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Sir Walter Scott the Great Unknown Volume I 1771-1821 Volume II 1821-1832

Edgar Johnson · 1970 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London , Hamish Hamilton, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Johnson's biography of Sir Walter Scott. Complete in two volumes. With a number of photographs and illustrations in each. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Sc...

Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times

Frank Owen · 1954 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.95 | $33.02 | ¥5,272)

London , Hutchinson, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated biography of Lloyd George. First Edition. Featuring a photographic frontispiece. 'With 41 photographs&apos. Humphrey Frank Owen (27 September 1905 – 23 January 1979) was a British journa...

Letters to William Allingham

H. Allingham and E. Baumer-Williams [editors] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1911. Cloth. An uncommon collection of letters to the Irish poet and diarist William Allingham. Containing letters from Robert Browning and Thomas Carlyle as well as his wife Helen, a well known water-colourist, the collection is an interesting...

The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell with Annotations Thereto 1896-1907

George Meredith · 1923 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London and San Francisco, The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Cloth. A collection of letters from George Meredith to Alice Meynell. This Edition is limited to 850 copies, on Ingres paper, for England and America, of which 780 are for sale. The type has been distributed. This is number 5...

The Printer and the Poet and Account of the Printing of &Apos;the Tapestry&Apos; Based Upon Correspondence between Stanley Morrison and Robert Bridges

Nicholas Barker · 1970 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

Cambridge, Privatley Printed (Cambridge), 1970. Cloth. This is a limited edition compilation of letters between Stanley Morrison and Robert Bridges. This edition, one of a five-hundred copy limited run, was printed as the annual Christmas book for 1970 for presentation by the ...

On the Trail of Stevenson

Clayton Hamilton and Walter Hale · 1916 · Rooke Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London , Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this study of Robert Louis Stevenson. Written by American drama critic Clayton Hamilton, with illustrations throughout by Walter Hale, the book traces Stevenson's origins in Scotland thro...

Woodeford Passages from the Five Volumes of the Diary of a Country Parson 1758-1802

Rev. James Woodforde; John Beresford · 1935 · Rooke Books

£37.00 (€44.35 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

London, Oxford University Press, 1935. Cloth. A nice clean copy of Woodforde's diary extracts, edited by John Beresford. An interesting volume featuring several passages taken from the Rev. James Woodforde's diaries. The work was selected and edited by John Beresford...

Wordsworthshire: An Introduction to a Poet&Apos;S Country

Eric Robertson · 1911 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London , Chatto and Windus, 1911. Cloth. A comprehensive study of the places from Wordsworth's life and poetry. Illustrated, with over forty black and white plates detailing locations and figures from Wordsworth's life. Illustrations by Arthur Tucker. Direct from the...

Shakespeare and Stratford-Upon-Avon a &Apos;Chronicle of the Time&Apos; Comprising the Salient Facts and Traditions, Biographical, Topographical and Historical, Connected with the Poet and His Birth-Place Together with a Full Record of the Tercentenary Celebration

Robert E. Hunter · 1864 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

London , Whittaker and Co. 1864. Cloth. A fascinating biography of Shakespeare and a historical study of life in Shakespeare's England. Also with a record of the 1864 Tercentenary celebration of Shakespeare's birth, which was an occasion of intense rivalry between Lo...

Richard Strauss the Staging of His Operas and Ballets

Rudolf Hartmann · 1982 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.93 | $59.44 | ¥9,491)

Oxford, Phaidon, 1982. Cloth. A nice clean copy of this illustrated biography of the German composer Strauss. An early edition. Richard Georg Strauss (1864 –1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. ...

Convoys, Blockades and Mystery Towers

Captain D. J. Munro · 0 · Rooke Books

£54.99 (€65.91 | $72.65 | ¥11,601)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, c1930. Cloth. A Royal Naval officer's account of his service in the Great War, blockading continental ports on the English Channel, supervising convoys in the Mediterranean, and participating in the development of enigmatic "mystery...

Petticoat Pioneers: Women of Distinction

Ruth E. Gordon · 1988 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Pietermaritburg, Shooter & Schuter, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, signed copy of Ruth E. Gordon's historical work discussing the influential women of Natal. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. The women featured in the volume include Laur...

A Gentleman Volunteer: The Letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812-1813

Michael Glover · 1979 · Rooke Books

£770.00 (€922.97 | $1,017.28 | ¥162,446)

London, Heinemann, 1979. First edition. Leather. A limited edition and signed copy of this work tracing the letters of a Napoleonic war officer, in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf binding. First Edition. The half title has been signed by Michael Glover and Sir Anthony Read who wrote th...

Men of Might Studies of Great Characters

A C Benson; H F W Tatham · 1911 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Edward Arnold, 1911. Leather. A collection of biographical essays on many notable male figures. In a prize binding for 'The Old Ride Branksome Park Bournemouth' by Relfe Brothers. Binder's stamp to the rear endpaper. Written and compiled by Cambridge sch...

Letters of John Richard Green

John Richard Green; Edited by Leslie Stephen · 1901 · Rooke Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901. Leather. A smartly-bound edition of the correspondences of John Richard Green. With a photogravure frontispiece. Bound by M. Sotheran (binder's ink stamp to front free-endpaper). In a half-morocco binding. Externally, smart, with just a few...

Memories in Two Volumes.

Lord Redesdale · 1912 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

New York, E.P.Dutton and Company , 1912. First edition. Leather. A first edition autobiographical exploration of the life, and influential figures surrounding Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale. Illustrated throughout including photographic plates, sketches ...

Recollections of Mirabeau and of the Two First Legislative Assemblies of France

Etienne Dumont · 1832 · Rooke Books

£174.00 (€208.57 | $229.88 | ¥36,709)

London , Edward Bull, 1832. Leather. The second edition, carefully revised, of Dumont's biographical work on his friend, Mirabeau, with an interesting provanence of Lady Exmouth, with a dated 1833 copperplate ink signature to the front blank. With twelve facsimiles of Dum...

Le Livre de Mon Ami

Anatole France · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1896. Cloth. The third edition of this moving memoir by Anatole France. The third edition of this work.In the original French.A book of memoirs by Anatole France, recounting his own childhood through the guise of a literary double, Pierre Noziere.By Anatol...

Pages Choisies Des Grands Ecrivains

Francoise-Rene de Chateaubriand · 1905 · Rooke Books

£71.99 (€86.29 | $95.11 | ¥15,188)

Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1905. Leather. A biography of this French writer, politician and historian, who is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. The sixth edition. Part of the 'Pages Choisies des Grands Ecrivains' (or 'Selected Pages...

Memoires Pour Servir a L&Apos;Histoire de Mon Temps Volumes I, II, III and IV.

M. Guizot · 1858 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1858. Leather. The interesting memoirs of Francois Guizot, a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848. Second Edition. Volumes I, II, III and IV of eight volumes. Illustrated bookplates of Feodorovna to front pastedowns. Fra...