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Memoires de Saint-Simon

Louis de Roubroy; Duc de Saint-Simon; A. de Boislisle · 1879 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1879-1903. Leather. A smart Ramage bound set of the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, in the original French. In a Ramage binding.In the original French.Seventeen volumes of a total of forty-three.The memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, the duc ...

Memoirs of a Social Atom

W. E. Adams · 1903 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Hutchinson & Son, 1903. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of W. E. Adams' memoirs, recounting his life and the notable figures he has met during his life, with numerous portraits. The first edition. Illustrated with four monochrome plates to 'Volume I&...

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

James Boswell · 1857 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1857. Leather. James Boswell's noteworthy biography on the life of Samuel Johnson, bound over ten volumes in half morocco, with engravings throughout. A new edition, with numerous additions and notes. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and ...

Journal

Franz Kafka; Marthe Robert [translator] · 1954 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1954. Paperback. A smart translated edition of the diaries of German-language writer Franz Kafka, here translated into French and inscribed by the translator. French. Inscribed and signed by the translator to the half-title, which roughly translates as:...

Charles Godfrey Leland

Elizabeth Robins Pennell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first limited edition of this biography on Charles Godfrey Leland, an illustrated work written by his niece. A limited edition of one-hundred and fifty copies, published concurrently with the f...

The Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1832. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound collection of first edition volumes from English antiquarian Ralph Thoresby. Four volumes. First edition. This set includes: The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, Author of the Topography of L...

Life of Lord Jeffrey

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£198.00 (€237.33 | $261.59 | ¥41,772)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852 . Leather. The second edition of Lord Cockburn's touching biographical work on his lifelong friend, Lord Francis Jeffrey. The second edition. Published the same year as the first. Complete in two volumes. Bound in half calf with ma...

The Tiger: Georges Clemenceau 1841-1929

George Adam · 1930 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound copy of the first edition of this biography of French statesman Georges Clemenceau. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plate. Collated complete. The life of Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, ...

Peter Behrens: Architect and Designer

Alan Windsor · 1981 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, The Architectural Press , 1981. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography on prolific architect and "father of the modern movement" Peter Behrens. The first edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A biographical study of Peter Be...

C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist

Alan Crawford · 1985 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive biography on English architect and designer, Charles Robert Ashbee, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A fascinating bi...

A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B A. Of Wadham College, Oxford; Missionary of the Teloogoo People, South India

Rev. George Townshend Fox · 1850 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Seeleys, 1850. First edition. Leather. An early edition of this uncommon illustrated memoir on the reverend and missionary Henry Watson Fox, with a hymn written by Fox included, bound in full calf. An early edition, with the additional appendix to the rear which is not...

Aus Dem Tagebuch Einer Schnecke Der Butt Kopfgeburten Oder Die Deutschen Sterben Aus

Gunter Grass · 1972 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Munich, Luchterhand, 1972-1980. First edition. Cloth. An excellent three-volume set of novels from Nobel Prize winner, Gunter Grass. Three first edition novels in the original German, all in the original unclipped dust wrappers.With political topics and discussions of gender a...

Lord Strafford

H. D. Traill · 1915 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1915 . Leather. A later edition of Traill's biographical work on Lord Stafford, in a half leather prize binding. In a half calf prize binding, with the gilt motif of King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, to the front cover. The fift...

The Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill

Helen Cody Wetmore · 1903 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, The Partington Advertising Company, 1903. Cloth. A smart new edition of this illustrated biography of American soldier, bison hunter, and showman, "Buffalo Bill". New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. The biography of one of th...

Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary, and Work

Edward Maitland · 1896 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.93 | $1,050.31 | ¥167,720)

London, George Redway, 1896. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this touching and insightful biography on the life and work of Anna Kingsford, an illustrated publisher's presentation copy. The scarce first edition of this work.'With the Publisher'...

The Works of George Meredith & Letters of George Meredith

George Meredith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1909-1912. Cloth. A full set of the works of English novelist and poet, George Meredith, with a two volume set of his letters. Total of twenty-nine volumes. Written by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was...

The Life of Samuel Johnson L.L. D.

James Boswell · 1901 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1901. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of this well-known biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. Complete in three volumes. The first Railton edition. Volume one is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, six photogravure portrait plat...

The Letters of Horace Walpole Fourth Earl of Orford

Horace Walpole; Peter Cunningham · 1891 · Rooke Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.31 | $3,633.13 | ¥580,165)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. Leather. An illustrated limited edition collection of the letters of Horace Walpole, totalling over two thousands letters written during his lifetime. A limited edition, limited to one hundred copies, of which this is numbered ninety.Comp...

A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916

Mark VII [Max Plowman] · 1927 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons LTD. 1927 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this memoir from poet and pacifist, Max Plowman, written under the pseudonym of Mark VII. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with red motif to the front cover. L...

Biographical Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, and Architects

John Gould · 1839 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, George Routledge, 1839. Cloth. A smart copy of this new edition of the biographical dictionary of artists, in two volumes. Complete in two volumes. New edition. A biographical dictionary of artists from the earliest ages to the contemporary time, with original anecdote...