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Sir John Vanbrugh: Architect and Dramatist

Sir John Vanbrugh, Laurence Whistler · 1938 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A biographical work on Sir John Vanbrugh, a seventeenth century architect and dramatist. This is a first edition. Illustrated throughout, with fifteen plates of buildings designed by Vanbrugh as well as plans. Collated, co...

The Glenbervie Journals

Walter Sichel [Editor] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

London , Constable & Company Ltd. 1910. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of The Glenbervie Journals, edited and arranged by Walter Sichel. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and sixteen portraits. Walter Sichel (1855-1933) was an English biographer and lawyer, t...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Frances Eliza Kingsley (Ed) · 1891 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1891. Cloth. Two volumes featuring the letters and memories of Charles Kingsley, bound in a uniform cloth binding. An interesting biography of this Victorian writer and clergyman who is best known for his work. 'The Water Babies&apos. Edited by h...

Memoir of Norman Macleod

Donald Macleod · 1876 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.05 | ¥16,450)

London , Dalby, Isbister and Co. 1876. First edition. Cloth. A history of the life of Norman Macleod, written by his brother. First edition. Including frontispieces to each volume, and illustrations in the text. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. Complete in two...

Lettres Portugaises Avec Les Reponses Lettres de Mlle Aisse Suivies de Celles de Montesquieu Et de Mme Du Deffand Au Chevalier D&Apos;Aydie, Etc

Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse · 1694 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.93 | $52.83 | ¥8,434)

Paris, Bibliotheque-Chapentier, c1873. Cloth. The letters of Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse. In French. With a portrait of Mlle. Aisse to frontispiece. Mademoiselle Charlotte Aisse (a corruption of Haide), (c.1694 – 13 March 1733), French letter-writer, was the daughter of a Ci...

La Vie Amoureuse de Francois Barbazanges

Marcelle Tinayre · 1904 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,761)

Paris , Calmann-Levy, 1904. Leather. A copy of 'La Vie Amoureuse de Francois Barbazanges' by Marcelle Tinayre. Marcelle Marguerite Suzanne Tinayre, born October 8, 1870 in Tulle, Corrèze, and died August 23, 1948 in Grossouvre, Cher, was a French woman of letters an...

Jane Austen and Her Times; Jane Austen: Her Life and Art; Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait; Talking of Jane Austen; Emma; Jane Austen and Southampton; More Talk of Jane Austen; Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography; T&Apos;Other Miss Austen; Women in Profile: A Study in Silhouette.

G. E. Mitton; David Rhydderch; Beatrice Kean Seymour; Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern; Gordon Glennon; R. A. Austen-Leigh; R. W. Chapman; Kathleen Freeman; F. Gordon Roe; · 1917 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; Oxford, Methuen & Co. Ltd.; Jonathan Cape; Michael Joseph Ltd.; Cassell and Company, Ltd.; Macmillan & Co. Ltd.; Spottiswoode, Ballantyn, 1917-1970. First edition. Cloth. London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; Oxford: Me...

Studies of D.H. Lawrence

Warren Roberts; H.M. Daleski; F.R. Leavis; Harry T. Moore [ed.]; Graham Hough · 1961 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Cambridge; London, Cambridge University Press; Faber and Faber; Chatto & WIndus; Heinemann; Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 1961-1982. Cloth. A very smart five volume set of biographies and studies on English modernist novelist D.H. Lawrence. A five volume set of works on D.H. Law...

Dramatis Personae 1896-1902, Estrangement, the Death of Synge, the Bounty of Sweden

W. B. Yeats · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. The scarcer true first edition of this interesting autobiographical collection from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher'...

I Married Adventure

Osa Johnson · 1940 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London and Melbourne, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1940. Cloth. Profusely illustrated autobiographical recount of the life of adventurers Osa and Martin Johnson. In publisher's original zebra-print cloth binding.With illustrated endpapers, a double-spread title page and eighty-t...

Works on Samuel Johnson

W. H. Craig; Various; John Ker Spittal; O.F. Christie; Robert Lynd; R.W. Postgate; Robert E. Kelley, O.M. Brack Jr. · 1895 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London; New York; Iowa City, Sampson Low, Marston and Company; Charles Scribner's Sons; E.P. Dutton and Company; George H. Doran Company; Doubleday, Doran an, 1895-1971. First edition. Cloth. London; New York; Iowa City: Sampson Low, Marston and Company; Charles Scribner&...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Sir Walter Scott · 1837 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1837. First edition. Cloth. Complete first edition set of memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, with a frontispiece and facsimile handwriting. A smart complete first edition set of memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.In full brown c...

Noguchi

Gustav Eckstein · 1931 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

New York; London, Harper & Brothers Publisher's , 1931. Cloth. A first edition biography of pioneering Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi, written by physician and author Gustav Eckstein. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding. First edition.Illustrated ...

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir

Rupert Brooke · 1918 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1918. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second impression of this collection of the works of English war poet Rupert Brooke, with a memoir. First edition, second impression. With a portrait frontispiece and one portrait plate. Collate...

4vols the Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1832. First edition. Leather. A handsomely bound first edition four-volume set of Ralph Thoresby"s Diary and Letters of Eminent Men, detailing the life and correspondence of the distinguished Leeds antiquary and Fellow of the Roy...

Select Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Richard Garnett [editor] · 1884 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1884. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of the letters of English writer and Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. With a portrait frontispiece. A select collection of the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an English writer consider...

The Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish Gentleman

Joseph Boruwlaski · 1792 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.65 | $1,314.54 | ¥209,848)

Birmingham , J. Thompson, 1792. First edition. Leather. Józef BoruwÃÂ-‚aski's very scarce memoir, detailing his life as a musician and dwarf employed by the court, bound in modern crushed half morocco. The second edition, revised and corrected, and translated from ...

Winston S. Churchill

Randolph S. Churchill; Martin Gilbert · 1966 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Heinemann, 1966-1983. First edition. Cloth. A five-volume collection of first editions of the official multi-volume biography of Winston Churchill, in original cloth and dust wrappers, richly illustrated with plates throughout. First editions.In the publisher's or...

Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land

Alphonse de Lamartine · 1839 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1839 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first English translation of Alphonse de Lamartine's tour of the Levant in the early 1830s. The first English language translation of Alphonse de Lamartine's 1835 work &...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,963)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co , 1876. First edition. Leather. The first editions, complete in two volumes, of Trevelyan"s Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, chronicling Macaulay"s literary and political career, elegantly bound in full tree calf. In the full tree calf binding...