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Moholy-Nagy: Experiments in Totality

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy · 1950 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's biography of her husband, the Hungarian painter and photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The first edition, first printing, with 'first edition' and D-Z code to colopho...

Voices: A Memoir

Frederic Prokosch · 1983 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,014)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1983. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first printing of this vivid autobiography from American writer Frederic Prokosch. The first edition, first printing of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Frederic Prokos...

Journal 1936-1937 and Paris Journal 1937-1939

David Gascoyne · 1978 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)

London, The Enitharmon Press, 1978-80. First edition. Cloth. Both volumes of David Gascoyne's journals, with one volume being inscribed by the author and presented to his friend Anthony Brode. The first edition, first impressions. The author's presentation copy to &...

John Stuart MILL: As Some of the Working Classes Knew Him

George Jacob Holyoake · 1873 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,526)

London, Trubner & Co. 1873 . First edition. Disbound. The first edition of this very scarce commemorative work written by George Jacob Holyoake in attempt to defend the reputation and legacy of John Stuart Mill after his death. First edition. Very scarce work. Unbound. Written...

While the Dixie Boils: Camp-Fire Yarns

Robert Harding · 1939 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, RT.S.-Lutterworth Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce collection of autobiographical stories from Robert Harding, the editor for 'The Boy's Own Paper&apos. The first edition. A very scarce work. Illustrated with monochro...

The Secret Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Pompadour

Jules Beaujoint · 1885 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Remington & Co. 1885. Cloth. A translated edition of the memoirs of Madame de Pompadour, a member of the French court and official mistress of King Louis XV. Translated edition, first published in the original French in 1873. The memoirs of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, M...

The Memoirs of Baron Thiãƒâ©Bault (Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army)

Baron Thiébault; Arthur John Butler [editor] · 1896 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. The complete two volume set of Baron Thiébault's memoir, translated by Arthur John Butler. Complete in two volumes. First translated edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and folding plate to volume one, and a fr...

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

Nicholas Tucker · 2003 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Cambridge , Wizard Books , 2003. Paperback. A lovely first edition of this unique exploration of Philip Pullman's work. First edition Signed by the author to the title page. In the publisher's paperback.This work includes a biography and literary analysis of award ...

Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and His Art

Max Beerbohm · 1920 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this illustrated collection of memories relating to English actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. First US edition. Uncommon edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four plates, ...

Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography

E. D. Cuming: Sir Theodore Cook · 1926 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, second impression of this biographical work on George Osbaldeston, an English politician and sportsman. The first edition, second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, monochrome p...

Willoughby Hyett Dickinson 1859-1943: A Memoir

Hope Costley White · 1956 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Gloucester, Privately Printed by John Bellows Limited, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this very scarce biography of British Liberal politician Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, signed by his wife Elizabeth. First edition. Very scarce. Signed by Elizabeth Dickin...

La Vie de Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini; Leopold Leclanche · 1881 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

Paris, A. Quatin, 1881. Leather. A French edition of this important autobiography on the life of sixteenth century artist Benvenuto Cellini. Translated into French by Leopold Leclanche, with notes and an index by M. Franco.The autobiography of the Italian goldsmith Benvenuto C...

Sporting Days and Sporting Stories of Turf and Chase

J. Fairfax-Blakeborough [John Fairfax-Blakeborough] ; Sir Alfred E. Pease [introduction] · 1925 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Phillip Allan & Co, 1925. First edition. Cloth. This scarce first edition, first impression of John Fairfax-Blakeborough's illustrated, personal history of racing and hunting, introduced by the British Liberal Party politician Sir Alfred Pease. The first edition, ...

The Portrait of a Christian Gentleman: A Memoir of Patrick Fraser Tytler

Rev. John W. Burgon · 1859 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

London, John Murray, 1859. First edition. Leather. A pleasantly bound memoir of Scottish advocate and historian, Patrick Fraser Tytler. The first edition of this work, with no further edition remarks. Bound in half calf, with gilt decoration to the spine and marbled endpapers...

Recollections of a Military Life

General Sir John Miller Adye · 1895 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the first edition of John Adye's memoir of his military life between the years 1854 and 1882. The first edition.British soldier and amateur artist General Sir John Miller Adye served in the Crim...

Memoirs of the Life of Count de Grammont

[Anthony Hamilton] · 1714 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, J. Round; W. Taylor; J. Brown; W. Lewis; J. Graves, 1714. First edition. Leather. The first edition in English of this scarce memoir on the life of Count Philibert de Gramont, and the courts of Charles II and Louis XIV. The first edition in English of this scarce work....

Autobiography of Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf · 1960 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.85 | ¥83,307)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1960-69. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of the complete autobiography of Leonard Woolf, a set of first editions in their original dust wrappers. The first editions, first impression.Complete in five volumes.Each volume is in the original unclipped...

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby · 1992 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, Victor Gollancz LTD, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Nick Hornby's autobiography, in which he explores his lifelong relationship with football. A smart copy of the first edition. The first edition, first impression.Inscribed by the author to the title...

Byron

André Maurois · 1934 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1934. First edition. Leather. A uniformly bound two-volume set of the first edition, seventh printing of Maurois' biography of the notable Romantic poet Lord Byron. The first edition, seventh printing of this work, in a two-volume set, uniformly bo...

Memoirs de Philippe de Commynes

R. Chantelauze · 1881 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. 1881. Leather. The memoirs of French writer and diplomat Philippe de Commines, with illustrations. In the original French. French. Illustrated edition. Illustrated with four chromolithographic plates and numerous wood-cuts. Collated com...