Penn William, Signed (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Inscribed by author (William Penn) on title page to named individual. Writing at back of book (see photo 4); otherwise, inside is clean and unmarked. See photos. Inscribed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Rubbing and toning overall. Inscribed by the author, Michael L. Penn, in ink on the half-title page.Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner embossed stamp to upper right of ffep. ; Illus. , maps, inscribed and signed by the author; 189 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 189 pp; Author Signed gift presentation to a previous owner. Excellent book. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Small bump to spine at edge of back cover. ; Illus. , maps, signed by the author on the title page, contents vg cond. ; 189 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. 189 pp; Author Signed, 2nd printing. Signature on title page. No names, pages unmarked. A nice clean, tight and very attractive book. ; Signed by Author.

SUBTITLED: Compiled From the War Correspondence of Colonial William P. Lyon and from personal letters and diary of Mrs. Adelia C. Lyon. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 274 pgs., frontis portrait, plans, portrait plates. Original blue cloth with gilt title cover and spine. Inscribed by authors. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are rubbed on edges and spine ends; gilt bright. Light shelf soiling. Interior is clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: William Lyon mustered into as Captain Co. K for the 8th Wisconsin, August 7, 1861, as Colonel 13th Wisconsin, August 1862 and mustered out, September 1865. After the war, he was an important judge, including serving on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. REFERENCES: DORNBUSCH Wi 92; COULTER 303 "Letters and parts of the author's diary, with letters of Mrs. Lyon from the South, make up the body of this narrative. There is no clear continuity of Colonel Lyon's travels, but the areas of his chief activities are easily inferred?served first in Missouri in 1861, and marched out of St. Louis to Pilot Knob and Greenville in the southeastern part of the state. Later movements were taken from Memphis to west Tennessee and northern Mississippi, to Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, into Kentucky, and back to Tennessee by way of Nashville?At the end of the war?he was sent to Texas by steamer down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico to Matagorda Bay?The narrative is largely about military matters, with occasional comments on the country and people. He was especially interested in the abnormalities of Texas, detesting everything there except the climate." MULLIN/REED pg. 67.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 295 Pp + Ads. Limited Edition, Beige Cloth Printed In Red. Fine In Fine Dj With No Wear Or Damage But Slight Browning To Spine Panel. With The Prospectus For The Series, Folded And Laid In Loosely; A Card With "Complimentary Copy" In Red And "William Goyen" In Black; And Signed By William Goyen On The Front Free Endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The true first edition, not the later reprint. Near fine in original wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Styron. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Robert Penn Warren on the front, blank leaf. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Xii, 379 Pp. Light Green Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing, 1990, The Scarce Hardcover Issue. Signed By Tweed On Title Page. Near Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition. Styron's tribute to Warren. Number 197 of 250 SIGNED copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). Black-and-white frontis photograph of Warren. Plain white heavy wraps and blue dust jacket with printed paper label. Fine. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Copy 70 from an edition of 376 printed on Curtist Rag paper. Includes Warren's text accompanied by three tipped in color illustrations by William Commodore and a laid in 8 page music score by Alexie Haieff. A near fine copy in marble paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some light bumping to the top rear corner and in a near fine acetate dust jacket with the same bumping and with laid in acetate inserts. Signed by both Warren and Komodore on the colophon page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. First Edition. Signed by Author. Bound in publisher's green paper boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Presentation to Warren dated in the year of publication and signed by Heyen on the front free end paper. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Limited edtion. facsimile manuscript; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 107 pages; [signed] 1937 Albert Cook Myers, self published. HC/DJ. 1st edition, numbered 405 of 500 copies printed and signed by Myers on the limitation notice. Snugly bound in original tellow cloth lettered decoratively in dark blue to cover and spine. Original pale yellow dust jacket with pictorial panel to cover and title in black same but unlettered to spine, as issued. Illustrated with some facsimile reproductions of Penn's manuscript and a portrrait frontis. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed at extremities and lightly toned at spine. Uncommon especially so in the 1st edition. NF/VG ; Signed by Author.

First, Limited Edition. No. 3 of an edition of 376 copies, signed by author and illustrator, with original musical score laid in. Small octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed, marbled boards; 36pp; three mounted plates by Bill Komodore. Fine copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Moyers, William (illustrator). 1st Edition. 52 pages. Includes: Illustrations. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by William Moyers. Signed by Warren on the first sheet. One of his two children's books in the Legacy series. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to the corners and spine folds and a very faint water stain to the top 1/4" of the front cover. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spine sunned. Signed cut of William Faulkner pasted on p.177 above the title of his short story "That Evening Sun" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

No. 229 of 250 copies. 12mo (6 x 4-1/2 inches). Title-page woodblock by T. Sturge Moore, engraved initials. xiv, 257, [1] pp., text in black and red. Fine mosaic binding, covers and four spine panels filled by a complex pattern of curved morocco inlays in four colors, t.e.g., doublures with gilt-ruled inlaid borders, silk endleaves, by Curtis Walters (signed on rear turn-in); fine in a custom half morocco chemise and morocco-tipped slipcase (some old tape-strengthening to slipcase). A stunning, perfectly preserved mosaic binding by the American binder Curtis Walters, who specialized in such intricate and colorful mosaic bindings executed with an astonishing level of precision. This is one of a group of such bindings consigned by Walters to Parke Bernet and sold there, 10 December 1957, lots 13-35 (this lot 27).From the Park Bernet catalogue: "Mr. Walters was influenced to take up bookbinding around 1900 by the late George D. Smith, eminent bookseller. Later he studied with Matthews, the Club Bindery and Stikeman. He conceived his ideas about mosaic bindings as early as 1904, but between 1907 and 1928 he remained inactive. He has invented and brought to perfection a new technique whereby the most intricate inlaid designs can be achieved by a few simple tools, without the use of dies or punches; gilt dots, circlets and fillets are generally applied with restraint. Mr. Walters' work has received wide recognition. Some of his early bindings are included in the Henry W. Poor collection, and almost all of those offered for sale here have been exhibited in Paris (1930), New York (Columbia University, 1935), Hamburg (Kunstgewerbeschule, 1933-36) and Berlin (1936)." Lawrence Thompson heaps further praise on Walters, from "Hand Bookbinding in the United States Since the Civil War": "The infinite variety of design permitted by mosaic work is combined with Walters' marvelous delicacy in color schemes, finely conceived geometric patterns, and tasteful use of gold leaf to produce books that no Americans save perhaps the artists of the Club Bindery could have matched. The utter simplicity of Walters' methods (he used but four tools) belies his perseverance and devotion to his art. Only infinite patience and consummate skill could have produced Walters' bindings."Walter's bindings appear infrequently on the market this is a choice example of his artistry.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 71 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Covers are red paper with white lettering and decorations, moderately age toned with staple binding. Rubbing wear along edges of covers, along spine, at ends of spine, and at corners. Front cover shows several faint stains. Text block shows some scuffing and foxing on the edges, and is lightly age toned throughout. Foxing sparsely present throughout. Dated "11/21/49" and inscribed in black ink on half title page: "Bill Bird - an "old hand" at all this. / Best / Bill". Inscription appears to be in the hand of William Carlos Williams, signing here as "Bill". Instances of Williams singing as "Bill" are extremely scarce, and was typically reserved for the signing of letters, very rarely used in book inscriptions. Williams had published one of his novels - The Great American Novel - through Bird's Three Mountains Press in 1923. This inscription's date nearly 30 years later, combined with Williams signing under the nickname "Bill", evidences a long and familiar relationship between the two men. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. SH Consignment. Shelved in Room A. . Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. . 1403705. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Gilt leather and marbled paper over boards. A fine copy. Signed by each contributor at the conclusion of their piece. This Signed edition was limited to 75 copies and we've seen them in a couple of formats, usually unprinted boards with a marbled dust jacket; this copy has the printed limitation statement but is unnumbered (the 75 were), leading us to believe it may be one of the 10 specially bound contributor's copies. A tribute volume with essays by Cleanth Brooks (whose copy it likely was), Bernard Malamud, William Maxwell, Reynolds Price, W.J. Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wilbur.

Hardcover. First thus. Very good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and borders on the front board and gilt text stamping on the spine with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed and with scuffing to the cloth over and above the gilt text reading "The Lakeside Press". The Lakeside Press logo and gilt borders on the front board are very bright and crisp while the gilt text on the spine is somewhat tarnished. Signed and inscribed on the fly title page by Thomas E. Donnelley. This is the smallest of the Lakeside Classics in terms of both weight and width being only 130 pages (129 numbered). The full title reads: "Fruits of Solitude Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life." The fourth Lakeside Classic issued at Christmas time in 1906. It is considered by many collectors as either the first or second most difficult copy to obtain in this series. The book was first published in England anonymously in 1693. According to the introductory notes by John Vance Cheney in this volume "two editions and a reprint were published the same year." The Lakeside Press used an eleventh edition of the title printed in Philadelphia in 1794 as the foundation for this copy. A very handsome, clean and collectible copy!

First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original three quarter buckram over marbled boards, top edge gilt. One of 26 lettered copies available for sale and signed by 31 of the 32 contributors (W. R. Rogers is absent as is the case with all copies), this is copy V (of 58 as 32 copies were reserved for the contributors). Signed by Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald Macleish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Oscar Williams. In near fine condition with a remnant of the original glassine. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase which is in very good condition. Rare and desirable in the original binding. "Poetry is an unacknowledged war industry. It is a known but unmitigated error of many intelligent people to look down on poetry as if it were a feather in the hat on a stormy day, curlicues on the fringe of nothing, play for an idle moment between major issues. Hence the infinite indifference to poetry in a society badly in need of it, but offering to it, as to Christianity, a meaningless lip service. Poetry is a necessity wearing the trapping of a luxury. It is a way to live, and a way to evaluate that way. It is a way of seeing, and therefore of believing" (Oscar Williams, Introduction).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. William Penn's No Cross No Crown was one of the early pivotal inspirations which guided the early Quaker leaders of Pennsylvania. This edition is signed by John Morton on the title page Late 18th C engraving of William Penn on inside front cover. Interior remarkably good. Binding good. Leather cover Fair. Front board detached. Overall Good. Signed by Author(s).

[PENN, William]. A Treatise of Oaths, Containing Several Weighty Reasons Why the People Call'd Quakers Refuse to Swear. [London: Andrew Sowle], 1675. 1st ed. [2], 166pp. Small 4to. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Small tape repair to upper fore-edge of title page, tanned with light foxing throughout, later pencil annotations, else very good. Bronner & Fraser 38A. Wing P1388. Smith, Friends' Books 2:293:5. Whiting, Friends Books 119:5. First edition, first issue. Though the introductory statement, addressed to the "King and Great Council of England, Assembled in Parliament," is signed in print by twelve other men, it was William Penn who was the author of the present tract explaining why Quakers were against swearing oaths recently proposed by Parliament. More than two hundred authors (from the classical period through the seventeenth century) are cited as supporting authorities, but the strongest arguments are drawn from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and the New Testament admonition to "swear not at all." The Quakers argued that swearing oaths to civilian authorities trivializes adherence to God, and while they would take part in public life, they would not swear oaths. Penn was still several years away from founding the colony of Pennsylvania when this work was published. Signed.