Biografi

Time I Was Dead: Pages from My Autobiography

Cecil Aldin · 1934 · Rooke Books

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

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 1934. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated autobiography from Cecil Aldin, a signed limited edition copy. First edition. Limited to one hundred copies of which this is number forty-three. Signed by the autho...

The Martian: A Novel

George du Maurier · 1897 · Rooke Books

£66.00 (€79.11 | $87.20 | ¥13,920)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers , 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this illustrated semi-autobiographical novel from Franco-British writer George du Maurier. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page images....

Between the Cupolas: A "Light and Airy" Record

W. [Wilfred Whitten] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Headley Bros. 1905. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this scarce memoir by Wilfred Whitten, relating his schooldays at a Quaker school in Yorkshire. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Wilfr...

William Pitt, Atterbury

Lord Macaulay · 1860 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,443)

Bernard Tauchnitz , Leipzig , 1860. First edition. Leather. A very scarce work containing two biographies by Lord Macaulay, smartly bound in half morocco. The first edition of this very scarce work. Published as part of Leipzig's Tauchnitz editions, under their Collection...

Just a Little Bit of String

Ellaline Terriss · 1955 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, Hutchinson, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The compelling autobiography of popular actress and singer Ellaline Terriss, signed by the author to her "luncheon partner" William Foyle, co-founder of Foyles bookshop, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. The firs...

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland · 1922 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922. Cloth. The second volume of Hamlin Garland's autobiography, and illustrated volume signed by the author/ An early edition, published the year after the first edition.Inscribed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "This i...

Fred Bason&Apos;S Diary

Fred Bason; Nicolas Bentley [ed] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Wingate, 1950. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical collection of diary entries from the writer Fred Bason, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original cloth with the very ...

Life of Frank Buckland

George C. Bompas · 1903 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1903. Cloth. A smart biography of Frank Buckland, written by his brother-in-law George C. Bompas. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880), was an English surgeon, zoologist, ...

The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington

Colonel John Montmorency Tucker · 1846 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Willoughby and Co. 1846. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated biography of British statesman, Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington. Illustrated with a frontispiece, two folding plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. The life of Field Marsha...

The Life of Wellington

W. H. Maxwell (William Hamilton Maxwell) · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Bickers & Son , 1890. Leather. The new edition of Maxwell's illustrated biography of the Duke of Wellington, in a Bickers full calf prize binding. The new edition. Illustrated with a monochrome portrait frontispiece, headpieces, illuminated letters and twelve mon...

A Note on Religion

H. Rider Haggard · 1927 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.08 | ¥125,487)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this short work in which H. Rider Haggard explains his unorthodox personal religious beliefs. The vanishingly scarce first and only separate edition of Haggard's expositio...

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck · 1958 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,179)

London, Heinemann, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of John Steinbeck's narrative about the marine specimen collecting trip he undertook with his great friend, Ed Ricketts, in 1940. The first UK edition, first impression of John Steinbeck's non ficti...

About William Law

Arthur W. Hopkinson; E. Gordon Selwyn · 1948 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, S. P. C. K. 1948 . First edition. Leather. A leather-bound, first edition of Arthur Hopkinson's biographical work on theologian and priest, William Law. First edition, in a contemporary half calf binding, with cloth boards. Arthur Hopkinson provides a running comm...

The Life of Gordon Major-General; Turkish Field-Marshall, Grand Cordon Medjidieh, and Pasha; Chinese Titu, Yellow Jacket Order

Demetrius C. Boulger · 1896 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,199)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Leather. A smart seventh impression of this biography of Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha and Gordon of Khartoum. Seventh impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates. Collated complete. This biograp...

General Smuts&Apos; Campaign in East Africa

Brig.-General J. H. V. Crowe · 1918 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London, John Murray, 1918 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of General Smuts' East African Campaign of 1916. Illustrated with four folding maps. The first edition, first impression of this work. An account by Brig. General J. H. V. Crowe of the 191...

Sir Walter Scott

John Buchan · 1932 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Buchan's biography of the famous Romantic poet Sir Walter Scott. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to...

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah

Richard F. Burton · 1857 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.78 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,813)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 . Cloth. The second edition of Richard Burton's famous account of his journey to Mecca, disguised as a Muslim, during a period when non-Muslims were strictly forbidden. First published in three volumes between 185...

Coke of Norfolk and His Friends: The Life of Thomas William Coke, First Earl of Leicester of Holkham, Containing an Account of His Ancestry, Surroundings, Public Services & Private Friendships, & Including Many Unpublished Letters from Noted Men of His Day, English & American

A. M. W. Stirling · 1912 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1912. Cloth. A smart new edition of this biographical sketch of Thomas Coke, with accounts of his friends and colleagues. New edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. The life of Thomas William Coke,...

Jerome Cardan: The Life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan, Physician

Henry Morley · 1854 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1854. First edition. Cloth. A first edition two-volume biography of the Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano, smartly rebound in one volume. The first edition of this very scarce two-volume work, rebound in one volume in a cloth binding.Small bookplate t...

Byron: A Self-Portrait Letters and Diaries 1798-1824

Lord Byron; Peter Quennell [editor] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London, John Murray, 1950. Cloth. A smart biography of Lord Byron with letters and sketches, in two volumes. Two volumes. First edition 1950. Reprinted 1950. A collection of letters, biographical sketches, and commentary on the life of George Gordon Byron, an English poet and ...