Biografi

Literary Biographies of Classic Modern Authors

Robin Maugham; Matthew J. Bruccoli; Anthony Burgess; Veronica Maclean; Alexander Waugh; Selina Hastings; Stefan Buczacki; Artemis Cooper; Barbara Cooke; Cristen Jaynes Hemingway; William Palmer · 1978 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.64 | $356.71 | ¥56,962)

Various, Various, 1978-2021. First edition. Cloth. Eleven first editions of smart literary biographies of classic modern authors including D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway, including two signed works. Eleven first editions of literary biographies from classic authors of the ...

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal · 2010 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,907)

London, Chatto & Windus, 2010 . First edition. Hardback. A very smart signed first edition, first impression copy of this family memoir by artist Edmund de Waal. The first edition, first impression.Signed by the author to the title page.In publisher's original hardback bi...

The Memoirs of Frank Mccourt

Frank McCourt · 1996 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, Harper Collins; Flamingo; Fourth Estate, 1996-2005. Cloth. A very smart three volume set of first edition moving memoirs by writer and teacher Frank McCourt. A three volume set.The first editions, first impressions.In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In th...

W.N. Mcmillan&Apos;S Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa

B. H. Jessen · 1906 · Rooke Books

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

London, Marchant Singer & Co, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is the uncommon first edition of B. H. Jessen's description of big game hunting in Africa The uncommon first edition of this work.Illustrated with a large folding map in a pocket to th...

John Constable&Apos;S Correspondence

[ed. by R.B. Beckett] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Ipswich, Suffolk Records Society, 1965-1967. Cloth. Two volumes of correspondence from the esteemed Romantic landscape painter John Constable, offering valuable insight into his mind and that of an ambitious artist. Two volumes of John Constable's Correspondence, Volume I...

John Rylands Library of Letters and Correspondence

Various [inc. Margaret Spence; William Fredeman; George P. Landow] · 1955 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Manchester, John Rylands Library, 1955-1983. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce set of eighteen works on literary criticism, including on John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, within the renowned John Rylands Library at Manchester University. A scarce set of eighteen articles from the...

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (First Time 1839; Final 1869); 1873 History of Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great.

Thomas Carlyle · 1872 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

London, Chapman and Hall, 1872-1873 . Leather. A substantial prize-bound collection of works by Thomas Carlyle, comprising his seven-volume essays and ten-volume history of Frederick the Great, complete with maps and rebacked in calf. Bound in a full tree calf prize binding fo...

The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. In Four Volumes

William Harvey · 1803 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Chicester , J. Johnson, 1803-1806. Cloth. An early edition and complete set of Harvey's famous biography of Cowper. Complete in three volumes, with a supplementary fourth volume: 'supplementary pages to the Life of Cowper, containing the additions made to that work, ...

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

John Morley · 1911 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. Leather. A biographical work on this British politician. With a frontispiece to every volume. William Ewart Gladstone was a British liberal and earlier conservative politician. His career lasted over sixty years and he served as the British Prim...

A Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors

Horatio Walpole · 1806 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, John Scott, 1806. Cloth. A catalogue of the works of noble and royal authors of Britain, including Elizabeth I, James II, Anne Boleyn and many more. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and forty-nine engraved portraits (collated: complete). Written by the fourth Ea...

Fanfare for Elizabeth

Edith Sitwell · 1946 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.62 | ¥6,327)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Edith Sitwell's novel of the childhood of Elizabeth I with four black and white illustrations and in original unclipped dustwrapper. First edition. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (1887 - 1964) was a British poet an...

Poets and Statesmen Their Homes and Haunts in the Neighbourhood of Eton and Windsor

William Dowling · 1856 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, E P Williams, 1856-7. Leather. An interesting collection of biographies of several notable figures. These biographies are linked by the subjects' dwellings in Eton and Windsor. Illustrated throughout with nineteen engravings, all with tissue-guards. All other edit...

William Caxton, the First English Printer a Biography

Charles Knight · 1877 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, William Clowes & Sons, 1877. Leather. A copy of Charles Knight's biographical work on the diplomat, William Caxton. New edition. With an engraved frontispiece and a number of engraved vignette illustrations. William Caxton (c. 1415 – c. March 1492) was an English ...

The State Letters of Henry Earl Clarendon Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and His Lordship&Apos;S Diary for the Years 1687, 1688, 1689 and 1690 Vol. 1 and 2

Henry Earl of Clarendon · 1765 · Rooke Books

£525.00 (€629.30 | $693.60 | ¥110,759)

Oxford; Dublin, Clarendon Press, 1765. Leather. A scarce complete two volume set of letters and diary entries from the Henry Hyde, the second Earl of Clarendon. Scarce. Letters include correspondence to King James II, the Lord Treasurer, Lord Sunderland and the Bishop of Downe...

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple 1652-54

Edward Abbott Parry · 1903 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Sherratt and Hughes, 1903. Leather. A finely bound copy of Dorothy Osborne's letters to Sir William Temple. Illustrated, with three plates. In a Hatchards of London binding with gilt stamped detailing to the spine. Edited by English judge and dramatist Edward Abbo...

Grain or Chaff? the Autobiography of a Police Magistrate

Alfred Chicele Plowden · 1903 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1903. Leather. An autobiography of police magistrate Alfred Chichele Plowden In a Morrell binding (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). With frontispiece of the author. In a half-calf binding. Externally, generally smart, though wit...

Lives of Eminent Persons

Various · 1833 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1833. Leather. A selection of biographies on several eminent people. Published as a part of the 'Library of Useful Knowledge' by the superintendence of the 'Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge&apos. Illustrated, with severa...

Memoirs of Count Grammont

Count Anthony Hamilton · 1876 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1876. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of this noted memoir. With a biographical sketch and notes by Sir Walter Scott. Philibert Count de Gramont (Grammont) was a French nobleman best remembered now through this memoir, written by his brother-in-law ...

Personal Remembrances of Frederick Pollock Second Baronet Sometime Queen&Apos;S Remembrancer

Frederick Pollock · 1887 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London , Macmillan and Co. 1887. Cloth. A scarce two-volume set of the memoirs of Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet. Pollock's memoirs paint a detailed picture of both the machinations of the contemporary judicial system and the social life of the English gentry. Sir William...

Some Memoirs

Edmund Gosse · 1929 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London , Cobden-Sanderson, 1929. Cloth. A scarce volume detailing some memoirs of the famous writer, presented by the author himself. With an inscription to 'Maj. H.D. Marshall with the kind wishes of his friend the author.' Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English po...