Autobiography Note: Signed (3 results)
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. Very good+ condition (DJ). First Edition. 379 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with a tiny bump to a lower corner, otherwise in about new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by black & white photographs. Laid…in is a green piece of paper, torn from an autograph album, which is signed and inscribed by the author "To Ann [signed] Oleg Cassini." Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York/London 1932
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good dj. 2nd printing. [a good sound copy, moderately shelfworn with some exposure of boards at lower corners and along top edge of rear cover; the jacket has some paper loss at both ends of the spine, extending a bit into the top of the rear panel, otherwise just lightly edgeworn]. Includes a ty…ped and SIGNED note from the author, affixed to the front endpaper. An early work by this Slovenian-American author, who went on to write numerous books, many of which celebrated the ethnic diversity of his adopted country. Jacket-blurbed as "perhaps for the first time an unsweetened picture of what the immigrant in this country has to cope with," the book reflects Adamic's vision of America as "a great and fascinating jungle of chaotic economic, social, intellectual, and spiritual forces which drive people to various forms of success and destroy most of them in the process," but in which he also finds "much that is essentially amusing or ridiculous." (An assessment that seems just as valid today as it was in 1932.) In the typed note, written to noted Civil War historian Arnold F. Gates, Adamic says he will try to read a "long script" that Gates had apparently given him, "but can't promise [because] I'm *inhumanly* busy." (Gates's ownership signature is on the front pastedown.) NOTE that the book itself is not signed by Adamic. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author.
More imagesPublished by Houghton Mifflin Company 1918
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Chamblin Bookmine
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8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed. 517p. Includes a folded note undated and signed by Henry Adams. Previous owner's name penned on front fly with old penciled price written on ffep. Contents are otherwise unmarked with a slight patina and scattered foxing present. Navy blue cloth boards wit…h gilt lettering have a toned spine, gilt top edge with a few dents, foxing on surfaces, and minor chipping to upper crown. No jacket. Pages 138-139 are toned from a newspaper clipping. Rusty staple outline on top edge of first few pages, as pictured. Note and signature have not been authenticated, but appear legitimate.
