Richard Doyle Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by author upon half-title. "George J. Klein (1904-1992) a design engineer who spent 40 years at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) laboratories in Ottawa, has been called 'a Northern Edison' and is quite likely 'the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century'. Spurred by the needs of great sicentists and supported by talented technicians, he produced hundreds, possibly thousands, of ingenious devices, techniques and tools: many of which influenced the growth and development of his country." - dust jacket. "An engaging and eminently readable book about a technical genious who designed and created everything from radio antennas and nuclear reactors to the first practical electric powered wheelchair for quadriplegics." - Arthur J. Carty. 289 pages. Footnotes, index. Numerous black and white reproductions of photos. Small bookplate inside front board otherwise book very clean, bright, tight and unmarked with very light wear. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality signed example of this extraordinary life story. ; NRC Press Biography Series No. 2; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A collection of the best novels from 1950 to 1989 selected by editors Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil. This is a very unique and one of a kind copy signed at their respective selected novel pages by, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Michael Cunningham, Louis Be Berniere, Roddy Doyle, Bret Easton Ellis, Shirley Hazzard, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Kelman, Elmore Leonard, Patrick McGrath, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Rice, Marilynne Robinson, Will Self, Jane Smiley, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Winton. Samantha Harvey, Penelope Lively and Yann Martel have signed at the Booker Prize winner list page. Anne-Marie MacDonald and Kerri Sakamoto have signed at the Commonwealth Prize winner list page. Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Adams Richards, Greg Hollingshead, Richard B. Wright and Miriam Toews have signed at the Governor General's Literary Award winner's list page. Robert Olen Butler has signed at the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction Winner's page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. PRINT TYPE ON PG IS SMALL ,HBDJ, SIGNED by Compilers ,STATED 1ST EDITION, 1981, #80 OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES,A little creasing of the dust jacket.otherwise perfect! PRINT TYPE ON PG IS SMALL, Original publisher's black cloth Titled Gold gilt on Spine Cvr, lettered gilt on spine. My Evening WAS ORIG PUBLISHED BACK 1891 & An Interrupted Honeymoon 1892 , Has Sherlock being Taken Down a Peg or 2 by an Exponent of his Own Deductive methods, 2ND Story An Interrupted Honeymoon by By C.C. ROTHWELL is 1st of Adventures of Sherwood Hoakes, a Sleuth ,who mis-deduces himself into Jail as Often as NOT, Then Late Sherlock Holmes by J. M. BARRIE ?, 1907 Interview with A. Conan Doyle BY BRAM STOKER Early parodies of Sherlock Holmes SPIRITUALISM , supplemented by a short piece by Doyle and an interview of Doyle by Bram Stoker. Signed by Author(s).