Armstrong Ian: Signed (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book and jacket each in As New, unread condition. One of 100 signed copies by Armstrong. Unconventional SF spacetime novel. Ian Whates (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

4to. 64pp. Original wrappers. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies. This copy signed by the Artist.

Paperback large quarto (with flaps), very good condition, stapled, colour & black & white paintings (some full-page), front cover lightly foxed, rear cover lightly marked, minor edgewear. 64 pp. This art book accompanies the Ian Armstrong Retrospective Exhibition at the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Retrospective, May 1999, then the Victorian Regional Gallery Tour, 2000. The book includes tributes by former students and associates. Trained at Melbourne's National Gallery School and at George Bell School, Armstrong was a full-time artist throughout his life. (A limited edition of 400 autographed copies, but this copy is unnumbered.).…

Octavo, pp. 32, stapled in plain white wrappers with yellow printed dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on front free endpaper: "Ruth and Kay / with the writer's affection / Christmas 1941." The recipients were Ruth Pitter, a well-regarded poet and friend of C. S. Lewis, and her friend Kathleen O'Hara, with whom she operated a furniture-painting business. Collection of thirty short lyrical poems by a writer who was "even more disillusioned than A. E. Housman," according to the dust jacket flap, and who received in 1939 the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. NCBEL IV 280. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [2]. Covers soiled, slight rust stains from staples, else a very good copy. (#114794). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Top edge gilt. Dustwrapper slightly darkened and rubbed at spine, free endpapers partially embrowned, traces of tape-marks on pastedowns. Inscribed by the author, "Mrs & Miss Stanley-Wrench from John Gawsworth". Mrs Stanley Wrench, alias Mollie Stanley-Wrench (née Violet Louisa Gibbs, 1880-1966), was a prolific journalist, novelist and cookery writer, and editor of The Lyceum Book of Verse (1931); her only child, Margaret (1916-1974), won the Newdigate Prize in 1937 for a poem on "The Man in the Moon". First edition published 1933 - uniform with A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad. Inscribed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. first edition. Octavo, blue cloth covers with paper label on top cover, white spine titles. 71 pages. Frontis. portrait of the author by Nicolas Day. Illustrated endpapers by Frederick Carter. Includes notes to the poems and 2 pages of short reviews. Foxing throughout. Inscribed by the author to Arthur Machen on the front free endaper, and dated 1933. The publisher's printed paper label affixed to the front cover of the book has been partially removed and in its place there is hand-lettering: "Presentation from John Gawsworth" -- part of the publisher's printed name remains. I'm unsure whether this was done by Gawsworth -- he was a big fan of Machen -- or some other hand. Studio. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 4 of 25 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Contains Gawsworth poem of this title, dedicated to Fraccacreta, side-by-side with Fraccacreta's Italian translation. The trade issue of this leaflet is titled differently (UMBERTO FRACCACRETA) and has a different translation by Fraccacreta, although the body of Gawsworth's poem is substantially identical. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3] (under title of "Umberto Fraccacreta"). Faint fold crease, light scattered foxing, a very good copy. (#114785). Signed. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 13 of 24 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Prints Gawsworth's war poem, "12 December 1940", side-by-side with Italian translation of it. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3]. Some foxing, a very good copy. (#114779). Signed. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 8 of 25 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Contains "The Shade of Garibaldi", side-by-side with Italian translation. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3]. Light scattered foxing, a very good copy. (#114782). Signed. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 14 of 25 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Contains "Naiads" and "The Enduring", side-by-side with Italian translations. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3]. Old mailing crease, light scattered foxing, a very good copy. (#114781). Signed. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 15 of 26 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Contains Gawsworth's "The Eternal Themes", side-by-side with French translation. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3]. A near fine copy. (#114786). Signed. …

Octavo, single sheet folded once to make four pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 14 of 30 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] / from / J. G. / 1947." Contains Gawsworth's poem of this title, side-by-side with Italian translation. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [3]. Faint fold creases, light scattered foxing, a very good copy. (#114784). Signed. …

Small quarto, original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge gilt. Fourth edition, augmented and revised, trade issue. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on the half title page: "J. H. Hogarth Gante's / copy of / [POEMS] / by / John Gawsworth / certified by his friend, the writer. / (Not yet certified / himself / 1947)" Collection of sixteen short lyrical poems first published in 1933. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [2]. NCBEL IV 280. Mild foxing to text block and tanning to free endpapers along gutter margins, else a fine copy in very good dust jacket with some rubbing and scuffing to spine panel. (#114815). Signed.…

Octavo, pp. 64, illustrations by Frederick Carter, original tan boards, printed paper labels affixed to front and spine panels. First edition. Signed inscription by Gawsworth to Omarali Chowohury on half title leaf. Selections from nine previous volumes of poetry with a brief foreword by Lascelles Abercrombie. Carter's designs are from Rich & Cowan's POEMS 1930-1932. Gawsworth notes here, "The Fire-Blitz of London of January-February 1941 having destroyed the stocks of the volumes in which they were included, they are now reissued. In some poems I have made slight revisions." NCBEL IV 280. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and internal tape mends. (#114820). Signed.…

Octavo, two sheets folded to make eight pages, self-wrappers. First edition. Handwritten colophon "No. 8 of 25 Antique Paper Copies" on last page along with Gawsworth's signature. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Gawsworth on first leaf: "J. H. H. G. [J. H. Hogarth Gante] from J. G. 1947." NCBEL IV 280. Owen, John Gawsworth, Some Publications 1931-1944, p. [2]. Old mailing folds, light scattered foxing, a very good copy. (#114753). Signed. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.20. Publisher's card wraps lettered in black, sewn. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf. Textblock fine aside from some spotting and toning to edges. Some annotation to contents page. Covers detached with some loss. Rare in any condition. Very good. The first collection by the poet, bibliographer, bookman, literary executor, and later King of Redonda. Signed by Author.…

Blattmaß: 36 x 33,5 cm. Bildmaß: Durchmesser: 22 cm. Das Blatt des australischen Künstlers Ian Armstrong (1923-2005) ist unter der Abbildung eigenhändig in Bleistift signiert und nummeriert. Nummer 3 von 10 Exemplaren. Die runde Radierung zeigt einen unbekannten jungen Mann. - Tadelloses Exemplar.