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Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher 1911-1914

Rupert Brooke · 1975 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

New York, Octagon Books [Farrar, Straus and Giroux], 1975. First edition. Hardback. A smart limited edition copy of this collection of the letters of English poet Rupert Brooke to his publisher in the years before his death. First edition. Limited to four hundred copies bound ...

The Letters of Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke; Geoffrey Keynes [editor] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968. First edition. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this collection of letters from English war poet Rupert Brooke. First US edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A collection of the letters of Rupert Chawner Br...

A Collection of Volumes on Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak; Gerd Ruge; Olga R. Hughes · 1959 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

New York; London; Santa Barbara, Pantheon; Thames and Hudson; Unicorn Press; Princeton University Press, 1959-1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four volumes on the life and works of Russian-Soviet poet and novelist Boris Pasternak. Four volumes. This set contai...

Nabokov: His Life in Art

Andrew Field · 1967 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this biographical study of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, with the original uncorrected galley proof. Two volumes. A first edition of this work alongside an uncorrected galley proof copy....

Master of Spies: The Memoirs of General Frantisek Moravec

Frantisek Moravec; J. C. Masterman · 1975 · Rooke Books

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

London, The Bodley Head, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this memoir from chief Czechoslovak military intelligence officer, Frantisek Moravec. Signed by English writer Graham Greene. First edition. With the signature of Graham Greene to the front free endp...

A Collection of Volumes from Maurice Collis

Maurice Collis · 1938 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London; New York, Faber and Faber; Alfred A. Knopf, 1938-1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four first edition volumes from British administrator for Burma Maurice Stewart Collis. Four volumes. Written by Maurice Stewart Collis, an administrator in Burma (now My...

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to His Child-Friends

Lewis Carroll; Evelyn M. Hatch [ed] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work on Lewis Carroll, featuring a selection of letters to the various children he befriended. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece...

The Life of Dylan Thomas; the Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

Constantine FitzGibbon · 1965 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd , 1965-1966. First edition. Cloth. An impressive set comprising the uncorrected proof copies and first editions of these two biographical works on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. This set offers four volumes in total. With both first edition works pres...

Leftover Life to Kill; Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter; Caitlin a Warring Absence: Caitlin Thomas with George Tremlett

Caitlin Thomas; George Tremlett · 1957 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Putnam; Secker and Warburg , 1957-1986. First edition. Cloth. A very smart selection of autobiographical works from Caitlin Thomas, the widow of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas. The first edition, first impressions of these works. Comprising three works from Caitli...

Memories of Old Friends Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox

Horace N. Pym [ed.] · 1882 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Smith, Elder and Co, 1882. Cloth. A complete second edition of these extracts from the correspondence and journals of English diarist, Caroline Fox. The second edition. Complete in two volumes.In the publisher's original cloth binding.These books contain a terrifi...

The Correspondence of James Boswell and John Johnston of Grange

Ralph S. Walker [ed.] · 1966 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1966. First edition. Cloth. The excellent first 'Research Edition' volume of Yale's James Boswell series, containing the letters between him and lifelong friend, John Johnston. First edition.The first volume of this 'Res...

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume One 1903-1917

Katherine Mansfield; Vincent O'Sullivan; Margaret Scott · 1984 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Oxford , Clarendon Press, 1984 . First edition. Cloth. A bright, first edition of this collection of correspondence from New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield, these letters covering the years she spent in England, France and Switzerland at the peak of her career. First editi...

Mon Ami Marcel Proust: Souvenirs Intimes

Maurice Duplay · 1972 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1972 . First edition. Paperback. American poet Cid Corman's own personal copy of the very scarce first edition of Maurice Duplay's account of his friendship with Marcel Proust. In the original FrenchThe copy of American poet, translator and ed...

The Life of Jameson

Ian Colvin · 1922 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two-volume biography of British colonial poltician Leander Starr Jameson. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's blue cloth. Volume I is illustrat...

A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953-1972; Ancient As the Hills: Diaries, 1973-1974; People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust; Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975-1978

James Lees-Milne · 2000 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, John Murray , 2000-2001. Paperback. A bright set containing the diaries of English writer and country house expert, James Lees-Milne. New paperback editions of these works. Offering four volumes from this run of James Lees-Milne's diaries. Lees-Milne was an Engl...

Tutti Frutti

Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau · 1834 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Bach and Co, 1834. First edition. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce first UK edition of this travel memoir by German nobleman Prince Hermann Puckler-Muskau. The very scarce first UK edition of this work, published the same year as the German first edition.In the original ...

Kate Greenaway

M. H. Spielmann; G. S. Layard · 1905 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this highly illustrated work on English artist and writer Kate Greenaway. First edition, second impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifty-three colour plates, and numerous in-text im...

The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon

Edward Earl of Clarendon; Edward Hyde · 1759 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.83 | $1,156.00 | ¥184,598)

Oxford, Clarendon Printing-House, 1759. First edition. Leather. A scarce sought after large paper issue of the first edition of Edward Hyde's autobiography. The first edition, the scarce and sought after folio issue.Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title, and eng...

James MILL

Alexander Bain · 1882 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1882. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this insightful biography on the life of James Mill, by the friend of his son, Alexander Bain. The first edition. An insightful biography on the life of the important Scottish economist, politica...

The Verdict of Bridlegoose

Llewelyn Powys · 1927 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1927. First edition. Cloth. The limited first edition of this charming series of anecdotes concerning the author's time living in America. The first edition, limited to 900 copies for sale, this copy being number 123.In the publisher's original...