Croker, Signed (29 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. (war stories, civil war, historical fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by Author on Title Page, Inside Like New. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. 427 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. William Morrow, New York, 2004. First edition, first printing, hardcover, Fine, clean and unread; inscribed by author in black ink pen on title page, " For James, Enjoy! Richard Croker". Dust Jacket Fine. 20090060, 1 lb 10 oz, S3. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. William Morrow, New York, 2006. First edition, first impression hardcover book in Fine unread condition; clean, square, and tight; flat signed by author in blue ink pen on the title page. Dust jacket in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear around the edges and corners, and a half inch closed tear to the top fore edge corner of the back board; autographed copy sticker affixed to the front panel. A beautiful signed copy of this book. 21010071, 1 lb 9 oz, S-8. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Civil war Battle of Antietam. Signed by the Author. Book.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed & Inscibed.

First edition first printing signed by the author on title page " For Joe - Enjoy! Richard Croker" with black sharpie. 8vo. Blue and Green boards stamped in gilt on spine. 427 pages. Like new/ Like new.

Condition: Very Good. MD Norman, Remington Company 1926. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in VG dj SIGNED & insc by author; dj wlite chipping, in mylar 61 pages. 1st edition. 12vo.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has never been read. Minimal shelf wear. Jacket has a tear on top edge. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket covered with mylar. Inscribed and signed by Author on Title Page. Stated First Edition - first printing. 417 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy, the cork is a little dulled. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page and dedication page. SIGNED ON TITLE-PAGE, without dedication or inscription, and in a different colour ink, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on dedication page. Inscription reads, '- but this one's/for you ----- (name of recipient)./I think you might/be Gary. I'm Sam,/Joanna's Caroline - /and Denise B.??/Andrew/Feb 16'. This inscription is with reference to the characters in the novel. As news editor of one of the biggest papers, Sam Plummer is no stranger to sex and scandal - he is the undisputed tabloid king; but someone is trying to dethrone him. A fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. 427p, octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Touch of wear to jacket spine end. This copy is inscribed by the author, "To the Cadets of GA 956 - Richard Croker 12/22/04" on first free end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volumne l, 584 pp. Croker, an Anglo-Irish statesman, was an author, and First Secretary of the Admiralty. This volume has a manuscript LETTER BY CROKER, dated 1819, regarding the purchase of a portrait at the Royal Academy. An obituary of the editor Louis J. Jennings tipped to back of front blank. Engraving of Sir Robert Peel tipped to back of front free end paper. Brown cloth, gilt designs and lettering front cover & spine. Very Good. Clean, unmarked, age-toned, front end papers glued at inner margins. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Autobiography of the General Secretary of the Football Association. 1st edition. 8vo. Very good in dustwrapper. Signed and dedicated by Croker on the title page.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Admiralty Letter by Anglo-Irish statesman and Secretary of the Admiralty John Wilson Croker. Dated 1825. A letter about his Roal Highness. John Wilson Croker 1780 - 1857 was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author. In 1807 he published a pamphlet on The State of Ireland, Past and Present, in which he advocated Catholic emancipation. Size is 238mm x 185mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18815. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! S.l.: Maria Briscoe Croker, 1934. 1st edition. 8vo. 70pp. Frontis. portrait. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Good book. (poetry) Inquire if you need further information.

No Binding. Condition: Good. The letters are: (1) In a neat legible hand headed Admiralty & dated 10th October, 1839 the first letter reads: "My dear Sir, I am very much indebted to you for the trouble you have taken, and for the quantity of very interesting matter you have been so good to send me." He goes on to explain that as he will be away from the admiralty until after November - "leading that kind of desultory life, that I can hardly tell from day to day where my quarters may be the next." When he is back at the Admiralty where the notes he promised copies of are & he will then transcribe them and send them on. He goes on to mention writing to Ireland for a piece of Mummery & closes with a P.S. referring to seeing the person he is writing to (O.Smith?) at the Camden Society the other day. (2) The second letter envelope is postmarked January 27, 1853 & has a black seal with a circle within which there are 3 birds with 2 on the top sides of a triangle open at the bottom and with another inside the triangle -to all intenst and purposes it looks like the roofof a hous with bordson top and another in the attic underneath. With the circel margin are the words deus alle/alis (?) rob (?). The letter is addressed to Dr.O'Callghan Glos'ter Lodge Saint Leonards on Sea. Content reads: "do not hear from him in the shape of bills, nor Mama either - you may bepretty certain that he is well looked after and all is going right. The more distant the station from England under the command of a good officer, as I believe Sir Edward Home to be, the better for the youngster.the faster will progress in the Naval Service.Mama's yearnings to see her boy. T. Crofton Croker. Both letters signed and the latterone also signed on front of envelope. Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) was an antiquary and folklorist. He was born in Cork. He worked as a clerk at the Admiralty (1818-59). In 1813, he was apprenticed to a merchant in Cork, but managed to nurture the archaeological tastes he had early acquired. He contributed sketches to local exhibitions, and wrote occasionally for a local periodical. On his father's death in 1818 he went to London, where he obtained an appointment at the Admiralty through the influence of John W. Croker, a friend but no relative. In 1821 he visited Ireland, and formed the plan of a work, published in 1824 Researches in the South of Ireland. The success of his next work, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published anonymously in 1825, was so marked that he wrote a second series, illustrated by Maclise, which met with as favourable a reception. Both works have been translated into German and French. These and other books, such as his valuable Memoir of General Holt, Popular Songs of Ireland, and various tales, established his reputation as a writer, and especially as an accurate collector of Irish fairy and legendary lore. He retired from Government service in 1850 on a pension of £580, and died at 3 Gloucester-road, Old Brompton, London, on 8th August 1854, aged 56. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery. He was described by Sir W. Scott, as "little as a dwarf, keen-eyed as a hawk, and of easy, prepossessing manners, something like Tom Moore." His Fairy Tales are enriched with notes, showing the points of similarity between Irish legends and those of other countries. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Signed. Fourth edition (1805); Croker's signature on front flyleaf and in pencil on the dedication page; hardcover, no dust jacket; marbled paper boards with leather around spine; wear to extrems, rubbing and chipping to edges, small piece missing from foot of spine; binding is starting at front hinge; title page and advertisement to the fourth edition are hand-written; foxing to pages and stain on page vii; author's first book with multiple additions made to each edition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

Politician and essayist (1780-1857). The recipient (1788-1864) was an antiquary and member of the Roxburghe Club. Four pages, 12mo. In very good condition, although rather grubby and with traces of stub adhering to one edge. He finds 'a letter of Pope to Beau Nash transmitting him an inscription [^ (not copied)] for, as I guess, a statue or bust of Fredk. Prince of Wales. I cannot lay my hand either on the Beau's Life nor on a Bath Guide (tho' I know I have both somewhere) & I therefore venture to trespass on your good nature to give me a little light on the subject.' Croker is aware that Nash set up a stone with a latin inscription to the Prince of Orange, 'and this might be that on which Pope was consulted, but I rather think that Nash did some thing of the same kind for Prince Frederick in 1738 or 1739.' He is sure that Markland will be able to 'clear up any doubt in a moment'. 'Pope in his letter requests that his share in the transaction should be concealed.' Ends 'What a pity it is that just as one had got a rail road to Longleat dear Lady Bath chooses to flit in to Sussex.' Signed 'J W Croker'. The draft reply (one page, 12mo, in good condition) includes a copy of the inscription ('sent to Mr Croker May 1851') as transcribed from Warner's 'Bath'. Markland poses the question 'Did Nash venture to alter what Pope had written?' Two items,

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, on lightly discoloured paper, with thin neat strip from windowpane mount adhering to edges. Sixteen lines in a neat and stylish hand. Signed 'T. Crofton Croker'. The recipient is not named, but is clearly John Bowyer Nichols, editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, in whose number for April 1839 appeared an article, with engraving, by 'E. I. C.', on 'Winchester House, Broad-street, London.' Croker begins his letter: 'My dear Sir, / I return E. I. C's account of Winchester House. I think he is mistaken on so many points, and has omitted so much of interest that the best way of making the additions I had proposed wil be to give you a short comment on what you now print - for I require a reference or two, to be certain that I am quite right - for next month.' He suggests that the recipient may wish to add that 'the greater portion of the wood work has been purchased by Mr Baylis and that he is fitting up with it the kitchen and some of the new rooms of the Prior's bank'. The Pryor's Bank in Fulham was the residence of Thomas Baylis, F.S.A.

8°, Ledereinband. Very Good. Five (5) volumes, octavo; engraved frontispiece in each volume. Bound by Morrell in polished calf, gilt-decorative spines, red and green leather labels, ruled covers and dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A tight, bright set in very good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 8550.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 4to., 44pp., illustrated with woodcuts. One of 275 numbered, SIGNED copies, designed, illustrated, hand-set & hand-printed. from original wood blocks by Elfriede Abbe. Full green cloth, title gilt on spine, gilt design on front cover. Fine. Sources of stories are 19th century collections. SIGNED by Abbe, who did other pieces at Cornell. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Large crown4to, engraved frontispiece, [viii], 109, [2] pp. Two engraved plates. Modern brown three quarter calf, marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt, all edges gilt. Staining to the margins of the frontispiece, slight foxing to both plates otherwise a very good plus copy in an attractive binding, signed on the title 'To Charles Kendal Bushe Solicitor General of Ireland with the kind regards of his friend the Author'. Ninth edition. The ninth edition of Talavera was the first to include the additional poems, War Song, Songs of Trafalgar, and To him who despairs of Spain. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Works-in-1 Vol. Sm.folio, contemporary diced calf with elegant gilt tooling forming Oxford-style rules, a.e.g. ** Talavera pp[iv] + 110, faint damp-mark across blank upper margins. With engraved portrait of Wellington : and title-page neatly signed John Flyer [??]. ** The Tribute pp[vi] comprising half-title, frontispiece and title + 8pp with two engraved vignettes + [2]pp blank, the blank upper margins with 3cm dampstain not affecting text. *** Neatly rebacked and recornered retaining original gilt-decorated backstrip, binding a little rubbed in places, but a very good and well-presented stout copy. *** Rare. The Tribute To Perceval - printed privately for the anonymous Author - not listed in British Library or Library of Congress catalogues. See Cambridge University Library listing only the anonymous 1812 1st Edition. *** Perceval was Prime Minister at the time of the Battle of Talavera, during the Peninsular War, and was the only British head of government to have been assassinated. *** This 9th Edition of Talavera is the first to include the additional poems. Talavera was a British victory in the Peninsular War : the other poems here include War Song : Songs Of Trafalgar : To Him Who Despairs Of Spain. *** This 9th Edition not in British Library, Cambridge University Library or Library of Congress catalogues. *** The Tribute To Perceval was issued anonymously. The binding-up together of these two works may well be a clue that Croker was the anonymous author of the Tribute. Croker was not only appointed to high political office by Spencer Perceval, but he also named his only child Spencer in honour of Perceval, his own good friend and political patron. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, 12mo, 21, [1]pp., binder having been rather heavy-handed in shaving margins (2 letters cropped from final line of imprint), a little foxing on the last 2 leaves, disbound. This is a satire on "Cutchacutchoo" which was a game in much vogue in Dublin society at the time, a kind of "Blind Man's Buff," or "Hunt the Slipper" which was criticised as tending to immorality. It was denounced in an anonymous satire, supposed to be written J. W. Croker, who was attacked in various retaliatory squibs. The text is signed at the end "J.T.", possibly written by J. W. Croker.

This Irish-born British literary critic, essayist and satirist is remembered for his controversial 1831 edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson"; as Member of Parliament and long-time secretary to the admiralty (1810-30) he is best known for slashing the size of the Royal Navy. ALS, 4pp (lettersheet), 4½" X 7", Aldeburgh, Great Britain, 1831 October 2. Addressed to George Lamb (1784-1834, British politician and writer; appointed under-secretary of state in 1830). Very good. Mild wear; being a four-page lettersheet, there's remnants of old archival tape along the fold. Croker comments on Lamb for answering his letter to British secretary of state The Viscount Melbourne -- George Lamb's own brother, William Lamb. Regards some cryptic naval incident -- in part: "I think it proper to observe that you do not appear to have seen the difficulty which I intended to submit to Lord Melbourne. My doubt did not apply so much to the treatment of the seamen who might be stranded, as to that of the town into which such persons may have been thrown" and he goes on at length to explain that the whole town may have been subjected to the stranded seamen. Good content from the tail end of Croker's admiralty career and the beginning of his literary career.

JOHN WILSON CROKER (1780-1857). Croker was a British statesman and writer.LS. 3pg. 8 x 12. August 31, 1824. Admiralty Office. A letter signed J W Croker to Thomas Aspinwall, the American consul in England. Croker, then the First Secretary to the Admiralty, wrote: the case of William Long, said to be an American, serving on Board His Majestys Ship Gloucester, I have their Lordships Commands to acquaint you, in reference to your letter of the 23rd Ulto., that as this Mans discharge is asked on private grounds, & as it is admitted that he volunteered into the British service, & if he be not a British Subject, did fraudulently represent himself to be such, my Lords do not think it would be proper to discharge him at his own request or that of those acting for him, but they think it right to add that if the United States were at War with any power & required the services of her citizens, they would in that case have discharged the man supposing him to be what he has latterly represented himself. The letter has mailing folds and is in fine condition.