Lang Andrew, Signed (69 results)

Condition: Like New. Hague, Michael (illustrator). Signed (inscribed) by author with illustration on title page. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Price clipped dust wrapper is like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Cloth. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. JAMES, GILBERT (illustrator). First Edition Thus Illustrated. xxxii + 91pp; With 12 photogravures; Frontispiece loose but intact with tissue-guard; Slight foxing throughout; Ex Libris label to f.e.p.; Inscribed by the author "For darling Flo from the Author 23 xii 26 Iterum dico gandete (?)"; Quarter marbled boards; Bumping to corners; Size: 8vo. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Hague (illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. (1993.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to with 288 pages. Signed by Illustrator on title page, "Michael Hague." The book and DJ are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Some foxing to page block. Otherwise interior is clean and tight. Profusely illustrated. Pictures available upon request.There are 31 Classic fairy tales beautifully illustrated in Color and Black & White by Michael Hague. "Included are many of the more traditional tales from Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Perrault--among them, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Cinderella." Hague also gives a nod toward cultural inclusiveness, incorporating such tales as "The Snake Prince" from India, "The Hero Makoma" from Zimbabwe, and "Hok Lee and the Dwarfs" from China." Gold spine/Black text. Size: 4to. Signed. Childrens.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hague, Michael (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue cloth spine over paper-covered boards under gold/blue pictorial dust jacket. Signed (name only) by Hague on title page. First printing with full number line. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Hague, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pages. Classic fairy tales edited by Andrew Lang. Includes illustrations by Michael Hague. A clean and tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Hague on the title page. Signed.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1885. First edition. x, 139pp. and a frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, contributor to the field of anthropology, and a noted collector of folk and fairy tales. Many of the verses within this collection have appeared in periodicals, English and American, and some were published in an American collection called Ballades and Verses Vain. None of them have previously been put forth in book form in England. Some of the rhymes that appear in this volume are The Fortunate Islands, The New Millennium, Almae Matres and Desiderium. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered bevelled boards with gold titling on the spine and front board and gold stamped publisher's emblem on the bottom corner of the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the free endpapers. A signed letter from Andrew Lang has been tipped-in on the front free endpaper. Letter from the author tipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by the illustrator. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and faded spine.

Cloth Spine/Paper Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). Michael Hague (illustrated by) (illustrator). First Edition/1st Printing. Signed and illustrated by Michael Hague on ffep verso. First Edition/1st Printing! Decorative end pages, glossy and tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Blue cloth spine, blue paper boards with light bumping to corners and spine. Unclipped dust jacket, illustrated and mylar sleeved, some light shelf wear to the head and foot of spine. 288pp., including bibliography. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed By Michael Hague. Hardcover.

hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Michael Hague (illustrator). First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Michael Hague on the half title page. A collection of more than thirty fairy tales for young readers of all ages. Dustjacket has a few dings on the corners and spine but is in fine shape. ; 8 1/4"-10 1/4"; 288 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: very good/near fine. Hague, Michael (illustrator). Full page black and white drawing in ink and is signed and dated by illustrator Michael Hague and is dated 1996. In pictorial dust jacket. At the bottom of rear cloth cover there is some wear to inner edge. Approximately 1 1/2" First edition with the Michael Hague illustrations.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. #1074/1500 printed, signed on the colophon by the illustrator Lucille Corcos. Four volume set complete in four slipcase, they each have white deposits on the paper, perhaps oxidation, corners and edges worn, Vol I splitting on bottom edge. Cream cloth boards with green foliage decoration are darkened on the edges and spines, some darkened areas on front and rear, spine label on Vol 4 has some wear on the gold decoration. Gutters toned in all four volumes. Certainly one of the nicest complete Brother's Grimm published. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Book signed on front endpaper "Josephine from A Lang" a later inscription on presentation copy flyleaf "to Veronica from Josephine June 10.1937" The book is illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne. Front and rear board's discoloured, parts of spine missing, corners scuffed, joints loose. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A. Lang. Presentation copy. Blue cloth with bright gilt titles. Signed by Lang. Attractive with rare Lang signature. Inscribed by Author(s).

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Limited to 24 numbered copies of which this is number (red star) Publishers Copy Printed for Mr. Dana Estes. Estes signed note on the limitation page of vol I indicating who he sold the set to. Full red leather with five raised bands on the spine. 304 and 392 number pages. TEG, deckled edges. Bookplate front pastedown. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. Volume 1 and 2 of 48 only. Inscribed by Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Maurice Greiffenhagen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Silver Library - "New Impression". Inscribed by Marianna Louisa Haggard (1859-1943); Rider Haggard's wife, married in 1880: To Leslie/With love from/M.L Haggard on the half-title page. (I also have Lysbeth with another MLH inscription). Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered and decorated spine, gilt bordered cover, blind bordered back cover, decorated end pages, tissue guarded frontispiece. Contains 27 illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen [all present]. Scott 16 : Whatmore F13 6(a). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1898), 317 pages. VG copy. Sunned spine and a touch of sunning to covers, dust darkened top edge, scattered foxing. Cracked hinges. Other.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2 Volume set. Limitation of 1500 of which this is 259. Signed by Frans Masereel on limitation page. Softcovers in slip case. Fine bindings and covers. Wear to slipcase with some separation starting. Glassine dust jackets in near fine condition. Books in Near Fine condition, all pages are uncut and pristine. Foxing to top page ends near spine. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vojtech Preissig (illustrator). A near fine book in a very good dust jacket in a good slip case. Signed by Vojtech Preissig. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION; number 629 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Vojtech Preissig on limitation page. Good+ printed cloth; binding slightly shaken; page 60 has a closed tear in the margin; otherwise a nice clean copy. Lacks slipcase and dust jacket. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Preissig, Vojtech (illustrator). First Edition Thus, Limited, Signed. First edition thus, hardcover, and signed by the illustrator and designer, Vojtech Preissig, and marked as no. 364/1500 on the colophon. The book has mild wear to the spine ends, and slight sunning to the spine. Overall, this is a solid, sharp, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with short creased tears to the spine ends and corners, sunning to the spine with faint soiling at the tail, a few small smudges to the covers, slight wear to the edges with a short tear to the tail of the back, and a crease to the upper corner of the rear flap. Housed in a Near Very Good slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, rubbing with smudging across the panels, a few areas of soiling, and sunning to the edges.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Book Club Edition. Multi color designed covers in what appears to be fabric. Numerous illustrations designed and illustrated on hand-made paper by Vojtech. Limited Edition Book Club #582/1500. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An interesting collection of essays in the Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour, including Dickens, Homer, Dumas, Bunyan, and an early critique of Kipling. A sound Very Good copy, maroon cloth lettered in gilt, signs of slight edge wear all around, signed by the author on the frontispiece portrait page. Signed by Author(s).

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. L.Bogle, Lucien Davis & Others (illustrator). First Edition. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 337 pages. Numerous illustrations. All edges gilt. Blue and gilt illustrated cloth covers rubbed at extremities of spine and some light foxing of pages; contemporary inscription on title page but a very good copy considering the date of issue. Signed by Author(s).

Number 43 of 100 copies printed by William Clowes on antique laid paper and signed by them. Title-page in red and black. Olive-green half morocc with green cloth sides by Larkins, marbled endpapers predominantly purple, gold and blue. Bookplate of the Constitutional Club. Spine rather rubbed. A good copy. Scotch Rivers; Salmon-fishing; Winter Sports; Human Levitation; A Chinaman's Marriage; Sieur de Montaigne; Thackeray's Drawings; Golf; Art of Dining; American Humour; Suspended Animation; Breaking Up; On Shaving; Street Noises; Lending of Books; Club Bores; Phiz.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Limited. Designed and illustrated by Vojt?ch Preissig. Translated by Andrew Lang. Limited edition. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Preissig, this being number 1376. Publisher's cloth, patterned in purple, green, and black, spine lettered in gilt, and endpapers decorated in green; in its original cream dust jacket, patterned in green yellow and purple, with spine lettered in black; lacking publisher's slipcase. Book with just a tiny spot of staining to right edge of front board, else fine; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with two tiny nicks to head of spine, and a few small closed tears to top edges of panels. Overall, a superb copy. Aucassin et Nicolette is an anonymously penned 13th-century French chantefable (prose narrative interspersed with poetry) about two lovers who overcome pirates and imprisonment to be together. The story is seen as a parody of Old French genres, like the epic, the romance, and the saint's life. The one surviving manuscript of Aucassin et Nicolette is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Signed.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Limited edition, 1095/1500. Octavo, 77 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket in a Good minus slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper; tear to bottom edge, wear to corners. Spine is tan with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; toning to spine, slight edge wear. Boards in cream cloth, multicolor decoration. Text block has deckle edges; penciled numbers on front flyleaf. Illustrated: color. Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QB (ND-QB). 1410207. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.

8vo. original paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 177 pages. First edition, one of 100 numbered large paper copies signed by Coombes (Webber p.87). Private bookplate of John J. Donaldson on front pastedown. Minor soiling to the covers and spine, else a near fine copy. With chapters on literary forgeries, bookbindings, and six other subjects. The English edition of this book appeared in 1887 and does not contain two of the chapters and the dedication is no longer to Brander Matthews. Printed at The Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. original paper-covered boards, paper spine label.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Beautiful gilt-stamped decorated lavender, aqua & black cream-colored boards in dust jacket and slipcase, #299 of 1500 numbered copies signed by the designer & illustrator, boards immaculate, binding tight pages bright, an exemplary copy in dust jacket which is a little toned at edges with slight wear to ends & corners & very shallow chipping to spine ends, slipcase edge-chipped with slight paper loss to one spine end & beginnings of seam splits at openings but solid & whole; 4to; 77pp illus + colophon. Signed by Illustrator.

hardcover. Preissig, Vojtech (illustrator). Illustrations and decorations in color by Vojtech Preissig. 77 pages. Slim 4to, decorative cloth, decorative d.w. (spine lightly sunned); deckled edges. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper and box. One of 1500 numbered copies, printed in Czechoslovakia on J. W. Zanders hand-made paper, and signed by the illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, 77 pages, Copy no. 49 of 1500 copies on handmade paper, signed by Czechoslovakian designer and illustrator, Vojtech Preissig. This text survived the 12th or 13th centuries in only one manuscript of this Song-Story. "Written in the Picard dialect by a sophisticated craftsman . this chante-fable is a masterpiece marked by a naive beauty produced by a nice calculation of efforts. It is written in mixed prose and verse, for recitation to a musical accompaniment." - THESAURUS OF BOOK DIGESTS. Printed in Preissig type in Czechoslovakia on hand-made Zanders paper. "As for the style I have attempted, if not Old English, at least English which is elderly, with a memory of Malory." - A. Lang.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hague, Michael (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1993. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. Blue boards with dark blue cloth spine and gilt title. Contains 23 full colour plates. A comprehensive and beloved collection of fairy tales. 288 pages. 10.5 x 8". SIGNED by the artist to title-page. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.