Observer, Signed (22 results)

Condition: Fine. - A 4-3/8 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide black-and-white photographic portrait clipped from a magazine is mounted on an approximately 6 inch high by 4 inch wide cream-colored card. Inscribed and signed on the mount in black ink above and below the photo: "To Seymour Halpern / J. L. Garvin / 26 March 1930 / Gregories / Beaconsfield". Fine. A head-and shoulders portrait of Garvin seated at a desk with his arms folded over a pile of papers. The photo is inscribed to future Congressman Seymour Halpern, then a young autograph collector.James Louis Garvin [1868-1947] was a British journalist, editor and author. Garvin, who had always wanted to be an editor, was given a job as a proof reader and occasional contributor at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. In 1908, after years of honing his skills as a journalist at various newspapers and moving to London, he accepted the editorship of the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. He revolutionized Sunday journalism and returned the paper, which was facing financial troubles at the time, to profitability. In 1921, Garvin moved to Beaconsfield, continuing to edit The Observer and starting work on a biography of his hero Joseph Chamberlain. After Churchill, an old friend, became Prime Minister in 1940, Garvin offered him unstinting support. This led to disagreements with the proprietors, the Astor family, who asked him to resign. He continued writing weekly columns, first for the Sunday Express and then the Daily Telegraph until shortly before his death in 1947.The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.

Schönes Repro-Porträtfoto (in Uniform mit Ritterkreuz), rückseitig eigenhändig signiert.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels. Splits at the edge of the fragile spine, a very good copy. Discussion of the history of playing cards and card games and of the game of pitch in particular, written in the style of Addison's "Spectator." Inscribed by the author. One of 150 copies.

MÜNCHEN Roman (Originaltitel: MUNICH ) Heyne, München, 4. Aufl. 2017, 431 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Robert Harris eigenhändig signiert.

ANGST (Thriller, Originaltitel: The Fear Index. 2011. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 5. Auflage 2011, 384 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

VERGELTUNG Roman (Originaltitel: V2 . 2020. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) ) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2020, ERSTAUSGABE, 367 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, M-Stempel im Bodenschnitt, gut erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

THE FEAR INDEX (englische Originalausgabe, Roman, deutsch : Angst) Hutchinson London, 2011, 323 SS. gebunden (Hardcover gr. 8°) ohne Schutzumschlag, ordentlich erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

KONKLAVE Roman (Originaltitel: Conclave. 2016. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 3. Aufl. 2016, 352 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Robert Harris eigenhändig signiert.

AURORA Roman (Originaltitel: Archangel. 1998. Übersetzt von Christel Wiemken) Heyne, München, 2. Aufl. 1998, 462 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Robert Harris eigenhändig signiert (dito wie vor, als signierte Erstausgabe Euro 75,-).

Großes Original-Farbportraitfoto (quer 8 to, drei verschiedene Motive vorhanden, Abbildung zeigt Muster), von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of George A. Hill, Jr.'s scarce work on card games. A privately printed limited edition. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper with 'To Lamar Fleming, Esq. from his friend, Geo. Hill Jr. Houston Texas - June 21, 1944 - 'An informative discussion of the history of playing cards and card games, with a particular focus on the game of pitch.Written in the style of Addison's "Spectator."The work of George A. Hill, Jr. a Texas oilman and historian.One of only 150 privately printed copies produced. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Small ink marks to fore edge of rear board. Joint tails starting, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.

GHOST (Roman, Originaltitel: The Ghost. 2007. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2007, ERSTAUSGABE, 399 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

EL INDICE DEL MIEDO Grijalbo Spain, 2012, 334 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8 to) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

TITAN Roman (Originaltitel: Lustrum. 2009. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2009, ERSTAUSGABE, 541 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

DICTATOR Roman (Originaltitel: An Officer and a Spy. 2013. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2015, ERSTAUSGABE, 524 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

ENIGMA A Novel by the Author of Fatherland (amerikanische Ausgabe, Roman, deutsch : Angst) Random House N.Y., 1. amerikanische Ausgabe 1995, first american edition, 322 SS. schön gebunden (Hardcover gr. 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

IMPERIUM (Roman) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2006, ERSTAUSGABE, 475 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

EL HIJO DE STALIN Circulo de Lectores Spain, 1. Auflage 2000, 383 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8 to) mit Schutzumschlag, schön erhalten - von Robert Harris in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

INTRIGE Roman (Originaltitel: An Officer and a Spy. 2013. Übersetzt von Wolfgang Müller) Heyne, München, 1. Auflage 2013, ERSTAUSGABE, 622 SS. gebunden (Hardcover 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - von Robert Harris eigenhändig signiert mit Ort und Datum Berlin 11.11.13.

8vo, 1 p. Typed and signed in light-blue, beneath green letterhead, and with 'CARL VAN VECHTEN' 'watermark' at centre of page. Text clear and complete. On lightly aged paper, worn and dogeared at extremities. He thanks her for the copy of 'the Academic Observer (Gertrude Stein number) which intererested me so much that I am writing to ask if I may have another copy for a friend of mine, Please.' Autograph note explains that the 'friend' is one 'who also collects Steiniana'. Docketed in pencil on reverse: 'Miss Mallory | Keep this until I call - someday I will. | [signed] M. Lucha'.

47 gelatin silver prints, various sizes: 43 x 60 to 123 x 188 mm. Some images captioned in English or Chinese on the reverse. - Further, 3 typed essays by Evans Carlson (20, 11, and 2 ff. respectively), 1 typed letter by Carlson (signed in type), and 2 typed letters signed to Carlson. Unique material relating to the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), a conflict marking the beginning of World War II in Asia, prepared by Evans Carlson, a U.S. Marine and unlikely champion of China. - Carlson spent nearly eight years in China as a military observer and marched an estimated 2,300 miles across the country with communist guerrillas. Among the most compelling photographs appear armed partisans, including guerilla forces scaling the wall to the headquarters of the famous communist revolutionary He Long (1896-1969), civilians seeking shelter in trenches, camouflaged airplanes, bombers, destroyed trucks, stations and houses, as well as doctors and nurses, including Chinese Catholic nuns attending to air raid victims in Wuhan, a truck en route to Yulin, watchtowers along the Great Wall, and road bridges in Shanghai. - The archive further comprises notable documents relating to Carlson's travels in China and his lectures on the Chinese cause and the danger of Japanese aggression, including an unpublished essay on the Industrial Cooperative Movement to re-establish Chinese industries after Japanese attacks; an essay on Carlson's opinions on Japan titled "For an enduring Peace"; and a draft for an essay on a trip to the city of Chende; along with a letter from Carlson to the White House voicing concerns of indiscretion from British ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who allegedly alarmed Japanese officials by meeting guerrilla leaders in Beijing and seeking the President's support for the Industrial Cooperative Movement; a typed letter to Carlson from the White House signed by Private Secretary M. A. LeHand, who is pleased to learn that Carlson is staying with the Marine Corps (13 January 1939); and the confirmation of publication of an article on the Sino-Japanese War in the "Far Eastern Survey", signed by secretary Mary C. Taussig (9 May 1941). - Occasional slight marginal flaws; photographs in excellent condition. - From the collection of the descendants of Evans Carlson.

4 pp. Typed letter, signed in ink. "I have seen a new China in the making": an American military observer champions China's cause from the front lines of the Japanese invasion. Evans Carlson spent most of 1937-38 in China, travelling first with the KMT and then extensively with the communist forces of the 8th Route Army; the latter experience is the subject of this letter, written to his family back in America. Carlson was deeply affected by his time in China, and was more open about this in his personal letters than his public communications. To his family he writes: - "My sympathies become very much involved because my natural tendency is to aid the under dog. In the present situation my sympathies are of course entirely with China, as are those of all fair minded and peace loving people. [.] I am so thoroughly aroused to the righteousness of their cause and the fundamental honesty of their effort that I would cut my ties with our own civilization and throw my lot in with theirs if I was not so conscious of material and moral obligations which have developed during my past life. [] The point is that life is not worthwhile unless one is convinced that he is making a definite contribution to human progress. [] This must sound terribly immature and dramatic to you all, but it represents a phase of mind through which I am passing at present". - Carlson was also careful to express the realities of the situation: "I was less fortunate from the health standpoint for I contracted relapsing fever, dysentery and trachoma. [] The disease [i.e., trachoma] is everywhere in the interior, and I had tried to guard against it by refusing the traditional hot towel, and by carrying my own wash basin. But travelling with communists means that property cannot be kept private, and I could not very well refuse requests to use my basin when basins were at a premium. [] I mention these things not to alarm you, but to show that these travels in the interior are not the glamorous excursions which writers try to imply." - In excellent condition. - From the collected papers of Evans Carlson.