Brophy John, Signed (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by the author on front end page. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering with a black spine label. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 184 pages, 104 pages of illustrations, 23 cm. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Purple cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very, nice, clean, sharp copy. Very light! wear at corners. DJ in great shape with price still intact, slight wear at spine ends. Nice looking in Mylar covering. Signed by author's daughter, Margaret E. Venne, who did the introduction. A collection of anecdotes and delightful tales that vividly depict the life of a Dakota pioneer woman in the late 19th century. 125 pp. First published in serial form 1945-46 in "The Dakota Farmer.". Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex libris plate at front. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor additional pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces very heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in Very Good condition in a good dust jacket, 12mo. Red cloth with spine titles in gold. Top edge dusty, light wear, binding slightly cocked, dust jacked chipped and worn, back panel of dj soiled and creased, not price-clipped, warmly inscribed and dated (London, 2 May 1959) by the author on the front end-paper. Bookseller accession no.: 19035. Fiction. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition: Hardback, red bds., gold titles, 150 x 220 mm., 200g., 48 pp., Foreword by Sir James Grigg, colour illustrations throughout by John Brophy, inscription on ffep. reads 'From one Home Guard to another' and signed Ralph Allen 1945 Thank You "Jim" ' original, pictorial, unclipped dw., with light edge wear, VG/VG+ copy.

Paperback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G++ DW. 1st Thus. "The text has been carefully revised for this edition". (DW blurb). The pictorial DW (signed JB and RS) has a different picture on front and rear. There is a 2 by 1 inch chip at top of rear cover not affecting text or picture and a very small closed tear head of spine. Otherwise DW is clean and entire.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4 pages folded from one larger sheet with 12 line poem. One of 100 signed by John Brophy. A Blue Moon Poem for Christmas 1931. Light wear, a little foxing otherwise close very good. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp 255. Original publishers orange cloth lettered black at spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Basil Liddell Hart. Very good. Bookplate of Liddell Hart to pastedown. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 288. Original publisher's orange cloth, lettered black on spine. Signed presentation from the author on front endpaper, 'For Kathleen & Basil Liddell Hart. John Brophy. 14th March 1945'. Bookplate from the library of Liddell Hart on front pastedown. Slight fading, otherwise clean, very good. Signedes.

First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by both the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper (both Brophy and Kennington were themselves Local Defence Volunteers). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in (this copy having been sent to true crime specialist J. H. H. Gaute, with his type-written name to the comp. slip). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Red cloth lettered in ruled in gold at the spine. With nineteen full-colour and predominantly full-page character studies by Eric Kennignton (whose subjects include Sir James Griss, Viscount Bridgeman, and various sergeants, privates and other Home Guard regulars). A narrow sliver of fading to the lower edges of the boards. A very good copy in somewhat tatty dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some soiling, chipping, tearing, and several quite small areas of edge-loss.

BROPHY, John. Britain's Home Guard: A Character Study. Portrayed in colour by Eric Kennington. With a foreword by Sir James Grigg. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1945. First edition, first impression, in the original dust jacket, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper: "To Sir Charles Portal from Eric Kennington 1945." A superb high-command presentation copy, linking one of Britain's greatest war artists with the wartime Chief of the Air Staff. Eric Kennington had been an official war artist in both world wars, renowned for his forceful portraits of servicemen and civilians under strain. His Second World War work included RAF portraits and Home Guard subjects, and the Imperial War Museum holds his Members of a Home Guard Ack-Ack Gun Team, September 1943. This book is Kennington's visual tribute to the men of the Home Guard: part-time soldiers, factory workers, clerks, veterans, miners, coast defence gunners, searchlight men and anti-aircraft crews, portrayed not as comic amateurs but as a citizen army. John Brophy was himself a soldier-writer and served in the Home Guard during the Second World War, making the text more than detached commentary. The Portal association is exceptional. In 1945 Sir Charles Portal stood at the summit of British air power, and Kennington's presentation to him brings together the air war and the home front: the commander of the RAF receiving an artist's record of the civilian defence force that guarded Britain's towns, factories, coasts and anti-aircraft positions while the RAF fought overhead. The inscription turns a scarce illustrated Home Guard book into a direct wartime association copy. Original red cloth, with colour frontispiece and full-page colour portraits by Kennington. Dust jacket with light chipping, edge wear, small closed tears, creasing and minor marking, but complete and highly presentable. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy with a magnificent presentation association.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Original Dustjacket Artwork. Kenneth Farnhill (illustrator). First Edition Artwork. The finished artwork for the first edition d/w of this book, image 9.9" x 12.3" (24.8x30.8cm), gouache on artboard, with yellow printer's instruction sheet on verso, signed. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Collins, London. 1946. First edition. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Hardback with DW. Wrapper spine is sunned and there is fading to edges. Boards are bumped at head and tail of spine and there is a stain to bottom edge of lower. Pages are browned and there is a very slight lean to the spine. A nice sound copy.

Second Edition. Signed and inscribed by the artist, with exhibition invitation loosely inserted. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 47 [1] pages color frontispiece, 1 illustration, color plates, color portraits 22 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Home Guard. Civil Defense World War II. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this interesting story from British soldier and author John Brophy, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper in presentation to the Fletchers, dated November 1960. Eleanor Kent owns a gilt-edged masterpiece worth perhaps a quarter of a million pounds. Left to her by her late husband, she must now decide whether to keep this artwork on her drawing-room wall or sell it. Written by John Brophy, a British soldier, journalist and author who wrote over forty books, mostly based on his experiences during the First World War. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the panel edges and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the author's ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Second Edition. Signed and inscribed by the artist, with exhibition invitation loosely inserted. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 47 [1] pages color frontispiece, 1 illustration, color plates, color portraits 22 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Home Guard. Civil Defense World War II. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. (SIGNED) First UK Edition, first printing published by Chatto and Windus in 1955. A very good book with one dedication on the front endpaper from the author to his publisher, 'For/ Michael Legat/ a really good publisher!/ John Brophy./ 15 September 1955'. No marks on the boards but some very faint marks on paste downs and front and rear endpapers. Some slight spotting to page edges on top and side. In a very good unclipped dust wrapper with minimal edge wear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this 1950s novel from John Brophy, about a man in love with his son's fiancé. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy, addressed to British soldier, military historian and military theorist Basil Liddell Hart, whose pre-war publications are known to have influenced German strategy in the Second World War.With the inscription 'For Kathleen and Basil Liddell Hart, affectionately, John Brophy, January 1954' to the front free endpaper.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped.The first edition, first impression of this novel, advertised by the publisher as 'the story of a man who finds himself, at the age of 49, in love with a girl young enough to be his daughter', but later finds out that she is engaged to his own son. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Spotting to fore edge of text block. A touch of sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with small loss and closed tear to back strip head. Spotting to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by J.Z. Atkinson. (illustrator). First edition. First edition. Signed by the author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d. An attractive first edition, enhanced further by being signed by the author on the front free endpaper. A little light spotting; cloth slightly rubbed and mottled; jacket slightly chipped at corners, lower panel mildly toned, otherwise very good. Signed. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this romantic story from British soldier and author John Brophy, signed by the author. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper in presentation to Forrest and Joe Fletcher, dated 23rd September 1955. Jeremy Pine, a young writer, becomes involved with three women. He is striving to mature in his craft so that he can write real novels instead of romances, and is anxious to preserve his middle-class sense of honour in the face of many temptations thrust on him by money and love. Written by John Brophy, a British soldier, journalist and author who wrote over forty books, mostly based on his experiences during the First World War. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the author's ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

First edition, signed presentation copy to the author's mother; 8vo (198 x 139 mm); light spotting at extremities; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, extremities slightly bumped, dust-jacket discoloured with wear at extremities and chips at edges, good condition overall.

First edition, signed presentation copy to author's mother; 8vo; (199 x 137 mm); some spotting; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, extremities rubbed, some discolouration and spotting to dust-jacket with edges a bit frayed and chip to head of spine, good condition overall.

First edition, first printing, signed presentation copy from the author; 8vo; toning to free endpapers; publisher's cloth, slight rolling to spine, otherwise a very good copy, dust-jacket tanned and rubbed lacking very small pieces at the ends of the spine panel and with slight tanning to same, but overall very good. An uncommon book in dust jacket, strikingly similar to, and coeval with, Malcolm Lowry's first book Ultramarine (1933). Waterfront was the source book for the British-made Film Noir 'Waterfront' ('Waterfront Women' in the US) which starred Richard Burton. Inscribed to Irish writer and Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Conal (O'Riordan) and his wife Olga, dated 8th of January 1934. Very scarce signed.