Biografia

A Highland Gathering: Being Some Leaves from a Stalker&Apos;S Diary

H. Frank Wallace · 1932 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this autobiography from artist and deer stalker, H. Frank Wallace, adorned with his illustrations. The very scarce first edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding. This volu...

Evenings at Derley Manor: Pencilings and Sketches of the English Poets and Their Favourite Scenes

Anonymous · 1849 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Thomas Nelson, 1849. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of writings on important English poets, with a colour frontispiece. First edition. Illustrated with a hand coloured frontispiece. A collection of commentaries on important E...

Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two 1851-1929

Abel Chapman; George Bolam · 1930 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Gurney and Jackson, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching memoir on the life of hunter-naturalist Abel Chapman, complete with colourful plates. The first edition.A lovely biography from Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist Abel Chapman, who is rem...

Sam Bough, R.S. A, Some Account of His Life and Works

Sidney Gilpin · 1905 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, George Bell and Sons , 1905. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this posthumous biography on Scotland-residing landscape artist, Sam Bough, with illustrations. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated ...

G.B. Lancaster 1873-1945: A Tribute

F. A. de la Mare · 1945 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Hamilton, New Zealand , The Waikato Times , 1945. First edition. Paperback. A scarce tribute to Edith Joan Lyttleton, an Australasian author who wrote under the pen name of G. B. Lancaster. First edition of this scarce, privately circulated memoir. A stapled booklet in the pu...

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill · 1873 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1873. First edition. Cloth. The first issue of John Stuart Mill's brilliant autobiography. The first edition, second issue, with the errata to the rear.The autobiography of John Stuart Mill.Mill was a philosopher, civil servant, an...

An Historical Account of the Heroick Life and Magnanimous Actions of the Most Illustrious Protestant Prince, James Duke of Monmouth

S. T. · 1683 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

London, Thomas Malthus, 1683 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this complimentary biography of the Duke of Monmouth, published two years prior to his Rebellion. A very scarce work.A largely complimentary account of the life and achievements of James Sc...

Memoires de Saint-Simon

Louis de Roubroy; Duc de Saint-Simon; A. de Boislisle · 1879 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1879-1903. Leather. A smart Ramage bound set of the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, in the original French. In a Ramage binding.In the original French.Seventeen volumes of a total of forty-three.The memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, the duc ...

Memoirs of a Social Atom

W. E. Adams · 1903 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Hutchinson & Son, 1903. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of W. E. Adams' memoirs, recounting his life and the notable figures he has met during his life, with numerous portraits. The first edition. Illustrated with four monochrome plates to 'Volume I&...

The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL. D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides.

James Boswell · 1857 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Leather. James Boswell's noteworthy biography on the life of Samuel Johnson, bound over ten volumes in half morocco, with engravings throughout. A new edition, with numerous additions and notes. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and ...

Journal

Franz Kafka; Marthe Robert [translator] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1954. Paperback. A smart translated edition of the diaries of German-language writer Franz Kafka, here translated into French and inscribed by the translator. French. Inscribed and signed by the translator to the half-title, which roughly translates as:...

Charles Godfrey Leland

Elizabeth Robins Pennell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this biography on Charles Godfrey Leland, an illustrated work written by his niece. A limited edition of one-hundred and fifty copies, published concurrently with the f...

The Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1832. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound collection of first edition volumes from English antiquarian Ralph Thoresby. Four volumes. First edition. This set includes: The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, Author of the Topography of L...

Life of Lord Jeffrey

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£198.00 (€237.33 | $261.57 | ¥41,769)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852 . Leather. The second edition of Lord Cockburn's touching biographical work on his lifelong friend, Lord Francis Jeffrey. The second edition. Published the same year as the first. Complete in two volumes. Bound in half calf with ma...

The Tiger: Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929

George Adam · 1930 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound copy of the first edition of this biography of French statesman Georges Clemenceau. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plate. Collated complete. The life of Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, ...

Peter Behrens: Architect and Designer

Alan Windsor · 1981 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, The Architectural Press , 1981. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography on prolific architect and "father of the modern movement" Peter Behrens. The first edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A biographical study of Peter Be...

C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist

Alan Crawford · 1985 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive biography on English architect and designer, Charles Robert Ashbee, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A fascinating bi...

A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B A. Of Wadham College, Oxford; Missionary of the Teloogoo People, South India

Rev. George Townshend Fox · 1850 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Seeleys, 1850. First edition. Leather. An early edition of this uncommon illustrated memoir on the reverend and missionary Henry Watson Fox, with a hymn written by Fox included, bound in full calf. An early edition, with the additional appendix to the rear which is not...

Aus Dem Tagebuch Einer Schnecke Der Butt Kopfgeburten Oder Die Deutschen Sterben Aus

Gunter Grass · 1972 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Munich, Luchterhand, 1972-1980. First edition. Cloth. An excellent three-volume set of novels from Nobel Prize winner, Gunter Grass. Three first edition novels in the original German, all in the original unclipped dust wrappers.With political topics and discussions of gender a...

Lord Strafford

H. D. Traill · 1915 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1915 . Leather. A later edition of Traill's biographical work on Lord Stafford, in a half leather prize binding. In a half calf prize binding, with the gilt motif of King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, to the front cover. The fift...