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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

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...

The Hypochondriack Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated Biographer, James Boswell, Appearing in the London Magazine, from November, 1777, to August, 1783, and Here First Reprinted.

James Boswell; Margery Bailey [Editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

California, Stanford University Press, 1928 . Cloth. The first edition, two-volume set of The Hypochondriack, collecting Boswell"s seventy essays from The London Magazine, reprinted in book form for the first time, housed in the original slipcase. In the publisher's origi...

Essay on Lord Clive

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London and Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1885. Cloth. A smart copy of this essay from English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay on Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India. Later edition. A detailed essay on the life and work of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, the first Brit...

Theodor Fontane

Mario Krammer · 1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Berlin, Otto v. Holten, 1922. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition copy of this biographical study of German novelist and poet Theodor Fontane. German. First edition. Limited to one thousand five hundred copies, of which this is number one hundred and twenty-nine. A deta...

Peter Pond: Fur Trader & Explorer

Henry R. Wagner · 1955 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition of this commentary on the life of American explorer Peter Pond, with folding maps. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies. Includes a card folder containing three folding maps. ...

The Vicar of Nibbleswicke; My Year

Roald Dahl · 1991 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Century; Jonathan Cape , 1991-1993. First edition. Hardback. A delightful pair of first edition Roald Dahl books, including his autobiography 'My Year', and children's story 'The Vicar of Nibbleswicke&apos. The first editions, first impressions of t...

A Collection of Biographies of Great Women from the Library of Carmen Callil

Various · 1984 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Andre Deutsch; Chatto & Windus; Granta Books, 1984-2013. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of seven biographies of great women, from the library of Australian publisher Carmen Callil. Seven volumes. First edition, first impression. From the library of Carmen Cal...

Bad Faith

Carmen Callil · 2006 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardback. The author's own copy of this insightful biography on Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, with her notes throughout. An advance first edition copy, the author's own copy, with her corrections throughout the text. Mos...

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian

Colonel Henry Yule · 1875 · Rooke Books

£990.00 (€1,186.67 | $1,307.93 | ¥208,859)

London, John Murray, 1875. Leather. The beautifully illustrated second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, richly illustrated throughout and with folding plates and maps. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complet...

The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais; John Guille Millais · 1899 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Methuen & Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated biography on the life of Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.A biography detailing the life alongside the letters of Sir John Everett ...

La Vie de Pasteur

Rene Vallery-Radot · 1907 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1907. Leather. A smartly bound eleventh edition of this biography of Louis Pasteur by his son-in-law, in the original French. French. Eleventh edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The biography of Louis Pasteur, a French scientist, che...

Lives of the English Saints

William Lockhart; Father Faber; Rev. John Canon Walker; Richard Dean Church; Canon Oakley et al. · 1844 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, James Toovey, 1844-1845 . First edition. Vellum. A smart half vellum set featuring the biographies of fourteen English saints, bound in five volumes. With all but two works present in the first edition. All fourteen volumes of this work, bound in five half vellum volum...

Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi: A Life Full of Holes; without Stopping: An Autobiography; Points in Time; Days: Tangier Journal 1987-1989

Paul Bowles · 1964 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

New York, Grove Press, Inc; G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Ecco Press, 1964-1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely set of fiction and non-fiction works from American expatriate of Tangier, Paul Bowles. The first edition, first printings of these works. All complete with the publ...

Three Works Published by Black Sparrow Press

James Broughton; Wright Morris; Bradford Morrow; Et Al. · 1981 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1997. First edition. Cloth. A fine collection of three works published by The Black Sparrow Press in Santa Rosa, two of which are signed and one with a signed letter from the author. Limited edition. Bound in the publisher"s quarter cloth....

Memoirs of My Dead Life

George Moore · 1906 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, William Heinemann, 1906. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiography from Irish novelist and short story writer George Moore. First edition. The wistful, melancholic, and graceful autobiography of George Augustus Moore, an Irish novelist, short-st...

Lettere

Alfredo Catalani · 1946 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Milan, A cura dell'Istituto di Alta Cultura , 1946. First edition. Leather. A vanishingly scarce limited edition containing the letters of Italian operatic composer, Alfredo Catalani. One of three hundred numbered copies bound in the publisher's full blue morocco. Th...

Here Lies: An Autobiography

Eric Ambler · 1985 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A signed first impression of the autobiography of author and screenwriter Eric Ambler, celebrated for his many spy novels. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In the original un...

Boswell&Apos;S London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland 1763-1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour Germany and Switzerland 1764

James Boswell; Frederick A. Pottle [ed.] · 1951 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, William Heinemann Ltd , 1951-1953. Cloth. Three very smart trade editions from the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. A collection of the private papers, journals and travel works of James Boswell, a Scottish biographer, diarist and lawyer, best know...

Charles Howard: An Autobiography

Charles Howard · 2014 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Piston Power Press Ltd , 2014. First edition. Cloth. An extensive autobiographical work from Charles Howard, a successful vintage and classic car dealer. The first edition of this very scarce volume. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Charles Ho...

The Strenuous Years: Diaries 1948-1955

Cecil Beaton · 1973 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the fourth volume of diaries from British photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton. First edition. Illustrated with twelve plates. Collated complete. The diaries of Sir Cecil Walter Hardy ...