2021 Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). 1st Edition. FABULOUS ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, GREAT AUTHOR, GREAT ILLUSTRATOR! Story: This is the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless. A surprising result. FLYER OF SIGNING EVENT INCLUDED. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Feiffer, Jules (illustrator). Special Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Book is covered by a durable plastic, dust jacket. FLYER OF SIGNING EVENT INCLUDED. Book came with wonderful plastic dust jacket; signature are wonderful large; perfect condition. Signed by both author and illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. A NOVELTY ITEM BY TWO BRITISH TALENTS: SIGNED BY Author Alan Silltoe and Iluustrator Victor Ambrus. Only 1-249 signed by author and illustrator, this is number 146. HARDCOVER: a lovely loose, RARE AMBRUS signed in black and white small print (8" x 5"). Art signed by Victor Ambrus are really RARE. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. A NOVELTY ITEM BY TWO BRITISH TALENTS: Author Alan Silltoe and Iluustrator Victor Ambrus. REALLY BEAUTIFUL COLORED IN PRINT 8 x 5 inches (See SCAN) SIGNED BY FABULOUS ILLUSTRATOR, VICTOR AMBRUS. Copy #275 indicated on rear back page. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. A NOVELTY ITEM BY TWO BRITISH TALENTS: Author Alan Silltoe and Iluustrator Victor Ambrus. "A Proof Copy" which includes the following: 2 Books (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") with one hardcover and another softcover; HARDCOVER: a lovely loose, RARE AMBRUS signed in pencil, small COLOR print (8" x 5"); SOFTCOVER includes a signed BLACK & WHITE print ONLY (See Scans of both). Both suitable for framing. Victor Ambrus doe not often sign any of his work, so these are really RARE. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. The signed first edition of Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021 by the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. (illustrator). First English Edition, First Issue. Octavo, [12], 709pp. Blue hardcover, title stamped in white on spine. The first English edition, with a full number line on the copyright page. This copy appears unread. In the publisher's dust jacket, £35 on front flap, "Signed Copy" sticker on the cover, trace of shelf wear, a fine example. This copy is signed on the publisher's tipped-in limitation page. The first printing of Freedom was published in 2024 by Verlag Kiepenheuser & Witsch, in Cologne. Signed.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. The first English edition of Getting Lost, signed by Annie Ernaux on Fitzcarraldo Editions bookplate. This work was first published in 2021 as "Se perdre" by Editions Gallimard in Paris. (illustrator). First English Edition. Octavo, 240pp, [8]. White paper wraps, title printed in blue on covers. First "Fitzcarraldo Editions" statement on the copyright page. This copy appears unread. This copy is signed by Annie Ernaux on the "Fitzcarraldo Editions" bookplate affixed to the half title. In 2022, Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for the "courage and clinical acuity" with which she uncovers the roots and structures of personal memory. Her notable works include The Years, A Woman's Story, and Happening. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 2021 First edition stated with complete number line. IN DUSTJACKET WITH GOLD STICKER ON FRONT SAYS SIGNED FIRST EDITION It is signed clearly on the HALF TITLE PG IN PURPLE. Book is in NEAR "like new" condition. never been read and has normal book store handling and wear. 416 PGS, Octavo. purple cloth, gilt lettering, Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE ON ABEBOOKS. VERY RARE, DATED 1980 YEAR OF PUBLICATION, SIGNED COPY WITH DRAWING ON LOOSE ENDPAPER FACING THE TITLE PAGE. (See Scan) NO DJ as issued. Book has illustrated cover, front and back. Black endpapers show fingerprints in the certain light but, in ordinary light, endpapers look great. Measures 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. STORY: Deep in Transylvania, far away in the mountains, lies Castle Dracula. But things are not what they used to be. Count Dracula is broke and spends all day in this coffin to avoid his creditors, and to make ends meet is forced to open his castle to tourists. But are the tourists frightened? Will Dracula escape from his bank manager? Why does he go to Hollywood? Signed by Illustrator(s).

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. One sheet score card. Octavo (9" x 6") printed official score record handwritten record of game No. 47 Awerbach - Podgaets at the 36th USSR Championship in Alma Ata on January 7, 1969. Signed by both contestants. King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation ending in a 64 move draw. The 36th USSR Championship was held in Alma-Ata (now called Almaty), Kazakhstan. Twenty of the Soviet Union's best grandmasters and masters were invited to, and qualified for, the event. The tournament was a second straight victory for Polugaevsky, who had won the 126 player Swiss-style championship the year before alongside Mikhail Tal. Although Tal was present again, it was Alexander Zaitsev who tied with Polugaevsky after the initial event. A six game playoff to determine first place was held after the championship's completion, and Polugaevsky won clear first with 3½ points over Zaitsev's 2½ points. This win would be Polugaevsky's final Soviet championship title. Podgaets tied for sixth through tenth with a score of 10 1/2 of 19. Averbakh tied for eleventh and twelfth with a score of 10. ( Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov, The Soviet Championships) Juri Lwowitsch Awerbach achieved a large number of tournament victories in the course of his chess career: 1st 2nd. in Dresden 1956, 1. in Djakarta 1956, 1. in Adelaide 1960, 1. in Vienna 1961, 1. 2. in Moscow 1962, 1st 2nd in Bucharest 1971, 1st 2nd in Polanica-Zdroj , 1st 3rd in Manila 1979. With the Soviet team he won the European team championships in 1957 in Baden and in 1965 Hamburg. In 1965 he also achieved the best individual result on the eighth board. In 1969 he became an international chess referee . Among other things, he was a referee in the competition for the World Championship of the Professional Chess Association between Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short in London in 1993. From 1973 to 1978 he was President of the Chess Federation of the USSR. He was also editor-in-chief of the chess magazine Schachmaty w SSSR for many years . In 2011 his autobiography was published in English under the title Center-Stage and Behind the Scenes. Mikhail Yakovlevich Podgaets (1947-2009) was anoted Soviet and Ukrainian chessplayer and trainer.A native of Odessa, he won the Ukrainian championship in 1976 and was five times a gold-medal-winning member of the USSR Team in World Student Olympiads. Condition: The sheet is browned, punched, has signs of wear and marginal defects. In the middle with glue shadow and a longer tear that was repaired with adhesive tape. else good to very good.