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Life and Letters of John Constable

C. R. Leslie · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London , Chapman and Hall , 1896. Cloth. A new edition of this biography of landscape painter John Constable, with illustrations. A new edition of this work. John Constable was an English landscape painter during the Romantic Movement. Many of his landscapes, of which he is f...

A History of Myself: Dawn

Theodore Dreiser · 1931 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Constable & Co. 1931. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first UK edition of this autobiographical work on the early life of American author Theodore Dreiser. The first UK edition of this work. Autobiography of American author Theodore Dreiser, novelist and journalist of th...

Three Years of War in East Africa

Capt. Angus Buchanan · 1919 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

London, John Murray, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this scarce First World War narrative by Victoria Cross recipient Angus Buchanan. The scarce first edition, second impression of this biographical account of a soldier's involvement in the East Africa Cam...

Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Priestley. To the Year 1795.

Dr. Joseph Priestley · 1809 · Rooke Books

£258.00 (€309.25 | $340.86 | ¥54,413)

London, Reprinted from the American Edition, by the several Unitarian Societies in England: and sold by Joseph Johnson, 1809. Hardback. An early edition of the autobiography of Dr Joseph Priestley, who was best known for discovering oxygen. Housed in a quarter morocco slip cas...

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Thomas and Alexander Carlyle; Sir James Crichton-Browne [intro.] · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1903. First edition. Cloth. A new Bodley Head edition of the collected letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, a celebrated letter-writer. A new edition of this work published by the Bodley Head, in two volumes, in the publisher's ...

Portraits of the Eighties

Horace G Hutchinson · 1920 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1920. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this collection of biographies from the late nineteenth century by Horace G Hutchinson. The first edition of this work. A scarce volume. G. Horace Hutchinson's tributes to some of the most ...

The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited with Extracts from the Diary of the Latter

Christine Terhume Herrick · 1890 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1890. First edition. Hardback. A charming first edition of this collection of letters and diary entries relating to the Duke of Wellington and Miss J. The first UK edition of this work. A fascinating collection of letters exchanged between Arthur Welles...

Not Many Dead

Nicholas Garland · 1990 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg, Hutchinson, 1990 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of journals from Nicholas Garland signed by the author. First edition of Not Many Dead by Nicholas Garland in the original publisher's cloth binding and u...

Memoires de Mme Du Hausset

Madame Du Hausset; Hippolyte Fournier · 1891 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Paris, E. Flammarion , 1891. Leather. A smart leather bound volume of the memoirs of Madame Du Hausset. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. A smart leather bound copy of these memoirs. In the original French. Madame du Hausset was a French memoirist and the...

The Lady"S New-Year"S-Gift, or Advice to a Daughter

George Savile, Lord Marquis of Halifax · 1927 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Kensington, The Cayme Press, 1927 . Cloth. Illustrated by Hester Sainsbury, this is a lovely limited edition production of George Savile's seventeenth century essay offering guidance for his daughter. Of a Limited Edition with three hundred and fifty copies produced, this...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell; Edmund Malone · 1826 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Baynes, Cowie, Low & Co. et. al. 1826. Cloth. The four volume complete set of James Boswell's iconic biography of Samuel Johnson, here with notes by Edmund Malone and, for the first time, anecdotes of Hesther Lynch Piozzi. A fascinating edition of James Boswell&ap...

Walker&Apos;S Quarterly, Numbers 1-8

Various · 1920 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,399)

London, Walker's Galleries, 1920-1922 . First edition. Leather. A brightly bound collection of the first eight issues of artist's biographies from Walker's Quarterly magazine, illustrated throughout with examples of the artist's work. The first edition of t...

Reach for the Sky

Paul Brickhill · 1954 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Collins, 1954 . First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition, first impression of Paul Brickhill's illustrated biography of Battle of Britain and Dunkirk hero, Douglas Bader. The first edition, first impression of Paul Brickhill's authorised biography of Ba...

To Keep a Promise

Paul Potts · 1970 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this autobiographical work by Paul Potts, in which the author reflects on his literary influences and his friendship with George Orwell, signed by the author to the title page. Uncommon First Edition. Sig...

Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie

Lady Murray of Stanhope · 1824 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Edinburgh , not stated , 1824. Leather. A scarce leather bound copy of Lady Murray's memoirs of her distinguished parents. Lady Murray's Memoirs of her parents, George Baillie and Lady Grisell Baillie. Lady Grisell Baillie was a Scottish gentlewoman and songwriter a...

William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends

Philip Henderson · 1967 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. First edition. Cloth. The first US edition of Philip Henderson's detailed biography of William Morris, illustrated throughout with examples of the artist's work. The first US edition, first impression of this illustrated biog...

The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray; Gordon N. Ray (ed.) · 1945 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Oxford University Press, 1945-46. Cloth. A fascinating collection of papers and letters of British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with illustrated and folding plates. A fascinating biographical work, containing the letters and private papers of 19th cen...

A Tangled Yarn: Captain James Payen&Apos;S Life Log

Captain James Payen; Thomas Durley (Ed) · 1891 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London, Charles H. Kelly, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful autobiographical account on the life of Captain JAmes Payen and his adventures at sea, edited by Thomas Durley. First Edition, Scarce.In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrations include a fron...

The Rise of Wellington

General Lord Roberts · 1895 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts' biography of the early years of Arthur Wellesley's success. Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was a military leader and a...

Petals of a Wild Rose

Alfreda Bean · 1965 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Esher, Penmiel Press, 1965. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of Alfreda Bean's collection of autobiographical writings; a limited edition. A collection of the articles by Alfreda Bean that had been published over three decades, covering her childhood during the First Wor...