Biografi

Twenty Years a-Growing

Maurice O'Sullivan · 1933 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this refreshing autobiography from Irish author Maurice O'Sullivan. The first edition of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Containing the highly enj...

Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman, Commencing in 1787

Philo Scotus [Philip Barrington Ainslie] · 1861 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co , 1861. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition autobiography of Scottish merchant, Philip Barrington Ainslie, including an account of his time working in Jamaica. The very scarce first edition of this work. In the original blue cl...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1949 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1949. Cloth. A new edition of this two volume set of Boswell's important biography of Samuel Johnson. Complete in two volumes. New edition. An important biography exploring the life of Samuel Johnson, an English poet, essayist, biographer an...

Life of Sir Thomas More

Sir James Mackintosh · 1844 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. Vellum. A first edition of this very scarce biography of Sir Thomas More from Scottish historian Sir James Mackintosh. First edition. Very scarce. With a portrait frontispiece. The life of Sir Thomas More, vener...

Notes of a Son and Brother

Henry James · 1914 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first UK edition of Henry James's autobiographical work, one of the last books James saw to the press before his stroke in December 1915, and his death three months later. The first edition UK edition, publis...

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

Jacques Casanova [Giacomo Girolamo Casanova]; Arthur Machen [trans.] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Privately Printed, 1894 . Hardback. Eleven volumes only of this limited edition set of the memoires of the eighteenth century Italian adventurer and author, Casanova. Eleven volumes only of a twelve volume work. Lacking volume V.This edition was limited to 1000 numbere...

Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883

Edward Fitzgerald; William Aldis Wright [ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of letters sent from Edward Fitzgerald to life-long friend, Fanny Kemble. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with two plates...

The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston of Skreens, in the Hundred of Chelmsford

Sir John Bramston · 1845 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.56 | $43.60 | ¥6,962)

London, The Camden Society, 1845. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed autobiography of English lawyer and politician Sir John Bramston the Younger. First edition. The autobiography of Sir John Bramston the Younger, an English lawyer and politician who ...

The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Madame D&Apos;Arblay

Frances Burney [Madame d'Arblay] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Bickers and Son Ltd, 1911. Cloth. The diaries and letters of Frances Burney, of which fascinatingly portray 18th-century English society, complete here in two volumes. The posthumously published diaries and letters of English satirical novelist Frances Burney, later Ma...

Rectors of Two Essex Parishes and Their Times (from the 13th Century to the 20th Century)

Rev. F. W. Austen · 1943 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Colchester , Benham and Company Limited, 1943. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this charming biographical series, concerning the rectors of two Essex parishes. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With a monochrome...

The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence; Harry T. Moore [editor] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart complete two volume set of the first edition of this collection of correspondence by renowned English writer David Herbert Lawrence. Complete in two volumes. First edition. The collected letters and correspondence of David...

Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self

Edward Gordon Craig · 1931 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the life of English actress Dame Alice Ellen Terry. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed exploration ...

Correspondance

Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle]; Henri Martineau [editor] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Paris, Le Divan, 1933-1934. Hardback. A complete ten volume set of this limited edition collection of the correspondence of the French writer known as Stendhal, in the original French. French. Complete in ten volumes. Limited to one-thousand eight-hundred and twenty-five copie...

The Works of John Dryden

John Dryden; Walter Scott · 1808 · Rooke Books

£2,350.00 (€2,816.85 | $3,104.68 | ¥495,777)

London, William Miller , 1808 . Leather. A complete, eighteen-volume set of the collected works of John Dryden, the first Scott edition, uniformly bound in straight-grain morocco. The collected works of John Dryden, with notes, historical, critical and explanatory, and a life ...

The Lindsay Report

Ethel Lindsay · 1963 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Courage House, Surrey, Ethel Lindsay, 1963 . First edition. Paperback. A unique and very scarce report from fanzine publisher Ethel Lindsay, documenting her important trip to the US after winning the TAFF, or Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund, in 1962. The first edition. Very scarce wor...

The Career of Major George Broadfoot

Major W. Broadfoot · 1888 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, John Murray, 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce biography on the military career of Major George Broadfoot, during the colonial expansion in India. The first edition of this scarce work.A biographical work on the life and career of Major Georg...

The Recreations of Christopher North

Christopher North [John Wilson] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Son, 1842. First edition. Leather. The complete three volume first edition set of John Wilson's collection of essays, bound in half morocco. The first edition. Bound in half morocco with moire cloth boards. This collection of essays was ...

Tressell of Mugsborough

F. C. Ball · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Lawrence and Wishart Ltd, 1951. First edition. Hardback. A first edition biography of the author of 'The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists', Robert Noonan, who wrote under the pen name Robert Tressell. First edition. In the publisher's original quarter c...

The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick

David Croal Thomson · 1882 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, The Art Journal Office, 1882. Hardback. A limited edition volume on the life and work of Thomas Bewick, illustrated with examples of Bewick's wood engravings. A limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and sixty four.Â...

Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein

William Rothenstein · 1931 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Faber and Faber, 1931-1932. First edition. Cloth. A two volume first edition set of the memoirs of English painter and writer Sir William Rothenstein, with illustrations. Two volumes. Lacking volume three only. First edition, first impression. Volume one contains recol...