Priestley Signed (4 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Card by Writer J B Priestley. Undated. John Boynton Priestley 1894 - 1984 was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. An Inspector Calls published in 1945 was a standout classic play. Size is 115mm x 75mm. Condition is good. From the collection of autograph collector Peter Bland. Ref 19233. Signed by Author(s).

Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed., with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles faded. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "from the library of J. B. Priestley". Neat ink inscription to front endpaper: "J. B. Priestley, Esq. with the cordial regards of Henry Allen". Clean throughout. A very good book with an interesting provenance. ** "William Hervey Allen, Jr. (December 8, 1889 December 28, 1949) was an American poet, biographer and novelist. His poetry heralded the birth of the "lost generation" of the 1920s. Allen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Shady Side Academy in 1909 and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He served as a Lieutenant in the 28th (keystone) Division, United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive JulyAugust 1918. He wrote Toward the Flame (1926), a nonfictional account of his experiences in the war. His first book, Wampum and Old Gold, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Allen is best known for his work Anthony Adverse. He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called The Disinherited. He completed three works in the series: The Forest and the Fort (1943), Bedford Village (1944), and Toward the Morning (1948). The novels tell the story of Salathiel Albine, a frontiersman kidnapped as a boy by Shawnee Indians in the 1750s. All three works were collected and published as the City in the Dawn. Allen also wrote Israfel (1926), a biography of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. For a period of time, Allen taught at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. He also taught English at Charleston High School which at that time, although public, was only for boys. (The girls went to Memminger.) There he met and befriended DuBose Heyward. He later was a professor at Vassar University where he met his wife, Ann "Annette" Andrews. They had three children, Marcia, Mary Ann and Richard. In the 1940s he co-edited the Rivers of America Series with Carl Carmer. Allen was a good friend of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and instigated her writing The Everglades: River of Grass. Allen was close friends with Robert Frost and Ogden Nash.Allen died at his home, called the Glades, in Coconut Grove, Florida, aged 60, from a heart attack, and was found by his wife Annette." - See Wikipedia.

The author NSW 1993. First edition. Laminated boards, family trees, illustrated, maps, bibliography, 134pp. A fine copy. Author signed title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's blue boards lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, tiny shallow chip to top edge of title page, small shallow tear (repaired with Japanese tissue) to top edge of half title page, a VG copy in a VG dust jacket which is a little foxed. A superior copy of this important Priestley. NOTE - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Signed by Author(s).