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Sergeant Shakespeare

Duff Cooper · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this intriguing study into a lesser known period of Shakespeare's life, during which the author proposes he spent as a soldier. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publ...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay]; George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First edition. Leather. A first edition set containing the biography and correspondence of Lord Macaulay, bound in half crushed morocco. The first edition.Uniformly bound in half crushed morocco, with attractive gilt detailing to the spin...

Joseph Fouche

Stefan Zweig; Alzir Hella [trans.]; Olivier Bournac [trans.] · 1935 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1935 . Leather. An attractively bound French language translation of Stefan Zweig's biography of enigmatic French statesman Joseph Fouche. Translated from the original German into French by Alzir Hella and Olivier Bournac.In a half morocco signed b...

Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings

Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas R. Lounsbury · 1892 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition. Cloth. A complete three volume first edition of this detailed study on the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer, from American literary historian Thomas Lounsbury. Complete in three volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontisp...

Memoirs of the Count de Grammont

Count Anthony Hamilton; Horace Walpole · 1928 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head LTD, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Antoine Hamilton's memoirs of his brother-in-law Philibert de Gramont. A limited edition of one thousand copies. This is an out-of-series complimentary copy.From the library of Sir Campbell Stua...

A Trilogy on Iris Murdoch

John Bayley · 1998 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Duckworth, 1998-2001. First edition. Cloth. A charming trilogy from British academic and writer John Bayley on his wife Iris Murdoch. Complete in three volumes. First edition. A collection of works on Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, an Irish and British novelist and philosophe...

Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years Book One of the Memoirs of Eleanor Farjeon

Edward Thomas; Eleanor Farjeon · 1958 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,171)

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of the letters of Edward Thomas to Eleanor Farjeon from the last four years of his life. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A ...

Random Recollections of the Midland Circuit

Robert Walton · 1869 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Chiswick Press , 1869. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming collection of anecdotes, written by Robert Walton during his travels around Britain. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This is the first series...

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Paris, Privately Printed, 1922. Cloth. A pirated edition of the first volume of Frank Harris' controversial autobiography. A privately printed pirated edition of the first volume of Frank Harris' controversial memoir.The book gives a graphic account of Harris's ...

Theodore Waterhouse 1838-1891: Notes of His Life and Extracts from His Letters and Papers

Theodore Waterhouse · 1894 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.71 | $91.16 | ¥14,552)

Not Stated, Private Circulation, 1894. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this work on the life and writings of Theodore Waterhouse. First edition, printed for private circulation. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece and two plates. Collated com...

Contemporary Portraits: Fourth Series

Frank Harris · 1924 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Grant Richards Ltd, 1924 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the fourth series of Frank Harris's collection of sketches of notable public figures, in the scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, in the publisher's original unclip...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

John Wilson Croker [ed]; James Boswell · 1848 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

London, John Murray, 1848. Leather. James's Boswell's important biography on the popular English writer, Samuel Johnson, edited by John Wilson Croker and bound in full calf. The new edition. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece featuring p...

Memoirs of Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy

Mrs. Jameson [Anna Brownell Jameson] · 1868 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, John Murray, 1868. Leather. A smart new edition of this collection of memoirs of early Italian painters, with portraits. New edition. Illustrated with fifty-eight portrait plates. Collated complete. A collection of memoirs of early Italian painters including Gaddo Gadd...

Final Memorials of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb; Thomas Noon Talfourd · 1848 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Edward Moxon, 1848. First edition. Cloth. A smart complete two volume set of the first edition of this collection of letters and sketches from Charles Lamb. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A collection of writings from Charles Lamb, an English essayist, poet, a...

Sheridan

Mrs. Oliphant · 1889 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1889. Leather. A smart later edition of this biography of Anglo-Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. Later edition, first published in 1893. With a colour portrait frontispiece. The life of Richard Brinsley Butler She...

Nice One Cyril: Being the Odd Odessey and the Anecdotage of a Comedian

Cyril Fletcher · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this humorous autobiography from English comedian and actor Cyril Fletcher, signed by the author with a letter to Christina Foyle. First edition. Signed with an inscription from the author whic...

I Say Rejoice: A Memoir of Christopher Benn

John Benn · 1942 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Faber and Faber, 1942. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce memoir of British soldier Christopher Benn, written by his brother. Signed by the author to W. A. Foyle. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper to William...

Vita de S. Giuseppe Oriol Sacerdote E Beneficiato de Barcelona

Prof. Carlo Salotti · 1909 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Rome, Tipografia Poliglotta Dell'Istituto Pio IX, 1909. Leather. A smart leatherbound copy of this biography of Spanish Roman Catholic priest Joseph Oriol, in the original Italian. Italian. With a portrait frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. The life of Joseph...

Khaki and Gown: An Autobiography

Field Marshal Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1941 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated autobiography from British Army officer, Lord Birdwood. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, fifteen plates, and five colour maps, four of which are fo...

Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years&Apos; Exploration and Adventures

Thomas Witlam Atkinson · 1858 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.25 | ¥82,252)

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1858 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Thomas Witlam Atkinson's account of his mid nineteenth century travels in the Russian orient, illustrated throughout. The work of English architect and traveller Thomas Witlam Atkinson. Between ...