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1936 a London Girl of the Eighties 1937 a London Home in the Nineties

Mary Vivian Hughes · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Oxford University Press, 1936-1937. First edition. Cloth. A very smart two volume set of first edition works recounting the author's life in London during 1880-1890, with illustrations throughout each. Two first edition works by Vivian Hughes. Both in the original...

Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale

C. L. Brightwell · 0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, The Religious Tract Society, c1858. Cloth. A smart copy of this semi-autobiographical work on Bernard Palissy, a French Huguenot potter. Illustrated throughout. An account of the life of Bernard Palissy, a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, gath...

In Memoriam Herbert Cushing Tolman

Various · 1926 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Nashville, Alpha of Tennesse, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce illustrated volume commemorating the life of Herbert Cushing Tolman. The first edition of this very scarce work.A touching memorial volume, commemorating the life and career of Herb...

The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania)

Baroness Deichmann · 1890 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1890. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce translated biography of the first Queen of Romania, with illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three portraits, one plate, and a fold-out facsimile of handwriting...

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Graham Balfour · 1901 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Methuen and Co, 1901. First edition. Leather. A mixed edition set of this touching biography on the life of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written by his cousin. Volume I is the first edition, Volume II is the second edition.Complete in two volumes. Bound by ...

A Memoir of Edward Askew Sothern

T. Edgar Pemberton · 1889 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1889. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Pemberton's illustrated biography on the life of the comedic English actor Edward Askew Sothern. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and five monochrome plates, in...

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families

Walter H. Tregellas · 1884 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Elliot Stock, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work depicting the lives of noted Cornish men, written by Walter H. Tregellas. The first edition.Two volume complete set. Illustrated with headpieces. This set features an account of the...

Our House

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright · 1959 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

New York, Horizon Press, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching autobiographical work on Olgivanna Lloyd Wright and her husband. The first edition, first printing.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.An autobiographical work by Olgivanna Lloyd Wri...

The Novels of George Eliot; George Eliot"S Life As Related in Her Letters and Journals

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]; J. W. Cross · 1887 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1887-1896. Leather. The complete novels of George Eliot, with her short story collection 'Scenes of a Clerical Life', and a biography arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross. Nine volumes in eight, uniformly bound in half ca...

Black & White

Shiva Naipaul · 1980 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Shiva Naipaul's autobiographical work on his trip to Guyana after the Jonestown Massacre. The first edition. Alternatively titled ';Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy' in the U.S...

Raymond and I

Elizabeth Robins · 1956 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by author, actress and suffragette Elizabeth Robins, in the original scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth with the scarce unclipped...

James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters, and Reports

James Gilmour; Richard Lovett [editor] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1893. Cloth. A smart new and cheaper edition of this illustrated collection of personal writings from Scottish missionary, James Gilmour. New and cheaper edition. Scarce edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, five plates, and tw...

Warren Hastings

Sir Alfred Lyall · 1894 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1894. Leather. A later edition of this work on British colonial administrator Warren Hastings from the English Men of Action series by Macmillan. Later edition, originally published 1889. English Men of Action series from Macmillan. Illustrat...

Letters from Lady Jane Coke to Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758

Mrs. Ambrose Rathborne [ed.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1899. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce collection of letters between Lady Jane Wharton Coke and Mrs. Eyre. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with four plates, inclu...

Memoirs of Eminent Etonians

Sir Edward Creasy · 1876 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.33 | ¥23,207)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Leather. Edward S. Creasy's illustrated biography on noted Etonians with a history of the famous college, in a full calf prize binding. A new edition. First published in 1850. Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece and twelve ...

Pitt

Lord Rosebery · 1901 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. Leather. Lord Rosebery's biography on the English statesman William Pitt, in a prize tree calf binding. The eighth edition. First published in 1891. Part of the 'Twelve English Statesman' series. Bound in a full tree ca...

Real Copies

Reynolds Price · 1988 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

North Carolina, Wesleyan College Press, 1988. Paperback. A signed limited edition of this autobiographical work by Reynolds Price about the people who inspired him. A limited edition. Number 25 out of 50 signed copies. The first edition was published in a numbered edition of f...

Midnight Oil

V. S. Pritchett · 1972 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York , Random House , 1972. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this autobiographical work, the second volume of V. S. Pritchett's memoirs. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original ...

Voices: A Memoir

Frederic Prokosch · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this memoir from American writer Frederic Prokosch, with publicity information. First edition. With publicity details inserted. An unusual and lyrical memoir from Frederic Prokosch, ...

Boswell: The Ominous Years 1774-76

Charles Ryskamp; Frederick A. Pottle · 1963 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, William Heinemann, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this detailed account of the life of James Boswell from 1774 to 1776. First edition. A new section of the inimitable journal beginning immediately after the execution in Edinburgh of Reid, a sheep-...