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Mr. Charles King of England Cromwell a Character Study

John Drinkwater · 1929 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author&apos. Cloth. London: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, 1929; [1927] (Dated from author's ink inscription). Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". None. A very smart, very scarce signed pair of biographies of his...

Meredith

Siegfried Sassoon · 1948 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. Lovely biography of George Meredith from prominent war poet Siegfried Sassoon. First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Featuring a frontispiece portrait of George Mer...

The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume I 1796-1801 the Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume II 1801-1809 the Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Volume III 1809-1817

Charles Lamb; Mary Anne Lamb; Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. [ed.] · 1975 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Ithaca; London, Cornell University Press, 1975; 1976; 1978. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition set compiling the letters of writers and siblings Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, illustrated throughout. A set of very smart first editions, which collect the letters of Charl...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1910-1911. Cloth. A charming and complete two volume set of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the most praised biographies in English literature. James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, the famous b...

The Coast of Incense, Autobiography 1933-1939

Freya Stark · 1953 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, John Murray, 1953 . First edition. Cloth. The smart first edition of Stark"s Arabian memoirs, charting her desert travels along the fabled frankincense coast in the years before war, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original gr...

What Am I Doing Here & Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin; Nicholas Shakespeare · 1989 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Jonathan Cape; The Harvill Press, 1989-1999 . Cloth. A fascinating two volume set of works related to the travel writer Bruce Chatwin and his life, including a signed copy. A two volume set.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Bruce C...

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726: Volume I; the Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726: Volume II;

Humpfrey Wanley; C. E. Wright and Ruth C. Wright · 1966 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, The Bibliographical Society, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Very smart complete set of the diary of important librarian and scholar Humfrey Wanley, the first Bibliographical Society edition. First edition of the Bibliographical Society printing.Complete in two volumes.In ...

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Including Boswell&Apos;S Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson&Apos;S Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

James Boswell; Edited by George Birkbeck · 1887 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Oxford , At The Clarendon Press, 1887. Cloth. A complete set of James Boswell's biography of the illustrious man of letters, Dr Samuel Johnson. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Also containing Boswell's Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a J...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1835 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, John Murray, 1835. Cloth. An early nineteenth century John Murray's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Complete in Ten Volumes. Volumes IX and X are the two volumes of Johnsoniana. With additional engraved title page and frontispiece in each volume. To whi...

Memoirs of John Evelyn Esq with Correspondence

William Bray · 1827 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London , Henry Colburn, 1827. Leather. The diaries of the other great British 17th century diarist, and rival to Pepys, John Evelyn. Like Pepys, these diaries illuminate the social life, manners, and politics of the day. They provide a first hand account of the experience of k...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

James Boswell · 1952 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London , Clarendon Press, 1952-1957. Vellum. Five volumes of the Yale Editions of the private papers of James Boswell, all de luxe limited editions, from the Selbourne collection. The volumes present are: Boswell in Holland; Boswell on the Grand Tour, Germany and Switzerland; ...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. In Seven Volumes

John Gibson Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Edinburgh and London, Robert Cadell and John Murray and Whittaker and Co, 1837-1838. First edition. Cloth. The fascinating and definitive biography of Sir Walter Scott, edited by his friend and son in law. First Edition. Complete in seven volumes. With a frontispiece and foldi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell · 1831 · Rooke Books

£299.99 (€359.59 | $396.33 | ¥63,289)

London, John Murray, 1831. Cloth. A bright set of The Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell, edited by John Wilson Croker. 5 Volumes, complete. With a Hedges & Smith bookseller's label on the front board of volume 1. On Croker"s edition of Boswell"s Life of Johnson, it is com...

Danger Is Their Business

Marjorie Ward; Edward Ward · 1955 · Rooke Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London, Cassell and Company, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A selection of writings on several men that live dangerous lives. First edition. With original unclipped dustwrapper. This work is based on BBC radio interviews with several men. These are Texan oil fire-fighter Myron Ki...

Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope His Life and Times

Enid Starkie · 1954 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this biography of Petrus Borel. Signed by the author on the day of publication. Petrus Borel was a French writer of the Romantic movement and is credited as foreshadowing surrealism, though he was n...

Robert Dick Baker of Thurso Geologist and Botanist

Samuel Smiles · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Murray, 1905. Leather. A interesting biography of Scottish geologist and botanist Robert Dick, by Samuel Smiles. Originally published in 1878. Contains a frontispiece portrait of Dick and several illustrations, both plates and vignettes, by Paul Rajon. Written by ...

Memoirs of Charley Crofts Containing Numerous Highly Entertaining Anecdotes

Charley Crofts · 1829 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Cork, Edwards and Savage, 1829 . First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this humorous memoir from Charley Crofts. Rare Cork imprint of this Irish Character. First Edition. In a half-morocco binding. Externally, smart, though with some marks. Internally, firmly bou...

Grammont

Anthony Hamilton · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Arthur L Humphreys, 1906. Leather. Hamilton's memoirs of Count Grammont, in a fine binding. Philibert, comte de Gramont (1621 – 1707) was a French nobleman. Anthony Hamilton (1646 – 1720) was an Irish classical author who wrote in French. The Mémoires du comte ...

Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Author of the Sylva. In Two Volumes

William Bray · 1819 · Rooke Books

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

London, Henry Colburn, 1819. Leather. A rich wealth of information about the goings-on of the seventeenth century, from the perspective of a gardener and diarist. Second Edition. The whole now published from the first MSS. 'Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705...

Butleriana

Samuel Butler · 1932 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1932. Leather. A limited edition collection of Butler's autobiographical essays. Number 632 of 800 copies printed by Fanfare Press. Featuring eight plates, including a frontispiece. Contains seven autobiographical and other essays - a selection of ...