Maureen Duffy: Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright and strong copy with clean pages. Bumped at the bottom front corner. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Dust jacket is creased with a 2" tear at the bottom edge of the front. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. paperback, 272pp, signed by the author on title page, no further inscriptions, text clean and tight, Very Good condition. ISBN: 184115167X. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. 1979. First Edition. 87 pages. Signed by the author. Blue dust jacket over black cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Flat signed by author to title page. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. UK hardback reissue. INSCRIBED by Duffy to ffep. Good only with page toning knocks to top corners. Jakcet is unclipped with some light creasing in places. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London: Fourth State, 1995, London, First Paperback edition. 5 x 8. 320 pages, w/illustrations. A biography of the composer Purcell. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "With Best Wishes 1995", has a very small surface tear to front cover Otherwise inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER LIKE NEW. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, signed and dedicated by author on title page: "For Maggie with love - Maureen - Voice Box 1991" (also signed above with author's full name). First edition in unclipped, mylar-protected jacket. Sparse foxing on page block; pages are clean and sound. TS. Signed By Author. Used.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 64pp. Collection of forty-nine poems focused on the environment. White card covers with illustration of a bird on front cover. Black lettering on spine. Gift inscription signed by the author on title page. Appears unread. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. 8vo. Signed on the title page by the author:" Best wishes, Maureen Duffy. 1979" Fine in near fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON FFEP 'Maureen Duffy, Cambridge 1978'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£4.50), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 218pp. A novel of espionage. Maureen Patricia Duffy (b.1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non fiction author. A lifelong activist, including on such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she is particularly known for her campaigning on behalf of authors. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal for her lifelong writings. Jacket by Bill Richmond (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Spine uncreased. First paperback ed, printing thus. Inscribed (recipient unnamed) by Duffy in black ink on first (half-title) page: "Very best wishes and my thanks -- Maureen Duffy, London 1991. Light edge wear. Craig Dodd (cover artwork); Bob Workman (author photograph) (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Sinclair-Stevenson in 1991, here is the first hardback printing of Maureen Duffy's ILLUMINATIONS: A FABLE signed by Maureen in blue ink to the full title pages. red cloth binding, yellow lettering, 246 pages the book is in very good condition with some very minor page edge browning. The dust jacket is also very good with some very minimal edge creasing. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Duffy, Maureen. Henry Purcell. First edition, inscribed by the author on title page. London: Fourth Estate, 1994. Hardback, VG+ in unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear to edges. Binding strong and tight (book appears unread). Endpapers illustrated with seventeenth-century illustration of London. xi, 306pp., central section of b/w plates. A few small marks on edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. A biography of Henry Purcell using documentary evidence, gleaned from an investigation of original documents and sources. Maureen Duffy's writing aims to capture the sights, sounds and the flavour of 17th-century London, the city Purcell never left. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. 88pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed/bumped spine ends. Signed and inscribed by author 'For Ted with love & thanks - Maureen 1979'. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket not price clipped. +The author's fourth volume of poetry reveals her cool eye and her feelings for paradox, illuminating both the lyrical and the directly political subjects. …

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Full printer's code 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Contains 274 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £13.99. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Maureen Duffy'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1841151661 ENGLISH HISTORY.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 191pp., Signed by Maureen Duffy on the title-page. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 62, [2]. Green illustrated wraps. Illustrated in black and white throughout by Celia Berridge. Signed by Maureen Duffy at the title page. Very good, with light shelfwear and surface rubbing, a little faded at spine.

First edition. Maroon boards, lettered white to the spine, in pictorial dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author to the title page. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, slight fading to the spine. Duffy was awarded the Benson Medal for lifelong achievement by the Royal Society of Literature, her writing noted for powerfully intense imagery, with an ear for language and an eye for detail. A life long activist covering such issues as gay rights and animal rights. "Duffy has inspired many other writers and proved that the English novel need not be realistic and domestic, but can be fantastical, experimental and political" [Maggie Gee]. Illuminations intertwines past and present, with themes ranging from female sexuality to politics, power and religion. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed by the author. Duffy, novelist, poet, playwright, activist and teacher, was co-founder of The Writers' Action Group in 1972. Lesbian characters and themes are featured in much of her work Grier. *The Lesbian and Literature,* p.39]. "Sexual identity and the politics of gender are intrinsic to her work" [Blain et al. *Feminist Companion to Literature in English*, p.313].…

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st UK, 1st impression. Signed by author to front free endpaper "Maureen Duffy, November 1987". This collection of poems was Duffy's first, and joins her extensive canon of novels, play-scripts and TV/film screenplays. Duffy was a well known, early activist for numerous causes such as CND, vegetarianism and lesbian & gay rights. There are somesmall loss to the laminate on the front jacket cover.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A first edition volume of poems, and of the very scarce limited edition, signed by the author. A first edition volume of poems by English poet, playwright and non-fiction author Maureen Duffy, winner of the Benson Medal. An example of the very scarce limited edition, with gilt lettering and motif to the front board. One of a limited run of 500 copies, this being number 83. Signed by the poet to the limitation page. Bound in original orange cloth. Externally, very smart. Book very slightly cocked. Very slight shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Slight surface graze to front paste down and corresponding area of the front free endpaper, where it appears the front free endpaper has been forced. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the title page: "Signed for Michael Curtis, Maureen Duffy." Duffy, novelist, poet, playwright, activist and teacher, was co-founder of The Writers' Action Group in 1972. Lesbian characters and themes are featured in much of her work.…