Corey Ford, Signed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Smith, Christopher (illustrator). 1st Edition. Trout Tales and Other Angling Stories by Corey Ford. Compiled and introduction by Laurie Morrow. Inscribed by Morrow on full title page. Hardcover first edition, first printing published in 1995 by Wilderness Adventures Press. 1/4 inch tear on back panel of jacket otherwise book is in excellent condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed and dated by the author on initial page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author to composer and songwriter Irving Berlin on the ffep. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 144pp. Light wear to upper page edges, mild wear to board edges and corners, tight binding, interior text clean. Dust jacket covers mildly worn, some chipping to edges, $2.95 price remains intact. Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked quarter-cloth over pictoral boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; Description: xxvi, 177 p. : front., ill., plates ; 20 cm. Subjects: Parodies 3 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked quarter-cloth over pictoral boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; Description: xxvi, 177 p. : front., ill., plates ; 20 cm. Subjects: Parodies 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 12mo. 141 pages. Hardcover with a black dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is worn and has some edge tears and chips, especially at the bottom corner of the front cover, There is a small blue "Signed" label inside the mylar at the foot of the spine. The book is sound with secure inner hinges. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on the half title by the author, "For Captain Leland Lovette- with gratitude / Corey Ford". Leland Pearson Lovette (1897-1967) was Captain in the U.S. Navy and was Commander of the U.S.S. Guam in WWII. He eventually made rear Admiral. He was also the author of a book on Naval Customs. The bottom of the jacket's front panel reads, "An Eye Witness Account of our Least-Known and Loneliest Front". First Edition with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Signed by Author(s).

Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Small 8vo. Yellow leather-textured paper over boards with black spine lettering and front board graphic. viii, 318pp. Frontispiece, 10 full-page plates, floor plan. Good plus overall. While text block is super tight and bright and near fine, front and rear boards are age toned and spine is intact and stable but quite rough -- darkened, heavily chipped at head and tail, and homely. A tight and decent first edition of this scarce tongue-in-cheek satire in which (to cite title page) "Victim died of acute boredom in his own library. Body discovered surrounded by the past year's Best Sellers" and the suspects include "Theodore Dreiser, Jim Tully, Sherwood Anderson, Will Rogers, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Calvin Coolidge, Katherine Brush, Richard Halliburton, Will Durant, Rudy Vallee, W.R. Burnett, and other contemporary authors found on the scene of the crime." What makes this copy is special is a choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed from author Riddell (Corey Ford), 1p, 7" X 10", Freedom, NH, n.y. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Very good. Faint original horizontal folds. Gracious note to an admirer "for your friendly birthday wishes and thoughtfulness. and for the nice things you said. I've been dabbling in the Hollywood flesh-bois too long, but I hope I'm back at work at last." Boldly penned in black ink in Ford's interesting script. What makes this copy extra special is that the salmon-colored "Sporting Offer" sheet that wraps around the rear flyleaf and final text page remains UNBROKEN. This invariably-opened sheet, which reveals the murderer, promises that "We make this sporting offer. Return this book with the seal intact -- and you are out $2.50. Break it -- and the mystery is over. Either way, you lose." Ford (1902-69), a.k.a. John Riddell, was a prolific American humorist and outdoorsy writer.

Condition: Spine a bit sunned, else fine. First edition, first printing. Original glossy boards, octavo, 95 pp. Illustrated throughout with period cartoons. Text by Corey Ford. Perhaps the first humorous book on computers and computing. Ford's preface is presciently titled "A Computer in Every Home." The book's title makes reference to IBM's "Think" signs that were ubiquitous in workplaces during the 60s. This copy presented by IBM with printed card laid in. Additionally, the front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by IBM President Tom Watson, Jr. to W. L. Stewart (Jr.): "WL Stewart from Tom Watson Jr Christmas 1960." William Lyman Stewart, Jr. was the grandson of Union Oil Co. founder Lyman Stewart. His father William Lyman Stewart was president of Union Oil from 1914-1930. Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914-1993) was president of IBM from 1952-1971. His father, Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956), founded the company and was its president from 1914-1952. A fine association copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover. HARD TO FIND SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION ONE OF 250 COPIES. SIGNED BY EDITOR, ILLUSTRATOR AND PUBLISHER. Gilt design on front and lettering on spine. Gilt on page edges. An Unused, unmarked and unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition without a jacket. This copy inscribed and signed by June Triplett ( Corey Ford ) to Jimmy Durante, "In memory of our glamorous house on the African Veldt." Corners bumped and worn, otherwise a very good copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Priceclipped but $2.50 Intact, Illustrated Endpapers, B/W Foto Frontispiece, FORD WAS AVID OUTDOORSMAN, AKA John Riddell ,HBDJ, 1929 on Title pg. 1st edition, Eighth Impression August 1929, SIGNED & Inscribed DATED 1929 by COREY FORD, VG-/VG, FOXING TO Some pgs, ,Grey cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. slight fade to edges of boards, page edges browning, otherwise a VG+ copy in a lightly soiled but still bright VG dustjacket which has a few small chips TEARS to the spine ends and corners and some short closed tears to the edges. ,Purportedly, a parody of "Cradle of the Deep", a fabricated autobiography by Joan Lowell. , with Newspaper clipping Death of Corey Ford at 67, AKA John Riddell, COREY was scriptwriter in HOLLYWOOD & HE COLUMNIST Field & Stream Magazine. Signed by Author.

First Edition. DTC Code Book 1934, Privately Published, 1934, first edition, a tight vg copy in red & blue pictorial boards. Replete with photos and/or illustrations on every page. This New York Social Club, made up of writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, media gurus and performers in music, television and film, first came into being 1905. ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBERS OF THE PAST include: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Walter Cronkite, Jose Ferrer, Bel Kaufman, Lowell Thomas, Ray Bolger, Robert Merrill, David Brown, Isaac Asimov, Jimmy Cagney, George M. Cohan, Howard Chandler Christie, Richard Simon, George Abbott, Frank Loesser, George S. Kaufman, Jerome Kern, Edust-wrapper ard R. Murrow, Ogden Nash, Norman Rockwell, Artur Rubinstein, Gene Tunney, Rube Goldberg, John LaGatta, James Montgomery Flagg, Norman Rockwell and Presidents Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman and Gerald R. Ford. This 1934 publication features the works of Rube Goldberg, Don Marquis, John La Gatta, Ogden Nash, Clarence Buddington Kelland, Otto Soglo, Corey Ford, Russell Patterson, Dean Cornwell, James Montgomery Flagg, Jack Cosgrove, Tony Sarg, Percy Waxman, Conrado Massaguer, et.al. The last section is a listing of the current members with a breakdown of their occupation, address and phone number! 1/1,200 copies produced. This copy specially contains the signatures of Pete Martin, Frank Ettenhead, Floyd Parsons and two others we alas cannot decipher. Formerly premier magazine illustrator, John Lagotta's copy, who has indeed also SIGNED this copy at his double page illustration on pages 11 & 12.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Fine in well-worn, good only dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion: "For Gene Tunney with sincerest personal regards. Corey Ford." Tunney served as a Navy captain during WWII.

Original two-page contract agreement from the 1946 film noir, amending and supplementing an agreement between starring actress Lilli Palmer and then-president of United States Pictures Joseph Bernhard, and signed by both in manuscript ink on the second leaf. Dated "April 8th" in manuscript ink on the first leaf, and a date of 5/10/46 typed on the second leaf. Small notary blindstamp on the first leaf. The first film released by short-lived studio United States Pictures, and the first of the studio's two films noir, the other being "The Enforcer" (1951, with Humphrey Bogart). Director Fritz Lang was already an established noir authority, having previously directed "M" (1931), "Fury" (1936), and "The Big Heat" (1953). Two leaves, stapled and hole-punched at the top, 8.5 x 11 inches, ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Very Good plus overall, with light toning, diagonal creases, and faint 'I.M.P." blindstamps to both leaves. Grant Worldwide. Olive Films. Selby Classic Noir. Signed.

First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Corey Ford as June Triplett, to playwright Marc Connelly and his wife inscribed: For Marc and Madeline Connelly, In memory of one glamorous hour on the African veldt. Gratefully, June Triplett per Corey Ford.Ó Connelly was a founding member, along with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker, and others of the literary group known as the Algonquin Round Table, and is best known for his biblical fantasy The Green Pastures and for The Farmer Takes a Wife, in addition to his many successful collaborations with George S. Kaufman. A lightly used copy with some darkening to the spine with some tiny tears and a bit of fraying at its top and bottom and with some light wear to the extremities in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping. A campy literary spoof illustrated with black & white photographs and photograph collages of the explorer/adventure genre with a comic cast of characters including ÒChester Drawers, the expeditionÕs professional stowawayÓ, Britches, Ego, the Missing Link, Harry Ape, and others. Also, notably posing as characters in the book are famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart as one of the expeditionÕs pilots and entertainer Jimmy Durante as Scarface Jimmy, JuneÕs smiling trainer and crack wildlife hunter, and Jack Dempsey as the chimp.