Spencer Thomas, Signed (21 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed Wentworth Wodehouse Letter by William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam. Dated 1892. A letting thanking Mr Tomlinson for the work undertaken in Wolley a village near his estate. William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam 1815 - 1902 was a British peer, nobleman, and Liberal Party politician. One of England's richest man when he died, he left a colossal sum of £3 billion (in 2008 money) making his fortune from Yorkshire coal. Size is 175mm x 110mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Light gum marks to rear. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 19257. Signed by Author(s).

Ross Andru with Jim Mooney, Ernie Chua, Tom Palmer, Frank Giacoia, Frank Spencer, Rich Buckler, and Jack Abel (Art) with Tom Palmer, Jean Izzo, and George Roussos (Color) (illustrator). SIGNED - Larger wrappers - VG+ - Black spine, black covers with colorful artwork are all clean, bright, and glossy. Book has just a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the outside corners. Just a trace of rubbing all around the outside edges of the covers. Large, Rich Buckler illustrated signature/limitation plate fastened to the inside of the front cover states that this book is 76/100 of the signed edition, and is signed by Rich Buckler (Art), Tom Palmer (Art), Ernie Chan (Art), Steve Englehart (Writer), Tony Isabella (Writer), and Roy Thomas (Series Editor) either in black pen or black felt tipped pen. Binding is straight and tight. Graphic novel collection filled with colorful artwork. 175 pages. Collects Doc Savage, The Man of Bronze #1-8, originally issued in 1972-1973. Boarded and in an archival quality mylar bag. Silver Fantom Press sticker on the front reiterates 76/100. Uncommon, and extremely unique with this particular collection of signatures.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Color Silkscreen, Tissue-Guarded, Signed By Lou Stovall (illustrator). 1st Edition. #70 Of 200 Hardbound Copies, A Benefit Production For Pen/ Faulkner Foundation. Gray Cloth. Fine In Fine Slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First Edition. Buff papered boards with black lettering on spine and front cover. Bit of browning to endpapers; some minor soiling; rusted paperclip residue on a few pages, else interior is clean. 12 illustrations on plates (photographs and two fold-out maps). Bibliographies following each chapter. Dust jacket shows moderate edgewear and some splitting along flap-folds; spine scuffed; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xvii, 208. Inscribed by Hatch to his mother-in-law Harriet McLean Gilchriest, ''To Mother Gilchriest / who has helped me so much in so many ways / Duane Spencer Hatch''. A report on Indian village poverty and social work, and partly a presentation of a theory of how such work can be done effectively on a wider scale. Duane Spencer Hatch (1888-1963) was an agriculturalist, researcher and pioneer in rural reconstruction and community development. He had been connected with India since 1916. Up from Poverty is based upon the author's personal study, experimentation and practice, and on those of his Indian colleagues and fellow rural workers. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Limited Edition #45/200. Octavo, 115 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition slip case. Spine is grey with black lettering. Slip case has light fraying at corners and along closed-end head edge and faint brown smudges along head edge and spine. Boards have light creasing along rear head joint and mild sun-fading along spine. Textblock has a faint brown smudge along fore edge pp.87-108. Signed by each author on the author page preceding their story. Contains an original silkscreen print signed by Lou Stovall [Artist], protected by publisher's glassine paper. Shelved Room C. 1397391. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Copy #S of 26 lettered copies. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box, with original silkscreen art signed by Lou Stovall and numbered 19/250. A collection of essays based on talks delivered at the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Gala on the subject of obsession. Signed by each author at his or her contribution: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Ann Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer, and Scott Spencer. A gorgeous item and, obviously, an uncommon one. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. SIGNED by the illustrator. Illus. with cold. drawings. 4to. pict. bds. no d/w. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover with gilt to top edge, inscribed by Spencer on first free endpage with written signed letter laid in, has lean to binding which is a lightly shaken but solid, light bumps to spine ends and board corners, faint rubbing, and slight sunning to spine, otherwise a solid Near VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Lou Stovall (illustrator). Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Slight loss to the ink of the front and spine titles. ; This is a compendium of 15 tiny essays, by 15 authors, written on the topic of "obsession." These were read aloud from the stage of the 1993 benefit gala for the PEN/Faulkner Literary Foundation, the money raised going to fund their awards for fiction. Each essay is preceded by a title page, signed in ink by its contributor, and the authors and their obsessions are as follows: Louis Begley: Brooms and sweeping; David Bradley: Obsession itself, but very jumbled thoughts about that; Robert Olen Butler: Karen Granger and her Mary Jane clad feet in the 1955 X-ray machine in the shoe store; Thomas Flanagan: The varying definitions of obsession in various dictionaries; Ernest Gaines: His buried ancestors on family land; Barry Hannah: Saying goodbye, especially in death; Maureen Howard: Secrets of life and the heart, in diaries; Jayne Ann Phillips: An impoverished, abused boy in her childhood; George Plimpton: Major pyrotechnics and fireworks; Francine Prose: The obsessions of obsessive people; Vikram Seth: Dwelling on the possibility of impending death; Mary Lee Settle: The process of falling in love; Ntozake Shange: One of her books' characters obsessing over her hair; Elizabeth Spencer: A mule trader, obsessed with mules; Scott Spencer: The application of the term "obsession" in popular culture. Includes a separate, original, silkscreened, polychrome print of a Bearded Iris, signed by the artist and printmaker Lou Stovall. His use of intense colors and his unique technique of creating thin, delicate lines is well-represented in this print. This tissue-guarded print is held inside the front cover by silk ribbons at the corners. Stovall's print is apt for this book, as he served on the board of the PEN/Faulkner literary foundation. This is copy 91 of a limited edition of 200 hardbound, slipcased copies. Printed on cream colored, mould made fine paper. This 8vo book is 8 3/4" x 6". Paginated [13],14-115,[blank],[1]. In light gray cloth over boards, the front cover with title embossed in black and the PEN logo blind stamped. The plain slipcase also in light gray cloth over boards. Published by esteemed booksellers Allen and Patricia Ahearn under their Quill & Brush imprint. Both book and slipcase are in clean, and in Near Fine condition.; Silk screen; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 117 pages; Signed by All Authors.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. This is NOT a modern reprint. Singed/inscribed: "Your Friend. T.E. Spencer" on the front endpaper. Quarter dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, heavy wear to the corners. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hardcover.

First Edition. First edition. Fifteen original essays on the title subject, "obsession," read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala, October 2, 1993. One of 200 copies, SIGNED BY EACH OF THE CONTRIBUTORS: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer and Scott Spencer. AND WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED SILKSCREEN PRINT by prominent Washington, D.C., artist Lou Stovall held in place on front pastedown at corners with silk ribbons. 8vo gray cloth boards with PEN/Faulkner insignia in blind on front and titling in black on front and spine. Fine, as issued, in publisher's cloth slipcase (also fine). Signed.

Hardcover with slipcase. Lou Stovall (signed print, laid in) (illustrator). Limited Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. A frontispiece, of sorts, which is a limited print by Lou Stovall, signed and numbered in pencil, is bound by elastic to the inside of the front board, under a tissue guard. Bound in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on front board along with the blindstamp of the PEN emblem, black lettering on spine. In the matching gray cloth slipcase. Light stains on cloth, light loss to lettering on spine. Laid in is a "PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction" notecard on which is written "Lot of Love / Kay". Each author has signed his or her contribution. Of 44 deluxe copies, this is one of 18 that are numbered (this being number 16). The book is composed of short pieces addressing the subject of "obsession" that were read by prominent authors at the annual PEN gala in Washington, DC in 1993.

Third Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; SIGNED and inscribed on front cover by Thomas Spencer Wells. Physical description: vi, 72 p. ; 22 cm. With: 'A paper entitled Cremation or burial by Sir. T. Spencer Wells and the charge of Sir James Stephen recently delivered at Cardiff.Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introduction - Cremation / by Sir Henry Thompson - Cremation or burial? / by Sir T.S. Wells - Correspondence between the Cremation Society and Her Majesty's Government - Mr. Justice Stephen on the law of cremation. Subjects: Cremation Society of England -- Mortuary Practice -- Cremation -- Great Britain -- Mortuary Practice -- history. 3 Kg.

Third Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; SIGNED and inscribed on front cover by Thomas Spencer Wells. Physical description: vi, 72 p. ; 22 cm. With: 'A paper entitled Cremation or burial by Sir. T. Spencer Wells and the charge of Sir James Stephen recently delivered at Cardiff.Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introduction - Cremation / by Sir Henry Thompson - Cremation or burial? / by Sir T.S. Wells - Correspondence between the Cremation Society and Her Majesty's Government - Mr. Justice Stephen on the law of cremation. Subjects: Cremation Society of England -- Mortuary Practice -- Cremation -- Great Britain -- Mortuary Practice -- history. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box. Fifteen original essays on the title subject read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala. Letter G of 26 lettered copies Signed by each of the contributors: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer, and Scott Spencer; and with an original Signed and numbered silkscreen print by Lou Stovall mounted with ribbons on the front pastedown.

Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed by Arellanes to limitation page. Only 215 copies printed of which this is number 109. Bruce Roger's bookplate to rear page. Half cloth; marbled boards. A nice clean copy. 3.5 x 5 in.

Spencer was a sharp operator (see Mandelbrote ed., 'Out of Print and into Profit', pp.285-287) and the present items give an hint of his methods. (The two letters are addressed from the premises at which his staff were said to practice their 'sophistications'.) His two letters (both signed 'W. T. Spencer') are in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper, with the second dated by Bois to 1931. Bois's letter (signed 'Winifred Bois') is in fair condition, with a short closed tear along one edge. Letter One: Spencer to Bois, 23 February [1931]. The letter begins: 'I have just come across a vol of Flowers & Birds, Drawings on Paper, that I thought you might like, I have never seen anything quite like them before, and being in a double case, thought they might be the work of a famous artist'. He offers it to her for £20, and also sends 'a Rice Paper Vol with some loose ones inside' priced at £12. Letter Two: Spencer to Bois, 26 February [1931]. He urges her 'to secure those Drawings, even if only as an investment'. 'I feel somehow at the back of my head, that they are very valuable; because I have never before seen anything in a double case, and as you know I have seen a good many of these things'. He admits that 'they are oxydized, but if you do not know how to take that off, Miss Marie will tell you how to, when next you are that way'. He concludes: 'Do please secure it.' Letter Three: Bois to 'Mr Sawyer', 14 March 1966. She thanks him for his cheque for £184 'in payment for the Books taken on Thursday. I was sorry to not to see you but your assistant seemed a very nice pleasant young man & very keen on the books.' She feels 'quite happy about the deal' and is 'glad the books have gone back to their original home'. She asks whether he still buys 'Chinese Drawings', having sold him some of hers in the past. 'I have a book which old Walter Spencer was certain was very valuable as he had never seen one like it before - I want to dispose of it some time but should like to ask your advice first.' She asks him to telephone as she finds it 'very difficult getting about in the crowded London streets'.

Two letters providing an insight into the relationship between artist and patron in nineteenth-century England. See the the Duke's entry, and Eastlake's, in the Oxford DNB, as well as James Lees-Milne's biography 'The Bachelor Duke' (1991). With regard to the subject of the letters (now at Chatsworth), Eastlake's obituary in the Illustrated London News states: 'A more important effort was a large composition, commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire, the subject of which was derived from Plutarch's story of the Spartan Isadas appearing in a battle armed but undraped, and being in consequence taken for a god; the exhibition of which picture, in 1827, procured the artist's election an Associate of the Academy.' Both items have strips of minor discoloration, otherwise they are in good condition, lightly aged and with postage folds. Both signed 'Devonshire.' Eastlake is not named as the recipient of the first letter, but given the context his identity is apparent. ONE: 7 October 1827; Chatsworth. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. The letter suggests that Eastlake has been paid twice. Begins: 'Dear Sir / I am surprized & embarrassed by the letter I have today received from you, and I can only account for my bankers conduct by my having employed a secretary at the very busy time of last spring, who may have sent another order for 250£, I having forgot having done so myself. / I have written to Messieurs Snow for an explanation of this & they will give information to Messieurs Harman. / Sir Thomas Lawrence who is here is going to repair a slight injury done to the picture on the journey. I have hung it in a very good though temporary place, & I admire it more every day'. In 1837 the author of 'Modern Chatsworth; or, The Palace of the Peak' reported that the painting had recently been removed from the state drawing room at Chatsworth to the banqueting hall. TWO: 25 July 1852; Brighton. 1p, 4to. Written (for reasons explained in the text) in a very shaky hand. Eastlake would clearly like to retouch his painting, but the Duke is not inclined to let him. Reads: 'Dear Sir Charles / I should be willing to comply with a request of yours, but I do not like to remove Isadas [sic] from the position where he is seen and admired by thousands every year. But a stronger objection is that I never could consent to having the picture retouched or altered. It is valued by me, and accompanied by too many recollections & associations to permit that. Wishing to give you a [sic] immediate answer, I have used my paralytic left hand. / most sincerely yrs / Devonshire.'.

16 Autograph Letters Signed, 10 Autograph Cards Signed and one Typed Letter Signed. The letters total 32pp. The collection is in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. The correspondence deals exclusively with mathematical questions raised in the Mathematical Gazette, with the writers providing mathematical calculations and demonstrations. From six individuals, as follows. ONE: T.A.A. Broadbent [ Thomas Arthur Alan Broadbent ] (1903-1973) of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich: 4 ALsS and 3 ACsS. TWO: G.A. Garreau [ Gabriel Armand Garreau ]: 2 ALsS and one TLS. THREE: C. Dudley Langford (see 'Langford's Problem') of Henrietta Cottage, 16 Henrietta Street, Girvan, Ayrshire: 2 ALsS and 2 ACsS. FOUR: T.B.W. Spencer (author of 'Mathematical Problem Papers') of 35 The Downs, Wimbledon: one ALS. FIVE: A.S. Gosset Tanner [ Arthur Spencer Gosset-Tanner ], master at Derby School: 5 ACsS and 2 ALsS. SIX: J. Travers, Headmaster, Peterborough College, Harrow: 5 ALsS. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed by 'Ripley' (i.e. on behalf of Robert Ripley's American franchise), on letterhead of the Sunday Express, 3 January 1940: 'Your interesting problem of the three numbers has been noted, and will be included in "Believe it or Not" at an early date.' From the Harington family papers, the recipient being Sir Richard Dundas Harington, 13th Baronet (1900-1981), whose address is given as The Brook, Lower Howsell, Malvern Link, Worcestershire.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged. On first leaf of a bifolium of wove paper. Folded for postage. Signed 'Tho. Hughes'. Begins: 'My dear Ponsonby / Let me introduce the bearer, Mr. Selway, [i.e. William Robbins Selway (c.1822-1893) of Walworth] who was vice Chairman of my Committee in Lambeth, & is one of the most influential & trustworthy men in the South of London'. Selway wishes to see Ponsonby 'about a building in the Surrey Gardens which certain persons are proposing to convert into a Theatre'. He ends by endorsing Selway: 'You can't get better counsel on the subject'.

PARASITI INTERNI degli Animali Domestici Firenze, Milano, Roma, Torino, Verona, Ancona, 1. Auflage 1874, Italienische ERSTAUSGABE / ITALIAN FIRST EDITION, 175 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, schönes Hln. der Zeit kl. 8 to), Bibliotheksstempel des Zoologischen Institutes der Universität Leipzig, gut erhalten - von T. Spencer Cobbold in Tinte eigenhändig gewidmet und signiert mit Ort und Datum with Dr. Cobbold s compliments / 42 Harley Street, London Sept. 21. 1874.