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The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence

D. E. Williams · 1831 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this two volume biography of this immensely popular Regency era portrait artist, a scarce work. The scarce two volume first edition biography of leading Regency era portrait artist S...

Examples of San Bernardino of Siena

Ada Harrison; Bernardino of Siena · 1926 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Gerald Howe, 1926. First edition. Vellum. A lovely limited edition copy on the life of Bernardino of Siena, containing moral lessons attributed to him, bound in vellum and signed by artist Robert Austin with numerous illustrated engravings. First Limited Edition, being...

Memories and Thoughts: Men-Books-Cities-Art

Frederic Harrison · 1906 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. First edition of Frederic Harrison's autobiographical work, sharing memories and impressions of life experiences. First edition of this work. English author Frederic Harrison shares personal memories and thoughts colle...

Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs of His Life

Charles Kingsley; Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley (ed.) · 1880 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1880. Fine Binding. A handsomely bound copy of this collection of letters and memoirs of renowned Victorian author Charles Kingsley, illustrated throughout. A collection of letters and memoirs, including copious biographical information, from reno...

The Golden Age

Kenneth Grahame · 1915 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1915. Cloth. A bright first edition of Kenneth Graham's celebrated childhood reminiscences to feature colourful illustrations by R. J. Enraght-Moony. The first edition thus embellished with nineteen lovely full page coloured plates by R....

Boswell&Apos;S Life of Johnson Together with Boswell&Apos;S Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson&Apos;S Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

James Boswell; Samuel Johnson; George Birkbeck Hill [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Oxford , At the Clarendon Press , 1934-50. Cloth. The acclaimed biography of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, complete with six bright volumes in five. A collection complete in three volumes of this work by Scottish biographer James Boswell, often described as one of the great...

Una Amazone Sous le Premier Empire

Henri Lachize · 1902 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Paris, Charles Carrington, 1902. First edition. Leather. The original biography of Isa Saint-Elme by Henri Lachize, the first edition in French with illustrations by Charles Thevenin. Biography of Ida Saint-Elme by Henri Lachize, the first edition limited to five hundred copie...

Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor

Simon Fenwick · 2017 · Rooke Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

London, Macmillan, 2017. First edition. Cloth. A bright first impression of this biography of English photographer Joan Leigh Fermor, wife of Major Paddy Leigh. The first edition, first impression of this work. A biographical sketch of the life and work of Joan Leigh Fermor, t...

William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries

Thomas Archer; Alfred Thomas Story · 1898 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, The Gresham Publishing Co, 1898-99. Cloth. A smart, complete set of this illustrated work on the social and political career of former British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, in Talwyn Morris binding. A fascinating and comprehensive account of the life and pol...

Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito

General Fleischmann · 1881 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Cloth. A smart copy of this comprehensive memoir of French statesmen and scholar, André François Miot de Mélito, a scarce work. A very detailed and comprehensive memoir of eighteenth and nineteenth century French stat...

Art Principles in Practice

Henry Rankin Poore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London and New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Rankin Poore's work on art theory, illustrated throughout and complete with the original dust wrapper. This work completes a trio of books on art theory by Rankin Poore, t...

Reminiscences of the Late Thomas Assheton Smith, or the Pursuits of an English Country Gentleman

Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot · 1860 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, John Murray, 1860. Leather. A beautifully bound, second edition of Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot's memoir of the sportsman and politician Thomas Assheton Smith. Second edition, bound in full-calf.Illustrations include a frontispiece, a vignette illustration to the ti...

Hafed Prince of Persia: His Experiences in Earth-Life and Spirit-Life, Being Spirit Communications

David Duguid · 1914 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, W. Foulsham & Co. 1914. Cloth. A unique pseudo-autobiography by David Duguid about Hafed Prince of Persia, a warrior prince and Archmagus, whose life story he claimed to receive through the trance medium. A 1914 popular edition copy of 'Hafed Prince of Persia: His...

Downhill All the Way: A Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 the Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of 1939-1969

Leonard Woolf · 1967 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, The Hogarth Press, 1967-9. First edition. Cloth. The autobiography of Leonard Woolf from 1919 through to 1969, in two bright volumes complete with dust wrappers, the first editions. The last two volumes of Leonard Woolf's extensive autobiography, complete in six v...

Marlborough His Life and Times, Volume I and II

Winston S. Churchill · 1933 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933-34. First edition. Cloth. A very smart set of the first two volumes of Winston Churchill's biography of John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough. First editions of this work. The first two volumes of this four volume set. Writt...

Winston S. Churchill: Youth; Young Statesman

Randolph S. Churchill · 1966 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Heinemann, 1966-7. First edition. Cloth. The first two volumes of the official biography of Winston S. Churchill by his son Randolph, two bright first impressions. The first edition, first impressions of this work. The first two volumes of the official biography of Sir...

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo · 2019 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Bloomsbury Circus, 2019. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first limited edition of Lisa Taddeo's popular and important non-fiction work, in the original unclipped fine dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. A limited first edition of fi...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell · 1906 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Robert Riviere and Son, 1906. Leather. A complete set of James Boswell's influential biographical work on his friend and fellow writer, Samuel Johnson. Rebound in half calf by Riviere and Son and enclosed in a matching slipcase. James Boswell's The Life of Sa...

Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of Crown and Commonwealth a Tribute by Various Hands Presented to Him on His Eightieth Birthday

James Marchant · 1954 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1954. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching work issued upon the 80th birthday of Winston Churchill, a collection of tribute chapters to Churchill. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper and w...

With a Gun to the Hill

Stephen Pilkington · 1948 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A very smart, first edition copy of this memoir on hunting by Stephen Pilkington, fully illustrated and containing an inscription from the author. A charming memoir written by Stephen Pilkington, an expert hunter and...