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Marjorie Fleming a Sketch Being the Paper Entitled Pet Marjorie

John Brown · 1884 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching work on the child writer Marjorie Fleming, complete with a colour portrait frontispiece. The first illustrated edition.A touching biographical appreciation on the Scottish child poet Marjo...

An Englishwoman&Apos;S Twenty-Five Years in Tropical Africa: Being the Biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, Missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo

George Hawker · 1911 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this illustrated work on the life of Gwen Elen Lewis. The first edition of the work. Scarce. Includes portrait frontispiece and map with twelve illustrated plates. Collated complete. Written by...

The Life and Times of the Right Honble William Ewart Gladstone

J. Ewing Ritchie · 1880 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London , The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1880. Cloth. A complete six volume set of a pictorial edition of the life and times of William Ewart Gladstone. A complete six volume set, which contains two volumes split across six books, of the Pictorial Edition of The Li...

My Father and Edward Ardizzone

Edward Booth-Clibborn · 1983 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Patrick Hardy Books, 1983. First edition. Cloth. Lovely first edition of this personal account of the lasting friendship between Augustin Booth and Edward Ardizzone by Booth's son. The first edition of this work. Warm narrative of the long friendship between Edwar...

Two Works by William Boyd

William Boyd · 1998 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.23 | $759.66 | ¥121,307)

London, Bridgewater Press, 1998-2000. First edition. Cloth. Two first limited signed editions of some of William Boyd's autobiographical works. First editions, first printings of Protobiography (1998) and A Haunting (2000) by William Boyd.Signed as part of a limited editi...

Shadows on the Grass

Simon Raven · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Blond & Briggs , 1982. First edition. Cloth. Simon Raven's humorous and evocative cricketing memoir, the first edition complete with dust wrapper. First edition of this cricketing autobiography by Simon Raven, telling of the progress of matches played at Charterho...

Great Morning

Osbert Sitwell · 1948 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1948. First edition. Cloth. Third volume in Osbert Sitwell's famous autobiography, a bright first edition, first impression. First edition of this autobiographical volume by Osbert Sitwell, volume three of his extensive autobiography Left Hand, Rig...

Saunders&Apos; Portraits and Memoirs of Eminent Living Political Reformers

1840 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, J. Dowding, 1840. First edition. Leather. First edition of this illustrated collection of biographies of prominent political reformers of the day. The first edition of this work. Containing a series of biographical sketches of important political reformers of the day, ...

Khaki and Gown an Autobiography

Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1941 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1941. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of Lord Birdwood's enlightening travel work on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. The first edition of this work, printed in 1941. The compelling autobiogra...

The Early Homes of Prince Albert

Alfred Rimmer · 1883 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.85 | $151.93 | ¥24,261)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing work on the early homes of Prince Albert during his childhood, illustrated throughout with beautiful tinted plates. The first edition of this work.An exploration ...

Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century

Charles Allen · 1978 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London , Andre Deutsch, 1978. Cloth. An enlightening and interesting collection of memories and recordings of life in the British Raj. This volume offers the tales and stories of some seventy British men and women who lived in Anglo-India for its last fifty years.The anthology...

Memoires Du Comte de Grammont

Philibert de Gramont; Antoine Hamilton · 1811 · Rooke Books

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

London, Chez William Miller and Jacques Carpenter, 1811. Leather. This is a lovely leather-bound two volume set containing the memoirs of Philibert de Gramont, the Count de Gramont, written by his brother-in-law Antoine Hamilton, with numerous illustrated plates throughout the...

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill · 1873 · Rooke Books

£155.00 (€185.79 | $204.78 | ¥32,700)

London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer , 1873. First edition. Cloth. Second issue of John Stuart Mill's celebrated autobiography. The first edition, second issue of this autobiography of John Stuart Mill, with errata leaf to rear of the volume. English philosopher, pol...

An Excursion in France, and Other Parts of the Continent of Europe

Charles Maclean · 1804 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, T. N. Longman and C. Rees, 1804. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this English physician's account of his detainment in France under Napoleon's orders. The scarce first edition of this early nineteenth century work from Charles Maclean, M. ...

Hugh Miller, a Critical Study

W.M. Mackenzie · 1905 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. Cloth. A very scarce biographical account of the life and professional career of nineteenth-century Scottish geologist and evangelical, Hugh Miller. A fascinating biographical account of the life and professional career of nineteenth-century...

Khaki and Gown an Autobiography

Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1942 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1942. Cloth. A nice second impression copy of Lord Birdwood's enlightening travel work on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. The second impression of this work, printed in February 1942. The first impressio...

Marlborough: His Life and Times

Winston S. Churchill · 1947 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London, George G. Harrap, 1947-55. Cloth. The first edition complete in two volumes of John Churchill's panegyric biography by Sir Winston Churchill. Originally published in four volumes in 1933-8, this edition first thus complete in two volumes: vol. I first impression, ...

The Life of Christ, a Continuous Narrative in the Words of the Authorized Version of the Four Gospels

Joseph John Scott · 1905 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, John Murray, 1905. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition study of the life of Jesus Christ, in an exceptionally smart full calf school prize binding. Canon of Manchester Joseph John Scott explains in his preface that 'it has been pressed upon my atte...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

James Boswell · 1952 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.76 | ¥67,510)

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1952-57. Vellum. A limited edition set by Yale, comprising of the private papers of James Boswell, most notably his travel works. Illustrated throughout, including with folding maps. In four volumes, two additional volumes were also published in ...

Memories of Sixty Years

Earl of Warwick and Brooke · 1918 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Cassell and Company , 1918. Cloth. The second printing of this scarce autobiography of the Early of Warwick and Brooke. A scarce autobiography of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick and Brooke, from his early through his travels around Florida, Mexico, and East Afric...