Author Abbey, Signed (17 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription by the author. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item. Signed.

paperback / softback. Condition: fine. signed by author PC unnumbered copy 1st edition 2003 PS Publishing trade paperback fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 2011.near fine unread hardback in near fin e dustwrapper. signed by the author on the halftitle page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 108pp. Signed and numbered by author in ink, this being number 92 of 500 paperback copies. Not library copy, no creasing to spine. (15/3). Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. First Limited Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 108pp. Signed and numbered by author in ink, this being number 73 of 500 paperback copies. Not library copy, no creasing to spine. (24/2). Signed by Author(s).

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated, the British Library date this book to 1935, the date confirmed with a Signed presentation inscription from the author dated 1935, this is the First Edition of this scarce book being a History of Lilleshall Abbey in Shropshire, running to 68 pages with illustrations and a folding plan. This example has been crudely bound in full leather with brown leather covers and red leather spine. The binding may well have been done by the author as his inscription is on the front pastedown which is part of the original binding CONDITION Leather binding rubbed but otherwise in solid condition, internally contents in good general condition, rear inner hinge is strengthened with tape which is just touching the numbers on the inner edge of last index page, else in acceptable condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 140pp. Signed, inscribed and dated by author in blue ink to ffep. Not library copy. (23/3). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). SF/Fantasy novel, translated from the Finnish. SIGNED AND DATED (30/5/17) BY THE AUTHOR. First printing with ''1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2'' on copyright page. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New First Edition First printing, SIGNED FLAT BY THE AUTHOR JESSICA FELLOWES, NOT PERSONALIZED, pages clean and crisp, covers clean, no highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Thank you for your interest. We ship the same day or the next business day. b52. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. The First UK printing of the special edition published by Faber And Faber, London in 1998. Number '252' of only 300 copies issued, signed and numbered by the author to the limitation page. The BOOK is in near Fine condition and appears unread. Bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire and housed in the matching publisher's slipcase which is also in near Fine condition. With The Westminster Abbey 'Order Of Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Works of Ted Hughes OM, OBE 1930-1998, Poet Laureate'. This 22 page booklet with printed card covers is in near Fine condition. Seamus Heaney paid tribute to Ted Hughes at the service and read the poem 'Anniversary'. 'Tale From Ovid' is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. It won the 'Whitbread Book of the Year Award' for 1997 and has been translated into several languages. It was one of Ted hughes last published works, along with 'Birthday Letters'. A increasingly elusive title with such attributes. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.AT LEAST VG HARDBACK WITH LEATHERETTE EMBOSSED COVERS.A VERY NICE COPY.THIS COPY IS NUMBERED 79 OF 250 COPIES AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English Edition. Collectible Condition Signed and Inscribed by Author First Liverpool Edition 1952 Near Fine Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket Color Frontis photo. Clean pages 293 pp. NOT a library copy. Except for foxing on first two pages of blank preliminaries and rear endpaer foxing. Else pages clean and Near Fine shape. This Northern Wales Welsh Abbey Valle Crucis holds many Holy Grail mysteries and is not without reason been called the "Glastonbury of Wales" Besides the history, also includes translation of Bardic poems by Guto'r Glyn mention of "Arthur distributing the hand of Nudd to Caerlleon". See our Three Geese in Flight Scans. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition, Enlarged. 290pp. ; 8vo; cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Folded one page letter, signed by Abbey, pasted to front endpaper, from him to Frederick W. Skiff regarding the limit of guests to meetings of the Authors Club. Frederick Skiff was an was an author, noted collector, bibliophile, expert on Americana, and founder of the Acorn Club. Henry Abbey was an American poet who wrote with directness and clarity in the turbulent period after the Civil War, and during the industrialization of the country against which he placed themes of nature, love, and morality. ; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Quarto. pp xiii, 278. Many illus. Original publisher's bright grey cloth, gilt-stamped decoration and lettering to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, other edges deckled. Extensively illustrated after photographs and illustrations by Joseph Pike. Ownership inscription of E. A. B. Barnard on ffep. With the author's Downside Abbey "business card" loosely inserted, plus various newspaper cuttings. Postcard signed by Dom Bede Camm to E. A. B. Barnard tipped in to front pastedown; 3 short lines on front pastedown; short newspaper obituary of the author tipped in to ffep, else near F. Dom Bede Camm (1864-1942) was a noted historian of Roman Catholicism in England. A Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, he was also Master of the Downside School of Studies in Cambridge. His 3pp. ALS is dated October 3, 1931 and was sent to his friend E. A. B. Barnard, the Cambridge historian and writer, on Downside Abbey headed notepaper. Dom Bede Camm refers to mutual friends including Miles Burkitt, the Cambridge archaeologist and academic. Near fine. Very slight rubbing. Excellent condition. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by author, 8.5 x 5.5", cloth backed boards, 383pp, spine ends bumped, extremities very lightly worn else a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (full number line), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, EDWARD ABBEY, ON FRONT FLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, book in unclipped original dustjacket, signed by the author. The dustjacket is designed by Broom Lynne. There are some tears to the edges of the jacket which have been reinforced and taped. The front and spine retains bright colour. Inside, the boards and pages are clean. This book is signed on the title page with a dedication to Dorothea Jackson, dated April 1961. Inscribed by Author(s).

Fourteen items, including three letters from Starkie and seven letters from the Oxford University Press five of them from Geoffrey Cumberlege and two from G. W. S. Hopkins and copies of two letters from Cumberlege to Fry's agent Emanuel Wax, and a copy of a letter from the OUP to Starkie. All dating from 1955. The collection is in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The three Starkie letters are all in autograph, and total 7pp. The first two are written from Madrid, and the last from the Athenaeum in Pall Mall. All three are signed 'Walter Starkie' and the first (19 April) also has a long postscript signed 'W. S.' It begins: 'Dear Mr Christopher Fry. | I have been advised to write to you on behalf of the Teatro de Camara in Madrid, a Vanguard Theatrical Group to ask whether you would be willing to allow them to translate and produce your play "The Lady's not for Burning". They particularly wish to produce it next season.' He can 'thoroughly recommend' them: 'they have a good company of professional actors and have I think a subsidy from the government. [] Sean O'Casey gave them leave to produce "Juno and the Paycock".' Starkie is 'so glad they are so keen' on Fry's plays: 'We have in the past years devoted a lot of attention at the British Institute and in lectures to Verse plays, especially yours and those of T. S. Eliot. I was at the first night of "Venus Observed" a few years ago and loved it. I think we met in the [Mercury?] Theatre some years ago with my friend Ashley Dukes.' The letter concludes: 'I was for 17 years a director of the Abbey and a lifelong friend of W. B. Yeats'. In the postscript he states that 'the translation is being made by Nicolas Gonzalez Ruiz, the well-known translator of Shakespeare. The translations done in South America cannot be produced here as the Spanish is so barbarous!' The second letter (21 September) begins: 'For quite a long time some of us who are interested in the theatre have been trying to stimulate interest in Verse plays and I used to lecture on your plays and those of Elliot [sic] and W. B. Yeats, with whom I was so many years associated in the Abbey Theatre.' He gives more information regarding the Teatro Nacional de Camara, including names of authors whose plays have been among its 'very good work'. 'They, however, have had a disappointing response from your agents ACTAC, who do not seem to be aware of the conditions obtaining in the Spanish Theatre today.' He describes three 'conditions they impose [.] which make it impossible for the play to be produced', adding 'They have asked me to write to you to see whether anything can be done to surmount these obstacles. [] I have always tried to help these devotees of the theatre who really wish to put on modern works'. He notes that in many cases the plays have been 'taken up by the commercial touring companies in Spain'. He ends by suggesting a meeting when he comes to London, and in the final letter (21 October), written on an Atheneum letterhead, he again puts the proposal from a company 'who are so anxious to produce your play [] They asked me to write you a personal letter about it, which I did, but I have not received a reply so far. I wrote to you because there was such interest in your plays in Madrid and I thought it a pity if one or two of them could not be produced.' Of the seven Typed Letters Signed from the Oxford University Press: five are from Printer to the University Geoffrey Cumberlege, and two from Charles Williams's friend the novelist and translator G. W. S. Hopkins. The first of the Cumberlege letters (12 August), all of which are signed 'Jock', begins with references to Moelwyn Merchant and a play which Fry has 'on the stocks', before turning to the 'Spanish (Sudamericana) arrangements' (these relating to publication in Buenos Aires of a Spanish translation of three of Fry's plays), on the subject of which he has received a letter from 'EW' i.e. Fry's agent Emanuel Wax of Actac (Theatrical & Cinemat.