Johnston Eric, Signed (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fine hardcover. No dust jacket. Signed only and dated on the FFEP. Clean, bright and tight. No other writing or other marks. We wrap and box our books for shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Grey cloth board. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardback. Condition: Good. In a poor dust wrapper. 1944. The Case for a People's Capitalism.Johnston was president of the United States Chamber of Commerce 254. Signed by the author.

Hard Cover. Condition: very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. very good hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wear. Signed by Eric Johnston, former president of the US Chamber of commerce. Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dj. 2nd printing. [book shows wear at both ends of spine, light shelfwear to bottom edge, bumped at lower rear corner; jacket heavily edgeworn, with a couple of closed edge-tears, some wrinkling/creasing, small bits of paper loss at corners of rear panel]. SIGNED (no inscription) by the author on the front endpaper. Just a couple of years after leaving his post as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to become the successor to Will Hays as the head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (the name of which he immediately changed to the Motion Picture Association of America), Johnston penned this early Cold War polemic, a "challenge to Americans to take up their rightful leadership in the complex world of today." He served as head of the MPAA for nearly two decades (until his death in 1963), but what was probably his most notable achievement (not in a good way) came very near the beginning of his term, when he collaborated with the movie studio moguls in the creation of the Hollywood blacklist. Interestingly, however, in this book he deals not at all -- even glancingly -- with his work in connection with the MPAA, although he devotes quite a bit of space to discussing Joseph Stalin and the menace of Communist Russia. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo, paperback, unpaginated. First edition. Signed by Johnston at the title page. VG: mild soiling and wear to the covers; solid binding; clean text. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED BY OLLIE JOHNSTON. A companion book to "Walt Disney's Bambi: The Story and the Film". This book flips in both directions, portraying the animation of four different Disney characters. Cover has a small corner crease, with a small dot stain on page edge only. CLEAN, TIGHT COPY. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. SIGNED by two of the original Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, on title page. No publishing date printed, c.1990. Companion volume to Walt Disney's Bambi: The Story and the Film. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light fading on front cover, tanning and some very light foxing on title page and inside front cover. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Leather bound. Condition: Very good +. Gill, Eric (illustrator). First Edition. Inscribed by H. D. C. Pepler. Association copy inscribed by Hilary Douglas Clark Pepler to one "C. R. C.": "A book made by children (except the binding) and presented with love by one child (the printer) to another (the poet) 28 years later | H. D. C. P. to C. R. C. 19.1.44" First edition rebound in a custom leather binding with gilt double-rule borders joined at the outer corners by a cluster of gilt stars, raised bands, top edge gilt; given the inscription, we surmise the binding was commissioned by Pepler. Includes 10 wood engravings, two by Priscilla Johnston and the remainder by Ronald Seal. Priscilla Johnston was the daughter of typographer and calligrapher Edward Johnston, who lived in Ditchling from 1912 until his death in 1944, and whose earlier teachings influenced Eric Gill, among many others; Priscilla was five years old when she wrote this book. ___DESCRIPTION: Sextodecimo (5-1/4" x 4-1/4"), pagination: [4], 1-21, [4]. Rear board lightly bowed, "Johnston" misspelled on front board by binder, else only modest general wear; ___CONDITION: Very good + condition. ___CITATION: Taylor and Sewell no. A3. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, inscribed to the head of the MPAA, Eric Johnston. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [two volumes], xi, 596pp; xi, 594pp. Black cloth, titles in silver on spines, signature of the author in silver on front covers. Stated "First Edition" in both volumes. Top edges dyed green. Both volumes with solid text blocks, faint offsetting to endpapers, touch of wear to cloth panels. In the publisher's first state dust jackets, both with $5.00 retail price on front flap, bright illustrations, closed tears on spine and front hinge of Volume II, faint soiling to both jacket spines, shelf wear. Includes a laid-in "gift certificate" for the upcoming release of Volume II. (Burns 0016) Housed in custom gray cloth slipcase. Truman inscribed this copy on the dedication leaf, which was defaced above his signature in 2015 by an unknown individual. Attempts were made to remove graffiti, but it was only partially successful. This copy is inscribed by President Harry S. Truman in Volume I to the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Eric Johnston: "To the Honorable Eric Johnston / with kindest regards and happy memories of our association, from his good friend, Harry Truman / Independence / April 21, 1956." Eric Johnston (1896-1963) was an American businessman and civic leader who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) from 1945 until his death. In 1947, he played a central role in issuing the Waldorf Statement, a declaration by major Hollywood studio executives at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel pledging not to employ individuals affiliated with the Communist Party, marking the start of the Hollywood blacklist. In 1951 during the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman appointed Johnston as head of the Economic Stabilization Agency, where he oversaw price and wage controls to fight inflation and maintain economic balance. (Provenance: RR Auctions, 2025). Signed.

Hardcover. Stated "Second Edition, Revised." 4.75 x 7.5in. xxxii. 510pp. "8pp. examples in red & black and 24pp. of collotypes." Publisher's quarter buckram over paper-covered boards. Signed and inscribed by the author, Edward Johnston, at the half-title page: "Given to H.C.D.C. by E.J. 14. June 1908." Directly above the inscription is the former owner's initials in gold leaf, designed, cut and "worked in" by Johnston himself. The former owner, Henry C. D. Chorlton (1887-1929), was an artist and member of the Northern Art Workers Guild, who visited Johnson at his home in Hammersmith. His bookplate at the front paste-down briefly details the visit and Johnston's extraordinary gift of a monogram in manuscript. An extraordinary copy of the masterpiece by the father of modern calligraphy, which remains the definitive history and manual of the art. VERY GOOD. Shows an additional small bookplate noting this book at one time bequeathed to Chorlton's niece, at the back paste-down bookplates for the Athenaeum Graphic Club and Baylis House, the book itself with slight handling and shelf wear, marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, fore-edge alone is lightly foxed, slightly over-opened at the signature, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

First edition, first impression. Laid-in is a two-page autograph letter signed (on the back of printed galleys) from Mervyn Horder, prominent composer and, at the time, chairman and managing director of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Publishers, to the artist and illustrator Gwen Raverat. The letter concerns the commission of a press mark featuring the letter D and a duck; included are some trials by the artist which Horder is returning, with further suggestions. Gwen Raverat, a highly accomplished artist, was one of the foremost revivers of wood-engraving as a fine art in the 20th century and her skill is evident in the small sketches supplied. Folio. 16 plates laid into the linen-backed portfolio, blue boards, titles to front board in black, linen ties. One plate a little dusty, spine with some minor wear. Very good.