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Khaki and Gown: An Autobiography

Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood; Winston Churchill · 1942 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,283)

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1942. Cloth. A smart second impression of Lord Birdwood's autobiography on his time with the British Army, complete with colour folding maps. Second impression, originally published 1941. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen plates,...

With Our Heroes in Khaki

William Sellers · 1917 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, R. T. S. [The Religious Tract Society], 1917. First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition presenting the Christian work carried out with soldiers during the First World War, written by William Sellers. First edition. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Date...

Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Jean Racine; L. S. Auger · 1875 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie. 1875 . Leather. A scarce copy of this compilation of the works of French dramatist Jean Racine, edited and introduced by L. S. Auger. Bound in a smart, quarter morocco with cloth to the boards.Written entirely in the original French. This scarce w...

The Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens; George Gissing; J. A. Nicklin · 1902 · Rooke Books

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

London, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, 1902. Leather. A superb collection of the Standard Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, with two biographical works, in smart quarter morocco bindings. The Standard Edition of these works, published by The Gresham Publishing ...

Ways of Escape

Graham Greene · 1980 · Rooke Books

£52.00 (€62.33 | $68.70 | ¥10,970)

London, The Bodley Head, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the second volume of English writer Graham Greene's autobiography. First edition. The second volume of an autobiography by Graham Green concentrating on the author's work more so than his l...

Museum Piece or the Education of an Iconographer

James Laver · 1963 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1963. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this illustrated memoir from English art historian, James Laver. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. The memoirs of James Laver, an E...

The Russian Diary of an Englishman: Petrograd, 1915-1917

Anonymous · 1919 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

New York, Robert M. McBride and Company, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce first edition detailing the life of an English man in Russia from 1915 to 1917. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. The ...

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Patrick French · 1994 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,916)

London, Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. Cloth. The third impression of this biography of British Army officer and explorer, Sir Francis Edward Younghusband. First edition, third impression. Illustrated with three maps and sixteen plates of photographs. Collated complete. ...

Life with the Hamran Arabs an Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan During the Winter of 1874-5

Arthur B. R. Myers · 1876 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co , 1876. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce autobiographical account of a sporting tour in Soudan in 1874, written by Arthur B. R. Myers. The first edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four mounted Woodb...

A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh · 1964 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1964 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Evelyn Waugh's autobiography, with illustrations and in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. A lovely illus...

Jane Austen

Elizabeth Jenkins · 1950 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950 . Cloth. A smart, later impression of Elizabeth Jenkins' biographical work on Jane Austen, in the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, very scarce, unclipped dust wrap...

A Midnight Visit to Holyrood

Countess Cathness Duchesse Pomar · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London , C. L. H. Wallace , 1887 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this very scarce work by the Countess of Caithness detailing her trip to Holyrood, published for the 300th anniversary of the execution of Mary Stuart. The first trade edition. First printed fo...

Pablo Ruiz Picasso: A Biography

Patrick O'Brian · 1976 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Collins, 1976 . First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this biographical work on Picasso, by Patrick O'Brian, with illustrations. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, striking dust wrapper, which has been p...

Forty-Niners

Archer Butler Hulbert · 1931 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of the life of pioneers on the California Trail by Archer Butler Hulbert, illustrated and in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth w...

Southern and Western Texas Guide for 1878

James L. Rock; W. I. Smith · 1878 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

St. Louis, A. H. Granger Publisher, 1878. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this historical illustrated guide on Texas by James L. Rock and W. I. Smith. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacks the folding map. With a frontispiece portrait a...

Alex Dunsmuir&Apos;S Dilemma

James Audain · 1964 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Victoria, Sunnylane Publishing Company, 1964. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this history of the life of Alex Dunsmuir, known as the coal king of San Francisco, signed by the author. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, wit...

Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq. , R.A.

Wilkie Collins · 1848 · Rooke Books

£1,650.00 (€1,977.79 | $2,179.88 | ¥348,099)

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Londmans, 1848. First edition. Leather. The first published work of important Victorian author Wilkie Collins, a touching biography on his father, painter William Collins. The first edition of this scarce work.Smartly bound in a half crushed ...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1892 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,933.36 | $6,539.64 | ¥1,044,296)

London, Chatto & Windus; Heinemann; Cassell et al, 1892-1901 . Leather. An exceptionally beautiful thirty volume set of the works of Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, in sumptuous half crushed morocco bindings. Very rare in an vibrant blue morocco.Present in...

Gerald: A Portrait

Daphne du Maurier · 1934 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, second impression of Daphne du Maurier's biography of her father, uncommon in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, second impression of this work, published in the same month as the first, ...

Margaret Beavan of Liverpool: Her Character and Work

Ivy A. Ireland · 1938 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons Ltd. 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this scarce biography of the first female Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Margaret Beavan. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the very scarce...