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Mrs. Delany and Her Circle

Mark Laird; Alicia Weisberg-Roberts · 2009 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

New Haven; London, Yale University Press, 2009 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition, richly illustrated Yale University Press exhibition catalogue exploring the art and social world of Mary Delany. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. First edition.Complete with the o...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley; Frances Eliza Grenfell [editor] · 1888 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1888. Cloth. A smartly bound collection of the letters and memories of social reformer Charles Kingsley, edited by his wife. Complete in one volume, also published in two volumes. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of the letters and me...

A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood Interspersed with Memoirs of His Life

G. L. Newnham Collingwood · 1828 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, James Ridgway, 1828. First edition. Hardback. The scarce first edition of this interesting collection of letters from Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood, including a folding plan of the Battle of Trafalgar. The first edition of the work. Quarto.With a frontispiece and a fol...

Through the Buffer State; a Record of Recent Travels Through Borneo, Siam, and Cambodia

Surgeon-Major John Macgregor · 1896 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, F. V. White & Co, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, this is the very scarce first edition of Surgeon-Major John Macgregor's accounts of his travels in the 'Buffer States' between rival colonial powers. A very s...

The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World

Anonymous · 1893 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1893 . First edition. Hardback. In the publisher's original pictorial paper covered boards, this is the vanishingly scarce first UK edition of this contemporary biography of the early life of Fearless Frogman, Paul Boyton. A vanishingly ...

Risen by Perseverance; or, Lives of Self-Made Men

Robert Cochrane · 1885 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1885. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of biographical sketches of important and inspirational self-made men. With a frontispiece. A collection of biographical sketches and commentaries on some of the important entrepren...

The Story of My Heart, My Autobiography

Richard Jefferies · 1912 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

London, Duckworth & Co, 1912 . First edition. Vellum. A lovely example of the scarce limited edition of the first edition of Richard Jefferies's autobiography, in the original paper vellum binding. No. 148 of only 160 copies of this large paper limited edition produced.In...

An Historical and Critical Account of Hugh Peters. After the Manner of Mr. Bayle; the Life and Death of Anne Bullen, Queen Consort of England; the Fatal Vespers: A True and Full Narrative of That Signal Judgement of God Upon the Papists, by the Fall of the House in Black Friers, London, Upon Their Fifth of November, 1623; No Jest Like a True Jest: Being a Compendious Record of the Merry Life, and Mad Exploits of Capt. James Hind; Second Captain Hind: Or the Notorious Life and Actions of That Inf

William Harris · 1818 · Rooke Books

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

London, G. Smeeton, 1818. Leather. A collection of five scarce biographical tracts printed by G. Smeeton, smartly presented here in one volume. A desirable volume offering five scarce biographical tracts bound into one, with all but one (Anne Bullen) being a new printing from ...

The Letters of Robert Browning

Robert Browning; Thomas J. Wise [Compiler]; Thurman L. Hood [Editor] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, John Murray, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of the collected letters of Robert Browning with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Complete with the vanishingly scarce original un...

English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century

Constance Simon · 1907 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1907 . Cloth. Ambrose Heal's personal annotated copy of Constance Simon's illustrated study of the leading furniture designers of Georgian England. First published in 1904, this is a later re-issue following a change of publisher.With the penc...

The Island Empire; or, the Scenes of the First Exile of the Emperor Napoleon I

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff · 1855 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, T. Bosworth, 1855. First edition. Cloth. The scarce second edition of Henry Drummond Wolff's informative account of Napoleon's first exile, illustrated with a folding map and in the scarce publisher's cloth. The second edition of this work, a scarce work...

Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot

Sir John Eardley Wilmot; John Wilmot · 1811 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. Nichols; White and Cochrane; J. Butterworth, 1811 . Leather. A signed association copy of the revised second edition of John Wilmot's biography of his father, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas Sir John Wilmot. Signed by the grandson of the subject...

Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan, with a Particular Account of His Family and Connexions

John Watkins · 1817 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

London, Henry Colburn, 1817. Leather. The second edition of John Watkins' biographical work on the life of the noted playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, bound in full calf. The second edition. Illustrated with a monochrome engraved frontispiece to each volume, and a mo...

Wayward Tendrils of the Vine

Ian Maxwell Campbell · 1947 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1947. Cloth. A signed limited edition copy of this vivid wine-centred autobiography from Ian Maxwell Campbell. Limited to 750 copies, of which this copy is number 737. Signed by the author under the limitation. With a newspaper clipping of a review ...

The John Buchan Journal

Dr Kate Macdonald [ed]; John Buchan; The John Buchan Society; et al. · 1980 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

Edinburgh , The John Buchan Society, 1980-2017. Leather. An impressive run of 'The John Buchan Journal', a publication featuring articles and studies on the renowned Scottish author John Buchan, including an unpublished short story from Buchan, housed in four fantast...

Thirteen Signed Works by Michael Holroyd

Michael Holroyd · 1964 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London, Bloomsbury; Heinemann; et al. 1964-2012. First edition. Cloth. London: Bloomsbury; Heinemann; et al. 1964-2012. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5"; 8" by 5"; 7.5" by 4.5"; 9.5" by 6". None. A collection of signed works from Michael Holroyd, wi...

Eric Hiscock

Eric Hiscock · 1976 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Arlington Books, 1976. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this powerful WWI memoir of an underage solider in the Royal Fusiliers. Signed by the author to reputable publisher and founder of Virago Press, Carmen Callil, who he writes to here as his "good fri...

Macmillan Modern Novelists: Rosamond Lehmann

Judy Simons · 1992 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Macmillan, 1992. First edition. Cloth. A lovely signed first edition study of Rosamond Lehmann, from the library of Carmen Callil, founder of the feminist publisher Virago Press. A signed presentation copy from the author to reputable feminist publisher Carmen Callil.Â...

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Hilary McPhee · 2019 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. A very pleasing first edition of this memoir from Australian writer Hilary McPhee, signed in presentation to Carmen Callil. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page with an inscrip...

All of Us There

Polly Devlin · 1983 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this beautifully written memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland. Signed by the author to the title page, "with love & admiration & gratitude". The first edition, first impression...