Paul Day, Signed (15 results)

SIGNED BY AUTHORS; Octavo, illus. stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, ink gift inscription from both contributors. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. A near fine copy of Cecil Day Lewis' translation of Paul Valery's poem 'Le Cimetičre marin' ( published in 1922). It is limited edition number 117/500 and is signed by Day Lewis. A very clean bright copy in card covers with a marbled paper wrap with titles to the front. There is very light corner wear. Contents are complete in fine clean condition with signed limitation page at the rear. The book is in its original card folder which is complete and clean. It is browned around the edges with some splitting at the folds (the largest split is just over 1 cm). Signed by Author(s).

23pp. 8vo. Original decorated cardboard wrappers, housed in envelope. Edges uncut and foxing to upper edge. A near fine copy. . Signed by Author. Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 473.

First edition of this translation. Octavo. 21 pages. Marbled wrappers. Printed by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni, Verona, on paper made by Fratelli Magnani of Pescia. Parallel text.One of 500 copies numbered in the press, signed by the translator. Fine in the publisher's card folder which is rubbed and splitting.

Copy number '21' of an edition limited to 100 copies (of which 90 were numbered and 10 were reserved for the artist and printers). SIGNED by Christopher Wakeling and Alfons Bytautas, the artist. Text hand-set in Sabon founts cast at the Stempel Type Foundry. The title pages are printed on deep blue Fabriano Taziano paper using Excoffon and Antique Olive Bold Condensed poster type from the Founderie Olive, Marseille. The texts are printed on Arches Velin Blanc 160 gsm, and the screen prints on Fabriano Disegno 5 hot pressed 210 gsm. Quarter cloth over marbled paper covered boards with a printed label to the spine, fawn endpapers. 330 x 250 mm, pp. [26] with four initialled screen prints, three of which are coloured and double page. Printed in French and English. A book in Fine condition.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This jacketed first edition, first printing, is signed by American poet, literary critic, and educator Paul Engle at the head of his introductory essay. On page 23, just below his printed name, Engle signed "Paul Engle" in blue ink. A handsome, folding compliments card laid in features a gilt embossed crown device on the front cover, the inside of the card printed "With all best wishes" and "UNIVERSITY OF IOWA" with Engle's signature "Paul Engle" in between. Also laid in is a franked 1957 postcard posted from New York City featuring a printed announcement: "The Poetry Society of America has the honor of presenting PAUL ENGLE in comments and readings from his published work" on "Thursday February 28". Condition of this signed presentation copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting, no soiling, and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color, the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. The sole previous owner markings in the book, in pencil on the upper front pastedown, indicate that the ostensibly original owner paid "$2.00" for this copy on "Nov. 25, 1936" and that it was "Signed Mar. 7, 1957" not long after the 28 February 1957 event advertised on the laid-in postcard.The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap "5s. net" price, and substantially complete, with fractional loss confined to the upper joints and upper flap fold corners. The jacket is unfaded, with no color shift between the covers and spine, but lightly soiled overall, with a short closed tear at the upper front flap fold and a three-inch angled tear extending from the upper front joint down along the front face, to the left of the printed title. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.The contributing author who signed, Paul Engle (1908-1991), had intended "to become a Methodist minister" but "decided instead to enter the University of Iowa and obtained an M.A. in 1932. His thesis consisted of an original book of poems, Worn Earth, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize." A sojourn in England followed, via a Rhodes scholarship, and study under the poet Edmund Blunden. This may help explain why Engle is the only American among the four contributors to this work. Engle took a post at the University of Iowa in 1937, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. By the end of his life, he had published more than a dozen books of poetry and "left an enduring mark on the institutionalization of creative writing."Frost's Selected Poems had first been published in 1923, with 43 poems from Frost's first three published collections. This 1936 new and expanded edition, now with 62 poems, was the first book of Frost's to contain material by others, with introductory essays by W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin Muir. It was published first and only in England where Frost's first book, A Boy's Will, had been published in 1913, 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now, preeminent in America, Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publisher's note on the dust jacket flap: "Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America, and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis, Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation, uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance."References: Crane A5 & A22; ANB; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This compellingly well-preserved, jacketed first edition, first printing, was signed by Frost in Texas in 1937. Frost wrote in two lines on the front free endpaper recto: "Robert Frost | San Antonio 1937". This copy was signed thus within four months of publication (13 November 1936); Frost spent the winter of 1936-37 in San Antonio, from December 1936 until late March 1937, taking up residence at a home close to Trinity University.Condition is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting, no soiling, and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color, the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. Texas provenance for this British-only edition is both a bit ironic and entirely complete; the sole previous ownership mark other than the author's signature is a small bookseller's sticker affixed to the lower left rear pastedown: "FRANK ROSENGREN | BOOKSELLER | MILAM BLDG. | San Antonio, Texas" in operation from 1935 to 1987. Willie Morris, editor of Harper's, called Rosengren's Books "one of the finest and most admirable bookstores in America."The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap "5s. net" price, and entirely complete, with no loss or tears. While the jacket shows light overall soiling, we note no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine and only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Selected Poems had first been published in 1923, with poems from Frost's first three published collections A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval. The collection was "carefully calculated to present Frost as a major contemporary figure." Frost's arrival as "a major contemporary figure" had been imminent; that first Selected Poems was published in March 1923, preceding the November 1923 publication of New Hampshire, the collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. By 1936, when this expanded Selected Poems was published by Jonathan Cape in London, Frost unequivocally was a major contemporary figure. The arrangement of poems 62 rather than the 1923 edition's 43 poems was not only a new and expanded arrangement, but also the first book of Frost's to contain material by others, with introductory essays by W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin Muir. This expanded edition of Selected Poems was published first and only in England where Frost's first book, A Boy's Will, had been published in 1913, 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now, preeminent in America, Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publisher's note on the dust jacket flap: "Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America, and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis, Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation, uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance."Frost required little introduction for the rest of his life. The next year, 1937, he won the third of his eventual and still-unequaled four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He spent his final years as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with an ever-growing hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961). References: Crane A5 & A22; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life; San Antonio Current.

First edition, early printing of this biographical narrative based on the real-life heroism of Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, basis for the classic film. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. Corydon M. Wassell at the top of the front free endpaper, "To Lorene Welton. Kind regards. Com dr. C. M. Wassell, (M.C.) U.S.N.R. Aug. 1943." Additionally signed on the front free endpaper and half-title page by his wife Madeline Wassell and the cast of the 1944 film adaptation including director Cecil B. DeMille, actors Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Carol Thurston, Paul Kelly, Signe Hasso, Elliott Reid, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Renny McEvoy, Oliver Thorndike, and others. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by George F. Kelley. A unique example.Ā The Story of Dr. Wassell by James Hilton is a biographical narrative that recounts the remarkable wartime service of Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, a U.S. Navy physician who risked his life to save wounded American sailors during the Japanese invasion of Java in World War II. Hilton presents Wassell as a figure of moral courage and quiet heroism, whose actionsā"defying evacuation orders to ensure the safety of his patientsā"earned him the Navy Cross and widespread national recognition. The storyās compelling themes of sacrifice and duty were further popularized by Cecil B. DeMilleās 1944 film adaptation starring Gary Cooper, which brought Wassellās exploits to an even broader audience and reinforced his legacy as a symbol of American wartime valor.

Paper. Condition: Fine. Scarce first day cover commemorating the Allied Victory over Japan, the only commemorative stamp to be rescinded by the United States Postal Service after intervention by President Bill Clinton. (illustrator). Signed First Day Cover. This copy is signed by Brig. General Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay. Postmarked on August 14, 1995, Columbus, Ohio, the first day of Non-Issue. Includes a laid-in "History Denied" card, detailing the provenance of the first day cover. Brigadier General Paul Tibbets (1915-2007) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress, known as the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He was accompanied by Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk (1921-2014), the navigator of the Enola Gay and last surviving member of the crew. Signed.

First edition, number 128 of 500 copies signed by Cecil Day-Lewis, printed at the Officina Bodoni in Verona. The poem was first published in French as "Le Cimetičre marin" in 1922. Octavo. Text printed in English and French. Original marbled wrappers, paper label to front wrapper printed in black. A couple of tiny nicks to extremities, a near-fine copy.

Art, Prints & Posters. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Images of the Burger Court and Reagan-Era Senate] 129 hand drawn images of the United States legislature, Supreme Court, and the notable trial of John Hinckley, Jr. Almost all images are dated and copyrighted by the artist at the lower margin. Dimensions of the sketches are mostly 17.5 x 23 inches. One smaller group of images are 17.5 x 14 in. The artist Joan Andrew (b. 1941) sketched these Courtroom and Senate scenes in Prisma colored pencil while in attendance for use by the national news media. Joan Andrew was employed by the Washington Post and CNN as a sketch artist from 1981-1984; illustrating the proceedings in the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Senate, and United States District Court. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and an award-winning painter, sculptor, and weaver. Andrew's 129 sketches include: 57 sketches of Supreme Court Justices and advocates. The Justices are depicted in groupings, from two to all nine together, on the bench, hearing arguments between 1981-1983. Justices pictured include: Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger Thurgood Marshall (First African American Justice); Sandra Day O'Connor (First Female Justice); John Paul Stevens; William H. Rehnquist (future Chief Justice); Lewis F. Powell, Jr.; Harry A. Blackmun; Byron Raymond White; numerous advocates before the Court. 24 Sketches Documenting the Trial of John Hinckley, Jr., for his Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was famously found not guilty by reason of insanity during the trial. 48 sketches of the U.S. Senate from 1981 - 1984, some with Vice President George Bush, presiding. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Signed.

William Rehnquist Supreme Court oversized black and white photograph signed by all nine justices, dressed in robes. Signed below on the illustration board in black felt tip by John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White, William H. Rehnquist, Harry A. Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. In near fine condition. The piece measures 14 inches by 10.25 inches. The Rehnquist Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2005, when William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the United States. Rehnquist succeeded Warren Burger as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and Rehnquist served as Chief Justice until his death in 2005, at which point John Roberts was nominated and confirmed as Rehnquist's replacement. The Rehnquist Court is generally considered to be more conservative than the preceding Burger Court and Warren Court. According to Jeffrey Rosen, Rehnquist combined an amiable nature with great organizational skill, and he "led a Court that put the brakes on some of the excesses of the Earl Warren era while keeping pace with the sentiments of a majority of the country." Biographer John Jenkins argued that Rehnquist politicized the Supreme Court and moved the court and the country to the right. Through its rulings, the Rehnquist Court often promoted a policy of New Federalism in which more power was given to the states at the expense of the federal government. The Rehnquist Court was also notable for its stability, as the same nine justices served together from 1994 to 2005, the longest such stretch in Supreme Court history.

Large photograph of the 1980's Burger Court, signed by nine justices. Large color photograph depicting the SupremeĀCourt after the swearing-in of Sandra Day O'Connor in September 1981. The justices are Thurgood Marshall, John P. Stevens, William J. Brennan, Lewis F. Powell, Warren E. Burger, William H. Rehnquist, Byron R. White, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Harry C. Blackmun. Framed. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 13.5 inches by 10 inches. Rare and desirable. An attractive image of this important court which presided over a number of issues relating to equality and freedom. The Warren Court is best known for its landmark decisions, which outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one manā"one vote" rules of apportionment of election districts. He made the Supreme Court a power center on a more even basis with Congress and the Presidency, especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966).

William Rehnquist Supreme Court oversized photograph signed by all nine justices, dressed in robes. Signed on the mat by John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, William H. Rehnquist, David Souter, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Byron R. White, and Harry A. Blackmun. Matted and framed. In fine condition. The piece measures 22.15 inches by 17 inches overall. The Rehnquist Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2005, when William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the United States. Rehnquist succeeded Warren Burger as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and Rehnquist served as Chief Justice until his death in 2005, at which point John Roberts was nominated and confirmed as Rehnquist's replacement. The Rehnquist Court is generally considered to be more conservative than the preceding Burger Court and Warren Court. According to Jeffrey Rosen, Rehnquist combined an amiable nature with great organizational skill, and he "led a Court that put the brakes on some of the excesses of the Earl Warren era while keeping pace with the sentiments of a majority of the country." Biographer John Jenkins argued that Rehnquist politicized the Supreme Court and moved the court and the country to the right. Through its rulings, the Rehnquist Court often promoted a policy of New Federalism in which more power was given to the states at the expense of the federal government. The Rehnquist Court was also notable for its stability, as the same nine justices served together from 1994 to 2005, the longest such stretch in Supreme Court history.