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Reynolds Stone: A Memoir

Humphrey Stone · 2019 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

Dorset, The Dovecote Press, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, first impression of this illustrated memoir of English designed Reynolds Stone. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. With the ori...

Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, Under Other Signatures (Now First Collected). To Which Are Added, His Confidential Correspondence with Mr Wilkes, and His Private Letters Addressed to Mr H.S. Woodfall. With a Preliminary Essay, Notes, Fac-Similes, &C.

Junius; Henry Sampson Woodfall · 1875 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.30 | ¥17,927)

London; New York, George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Leather. A finely rebound 1875 edition of Junius, featuring the famous anonymous political letters and seals frontispiece. Rebound in half calf with textured cloth boards.This copy includes a frontispiece of seals used by Juni...

A Bite of the Apple

Lennie Goodings · 2020 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

Oxford , Oxford University Press , 2020. First edition. Cloth. A fantastic signed first impression of this part memoir part history of Virago Press, this copy from the library of its founder Carmen Callil. A strong association copy of this memoir from the library of Carmen Cal...

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell · 1937 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD; Left Book Club, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of George Orwell's study on the working classes of Northern England, illustrated throughout, published by the Left Book Club. The first edition of this work, published by the Left B...

Family Business: A Memoir

Peter J. Conradi · 2019 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Bridgend , Seren, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this memoir from British author and Iris Murdoch academic, Peter J. Conradi, from the library of reputable publisher Carmen Callil. Signed dedication by the author to the title page. The first edition, first impre...

Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George

Diana Melley · 2005 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Chatto and Windus , 2005 . First edition. Cloth. A signed association copy of Diana Melly's compelling memoir, owned by the publisher and friend, Carmen Callil. With a signed presentation inscription by the author to the title page. This is a strong association c...

The Letters of T.E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence; David Garnett [editor] · 1938 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this important collection of the letters of Thomas Edward Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia. First edition. Illustrated with fifteen plates and four maps, two of which are folding. Collated complet...

The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters

Charlotte Bronte; Anne Bronte; Mrs. Gaskell [Elizabeth Gaskell] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,453)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1899-1900. Cloth. A collection of five volumes of the Haworth edition of this series of works from the celebrated Bronte sisters. Five volumes of a seven volume set, lacking volumes one and five. Haworth edition. With eleven illustrations each in Vo...

Prohibited Immigrant

John Stonehouse · 1960 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, The Bodley Head, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this vivid account of British Labour MP John Stonehouse's time working in Zimbabwe, including events leading up to his deportation. First edition. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapp...

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke · 1823 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, Thomas McLean, 1823 . Cloth. A complete set of the new edition of this collection of works by Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher, Edmund Burke, containing his speeches, essays and more. A new edition. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-c...

Recollections of the Peninsula

Joseph Moyle Sherer · 1824 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Leather. An association copy of the third edition of this insightful travel work documenting British army officer Joseph Moyle Sherer's time spent fighting in the Peninsula War in the early nineteenth century. An ...

The Early Correspondence of Hans Von Bulow

His Widow" [Marie Schanzer von Bülow]; Constance Bache [translator] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Cloth. A scarce volume of Richard Wagner's correspondence edited by his second wife, Marie Schanzer von Bülow. The second edition of this scarce collection of Hans von Bulow's correspondence. In the publisher's original cloth bin...

Behind the Wainscot: Autobiography of a Mouse

Cicely Fulcher · 1903 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Andrew Melrose , 1903. Cloth. A scarce children's book following the charming friendship between a girl and a mouse. An early edition of this scarce work. First published in 1901. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. This children's story follo...

The Marquis of Montrose

John Buchan · 1913 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Buchan's biography of the Marquis of Montrose, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, fifteen plates, and eleven maps and plans. Collated complete. A ...

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew. King of the Beggars - Containing His Life - a Dictionary of the Cant Language and Many Entertaining Particulars of the Extraordinary Man.

Robert Goadby · 1812 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,816)

Everton , W. Salter and sold by W. Crosby's & Co. 1812 . Leather. An excellently bound, new edition of Robert Goadby's entertaining "autobiography" of English rogue Bampfylde Moore Carew. Bound by J. Fellowes in half calf with marbled paper-covered boards. A new edi...

The Autobiography of William Simpson, R.I. (Crimean Simpson)

William Simpson; George Eyre-Todd · 1903 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First edition. Vellum. A limited edition copy of William Simpson's insightful illustrated autobiography, one of only one hundred copies. A limited edition of one hundred copies, of which this is numbered twenty, published at the same time as...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

James Fitzmaurice Kelly · 1913 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1913. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this authoritative biography on Miguel de Cervantes. The first edition of this scarce work.Bound by Hatchards. A brilliant biography on the life and works one of the greatest Span...

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Sir George Otto Trevelyan · 1893 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1893. Leather. A smart copy of the popular edition of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, from his nephew. Popular edition. A record of the life and letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, a British historian, p...

Lettres Du P. Didon a Un Ami

P. Didon · 1902 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,341)

Paris, Perrin et Cie. 1902. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of letters from French friar Henri Louis Remy Didon, in the original French. French. With a portrait frontispiece and three plates. Collated complete. A collection of the letters of Henri Louis Remy D...

Correspondance inãƒâ©Dite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868, Avec Une Notice Biographique Par Daniel Bernard; Les Grotesques de la Musique; Mãƒâ©Moires de Hector Berlioz Comprenant Ses Voyages En Italie, En Allemagne, En Russie Et En Angleterre, 1803-1865

Hector Berlioz; Daniel Bernard · 1879 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1879-1887. Leather. Four uniformly bound collections of Berlioz's correspondence and memoirs, with his satirical work on the world of classical music. Four works, uniformly bound in quarter calf bindings with marbled boards and end papers.A lovely se...