Biografia

Letters from Lady Jane Coke to Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758

Mrs. Ambrose Rathborne [ed.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1899. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce collection of letters between Lady Jane Wharton Coke and Mrs. Eyre. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with four plates, inclu...

Memoirs of Eminent Etonians

Sir Edward Creasy · 1876 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Leather. Edward S. Creasy's illustrated biography on noted Etonians with a history of the famous college, in a full calf prize binding. A new edition. First published in 1850. Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece and twelve ...

Pitt

Lord Rosebery · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Leather. Lord Rosebery's biography on the English statesman William Pitt, in a prize tree calf binding. The eighth edition. First published in 1891. Part of the 'Twelve English Statesman' series. Bound in a full tree ca...

Real Copies

Reynolds Price · 1988 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

North Carolina, Wesleyan College Press, 1988. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this autobiographical work by Reynolds Price about the people who inspired him. A limited edition. Number 25 out of 50 signed copies. The first edition was published in a numbered edition of f...

Midnight Oil

V. S. Pritchett · 1972 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

New York , Random House , 1972. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this autobiographical work, the second volume of V. S. Pritchett's memoirs. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original ...

Voices: A Memoir

Frederic Prokosch · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this memoir from American writer Frederic Prokosch, with publicity information. First edition. With publicity details inserted. An unusual and lyrical memoir from Frederic Prokosch, ...

Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-76

Charles Ryskamp; Frederick A. Pottle · 1963 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed account of the life of James Boswell from 1774 to 1776. First edition. A new section of the inimitable journal beginning immediately after the execution in Edinburgh of Reid, a sheep-...

Traveller&Apos;S Prelude: An Autobiography

Freya Stark · 1951 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, John Murray, 1951. Cloth. A smart later edition of this illustrated autobiography from British-Italian explorer Freya Stark. Later edition, originally published September 1950. Illustrated with a double-paged sketch map of Northern Italy and twenty-four plates. Collate...

The Memoirs of Henrietta Caracciolo, of the Princes of Forino Ex-Benedictine Nun.

Henrietta Caracciolo · 1865 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)

London, Richard Bentley , 1865. Cloth. The third edition of this very scarce and revealing memoir by Henrietta Caracciolo, detailing her time as a Benedictine nun. The third edition. First published in English in 1864. First published in Italian under the title 'Misteri D...

Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men

Rev. Joseph Spence; Samuel Weller Singer · 1820 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, W. H. Carpenter, 1820. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition of this collection of humorous and insightful anecdotes, previously held in the library of American book collected Robert Borthwick Adam. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. A humorous collec...

Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825) Life of John Sterling (1851) Two Biographies

Thomas Carlyle · 1893 · Rooke Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.52 | ¥31,222)

London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1893. Leather. Two biographies on John Sterling and Frederick Schiller, written by Thomas Carlyle and bound by Baker & Son in full vellum. Two biographies in one volume. Later editions of both biographies. Bound in full vellum by Baker & Son with t...

Pennell of the Afghan Frontier: The Life of Theodore Leighton Pennell

Alice M. Pennell · 1923 · Rooke Books

£274.00 (€328.43 | $361.97 | ¥57,802)

London, Seeley, Service, & Co. Limited. 1923 . Cloth. An early edition of this biographical work on the life of English missionary and doctor, Theodore Leighton Pennell, written and inscribed by his partner, Alice Pennell. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Third ed...

Near East

Cecil Beaton · 1943 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Cecil Beaton's account of his wartime experiences in the Middle East, illustrated throughout with his photographs. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original ...

An Ascent of Parnassus by Way of Mendacia

George St Columb · 1885 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Remington & Co Publishers, 1885. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical work on the author's expedition to mount Parnassus. The first edition. Very scarce. In the publisher's original cloth. This autobiographical work ...

A Selection of Works Surrounding Virginia Woolf

Various · 1971 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Various, 1971-2003 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of biographical works surrounding celebrated author, Virginia Woolf. A collection of six separate works surrounding Virginia Woolf. Each book is bound in the publisher's original cloth, or paper-covered board...

Wine, Women and Words

Billy Rose · 1949 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Reinhardt & Evans LTD, 1949. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of the entertaining autobiography of Billy Rose, recounting his career on Broadway, beautifully illustrated by Salvador Dali. The first U.K. edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wr...

Autograph Signed Letter from Evelyn Waugh to Eileen Mayo

Evelyn Waugh · 1936 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

None, None, 1936. Loose Pages, Articles. An autographed signed letter from Evelyn Waugh to artist Eileen Mayo, a charming letter in which he references his godson, Jonathan Guinness. An autographed signed letter from Evelyn Waugh to Eileen Mayo, in the original envelope.Envelo...

From My Level: Unwritten Minutes

George Mallaby · 1965 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Hutchinson, 1965. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this collection of memories from English public servant, Sir Howard George Charles Mallaby. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece by Youngman Carter, a British illustrator and author. Memo...

The Raiders of the Sarhad Being the Account of a Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border During the Great War

R. E. H. Dyer · 1921 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, H. F. & G. Witherby , 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Reginald Dyer's illustrated account of his campaign with the Sarhad Raiders during the great war. First edition.Scarce. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, fifteen monochrome plates and...

George Washington: The Image and the Man

W. E. Woodward · 1926 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

New York, Boni and Liveright, 1926 [1927]. Leather. A smart fifth printing of this illustrated work on the life of American Founding Father and first President of the United States, George Washington. Fifth printing, December 1927. Originally published October, 1926. Illustrat...