Biografia

Richard Cosway R.A. And His Wife and Pupils, Miniaturists of the Eighteenth Century

George C. Williamson · 1897 · Rooke Books

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

London, George Bell & Sons, 1897 . First edition. Leather. A lovely limited edition of this biography and study of Richard Cosway and eighteenth century miniaturists in Hatchards signed leather binding. Limited edition of Richard Cosway R. A. and His Wife and Pupils, Miniaturi...

The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions, and His Writings

Jules Mauel · 1853 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, John Murray, 1853. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this work on the Duke of Wellington, by Jules Maurel. First edition. Scarce work. Regarding the life and writings of Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesm...

Remarkable Adventurers and Unrevealed Mysteries

Lascelles Wraxall · 1863 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Richard Bentley , 1863. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of biographical studies of some of the greatest adventurers in history, complete in two volumes. The very scarce first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Rarely s...

Late Harvest

Norman Douglas · 1946 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Lindsay Drummond, 1946. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition copy of this autobiographical work by Norman Douglas, enclosed in the original publisher's dust wrapper. The first edition of this work. Containing the author's reflections on his own life ...

Reminiscences of Kaffir Life and History

Charles Brownlee · 1896 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

South Africa, Lovedale, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this biography and collection of memoires from a colonial politician from the Cape Colony. First edition of Reminiscences of Kaffir Life and History and Other Papers by Charles Brownlee in the o...

1909 the Life of George Grenfell Congo Missionary and Explorer

George Hawker · 1909 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.74 | ¥27,424)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of George Hawker's biography of missionary and explorer George Grenfell, complete with maps and 71 illustrations A first edition of George Hawker's biography of the 19th century missiona...

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh; Mark Amory (ed.) · 1980 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters to and from English writer Evelyn Waugh. First edition of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Edite...

Marjorie Fleming a Sketch Being the Paper Entitled Pet Marjorie

John Brown · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching work on the child writer Marjorie Fleming, complete with a colour portrait frontispiece. The first illustrated edition.A touching biographical appreciation on the Scottish child poet Marjo...

An Englishwoman&Apos;S Twenty-Five Years in Tropical Africa: Being the Biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, Missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo

George Hawker · 1911 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this illustrated work on the life of Gwen Elen Lewis. The first edition of the work. Scarce. Includes portrait frontispiece and map with twelve illustrated plates. Collated complete. Written by...

The Life and Times of the Right Honble William Ewart Gladstone

J. Ewing Ritchie · 1880 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1880. Cloth. A complete six volume set of a pictorial edition of the life and times of William Ewart Gladstone. A complete six volume set, which contains two volumes split across six books, of the Pictorial Edition of The Li...

My Father and Edward Ardizzone

Edward Booth-Clibborn · 1983 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Patrick Hardy Books, 1983. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this personal account of the lasting friendship between Augustin Booth and Edward Ardizzone by Booth's son. The first edition of this work. Warm narrative of the long friendship between Edwar...

Two Works by William Boyd

William Boyd · 1998 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.61 | ¥121,300)

London, Bridgewater Press, 1998-2000. First edition. Cloth. Two first limited signed editions of some of William Boyd's autobiographical works. First editions, first printings of Protobiography (1998) and A Haunting (2000) by William Boyd.Signed as part of a limited editi...

Shadows on the Grass

Simon Raven · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Blond & Briggs , 1982. First edition. Cloth. Simon Raven's humorous and evocative cricketing memoir, the first edition complete with dust wrapper. First edition of this cricketing autobiography by Simon Raven, telling of the progress of matches played at Charterho...

Great Morning

Osbert Sitwell · 1948 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1948. First edition. Cloth. Third volume in Osbert Sitwell's famous autobiography, a bright first edition, first impression. First edition of this autobiographical volume by Osbert Sitwell, volume three of his extensive autobiography Left Hand, Rig...

Saunders&Apos; Portraits and Memoirs of Eminent Living Political Reformers

1840 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, J. Dowding, 1840. First edition. Leather. First edition of this illustrated collection of biographies of prominent political reformers of the day. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of biographical sketches of important political reformers of the day, ...

Khaki and Gown an Autobiography

Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1941 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Lord Birdwood's enlightening travel work on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. The first edition of this work, printed in 1941. The compelling autobiogra...

The Early Homes of Prince Albert

Alfred Rimmer · 1883 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing work on the early homes of Prince Albert during his childhood, illustrated throughout with beautiful tinted plates. The first edition of this work.An exploration ...

Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

Charles Allen · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London , Andre Deutsch, 1978. Cloth. An enlightening and interesting collection of memories and recordings of life in the British Raj. This volume offers the tales and stories of some seventy British men and women who lived in Anglo-India for its last fifty years.The anthology...

Memoires Du Comte de Grammont

Philibert de Gramont; Antoine Hamilton · 1811 · Rooke Books

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

London, Chez William Miller and Jacques Carpenter, 1811. Leather. This is a lovely leather-bound two volume set containing the memoirs of Philibert de Gramont, the Count de Gramont, written by his brother-in-law Antoine Hamilton, with numerous illustrated plates throughout the...

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill · 1873 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.76 | ¥32,698)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer , 1873. First edition. Cloth. Second issue of John Stuart Mill's celebrated autobiography. The first edition, second issue of this autobiography of John Stuart Mill, with errata leaf to rear of the volume. English philosopher, pol...