Biografia

Hafed Prince of Persia: His Experiences in Earth-Life and Spirit-Life, Being Spirit Communications

David Duguid · 1914 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, W. Foulsham & Co. 1914. Cloth. A unique pseudo-autobiography by David Duguid about Hafed Prince of Persia, a warrior prince and Archmagus, whose life story he claimed to receive through the trance medium. A 1914 popular edition copy of 'Hafed Prince of Persia: His...

Downhill All the Way: A Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 the Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of 1939-1969

Leonard Woolf · 1967 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1967-9. First edition. Cloth. The autobiography of Leonard Woolf from 1919 through to 1969, in two bright volumes complete with dust wrappers, the first editions. The last two volumes of Leonard Woolf's extensive autobiography, complete in six v...

Marlborough His Life and Times, Volume I and II

Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933-34. First edition. Cloth. A very smart set of the first two volumes of Winston Churchill's biography of John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough. First editions of this work. The first two volumes of this four volume set. Writt...

Winston S. Churchill: Youth; Young Statesman

Randolph S. Churchill · 1966 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Heinemann, 1966-7. First edition. Cloth. The first two volumes of the official biography of Winston S. Churchill by his son Randolph, two bright first impressions. The first edition, first impressions of this work. The first two volumes of the official biography of Sir...

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo · 2019 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, Bloomsbury Circus, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first limited edition of Lisa Taddeo's popular and important non-fiction work, in the original unclipped fine dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A limited first edition of fi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Robert Riviere and Son, 1906. Leather. A complete set of James Boswell's influential biographical work on his friend and fellow writer, Samuel Johnson. Rebound in half calf by Riviere and Son and enclosed in a matching slipcase. James Boswell's The Life of Sa...

Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of Crown and Commonwealth a Tribute by Various Hands Presented to Him on His Eightieth Birthday

James Marchant · 1954 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching work issued upon the 80th birthday of Winston Churchill, a collection of tribute chapters to Churchill. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper and w...

With a Gun to the Hill

Stephen Pilkington · 1948 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this memoir on hunting by Stephen Pilkington, fully illustrated and containing an inscription from the author. A charming memoir written by Stephen Pilkington, an expert hunter and...

The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)

Francis Paget Hett · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition memoir of this prominent Scotsman of the late seventeenth century, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish antiquary and physician. The first profe...

Drawn from Memory

Ernest H. Shepard · 1957 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, Methuen and Co. 1957. Cloth. A very smart copy of this memoir by English artist Ernest H. Shepard, with numerous illustrations and the original dust wrapper. Presenting this charming memoir by Ernest H. Shepard of his early childhood. Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) was ...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote; William Cooke · 1902 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, Myers & Rogers, 1902. Fine Binding. An extra-illustrated, splendid finely bound collection of the aphorisms and humour of Samuel Foote. Samuel Foote was a British dramatist and actor active during the eighteenth century. A comic writer and playwright, he lost his leg i...

The Portrait of Zelide

Geoffrey Scott · 1925 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.27 | $713.37 | ¥113,917)

London, Constable and Co, 1925. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition of this award winning biography on Isabelle de Charriere. Bound by the socialite and patron of the arts, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. This biography won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1925.  ...

Causeries Du Lundi: Portraits Litteraires Et Portraits de Femmes

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · 1909 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Paris, Garnier Freres, 1909. Leather. A smart Bickers-bound collection of the essays of Saint-Beuve from his column 'Causeries du Lundi&apos. In the French language. With examinations of Racine, Madame Roland, Bayle, Diderot, Madame du Deffand, Goethe et Bettina, La Fonta...

The Autobiography of a Border Policeman

H. L. Stevens · 1927 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.21 | ¥82,273)

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition recollecting the author's time spent on the borders of Bechuanaland and Matabeleland. A tale of pioneering adventure and war in Bechuanaland and Matabeleland, now modern Bostwana and Zimb...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh; London, Robert Cadell; John Murray and Whittaker and Co, 1837-38. First edition. Leather. A nicely leather bound first edition set of John Gibson Lockhart's biography on his father in law, the Scottish poet Sit Walter Scott. The first edition of this work.Compl...

Tedder

Roderic Owen · 1952 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Collins, 1952. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this volume regarding Baron Tedder by Roderic Owen, an excellent example. The first edition of this work by Roderic Owen. An engaging biography of the life of Arthur Tedder, senior Royal Air Force. The title o...

Memorials of His Time

Henry Cockburn; Harry A. Cockburn · 1909 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Edinburgh & London, T. N. Foulis, 1909. Cloth. A delightful autobiographical work written by a Scottish lawyer and judge, illustrated with bright colour illustrations throughout. A fascinating autobiographical account of this important Scotsman's life.Written by Henry Coc...

The Fated Sky

Philip Joubert de la Ferte · 1952 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Hutchinson, 1952. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second impression of Philip Joubert de la Ferte's memoir, an account of his time spent in the RAF during the Second World War. The first edition, second impression of this work, printed in the same month...

The Memoirs of Lord Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton; Lord Chandos · 1962 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, The Bodley Head, 1962. First edition. Leather. A finely bound copy of the exciting memoirs of Oliver Lyttelton, recounting hs time spent working in the government during the Second World War. The first edition, second impression of this work.In a signed binding by Harr...

Lives, Characters, and an Address to Posterity

Gilbert Burnet; John Jebb · 1833 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.83 | ¥14,345)

London, James Duncan, 1833. Cloth. A fascinating collection of biographical sketches by Gilbert Burnet, presented in the original binding. Containing sketches of the lives and characters of important figures such as Archbishop Leighton, Sir Matthew Hale,  Queen Mar II, Robert...