Biografia

Midnight Oil

Victor Sawdon Pritchett · 1971 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1971. First edition. Paperback. A scarce uncorrected proof of the first edition of V S Pritchett's memoir 'Midnight Oil.' A special presentation copy, signed by the author. Midnight Oil is part of an autobiographical collection of me...

James Joyce: A Biography

Gordon Bowker · 2011 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. First edition. Cloth. The first impression of James Joyce's biography by Gordon Bowker. A superb copy. The first edition, first impression. Gordon Bowker's complete and thorough biography of James Joyce, often considered one of t...

Scotti Viimne Ekspeditsioon

Robert Falcon Scott · 1959 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Tallinn, Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1959. Cloth. The scarce Estonian edition of Captain Scott's diaries of his journey to the Arctic, from the library of his only child. With numerous photographic plates. This work is written in Estonian. With photographic frontispiece and ...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

James Boswell · 1951 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1951-60. Vellum. A wonderful set of Yale's limited edition works containing the private papers of James Boswell, illustrated throughout, all small printing runs. Limited edition works.In six volumes. A further six volumes were published by Y...

A Glimpse of the Ancient Sunlight: Memories of Henry Williamson

Sue Caron · 1986 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, The Aylesford Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. A superb limited edition of this biographical sketch of Henry Williamson by Sue Caron. One of four hundred copies bound in paper wraps, this volume being number two hundred and thirty nine. Issued with a limited edit...

Robert Louis Stevenson&Apos;S Edinburgh Days

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1913. Cloth. An exciting glimpse into this important British author's life, illustrated and with a frontispiece photograph of the subject. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was an important Scottish novelist, best known for works including &a...

Merchantman Rearmed

David W. Bone · 1949 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Chatto and WIndus, 1949. Leather. A lovely limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist, of this memoir by David Bone, profusely illustrated and in the original publisher's box. The limited edition of this work, published simultaneously as the first edit...

Booze-Runner

Dean Frith · 1935 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1935. Cloth. A very scarce firsthand account of bootlegging during the Prohibition, published under a pseudonym. This work details the author's experience 'running' liquor across the border between Canada and the United States of ...

Fanny Burney and the Burneys

R. Brimley Johnson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Stanley Paul, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this biography of Fanny Burney, illustrated throughout. In the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. A biography on Fanny Burney, including additions to Madame d'Arb...

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

H. Rider Haggard · 1891 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd. 1891. Cloth. A lovely reprint of this non-fiction work by H. Rider Haggard, detailing his time in South Africa. 'Cetywayo and his White Neighbours' was H. Rider Haggard's first full-length work to be published, and ...

A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.

Rev. John Sargent · 1831 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Seeley and Sons, 1831. Leather. A revised and enlarged edition of this scarce volume, comprising Rev. Henry Martyn's memoir of his missions in India and Persia. The eleventh, enlarged and corrected edition stated. This volume contains memoirs of Reverend Henry Mar...

Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius and the Amalthei

William Parr Greswell · 1805 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Manchester, Cadell and Davies, 1805. Leather. The second edition of William Parr Greswell's study on the prominent poets of the Italian Renaissance, including Poliziano and Flamino, and insightful look into the important era in Italy's history. The second edition of ...

The Successful Merchant Sketches of the Life of Mr Samuel Budgett

William Arthur · 1859 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.36 | ¥16,666)

London, Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1859. Leather. A very smart copy of this biography regarding Samuel Budgett. An uncommon work. The twenty-second edition of this biography.Inscription of prior owner to the verso of front endpaper, dated 1860. With an engraved frontispiece of t...

Thomas Gray: A Biography

R. W. Ketton-Cremer · 1955 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original dustwrapper of Thomas Gray's biography. The first 1955 edition of thomas Gray's biography by R. W. Ketton-Cremer.Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, schol...

Biographical Memoir of John Montagu, with a Sketch of Some of the Public Affairs Connected with the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, During His Administration As Colonial Secretary from 1843 to 1853.

W. A. Newman · 1855 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.16 | ¥71,725)

London & Cape Town, Harrison; A. S. Robertson, 1855. Cloth. A thorough memoir of a Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony, in the publisher's original binding. John Montagu (1797-1853) was Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony between 1843 and 1853. He famously had a dispu...

Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein

Marchioness De La Rochejaquelein · 1827 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.25 | ¥18,564)

Edinburgh, Constable and Co. 1827. Leather. A lovely pocket-sized edition recounting this French memoirist's suffering during a counter-revolt during the French Revolution. Marie Louis Victoire de Donnisan de La Rochejaquelein (1772-1857) is remembered for her memoirs des...

Bloomsbury Group Letters

Vanessa Bell; Leonard Woolf · 1929 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,393.89 | $5,944.77 | ¥949,306)

None, None, c1960. Unbound. A fantastic selection of Bloomsbury Group letters. All addressed to one Miss Monica Young from Vanessa Bell, Leonard Woolf, Naomi Michison and Duncan Grant. A fantastic selection of letters from some of the most noted figures in art and literature d...

Life of Lord Jeffrey with a Selection from His Correspondence

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Cockburn's touching personal biography on his lifelong friend, Francis Jeffrey. The second edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Lord Henry Cockburn's personal biography on his frien...

Reminiscences

Goldwin Smith; Arnold Haultain · 1910 · Rooke Books

£53.00 (€63.53 | $70.02 | ¥11,181)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. Cloth. A very smart copy of Goldwin Smith's reminiscences. Being an autobiography of a noted historian, and economist. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and eleven plates. From the lib...

Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanenfis Angli Historia Maior

William Watts · 1644 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

Paris, Apud Viduam G Villielmi Pele , 1644. Leather. A scarce edition of William Watts's revised edition of the life and historical works of Matthaeus Parisiensis. Matthew Paris is commonly regarded as England's greatest medieval historian. He became a monk of St. Al...