Punch, Signed (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Signed by one of the contributors: "Here's to snagging some moments to pee alone! Meredith Spidel." Trade paperback. General wear to cover edges/corners. Front cover has a short bend near the lower vertical edge. Content pages are clean and unmarked. 185 pages. Signed by Illustrator.

8vo. pp x, 231. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'For Bob Kiehl, with compliments, Maurice Punch, Portsmouth, May 2001'. From the library of R.S. Walinski-Kiehl (1949 - 2013) with his ownership signature. He was the author of several scholarly books on witchcraft, German history and witchcraft trials. ISBN: 0333242114 Fine in fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition SIGNED by the late Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) on the front free endpaper. Presumably, Laurence purchased this copy and gave it to a friend or family member as a gift in the year of publication. There is no personalized inscription or internal markings. A unique example of Laurence signed ephemera. The book is square and tight with sharp corners and uniform tanning of the pages. The boards are decorated with a photo of Imlach behind the bench of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The jacket is price intact but otherwise poor with sunstaining to the spine, tears, creases, losses and sticker residue on the front panel. Signed by Margaret Laurence.

English humorist (1869-1915), a long-time contributor to 'Punch' magazine. One page, 12mo. Good on somewhat discoloured paper. Reads 'Dear Miss Manook. | No, of course I was not annoyed. I am sorry I have not a copy of any book of mine by me, and I have not time today to write one for you.' Signed 'Walter Emanuel'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. Second Printing signed. Not Price Clipped. Signed By Punch Imlach On The Title Page Below The Title. The Book Is Signed " Best Wishes Punch Imlach" Creased Dust Jacket With Some Small Tears All Around The Edges.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. Charles Copeland (illustrator). [133] pp, indices, signed by Punch on the title page; few markings by previous owner, minor wear & soiling. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st. First printing. 216 pp., photos, index, 8vo, hardcover, dustjacket. SIGNED by Imlach and Scott Young, with no inscribee. NF/VG. Superb, tight, clean copy in unclipped dj with minimal wear, no real tears. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. Paperback. Good. Xiii,299pp. Small text and signed by Maurice Punch.

English illustrator (1876-1953), best-known for his work in 'Punch'. One page, 12mo. Very good. Folded once, and with one closed tear in crease. 'Many thanks for the good wishes and the horse shoe'. Signed 'Frank Reynolds'. Docketed in ink on reverse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Book has been inscribed by Imlach to "John Shannon" on title page. Book is in very good condition. Jacket is in good condition with a fair bit of wear to both back and front. Additional photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. Third Printing Signed. not price clipped. Signed by scott young and is signed by Punch Imlach on the title page below the title. The book is signed "To allen merry christmas 1982 best wishes Punch Imlach ---- and Scott Youngbooks are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. Third Printing Signed. No gift inscription or remainder mark. creased dust jacket with some small tears. Price clipped. signed by Punch Imlach. Signed "To Mary Timbeck best wishes Punch Imlachbooks are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed Gift Inscription By Imlach And Scott Young. Creased Dust Jacket With Some Small Tears. Not Price Clipped. Signed By Punch Imlach. "To Marge Best Wishes Punch Imlach", Scott Young Personal Note To Marge At The Title Page.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 3rd Printing Signed. Signed Gift Inscription By Imlach And Scott Young. Creased Dust Jacket With Some Small Tears. Not Price Clipped. Signed By Punch Imlach. "Best Wishes Punch Imlach". 3Rd Printing.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges and corners a little creased and worn, a few small nicks and rips, rip at base of spine join with back cover 3cm, neatly repaired on underside with white paper, some light wear to covers and spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, signed by the author on the front end paper. Signed by Author(s).

Anglo-Irish journalist and caricaturist (1854-1925), best known for his work for Punch. Three pages, 12mo. Very good, but with slight wear and discoloration to recto of first leaf of bifoliate. Asks to 'know the fate of Miss Lyster's M.S.' 'You will recollect I called & saw you about it some months ago. She is anxious you should understand you can have the M.S. without the drawings as you did not seem for the latter | An answer will much oblige | Yours very truly | [signed] Harry Furniss'. Suggests that his correspondent may wish to 'write direct to Miss Lyster | Rocksavage | Blackrock | Co Dublin'. The subject of the letter is presumably Annette M. Lyster, a voluminous author of children's books of a religious nature.

See the two men's entries, with that of Helena Faucit, in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Addressed to 'Shirley Brooks Esq' and signed 'Theodore Martin'. Brooks has evidently asked for autographs and photographs of Martin and his wife, the celebrated actres Helena Faucit (1817-1898). The letter begins: 'My dear Brooks / Here are the autographs you wish. There is not in all The Lady of Lyons one line to which any reasonable being could wish to attach his name. It is only the situations which are good for anything. Mrs Martin has therefore written a Sentence of Portia's, the Lady of Belmont.' He next discusses photographs of himself and his wife. He criticises Watkins's images of him, and asks to accept instead 'one of Disderi's which my friends say is characteristic. All the photographs of Mrs. Martin, published & unpublsihed, are simply execrable. Some day I hope to get Silvy to do something better, but she has such an aversion to sitting for her portrait, that this is by no means certain.' He praises Brooks's 'Elysian Fields' before referring (perhaps sarcastically) to the 'magniicent programme Dyson & Co. have settled for the 23d of April'. He is surprised 'they have omitted to secure the co-operation of the proprietors of Punch & Judy!'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. D'Orsey was Professor of Elocution at University College, London. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. On aged, brittle paper, with slight wear and discoloration, a few closed tears along folds and traces of stub adhering to second leaf, but with entire text clear and intact. A long untidy letter, with writing up the margin on outer two pages. Addressed to 'The Revd. A J D'Orsey' and signed 'Tom Taylor'. The topic is an outbreak of cholera at Madeira, about which D'Orsey has clearly launched an appeal. (He may well be the author of the letter on the subject quoted from in The Medical Times, 4 October 1856.) Begins: 'Dear Sir / I remember you perfectly as my class fellow at Glasgow. [Taylor had spent two sessions there before going up to Cambridge.] I am very sorry that your letter finds me making holiday in the country, instead of at my office, the Genl Bd of Health in London'. (Taylor was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Board of Health in 1850, and was Secretary from 1854 to the Board's abolition in 1858.) Had he been at his post he would have been 'in the very centre of such information as you require'. All he can do is 'write by this post to Mr Session, our Medical Officer, sending him your [?] & letter & requesting him to transmit to you sets of all the Papers in the Office likely to be of practical service to you in your efforts to invetigate for the present, a guard for the future against, the terrible visitation which has befallen Madeira.' If Taylor can in any way 'direct public attention to the sad case of that island it will give me satisfaction to do so, but I shd. think the facts, imperfectly known as they are, wd. speak trumpet-tongued.' 'English benevolence', he feels, 'is seldom backward to relieve distant & strange distress' (the recent Potato Famine in Ireland is presumably too close to home), and 'Madeira is both far off enough & startling enough to rouse the sensibilities of this country.' He is 'far off from even a country town' (he cannot even 'procure a Post Office order' to send a 'mite' towards D'Orsey's appeal), but is sure that Session will be 'prompt' and the books will reach D'Orsey in time. In a postscript he gives his 'address for the next week'.

See his entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Taylor's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, and folded once. In worn envelope with Penny Red stamp and postmark, and slight loss around flap. The envelope was no doubt retained because it was addressed by Delaunay to 'Sir Tom Taylor / Lavender Sweet [sic] / Wandsworth'. A neatly laid written and laid out communication, addressed to 'Cher Monsieur Taylor' and signed 'Yours truly / L Delaunay / de la Comedie française'. He regrets that he and his wife cannot accept Taylor's 'très cordiale invitation', as they accepted a similar one ten days before from 'Mr. & Mrs William Spottiswode' [sic]. He concludes with the thought that it would have been 'bien agréable de faire plus ample connaissance avec un homme d'un esprit aussi fin et aussi distingué'.

One page, 12mo. Good, if a little aged and lightly creased. He apologises for the delay in 'sending the drawing that now I ask you to please me by accepting' (not present). He asks her to accept it as a present for 'that almost superannuated festivity' of Christmas. 'I send you a coat-of-arms as that includes a certain amount of letterpress which you will I think prefer to a simple drawing'. He has delivered all the drawings bought by Mrs Samuel's friend and has received his thanks.' Signed 'E. T. Rees'.

The three items in fair condition, on aged and worn paper, the last two items with traces of grey paper from mounting adhering. ONE: From Charlotte Street. 'Saturday' (undataed). Signed 'Irving Montagu'. 2pp., 8vo. Arranging to dine at Draper's in the face of a clashing invitation. TWO: From Briar Cottage, 2 January 1893. 4pp., 12mo. Signed 'Montagu'. A warm letter, thanking him and praising his family and 'staunch friends': 'You speak very kindly of success in store for me - not so much for myself as for Cissie [his wife, born Cecilia Laura Borrell (1859-1910)] and the bairn do I wish it might be so - you and I are both fighters [.] I had my share of rough and tumble before my campaigning experiences [during the Russo-Turkish War, described in his book 'Camp and Studio' (1890)] and feel very deeply that I owe what impetus I have had to a wish to deserve well of such old friends as yourselves, to whom Cissie Violet and self again unite in best good wishes'. A postscript refers to 'Rufus' and his return to his studio. THREE: From Irving Cottage, 7 January 1893. 1p., 12mo. Signed 'Montagu'. He has been 'jacked up this week with a game foot', which thwarted his attempt to visit the Drapers at 60 Vincent Square. His wife Cissie, who has had a bad cold, joins him in 'mutual Salaams'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of mount on blank reverse. Folded once. Addressed to 'My dear Spielmann' and signed 'Harry Furniss'. He asks if Spielmann is 'at home on Sundays', as he will be in town between Saturday and might be able to 'look in for a minute sometime but I'll not say exactly when'. 'I'll have so much to do, but probably it will be sometime in the morning before noon. / Leave all till then. / You don't say how you are'. Postscript: 'Lectures going very well' (last two words underlined four times).

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of mount on blank reverse. Folded once. Addressed to 'My dear Spielmann' and signed 'Harry Furniss'. He asks if Spielmann is 'at home on Sundays', as he will be in town between Saturday and might be able to 'look in for a minute sometime but I'll not say exactly when'. 'I'll have so much to do, but probably it will be sometime in the morning before noon. / Leave all till then. / You don't say how you are'. Postscript: 'Lectures going very well' (last two words underlined four times).

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient is the novelist George Meredith's daughter Marie Eveleen (Mariette; 1871-1933), wife of Henry Parkman Sturgis (1847-1929), American-born banker and Liberal politician. 1p, 16mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight spotting from blotting at the head of the page, and minor traces of glue from mount at corners of the blank reverse. Folded once for postage. Addressed to 'Dear Miss Meredith' and signed 'Anstey Guthrie'. After explaining that the delay in responding is due to his having been in Kent, he explains that due to an engagement the following evening he 'cannot have the pleasure of coming to Box Hill & dining with Mr. Meredith'. He ends 'With many regrets & kind regards to you & Mr. Meredith'. Note: Extracted from an Album of Autograph Letters created by Meredith's daughter which included letters to George Meredith from distinguished fellow-writers such as Henry James, George Eliot but also from people of distinction to other correspondents (such as Wellington and Clemenceau).

1st edition. Poor copies bound in half red leather over cloth boards. All edges gilt. Spines worn, with some parts torn. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 5 volumes : folded illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Cartoons cover years 1841 to 1901. Preface signed by M.H. Spielmann. Subjects; Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Humour. Satire. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Poor copies bound in half red leather over cloth boards. All edges gilt. Spines worn, with some parts torn. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 5 volumes : folded illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Cartoons cover years 1841 to 1901. Preface signed by M.H. Spielmann. Subjects; Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain. Humour. Satire. 1 Kg.

ONE: Brooks's letter to Leitch Ritchie: 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks him for his 'kind and courteous communication', and is pleased that 'the article I sent seems to you adapted to the purpose'. Brooks has, he explains, 'availed myself of your suggestions in reference to the additions'. He continues with references to Vauxhall and 'The Highland Lamp'. 'I need hardly say, however, that I trust you will, by excision or any other process, render this, or any other article of mine you may accept, what is most desirable in a business point of view - a few years of managing and being managed teaches one that, after all, that is the point, though before attaining that piece of prosaic wisdom ones vanity gets fearfully scraped.' TWO: 'No. 1' of Brooks's novel 'Sooner or Later'. 48pp., 8vo. Frontispiece by George Du Maurier. In original pink printed wraps. Advertisement leaf, with specimen pages, for 'Thorley's Illustrated Farmers Almanack' tipped in at rear. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, in chipped and worn wraps with spine repaired with tape. THREE: Two Autograph Notes Signed by G. E. S. Chambers. 1p., 8vo. On letterhead of W. & R. Chambers, Limited, Publishers, Edinburgh and London. The first note, dated from Edinburgh in July 1923, reads 'This copy of Shirley Brooks' Sooner or Later, in original parts, came from the library of the late Mr R. Y. Naismith, Edinburgh, & was acquired by me, with others of his books, from his executors. This is the only copy in parts that I have ever met with, and is of extreme rarity. | G. E. S. Chambers'. Beneath this, on the same page, is the second note, dated 25 March 1932. It reads: 'The enclosed letter from Shirley Brooks to Leitch Ritchie was written in 1849, and refers to certain contributions to Chambers's Journal. It was found by me among papers & M.S.S. belonging to the above year, & must have been written some time before Shirley Brooks became a regular contributor to Punch. | G.E.S.C.'.

Autogrammkarte (Postkarte blanko) mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift signiert - mit Repro-Porträtfoto unter dunkelgrünes Passepartout (4 to) gerahmt.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. All three items signed 'Linley Sambourne'. All three in good condition, lightly aged and worn, and all folded for postage. ONE: 10 April 1889. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Begins 'Dear Sir / Mr Furniss [Harry Furniss, Punch illustrator] has kindly written enclosed & I am sending a boy to you at / 5, Clarendon Place / Hyde Park'. His purpose is to try and get the address of Robertson, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and his object is 'to ask Mr Robertson (whom I have the pleasure of knowing, if he would be kind enough to let me know the official dress (if any) of the Lord Advocate & also if he has any photograph of himself he could let me have' (no doubt for an illustration). TWO: 14 October 1889. To '- Griffiths, Esq.' 1p, 4to. Signed 'Linley Sambourne / "Punch" '. Asking to reserve a box (at the theatre) for the following day's performance of 'The Middleman', 'should there be one to spare'. THREE: 19 May 1890. 1p, 12mo. On grey paper. He has used red ink to underline one word and to add ' "Punch" ' after his signature. He asks him to 'thank Mr Jones for me'. He finds that 'Wednesday is fixed for the Foreign Office Reception of the Queens Birthday & I shall be unable [underlined in red] to take up the stalls.'.

See the entries on Sambourne and Meredith in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and folded twice for postage. Addressed 'To George Meredith Esquire / O.M.' and signed 'Linley Sambourne' with the usual five underlinings. Begins: 'Dear Mr Meredith, / I venture to write & let you know how very much it rejoices our Household that his majesty has confered [sic] on you the Order of Merit. I, amongst countless others have always felt the incompleteness of that most distinguished body with your name absent. / Long may you live to adorn the order & have the Honour added to though an addition is hardly possible as it is at the top of everything. It is so many years since I had the pleasure of speaking to you but in those [back?] years you had ever a kind word of sympathy to me in [works?] that it is a double pleasure to me at the excuse for this letter.' From the autograph album of Meredith's daughter Marie Eveleen ('Mariette'; 1871-1933), later the wife of Henry Parkman Sturgis (1847-1929), American-born banker and Liberal politician. Note: Extracted from an Album of Autograph Letters created by Meredith's daughter which included letters to George Meredith from distinguished fellow-writers (as here) such as Henry James, George Eliot but also from people of distinction (such as Wellington and Clemenceau) to other correspondents.