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The Suburban Child

James Kenward · 1955 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955 . First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this interesting autobiographical work surrounding 'Suburbia' by James Kenward, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. First edition, in the publisher's original paper...

Studies in Ruskin

Edward T. Cook · 1890 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Orpington, George Allen, 1890 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition large paper copy of Edward T. Cook's study of John Ruskin, with illustrations throughout. First edition, in the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Limited edition large paper copy. Written ...

Drawn from Memory

Ernest H. Shepard · 1957 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1957. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this biographical sketch of the author's childhood with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with gravure frontispiece and over one hundred in-text images. A charming coll...

English Caravanners in the Wild West

Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw · 1926 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw's account of her experiences while caravanning in the wild West, with illustrations throughout. The first edition. A prize copy, awarded to one 'A. Heywo...

Through Cities and Prairie Lands: Sketches of an American Tour

Lady Duffus Hardy · 1881 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Chapman and Hall , 1881. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this work by Lady Hardy Duffus. The scarce first edition. Also published in the same year by R. Worthington in New York. In the publisher's original cloth. This work was written by Englis...

Remembrance of Things Past

Sir Henry Studdy Theobald · 1935 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1935. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiography by Sir Henry Studdy Theobald. The first edition. Very scarce. In the original publisher's quarter cloth with paper to the boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece po...

Familiar Letters from Italy, to a Friend in England

Peter Beckford · 1805 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Printed and sold by J Easton, 1805. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Peter Beckford's collected familiar letters from Italy in two uniform leather bound volumes. The first edition of this work, in two volumes. Bound without half titles. Peter Beckford...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson

R. W. Chapman · 1952 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press , 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. A new edition copy, complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's great Life of Johnson with the lette...

Mãƒâ©Moires de Philippe de Commynes

Philippe de Commynes; B. de Mandrot [ed.] · 1901 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Alphonse Picard et Fils , 1901-1903. Cloth. A new edition of this two-volume autobiography of the French writer Philippe de Commynes, with notes and an introduction. An uncommon two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste...

A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Lady Holland; Mrs Austin · 1855 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Leather. A leather bound copy of the witty Reverend's memoir. A complete two-volume memoir of the popular writer and Anglican cleric, Sydney Smith, written by his daughter. With a selection from his letters to volume 2. A...

Aus Meinem Leben Und Aus Meiner Beit

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha · 1892 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Berlin, Wilhelm Hert, 1892. Leather. A scarce biography of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in one volume, in the German language. German language. Scarce work. With portrait frontispiece. The biography of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who reigned from 1772 to his ...

My Story

Leonard Studley · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

not stated , Leonard Studley, 1988. First edition. Paperback. A signed copy of this personal memoir of West Dorset. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. This volume recalls eighty years in the Broadwindsor era of the Hill Country of West Dorset and is a memoir of ...

Life of Lord Jeffrey

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London , Adam and Charles Black , 1852. First edition. Cloth. A complete two volume set of the Life of Lord Jeffrey, in its first edition. A complete two volume set, in the first edition. Lord Jeffrey was a Scottish Judge and literary critic and these volumes contain details ...

The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger

Frederick Pease Harlow · 1928 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Salem, Marine Research Society, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of The Making of a Sailor, with illustrations. A first American edition.The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger is written by Frederick Pease Harlow. The volume is a deta...

The Burtons: A Family Record

Alonzo J. Burton · 1898 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

Brooklyn, N.Y. Edward Peithman, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A charming family record of the Burton family, charting their English origins in the seventeenth century and their American ancestors, privately compiled by Alonzo J. Burton, a Brooklyn based descendant. The author of...

Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson

Thomas Sadler · 1869 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1869. First edition. Cloth. A first edition complete three volume set of Henry Crabb Robinson's interesting dairies. A complete three volume set, in the first edition. Henry Crabb Robinson was an English lawyer and remembered as a diarist. He a...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.63 | ¥12,236)

London, Pleiades Books Limited , 1948. First edition. Cloth. Bright first edition of this autobiographical sketch of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, with decorations by John O'Connor. Autobiographical sketch of the life and work of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, author and b...

Who Only England Know

John Pudney · 1943 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Pudney's autobiographical account of a war-time journey in the scarce dust wrapper. First edition of Who Only England Know by John Pudney in the original publisher's cloth bindi...

The Life of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

Reginald Heber · 1824 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , James Duncan, 1824. First edition. Leather. A complete two volume set of The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, in the first edition. A complete two volume set. First edition copies. The Life of The Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor was written by Reginald Heber and gives...

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

Thomas Zouch · 1808 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

York, Thomas Wilson & Son, 1808. Leather. A complete biography of the life and works of Sir Philip Sidney. With portrait frontispiece. The life and works of Sir Philip Sidney, an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures...