Biografia

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay; George Otto Trevelyan · 1877 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1877. Leather. A very smart second edition set of the life and letters of British historian Lord Macaulay, written by his nephew. Complete in two volumes. Second edition. With a portrait frontispiece to volume one. The life and letters of Thoma...

Memoires de Guy Joli, Conseiller Au Chastelet de Paris

Guy Joli · 1751 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Geneve, Fabry & Barillot, 1751. Leather. The memoirs of French magistrate Guy Joli, a confidante of Cardinal de Retz, in the original French. Complete in three volumes.In the original French.The memoirs of Guy Joli, also spelt as Joly.Joli was a French magistrate of the sevent...

Letters from the Raven Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin

Lafcadio Hearn; Henry Watkin; Milton Bronner [ed] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

New York, Brentano's, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of letters from the writer, Lafcadio Hearn. The first edition.Illustrated with four facsimile plates of Lafcadio's handwriting. Collated complete. In the publisher's original...

Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (Galley Copy)

Dorothy Norman · 1973 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

New York, Random House , 1973 . First edition. Loose Pages, Articles. An scarce-to-see Galley Copy of Dorothy Norman's biographical work on close friend and fellow photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. A Galley Copy; an advanced copy of the work sent prior to the final proofrea...

Correspondence of Thomas Gray

Paget Toynbee; Leonard Whibley · 1935 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1935. Cloth. Three smart volumes of this collection of correspondence from English writer Thomas Gray, with illustrations. Complete in three volumes. The correspondence of Thomas Gray, an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, an...

From the Tan-Yard to the White House: The Story of President Grant&Apos;S Life

William M. Thayer · 1886 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1886. Leather. A third edition of this biographical work on President Ulysses S. Grant, with illustrations. Third edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, one plate, and a folding plate to the rear. Collated complete. The life of Ulysses...

My Year

Roald Dahl · 1993 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1993 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work, expanding the diary Dahl wrote in the final year of his life. Illustrated with watercolours by Quentin Blake. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipp...

Khaki and Gown: An Autobiography

Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1942 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1942. Cloth. A smart second impression of Lord Birdwood's autobiography on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. Second impression, originally published 1941. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen plates,...

With Our Heroes in Khaki

William Sellers · 1917 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, R. T. S. [The Religious Tract Society], 1917. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition presenting the Christian work carried out with soldiers during the First World War, written by William Sellers. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Date...

Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Jean Racine; L. S. Auger · 1875 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie. 1875 . Leather. A scarce copy of this compilation of the works of French dramatist Jean Racine, edited and introduced by L. S. Auger. Bound in a smart, quarter morocco with cloth to the boards.Written entirely in the original French. This scarce w...

The Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens; George Gissing; J. A. Nicklin · 1902 · Rooke Books

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

London, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, 1902. Leather. A superb collection of the Standard Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, with two biographical works, in smart quarter morocco bindings. The Standard Edition of these works, published by The Gresham Publishing ...

Ways of Escape

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the second volume of English writer Graham Greene's autobiography. First edition. The second volume of an autobiography by Graham Green concentrating on the author's work more so than his l...

Museum Piece or the Education of an Iconographer

James Laver · 1963 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1963. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated memoir from English art historian, James Laver. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. The memoirs of James Laver, an E...

The Russian Diary of an Englishman: Petrograd, 1915-1917

Anonymous · 1919 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

New York, Robert M. McBride and Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce first edition detailing the life of an English man in Russia from 1915 to 1917. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. The ...

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Patrick French · 1994 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. Cloth. The third impression of this biography of British Army officer and explorer, Sir Francis Edward Younghusband. First edition, third impression. Illustrated with three maps and sixteen plates of photographs. Collated complete. ...

Life with the Hamran Arabs an Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan During the Winter of 1874-5

Arthur B. R. Myers · 1876 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co , 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical account of a sporting tour in Soudan in 1874, written by Arthur B. R. Myers. The first edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four mounted Woodb...

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Evelyn Waugh's autobiography, with illustrations and in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. A lovely illus...

Jane Austen

Elizabeth Jenkins · 1950 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950 . Cloth. A smart, later impression of Elizabeth Jenkins' biographical work on Jane Austen, in the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, very scarce, unclipped dust wrap...

A Midnight Visit to Holyrood

Countess Cathness Duchesse Pomar · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London , C. L. H. Wallace , 1887 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this very scarce work by the Countess of Caithness detailing her trip to Holyrood, published for the 300th anniversary of the execution of Mary Stuart. The first trade edition. First printed fo...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso: A Biography

Patrick O'Brian · 1976 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Collins, 1976 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this biographical work on Picasso, by Patrick O'Brian, with illustrations. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, striking dust wrapper, which has been p...