Biografi

Booze-Runner

Dean Frith · 1935 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1935. Cloth. A very scarce firsthand account of bootlegging during the Prohibition, published under a pseudonym. This work details the author's experience 'running' liquor across the border between Canada and the United States of ...

Fanny Burney and the Burneys

R. Brimley Johnson · 1926 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

London, Stanley Paul, 1926. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of this biography of Fanny Burney, illustrated throughout. In the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. A biography on Fanny Burney, including additions to Madame d'Arb...

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

H. Rider Haggard · 1891 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd. 1891. Cloth. A lovely reprint of this non-fiction work by H. Rider Haggard, detailing his time in South Africa. 'Cetywayo and his White Neighbours' was H. Rider Haggard's first full-length work to be published, and ...

A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.

Rev. John Sargent · 1831 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

London, Seeley and Sons, 1831. Leather. A revised and enlarged edition of this scarce volume, comprising Rev. Henry Martyn's memoir of his missions in India and Persia. The eleventh, enlarged and corrected edition stated. This volume contains memoirs of Reverend Henry Mar...

Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius and the Amalthei

William Parr Greswell · 1805 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Manchester, Cadell and Davies, 1805. Leather. The second edition of William Parr Greswell's study on the prominent poets of the Italian Renaissance, including Poliziano and Flamino, and insightful look into the important era in Italy's history. The second edition of ...

The Successful Merchant Sketches of the Life of Mr Samuel Budgett

William Arthur · 1859 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.69 | $104.37 | ¥16,667)

London, Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1859. Leather. A very smart copy of this biography regarding Samuel Budgett. An uncommon work. The twenty-second edition of this biography.Inscription of prior owner to the verso of front endpaper, dated 1860. With an engraved frontispiece of t...

Thomas Gray: A Biography

R. W. Ketton-Cremer · 1955 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in the original dustwrapper of Thomas Gray's biography. The first 1955 edition of thomas Gray's biography by R. W. Ketton-Cremer.Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, schol...

Biographical Memoir of John Montagu, with a Sketch of Some of the Public Affairs Connected with the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, During His Administration As Colonial Secretary from 1843 to 1853.

W. A. Newman · 1855 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.54 | $449.19 | ¥71,729)

London & Cape Town, Harrison; A. S. Robertson, 1855. Cloth. A thorough memoir of a Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony, in the publisher's original binding. John Montagu (1797-1853) was Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony between 1843 and 1853. He famously had a dispu...

Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein

Marchioness De La Rochejaquelein · 1827 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.48 | $116.26 | ¥18,565)

Edinburgh, Constable and Co. 1827. Leather. A lovely pocket-sized edition recounting this French memoirist's suffering during a counter-revolt during the French Revolution. Marie Louis Victoire de Donnisan de La Rochejaquelein (1772-1857) is remembered for her memoirs des...

Bloomsbury Group Letters

Vanessa Bell; Leonard Woolf · 1929 · Rooke Books

£4,500.00 (€5,393.96 | $5,945.13 | ¥949,360)

None, None, c1960. Unbound. A fantastic selection of Bloomsbury Group letters. All addressed to one Miss Monica Young from Vanessa Bell, Leonard Woolf, Naomi Michison and Duncan Grant. A fantastic selection of letters from some of the most noted figures in art and literature d...

Life of Lord Jeffrey with a Selection from His Correspondence

Lord Cockburn · 1852 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1852. Cloth. The second edition of Henry Cockburn's touching personal biography on his lifelong friend, Francis Jeffrey. The second edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Lord Henry Cockburn's personal biography on his frien...

Reminiscences

Goldwin Smith; Arnold Haultain · 1910 · Rooke Books

£53.00 (€63.53 | $70.02 | ¥11,181)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. Cloth. A very smart copy of Goldwin Smith's reminiscences. Being an autobiography of a noted historian, and economist. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and eleven plates. From the lib...

Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanenfis Angli Historia Maior

William Watts · 1644 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Paris, Apud Viduam G Villielmi Pele , 1644. Leather. A scarce edition of William Watts's revised edition of the life and historical works of Matthaeus Parisiensis. Matthew Paris is commonly regarded as England's greatest medieval historian. He became a monk of St. Al...

The Life of Lord Byron; with His Letters and Journals

Thomas Moore · 1840 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

Philadelphia, Thomas Wardle, 1840. First edition. Leather. The US first edition of Thomas Moore's insightful biography on the life and work of his friend, Lord Byron. Complete in two volumes.The first edition thus, being the first US edition.A detailed and favourable biog...

Bakst the Story of the Artist&Apos;S Life

Andre Levinson · 1923 · Rooke Books

£3,250.00 (€3,895.64 | $4,293.70 | ¥685,649)

London, The Bayard Press, 1923. First edition. Vellum. A scarce biographical work on the famous Russian painter and costume designer, Leon Bakst. A limited edition work, in the original vellum binding. Limited edition, numbered 299 of 315 copies. The first edition of this sca...

La Princesse Des Ursins Une Grande Dame Francaise a la Cour D&Apos;Espagne Sous Louis XIV

Saint-Rene Taillandier · 1926 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1926. First edition. Vellum. A finely bound copy of this biography regarding the noted French courtier, and de facto ruler of Spain, Marie Anne de la Tremoille. The first edition of this biography. In the original French. Written by the French writer...

&Apos;Tom&Apos; an Autobiography with Revised Negro Melodies

Thomas Rutling · 1907 · Rooke Books

£7,500.00 (€8,989.94 | $9,908.55 | ¥1,582,267)

Bradford, WM Byles and Sons, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of the pioneering Black artist Thomas Rutling's autobiography. Signed by him, with a dedication to one Miss Wight. Signed by the author to the front endpaper, 'To Miss Wight with th...

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

M K Gandhi · 1927 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,387.26 | $12,550.83 | ¥2,004,205)

Ahmedabad, Navajivan Press , 1927. First edition. Cloth. A superb copy of this very scarce first English edition of Gandhi's autobiography. A book, which has been regarded as one of the '100 best spiritual books of the 20th century&apos. This work covers Gandhi'...

Samuel Pepys the Man in the Making

Arthur Bryant · 1933 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.12 | $1,849.60 | ¥295,357)

Cambridge, University Press, 1933. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound copy of this biography of the noted diarist, Samuel Pepys. In a Nevett binding, with their binder's stamp to the rear pastedown. Portrait frontispiece of Pepys, three plates, and two folding pl...

The Autobiography of a Stage Coachman

Thomas Cross · 1904 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.29 | $1,684.45 | ¥268,985)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co LTD, 1904. Vellum. A beautiful deluxe edition of Thomas Cross' fascinating memoir about his life working as a stage coachman in the nineteenth century, illustrated with beautiful hand-coloured aquatint plates. A deluxe edition of t...