolman. The first edition of this very scarce work.A touching memorial volume, commemorating the life and career of Herb...

The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania)

Baroness Deichmann · 1890 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1890. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce translated biography of the first Queen of Romania, with illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three portraits, one plate, and a fold-out facsimile of handwriting...

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Graham Balfour · 1901 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Methuen and Co, 1901. First edition. Leather. A mixed edition set of this touching biography on the life of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written by his cousin. Volume I is the first edition, Volume II is the second edition.Complete in two volumes. Bound by ...

A Memoir of Edward Askew Sothern

T. Edgar Pemberton · 1889 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Pemberton's illustrated biography on the life of the comedic English actor Edward Askew Sothern. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and five monochrome plates, in...

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families

Walter H. Tregellas · 1884 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Elliot Stock, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work depicting the lives of noted Cornish men, written by Walter H. Tregellas. The first edition.Two volume complete set. Illustrated with headpieces. This set features an account of the...

Our House

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright · 1959 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

New York, Horizon Press, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching autobiographical work on Olgivanna Lloyd Wright and her husband. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.An autobiographical work by Olgivanna Lloyd Wri...

The Novels of George Eliot; George Eliot"S Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]; J. W. Cross · 1887 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887-1896. Leather. The complete novels of George Eliot, with her short story collection 'Scenes of a Clerical Life', and a biography arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross. Nine volumes in eight, uniformly bound in half ca...

Black & White

Shiva Naipaul · 1980 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Shiva Naipaul's autobiographical work on his trip to Guyana after the Jonestown Massacre. The first edition. Alternatively titled ';Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy' in the U.S...

Raymond and I

Elizabeth Robins · 1956 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by author, actress and suffragette Elizabeth Robins, in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the scarce unclipped...

James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters, and Reports

James Gilmour; Richard Lovett [editor] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1893. Cloth. A smart new and cheaper edition of this illustrated collection of personal writings from Scottish missionary, James Gilmour. New and cheaper edition. Scarce edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, five plates, and tw...

Warren Hastings

Sir Alfred Lyall · 1894 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1894. Leather. A later edition of this work on British colonial administrator Warren Hastings from the English Men of Action series by Macmillan. Later edition, originally published 1889. English Men of Action series from Macmillan. Illustrat...