Biografia

The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland

Robert Lloyd Praeger · 1937 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiographical account of the author's journeys around Ireland, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-eight plates, twelve in-text images and a fo...

Excitement: An Impudent Autobiography

Sydney Horler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this exceedingly scarce autobiography by Sydney Horler, with a partial dust wrapper. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the front portion of the origi...

Memories of W.H. Helm

W. H. Helm; E. H. Visiak · 1937 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Richards, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the memoirs of William Henry Helm; a very scarce work with a preface by E. H. Visiak. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped du...

A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2

Lady Sale [Florentia Sale] · 1843 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.50 | ¥60,123)

London, John Murray, 1843 . First edition. Cloth. The sixth thousand of the first edition of Lady Sale's account of her time as a hostage of Akbar Khan. The sixth thousand of the first edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a...

A Very Godly Letter Made by the Right Honourable Sir Henry Sidney

Sir Henry Sidney · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Oxford, John Johnson; University Press Oxford, 1929. Hardback. A facsimile of Sir Henry Sidney's 1591 letter to his son, in the vanishingly scarce original glassine dust wrapper. A facsimile edition of the original 1591 edition. In the publisher's original hardback,...

Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox

Malcolm J. Turnbull · 1996 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A scarce literary examination Anthony Berkeley Cox, a popular and prolific crime and detective fiction writer. The first edition of this scarce work.With the publisher's original ...

Warriors for the Working Day

Peter Elstob · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition, first impression of Peter Elstob's best-known novel, based on the author's experiences of the Battle of Normandy. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher'...

About Blady: A Pattern out of Time

Laurens van der Post · 1991 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of the first edition of Laurens van der Post's autobiography, billed by the publisher as 'testament to mankind's capacity for partnership with the natural world&apos. Flat signed by the author t...

Dance of the Years

Margery Allingham · 1943 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Michael Joseph Ltd. 1943. First edition. Hardback. The first edition, first impression of Margery Allingham's fictionalised account of her family heritage, printed on War Economy paper and with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impressi...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale&Apos;S Genuine Letters to Him

Samuel Johnson; R. W. Chapman [editor] · 1952 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. Includes the original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's grea...

The Life of William Roscoe

Henry Roscoe · 1833 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, T. Cadell, 1833. First edition. Leather. A smart first edition set of this biography of English banker William Roscoe. Complete in two volumes. First edition. With a frontispiece and one plate to volume one. Collated complete. The life of William Roscoe, an English ban...

Memoir of Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools

G. Webster · 1873 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Nottingham, G. E. Webster, 1873. Cloth. A smartly bound second edition of this very scarce memoir of English philanthropist Robert Raikes. Second edition, enlarged. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. The life of Robert Raikes "the Younger", an English philanthropi...

Les Vies de Hommes Illustres de Plutarque

Plutarch; Amyot [translator] · 1818 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

Paris, Chez Janet et Cotelle, 1818-1820. Leather. A new and revised edition of this translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, or Lives of Illustrious Men, in French. French. Complete in thirteen volumes. Part of a larger set of twenty-five volumes along with other titles....

Oxberry&Apos;S Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes

William Oxberry; Catherine Elizabeth Oxberry [editor] · 1825 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, George Virtue, 1825. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume first edition of this collection of biographical sketches of important dramatists and actors of the time. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Volume one is illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette ...

A Memoir of Peregrine Bertie

Peregrine Bertie; C. H. Parry [Ed.] · 1838 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

London, John Murray, 1838 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce work on Peregrine Bertie, the 11th Lord Willoughby D'Eresby. The first edition. Bound in quarter morocco with cloth to the boards.A memoir of the 11th Lord Willoughby De Eresby, Peregr...

Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

Constance Lytton; Jane Warton, Spinster · 1914 · Rooke Books

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

London, William Heinemann, 1914. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this compelling autobiography by militant suffragette, Constance Lytton, who writes of her experiences being imprisoned for protests. The first edition of this uncommon and fascinating work. In the pu...

Memorials of the Rev. Daniel Chapman

James Grose · 1857 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Boston, R. Roberts, 1857. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce memorial on the life of Reverend Daniel Chapman, the first edition, illustrated with a frontispiece. A vanishingly scarce work, the first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A touching and concise biographical w...

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris · 1922 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Paris, Privately Printed, 1922. Cloth. The first volume of Frank Harris' controversial autobiography, a pirated edition in a custom dust wrapper. A privately printed pirated edition of the first volume of Frank Harris' controversial memoir.In a custom dust wrapper. ...

Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones

Lord Teignmouth [John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth] · 1804 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, John Hatchard, 1804 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of Lord Teignmouth's biographical work about his close friend, the orientalist Sir William Jones. A scarce first edition.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and with a facsimile plate of ...

Marlborough: Hero of Blenheim; Blenheim Preparation: The English Army on the March to the Danube, Collected Essays; Marlborough"S Wars: Eyewitness Accounts 1702-1713; Marlborough"S Sieges

John Hussey; Dr David G. Chandler; Christopher L. Scott; James Falkner · 2004 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London; Staplehurst; South Yorkshire; Gloucestershire , Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Spellmount Limited; Pen and Sword Military, 2004-2007. First edition. Cloth. A terrific selection of first edition histories on the 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, and his notorious victo...