William Rae, Signed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories by Canadian authors. Featured are A Wanton Disregard by Jean Rae Baxter, A Murder Coming by James Powell, Bush Fever by Peter Sellers, An Eye for an Eye by Nancy Kilpatrick, Italics by Fabrizio Napoleone, Green Ghetto by Vern Smith, Great Minds by Barbara Fradkin, The Big Trip by John Swan, Dead Like Dogs by William Bankier, Crocodile Tears by Leslie Watts, Hunky by Hugh Garner, Man on the Roof by Jas R. Petrin. SIGNED by Peter Sellers and Kerry J. Schooley on the title page. SIGNED by Jean Rae Baxter on the half title page. In fine unread condition. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original wrappers depicting a naked Thatcher on fire to front cover. With author's signature to title page. Slight soiling to covers. ; 14.5x20.6x0.2 cm; 11 pages; Signed by Author Softcover (Original decorated wrappers).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp 96. Large format paperback. Signed presentation from the author on the half title page to Richard Boston (1938 - 2006) English journalist, "To Richard, at last! with many thanks for starting the ball rolling, love Simon. 1/1/92." ISBN: 1852241659 Very good indeed. Signedes.

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Limited First Edition. Oversize hardcover with dustjacket : like new / very good plus. Jacket in new mylar protector; jacket has 1/4" tear, otherwise fine. Author's signature on half-title page; also a signed limited edition certificate pasted to that page; 1033/1500 copies; laid in is a handwritten letter by the author. 200 pages; b&w photos. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Duodecimo, 120 pages, clothbacked boards, paper labels on top cover and spine (labels chipped); x-library from 3 libraries, including an emboss on the title-page. Presentation Copy from the Author with a rhyming quatrain, to Miss Anne Rochester, signed with his name and number "B.8266" on 5 July 1922, on the free endpaper. Clarence Rae wrote these prison poems while residing in the Eastern State Penitentiary, where he was incarcerated for kidnapping a child. The irony is that after his release he was later re-imprisoned for STEALING BOOKS ! " What of the poetry of this man who one an see is no ordinary individual ! I venture to say that it has an importance that cannot be duplicated at present in American literature. In our generation B.8266 hs written the best poem on the American flag in 'Flag Day - 1920.'" - William Stanley Braithwaite - from his lengthy Introduction.

Condition: Very Good +. Dayton, OH: Wright State University Art Galleries, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Oblong paperback quarto (23cm); 64pp. Publisher's stiff pictorial wraps retaining $7.95 price at rear panel. Images throughout. Wraps bumped, scuffed, and smudged. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed by the artist with brief inscription at title page verso. Previous bookseller's entry speculates that the "Jud" in D'Agonisto's inscription is Jud Yalkut, fellow avant-garde filmmaker, though we are unable to corroborate the claim.

First edition. xviii + 382pp; 22 plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Presentation copy from author dated 20th Sept 1920. Spine slightly faded. VG.