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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...

The Memoirs of Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722)

Francis Paget Hett · 1932 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Oxford and London, Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition memoir of this prominent Scotsman of the late seventeenth century, complete with a scarce dust wrapper. Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish antiquary and physician. The first profe...

Drawn from Memory

Ernest H. Shepard · 1957 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

London, Methuen and Co. 1957. Cloth. A very smart copy of this memoir by English artist Ernest H. Shepard, with numerous illustrations and the original dust wrapper. Presenting this charming memoir by Ernest H. Shepard of his early childhood. Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) was ...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote; William Cooke · 1902 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Myers & Rogers, 1902. Fine Binding. An extra-illustrated, splendid finely bound collection of the aphorisms and humour of Samuel Foote. Samuel Foote was a British dramatist and actor active during the eighteenth century. A comic writer and playwright, he lost his leg i...

The Portrait of Zelide

Geoffrey Scott · 1925 · Rooke Books

£540.00 (€647.28 | $713.42 | ¥113,923)

London, Constable and Co, 1925. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition of this award winning biography on Isabelle de Charriere. Bound by the socialite and patron of the arts, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. This biography won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1925.  ...

Causeries Du Lundi: Portraits Litteraires Et Portraits de Femmes

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · 1909 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Paris, Garnier Freres, 1909. Leather. A smart Bickers-bound collection of the essays of Saint-Beuve from his column 'Causeries du Lundi&apos. In the French language. With examinations of Racine, Madame Roland, Bayle, Diderot, Madame du Deffand, Goethe et Bettina, La Fonta...

The Autobiography of a Border Policeman

H. L. Stevens · 1927 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.48 | $515.24 | ¥82,278)

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition recollecting the author's time spent on the borders of Bechuanaland and Matabeleland. A tale of pioneering adventure and war in Bechuanaland and Matabeleland, now modern Bostwana and Zimb...

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott

John Gibson Lockhart · 1837 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

Edinburgh; London, Robert Cadell; John Murray and Whittaker and Co, 1837-38. First edition. Leather. A nicely leather bound first edition set of John Gibson Lockhart's biography on his father in law, the Scottish poet Sit Walter Scott. The first edition of this work.Compl...

Tedder

Roderic Owen · 1952 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, Collins, 1952. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this volume regarding Baron Tedder by Roderic Owen, an excellent example. The first edition of this work by Roderic Owen. An engaging biography of the life of Arthur Tedder, senior Royal Air Force. The title o...

Memorials of His Time

Henry Cockburn; Harry A. Cockburn · 1909 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Edinburgh & London, T. N. Foulis, 1909. Cloth. A delightful autobiographical work written by a Scottish lawyer and judge, illustrated with bright colour illustrations throughout. A fascinating autobiographical account of this important Scotsman's life.Written by Henry Coc...

The Fated Sky

Philip Joubert de la Ferte · 1952 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Hutchinson, 1952. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second impression of Philip Joubert de la Ferte's memoir, an account of his time spent in the RAF during the Second World War. The first edition, second impression of this work, printed in the same month...

The Memoirs of Lord Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton; Lord Chandos · 1962 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, The Bodley Head, 1962. First edition. Leather. A finely bound copy of the exciting memoirs of Oliver Lyttelton, recounting hs time spent working in the government during the Second World War. The first edition, second impression of this work.In a signed binding by Harr...

Lives, Characters, and an Address to Posterity

Gilbert Burnet; John Jebb · 1833 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, James Duncan, 1833. Cloth. A fascinating collection of biographical sketches by Gilbert Burnet, presented in the original binding. Containing sketches of the lives and characters of important figures such as Archbishop Leighton, Sir Matthew Hale,  Queen Mar II, Robert...

Midnight Oil

Victor Sawdon Pritchett · 1971 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Chatto and Windus , 1971. First edition. Paperback. A scarce uncorrected proof of the first edition of V S Pritchett's memoir 'Midnight Oil.' A special presentation copy, signed by the author. Midnight Oil is part of an autobiographical collection of me...

James Joyce: A Biography

Gordon Bowker · 2011 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. First edition. Cloth. The first impression of James Joyce's biography by Gordon Bowker. A superb copy. The first edition, first impression. Gordon Bowker's complete and thorough biography of James Joyce, often considered one of t...

Scotti Viimne Ekspeditsioon

Robert Falcon Scott · 1959 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Tallinn, Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1959. Cloth. The scarce Estonian edition of Captain Scott's diaries of his journey to the Arctic, from the library of his only child. With numerous photographic plates. This work is written in Estonian. With photographic frontispiece and ...

The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell

James Boswell · 1951 · Rooke Books

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

London, William Heinemann LTD, 1951-60. Vellum. A wonderful set of Yale's limited edition works containing the private papers of James Boswell, illustrated throughout, all small printing runs. Limited edition works.In six volumes. A further six volumes were published by Y...

A Glimpse of the Ancient Sunlight: Memories of Henry Williamson

Sue Caron · 1986 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, The Aylesford Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. A superb limited edition of this biographical sketch of Henry Williamson by Sue Caron. One of four hundred copies bound in paper wraps, this volume being number two hundred and thirty nine. Issued with a limited edit...

Robert Louis Stevenson&Apos;S Edinburgh Days

E. Blantyre Simpson · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1913. Cloth. An exciting glimpse into this important British author's life, illustrated and with a frontispiece photograph of the subject. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was an important Scottish novelist, best known for works including &a...

Merchantman Rearmed

David W. Bone · 1949 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Chatto and WIndus, 1949. Leather. A lovely limited edition copy, signed by both author and artist, of this memoir by David Bone, profusely illustrated and in the original publisher's box. The limited edition of this work, published simultaneously as the first edit...