Biografi

Winston S. Churchill (Companion Volumes I and II)

Randolph S. Churchill · 1967 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Heinemann, 1967-1969. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing collection offering four companion parts to Winston S. Churchill's authorised biography. Comprising two first edition companion volumes across four parts. Not including Part 3 of Volume II. With the original ...

The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A. F. Depot between August and December 1922

T. E. Lawrence · 1955 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.89 | ¥24,894)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force. First edition. When, in 1922, T. E. Lawrence enlisted in the ranks of the R.A.F. under the name of John H...

My Early Life: A Roving Commission & Great Contemporaries

Sir Winston S. Churchill · 1949 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Odhams Press Ltd. 1949. Cloth. Two volumes of works from British statesman and former Prime Minister Sir Winston S. Churchill. Two volumes of a four volume set. Later editions. Written by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and...

Marlborough His Life and Times

Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.38 | $2,576.22 | ¥411,389)

London, George G. Harrap & Co LTD, 1933-38. First edition. Cloth. A sought after first impression set in unclipped dust wrappers of Winston Churchill's monumental biography on his ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, complete with all plates and folding maps. The first edit...

The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness Bunsen

Augustus J. C. Hare · 1879 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Daldy, Isbister & Co. 1879. First edition. Cloth. A first edition set of this biography of Welsh painter Frances Baroness Bunsen. Complete in two volumes. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. The life and collected letters of Baroness Frances Wad...

Messing About in Boats

Surgeon Rear-Admiral John R. Muir · 1938 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Blackie and Son Limited , 1938. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing association copy of this autobiographical work from accomplished yachtsman and Surgeon Rear-Admiral, John R. Muir. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper, dedicated to one R. Lionel Foster, "with...

Les Promenades de Victorine; Ou, Morale de L&Apos;Enfance.

Mademoiselle Le Noir [Elizabeth Anne Le Noir] · 1804 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

A Londres, W. Spilsbury; T. Boosey, 1804 . Leather. The second edition of this exceptionally scarce instructive work written for young ladies by Elizabeth Anne Le Noir. Bound in full calf. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Vanishingly scarce, as with any other works writ...

Memorials of the Missionary Career of the Rev. James Laing

James Laing; William Govan · 1875 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Glasgow, David Bryce and Son, 1875. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce biography on the life of missionary Reverend James Laing. The first edition of this very scarce work.A biography on the Reverend James Laing, a missionary of the Free Church of Scot...

Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

W. A. Lampadius; William Leonhard Gage [ed.] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Reeves , 1877. Cloth. A smart second edition of this biography of German composer, Felix Mendelssohn. The revised second edition of this work, exploring the life and career of Felix Mendelssohn, a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic per...

Everybody&Apos;S Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669

Samuel Pepys; O. F. Morshead [editor] · 1926 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1926. Leather. A smartly bound and richly illustrated abridged edition of the diary of Samuel Pepys, the first edited by O. F. Morshead. The first appearance of this abridged version of 'The Diary of Samuel Pepys', edited by O. F. Morshe...

Frederick Edwin Earl of Birkenhead

The Earl of Birkenhead [Frederick Smith] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1933-1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition two volume set of this biographical work on Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. Complete in two volumes. First edition. The First Phase is illustrated with a colour frontispiece...

Winston S. Churchill

Martin Gilbert; Randolph S. Churchill · 1967 · Rooke Books

£3,700.00 (€4,435.04 | $4,888.22 | ¥780,585)

London; New York, Heinemann; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967-90. First edition. Cloth. A set of Winston Churchill's authorised and illustrated biography, including volumes signed by Martin Gilbert, Clementine Churchill, and Randolph Churchill. Nine volumes of Randolph Chur...

Paul Verlaine

Harold Nicolson · 1921 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first US edition of this biography of French poet Paul-Marie Verlaine from Sir Harold George Nicolson. First US edition. Scarce edition. A biography of Paul-Marie Verlaine, a French poet a...

Twenty Years a-Growing

Maurice O'Sullivan; Moya Llewelyn Davies [translator]; George Thomson [translator] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this autobiography from Irish author Maurice O'Sullivan, with unique memoirs from his time living on the Great Blasket Island. First UK edition. The autobiography of Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, ang...

Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants, in the New Zealand Company&Apos;S Settlements of Wellington, Nelson, & New Plymouth. From February, 1842, to January, 1843.

Various · 1843 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1843 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce compilation of letters written by those who emigrated to New Zealand in the mid nineteenth century, working for the New Zealand Company establishing settlements across the country. First edition. Bound...

The Life and Art of W. Heath Robinson

Langston Day · 1947 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Herbert Joseph Limited, 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression of this biography of cartoonist W. Heath Robinson, illustrated throughout with plates of his own works. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, on...

The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Character of James Thomson ("B.V. ")

Bertram Dobell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Published By The Author, 1910. First edition. Cloth. Three different first edition issues of Bertram Dobell's brief biography on the life of his friend, James Thomson. A set of three first editions of 'The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Chara...

The Terezin Requiem

Josef Bor; Edith Pargeter [trans.] · 1963 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Heinemann, 1963. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this autobiographical novel about the Jewish musician Rafael Schächter and his staging of Verdi"s Requiem at Terezín. The first UK edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust ...

Lavengro; the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest.

George Borrow · 1851 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,071)

London, John Murray, 1851 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel, telling the story of a man of many titles, complete here in three volumes, bound by E. Pouget. The first edition.Bound by E. Pouget in full crushed morocc...

Contemporary Portraits

Frank Harris · 1915 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition of Frank Harris' series of biographies of contemporary eminent figures. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiec...