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Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir 1700-1788

Mary Granville; George Paston [Emily Morse Symonds] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

New York, E. P. Dutton and Co, 1900. Cloth. A very scarce selection of letters and memoirs of Mary Granville, compiled by British author and critic Emily Morse Symonds. An early impression of the first US edition, published two months after the first. A very scarce collection...

All Done from Memory

Osbert Lancaster · 1963 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, John Murray, 1963. Cloth. A smart second edition of this illustrated autobiography from English cartoonist Sir Osbert Lancaster, signed and inscribed by the publisher. Second edition, originally released in autographed limited edition of forty-five copies in 1953. Sign...

Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Morrell; Robert Gathorne-Hardy [ed.] · 1963 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition, first impression of the early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, with illustrations throughout and the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's or...

Reminiscences of Behar

An Old Planter [Minden Wilson] · 1887 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Calcutta, Thacker, Spink and Co. 1887 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical account of the life of a planter in Behar, or Cooch Bihar, in India in the 1840s and 1850s. The first edition of this scarce work.Lacking the title page.Minden ...

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian

Colonel Henry Yule · 1875 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, John Murray, 1875 . Cloth. The second edition of Colonel Henry Yule's discussion of the travels of Marco Polo, richly illustrated throughout and with folding plates and maps. The second edition of this work, first published in 1871.Complete in two volumes.Scottish...

The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq. By Himself.

Thomas Pennant · 1793 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Benjamin and John White, 1793 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this uncommon autobiographical survey by Welsh naturalist and aniquary, Thomas Pennant, complete with four plates, including the scarce hand coloured folding plate of 'The Church Militant...

John Constable&Apos;S Correspondence: The Family at East Bergholt 1807-1837

John Constable; R. B. Beckett [editor] · 1962 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of the correspondence of English Romantic painter John Constable. First edition. Scarce work. From the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Illustrated ...

Ian Hamilton&Apos;S March

Winston Spencer Churchill · 1900 · Rooke Books

£330.00 (€395.56 | $435.98 | ¥69,620)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900 . Cloth. The second edition of Winston Churchill's personal account depicting his experiences during the Second Boer War. The second edition, published the same year as the first. Only 1,700 copies of this second edition were printed....

A Small Boy and Others

Henry James · 1913 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of novelist Henry James's autobiography of his early life and childhood. The first UK edition, first issue of this work, published the month after the US first edition.Illustrated with a frontispi...

The Book of Omar and Rubãƒâ¡Iyãƒâ¡T, Being a Book of Miscellanies -- Biographical, Historical, Bibliographical and Pictorial Notes on Omar Khayyam of Naishapur and His Inspired Quatrians

Multiple, including Richard Le Gallienne, Owen Seaman, Edwin Gosse, Andrew Lang, and Alfred Tennyson. · 1900 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

New York and London, The Bankside Press, 1900. First edition. Hardback. This scarce first edition, first impression of an illustrated, miscellaneous collection of items relating the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, in the original publisher's pictorial paper wraps. The first ...

Laggard

R. Stevens · 1953 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1953. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this vivid autobiography from celebrated falconer, Ronald Stevens. The first edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A beautifully written memoir of life in post-...

Letters of Matthew Arnold 1848-1888

Matthew Arnold; George W. E. Russell · 1895 · Rooke Books

£96.00 (€115.07 | $126.83 | ¥20,253)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart two volume set of the first edition of this collection of letters from English poet Matthew Arnold. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A collection of the letters and correspondence of Matthew Arnold, ...

Letters: Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

Raymond Chandler; James M. Fox; James Pepper [ed.] · 1978 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Santa Barbara, Neville and Yellin, 1978. First edition. Cloth. An excellent signed limited edition of this book of letters between authors Raymond Charles and James M. Fox. One of this edition's 350 numbered copies, being number 278. Signed by James M. Fox and editor Jam...

The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland

Robert Lloyd Praeger · 1937 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co. 1937. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this autobiographical account of the author's journeys around Ireland, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-eight plates, twelve in-text images and a fo...

Excitement: An Impudent Autobiography

Sydney Horler · 1933 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London, Hutchinson & Co. 1933 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this exceedingly scarce autobiography by Sydney Horler, with a partial dust wrapper. The first edition. Vanishingly scarce. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the front portion of the origi...

Memories of W.H. Helm

W. H. Helm; E. H. Visiak · 1937 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Richards, 1937. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of the memoirs of William Henry Helm; a very scarce work with a preface by E. H. Visiak. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped du...

A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan 1841-2

Lady Sale [Florentia Sale] · 1843 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

London, John Murray, 1843 . First edition. Cloth. The sixth thousand of the first edition of Lady Sale's account of her time as a hostage of Akbar Khan. The sixth thousand of the first edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with a...

A Very Godly Letter Made by the Right Honourable Sir Henry Sidney

Sir Henry Sidney · 1929 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Oxford, John Johnson; University Press Oxford, 1929. Hardback. A facsimile of Sir Henry Sidney's 1591 letter to his son, in the vanishingly scarce original glassine dust wrapper. A facsimile edition of the original 1591 edition. In the publisher's original hardback,...

Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox

Malcolm J. Turnbull · 1996 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

Bowling Green, OH, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A scarce literary examination Anthony Berkeley Cox, a popular and prolific crime and detective fiction writer. The first edition of this scarce work.With the publisher's original ...

Warriors for the Working Day

Peter Elstob · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition, first impression of Peter Elstob's best-known novel, based on the author's experiences of the Battle of Normandy. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher'...