Biografia

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor&Apos;S Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from Restoration to His Banishment in 1667.

Edward Earl of Clarendon · 1759 · Rooke Books

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

Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition. Leather. A smart three volume autobiographical work on the Earl of Clarendon. The first edition. Complete in three volumes. Volume one is paginated separately with volumes two and three being paginated continuously. Unifor...

The Journals and Letters of Hugh Stanley

Hugh Stanley Head, His Mother [editor] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London , Ranken, Ellis & Co , 1892. First edition. Hardback. A scarce first edition copy of The Journals and Letters of Hugh Stanley. A scarce first edition copy of this volume of letters and journals of author Hugh Stanley Head, which have been edited by his mother. The lett...

Blackwood&Apos;S Desk Diary with Articles by Robert Blatchford

Robert Blatchford · 1909 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London , Straker & Crane's Dairy Co , 1909. Cloth. A scarce desk diary with newspaper clippings of articles by Robert Blatchford. This is a copy of Blackwood's Desk Diary from 1909 with newspaper clippings and articles mainly by Robert Blatchford stuck inside. The di...

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life

Isabel Burton; W. H. Wilkins · 1897 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1897. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this fascinating biography of Isabel Burton, the writer, adventurer and wife of Richard Francis Burton. The scarce first edition. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in a neat half morocco bind...

Memoires for My Grand-Son

John Evelyn; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1926 . Hardback. A charming Limited Edition of this biographical work by English writer John Evelyn, written between 1704 and 1705. Number three-hundred and nine of one-thousand two-hundred and fifty Limited Edition copies of this work produced.Edited b...

The Life of William Harvey

Geoffrey Keynes · 1978 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1978. Cloth. A fascinating insight and medical history of the physician William Harvey, with illustrations. A reprint edition. Within this volume, Geoffrey Keynes attempts to place William Harvey with a fully documented account of his relation...

Revolt in the Desert

T. E. Lawrence · 1927 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,915)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. Cloth. T. E. Lawrence's classic war memoir, the fifth impression. The fifth impression of this work published in May 1927, following the first four impressions all published in March 1927. Also published in a limited edition in the same year.Â...

Rilke, Ce Faible Heroique

Luis de Vilallonga · 1944 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Paris, Pierre Mangart, 1944 . First edition. Paperback. The scarce first edition of this memoir by the twentieth century Spanish actor, socialite and author. The first edition of Rilke, Ce Faible Heroique by Louis de Vilallonga in the original publisher's paper wraps. A ...

Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales. With Extracts from Her Journals and Anecdote Books.

Miss Cornelia Knight · 1861 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, W. H. Allen and Co. 1861. First edition. Cloth. The complete first edition of this autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight. Fourth edition. With extracts from journals and anecdote books. Includes portrait frontispiece to volume one. Written by Ellis Cornelia Knight, an ...

Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir

Garson Kanin · 1972 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Angus and Robertson, 1972. Cloth. A classic Hollywood memoir written and signed by a close friend of both Tracy and Hepburn. Signed by the author. "It was always Tracy and Hepburn" - anecdotes and tales of the relationship between Spence Tracy and Kate Hepburn. Written...

The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington

J. Fitzgerald Molloy · 1896 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Downey & Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting biography regarding Marguerite Gardiner, the Countess of Blessington. The scarce first edition. Complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original full cloth binding w...

The Lie of Lord Tennyson

Arthur Christopher Benson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

London, Methuen & Co. 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work previously owned by Sir Tennyson's cousin Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt. First edition. Previously owned by Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt who, through his father, was a cousin of Alfred, ...

Charles... Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner · 1908 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1908. Cloth. A bright early edition of this biography of English activist Charles Bradlaugh by his daughter Hypatia. Seventh edition of this work. Looking into the life and career of Charles Bradlaugh, English political activist and atheist, founder of ...

Monica&Apos;S Story

Andrew Morton · 1999 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Michael O'Mara, 1999 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition, first impression of Andrew Morton's authorised biography of Monica Lewinsky, flat signed by Lewinsky to a front blank. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.Morton, th...

Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life

Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield · 1883 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London , Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. 1883. First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume complete set of Georgiana Bloomfield's fascinating reminisces of her time as a courtier, with illustrations. A complete two volume set of the  Reminiscences of court and Diplomatic Life by ...

Character and Principles. A Discourse on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

Richard Brindley · 1852 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Ward & Co, 1852. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce memorial for the Duke of Wellington, published on his death at the age of 83. A very scarce work.A touching memorial published upon the death of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, in 1852.The death of Wellington ...

The Life of Sir Richard Whittington, Knight, and Four Times Lord Mayor of London, in the Reigns of Edward III Richard II and Henry V Compiled from Authentic Documents; and Containing Many Important Particulars Respecting That Illustrious Man, Never Before Published: Intended to Amuse, Instruct, and Stimulate the Rising Generation.

1811 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Harlow , Printed by B. Flower , 1811 . First edition. Leather. A lovely copy of this very scarce biography of Sir Richard Whittington. The first edition of this work. A very scarce copy of this biography of Sir Richard Whittington, English merchant and politician of the late m...

Oscar Wilde, a Biography

H. Montgomery Hyde · 1976 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Eyre Methuen, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating biography of Oscar Wilde, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's full cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. With twenty-fou...

Three Years in Savage Africa

Lionel Decle · 1898 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, Methuen & Co, 1898 . Cloth. The illustrated second edition of John Decle's account of his three year journey from Cape Town to Mombasa. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first. John Decle's account of his three years of trave...

Conversations with Joseph Heller

Adam J. Sorkin; Joseph Heller · 1993 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 1993 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition, first printing of this collection of interviews with Joseph Heller in the original dust wrapper. First edition, first printing of Conversations with Joseph Heller edited by Adam J....