Hunt Holman, Signed (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Hunt, William Holman (cover art) (illustrator). First Edition (so stated). Northampton, Pennsylvania:: Cornell Farm Press, 1997. 6" wide by 9" tall. Spine is square and flat with NO creases. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original glossy pictorial wraps featuring a beautiful full-color reproduction of William Holman Hunt's painting THE LADY OF SHALOTT. This is the author's first novel. A Tar River, North Carolina native now living in Bucks County, PA, Cashwell also founded the Tar River Players theatre group. Her plays have been performed in Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York. Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). First Edition (so stated). Soft Cover. Very Good+ condition. Illus. by Hunt, William Holman (cover art). (x), 239pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj art) William Holman Hunt (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight copy, one extremely tiny nick to bottom of one page; jacket lightly dampstained along top edge and somewhat less along bottom edge (however, the only sign of moisture damage to the book is a light dampstain at the top rear pastedown)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "A comic novel based on a true memoir," the book "presents the secret world of Misericordia Seminary. In the 1950s, the Catholic Church recruited 200,000 boys for the priesthood. Only 20,000 were ordained. What happened to the missing 180,000 boys? From interviews with hundreds of former seminarians, this book dares reveal secrets deeper than the headlines on the evening news." Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dante Gabriel Rosetti, W Holman Hunt, Sir John Everett Millais (illustrator). Nine loose sheets, various sizes, images printed in black to rectos, text remnants to versos with pencil annotations of the artists' names. Four Rosetti, two Holman Hunt and three Millais engravings, cut neatly from books. Mostly signed in the plates with the artists' monograms, and some of which at least the work of the Dalziel Brothers wood engraving firm. Very Good (occasional light foxing spots).

Hardback. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Two volumes. Vol II signed by Edigh Holman Hunt (nee Waugh), who revised this second edition from the authors notes, and who was William Holman-Hunt's second wife.

Original beige printed wrappers in red and black. Second Printing. 52 pages with extensive commentary and photos of paintings, over 100 entries. Index. Corners chipped, very good. Scarce. From the William Fredeman Collection, signed by Fredeman in pencil on front fly.

2+ pages on folded sheet, "July 15, 1862, Dear Sir, I have to confess my sincere thanks to you for your kindness in answering my last not and in make such liberal arrangements to assist me in my attempt to procure a syringe. I, at once, on receipt of your note sent instructions to Mr. Weedon to call at the House of Lords to see Michael Connor and I doubt not he was punctual in his attendance. I trust that now Mr. Weedon will be able to succeed in his attempt, and that I shall not therefore be under the necessity of availing myself of your goodness to borrow this instrument for use." Another half page. Fascinating letter, signed, "Believe me Yours faithfully and obliged, W Holman Hunt." Remnants of glue from a previous mounting on blank last page. An early Hunt letter.