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The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1826 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Oxford, Talboys and Wheeler; William Pickering, 1826. Leather. The Pickering edition of Boswell's famous biography of Samuel Johnson, bound in full calf. With an engraved frontispiece of Boswell to the second volume, and a folding facsimile to the third volume. Part of th...

Charles Dickens a Gossip About His Life, Works and Characters in Six Divisions

Frederick Barnard; Thomas Archer · 1871 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Cassel and Company Ltd, c1890. Paperback. The original six divisions of Archer's charmingly illustrated biographies Originally supplied to subscribers only. "Written in a spirited and attractive style..The characters which Charles Dickens has created are living, m...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. Cloth. Eight volumes of Lockhart's influential biography of Sir Walter Scott. Large-paper edition, of which six hundred copies were printed - this is the publisher's copy, and is not numbered. This biography h...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1839 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Edinburgh , Robert Cadell, 1839. Leather. A complete set of this biography of renowned poet Sir Walter Scott. Second edition. This biography has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson. It was published a great number...

Public Characters 1799 - 1807 in Six Volumes

Richard Phillips · 1799 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London , For Richard Phillips, 1799-1807. Leather. A collection of Richard Phillips' Public Characters, short biographies of eminent public figures. An important contemporary reference. Normally seen as single volumes for up to £150-£200 per volume. A good run, somewhat...

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain

Edmund Lodge · 1827 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.39 | $1,585.37 | ¥253,163)

London, Harding, Lepard, & Co, 1827-1828. Cloth. An absolutely exemplary edition of Lodge's selected portraits of the juggernauts of British history. Sir Edmund Lodge (1756-1839) was a distinguished herald; serving many years as an officer of arms, and writing extensively...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1839 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

Edinburgh; London, Robert Cadell, John Murray and Whittaker & Co. 1839. Cloth. A second edition, 10 volume set of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. Second edition. 10 volumes, complete. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, 1771 1832, was a prolific Scottish historical novelis...

Ravel Life and Works

Rollo H. Myers · 1960 · Rooke Books

£22.99 (€27.56 | $30.37 | ¥4,850)

London, Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A musical biography exploring the connection between the inner life of the artist, as well as the aspirations and deceptions revealed in the works of Maurice Ravel. First edition. Featuring the original unclippe...

The Lost Prime Minister a Life of Sir Charles Dilke

David Nicholls · 1995 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

London, Hambledon Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A biography of the British politician Sir Charles Dilke, who would have been Prime Minster in 1885 were it not for a well-publicised divorce case. With monochrome photographs, and frontispiece of Charles Dilke. In 1885, Dilk...

Penfriends from Porlock

A. N. Wilson · 1988 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of A. N. Wilson's collection of biographical writing. Ranging from Tolstoy to Henry James, Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch, Wilson's anthology provides shrewd insights into the lives of many famous na...

Jonathan Swift

Victoria Glendinning · 1998 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London, Hutchinson, 1998. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biography of Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish author and pamphleteer, who is best known for his works 'A Tale of a Tub', 'Gulliver's Travels', and 'A Mo...

A Little Learning the First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work by Evelyn Waugh. With original, price clipped, dustwrapper. First edition of this work. This autobiographical work has several pages of illustrations throughout. Arthur Evelyn St....

A Walk with a White Bushman

Laurens Van Der Post, Jean Marc Pottiez · 1986 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1986. First edition. Cloth. An insightful work regarding modern issues and personalities. This work is a transcript of a series of interviews with Jean Marc Pottiez, noted to the flyleaf as a fellow 'Eurafricasian.' The interviews are parti...

A Life on the Left

J. E. Mortimer · 1998 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Lewes, The Book Guild Ltd. 1998. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce signed first edition of this political autobiography by J. E. Mortimer. J. E. Mortimer was a British trade unionist and a Labour Party general secretary during the 1980s. In a black cloth binding in original ...

The Banker&Apos;S Life

George S Moore · 1987 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New York, W W Norton, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'The Banker's Life' by George S Moore. An autobiographical account of the Moore from his origins in Missouri through working in banking during the depression of the 1940s. In original dustwrapp...

Letters from Longstock

Geoffrey Snagge · 1968 · Rooke Books

£43.99 (€52.73 | $58.12 | ¥9,281)

London, Pelham Books, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Geoffrey Snagge's Letters from Longstock. Bound in paper covered boards with gilt lettering and unclipped dustwrapper. With foreward by Miss Read. Illustrated by Bernard Knight. Signed by the auth...

Memories of John Galsworthy

M E Reynolds · 1936 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London, Robert Hale and Company, 1936. Leather. The third impression of this personal biography of Galsworthy. It is illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and further tissue guarded plates throughout. Paper vellum spine with gilt titles and green cloth boards. "Although...

Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner

Philip Doddridge · 1778 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, R. Thomlinson, J. Jackson, A. Newton, W. Stanton, and J. Dursley, 1778. Leather. A scarce copy of this biographical work by Philip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was an English nonconformist leader, educator and writer. This work is a biography of Colonel Jame...

Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton; Count Grammont; Sir Walter Scott · 1846 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Henry Bohn, 1846. Leather. An historical work on the court of Charles the Second. Lacking title page and frontispiece. This work is Bohn's 'Extra Volume' as the publisher doubted 'the propriety of including Count Grammont's Memoirs in his &apos...

A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age

S. C. Hall · 0 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

London, J.S Virtue and Co, c1890. Leather. A selection of biographical monographs and intimate reminiscences of over 120 writers, artists and actors, Full calf leather prize binding with attractive gilt tooling to spine. Illustrated with many lovely black and white in text ill...