Before Limited Edition, Signed (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. Signed copy. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Slipcase shows minor scuffing. Clean unmarked copy. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ` (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited edition (of 500). Negligible wear to boards, signed publisher's compliments label on front end-paper, otherwise text very clean, no other inscriptions, jacket also near fine. Book boxed, box has a few small blemishes. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Limited. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED with a generic inscription in Icelandic by the author on the limitation page. 1st UK LIMITED edition in association with Goldsboro, #1105/1500. SPRAYED/stenciled edges. Dust jacket is as new in a protective mylar sleeve. Book is fine, looks unread. A Blood Drop Award-winning Forbidden Iceland thriller by the Blackbird Award-, Storytel Award-, and New Blood Dagger-winning author of "Boys Who Hurt" and "The Creak on the Stairs". Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition. Single leaf in a folded cardstock holder. Limited edition of 34 numbered copies of this Season's Greetings card with a poem by Heyen. A very fine copy. Signed and numbered by Heyen. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIGNED FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1), London, Orenda Books in association with Goldsboro Books, July 2025. NEW, UNREAD. Signed by the Author on the Title/Limitation Page. Numbered 1158 of 1500 numbered copies of the first edition. Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears. Text Clean, no marks. Binding Tight and Square. Boards Clean with no wear or bumps. Text Clean, no marks. Page edges are stenciled in a red design. This is a beautiful copy. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with USPS Tracking from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Signed, First UK Limited Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1991. The Armchair Detective Library. 213 pages. SIGNED by the Author. Book and Slipcase are in FINE condition. Copy #26 of 100. ; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.0 inches; 213 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A UK 1st Edition, 1st Printing hardback copy indicated by a full 24681097531 number line to the copyright page. - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE, THIS IS THE LIMITED GOLD-EDGED HARDBACK EDITION - Both the book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The book does have a couple of light marks to its gold-coloured page block, but it has never been read. The dust jacket has not had its price clipped. - Made into a film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Signed by Author(s).

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None (as issued). 1st. Signed and numbered by the author to a special limitation page, one of only 200 copies. The book is square, solid, and unread, and in a protective archival bag for safe keeping. Youll offer up some silent thanks to the gods of Cimmeria and Malaz, Nehwon and Westeros, Melnibone and Carsultyal when this book arrives on your doorstep shucks, youll even wash your hands and get that crusted blood from the last battle out from under your nails before opening the box! Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 239,[5]pp. A handful of small foxing spots to front board and upper edge of textblock, and one small spot on rear board, Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of autobiographical poems.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. UK 1st edition /1st printing (Doubleday, 2011). Flatsigned to title page. Goldsboro books special, limited (500 copies) edition with gold page edges. Fine / Fine unread condition. Protected dustwrapper. PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING Our descriptions are accurate. Photos are of the actual book(s) for sale. If you require additional photos, please ask. We will despatch your books rapidly (almost always within 24 hrs of the receipt of your order) using proper book wraps / boxes. For books sold for more than £50 we will use only despatch methods that are fully tracked, insured and will require a signature on delivery. Standard postage costs are included in our prices for UK customers. Priority UK rates are for Royal Mail Special Delivery, guaranteed by 1pm. For overseas customers, we have set a standard Abe postal rate, but will communicate direct with customers and charge the actual cost of postage and packing by tracked and insured delivery methods requiring signature. BUYERS are responsible for payment of import taxes or duties charged by authorities in the destination country. Please note that new EU regulations make it impractical for us to post books to the EU. Therefore, prospective customers from the EU are requested to email us before making an order so that we can discuss how best we might get the books they want to them. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. HAND SIGNED 10th Anniversary Collector's edition. Naked hardcover with foil design. New and unread. 586pp. (13.5x20.5cm). Please contact us for any more information. Signed by Author(s).

With Scott before the Mast (Special Limited Edition): These are the Journals of Francis Davies Leading Shipwright RN when on board Captain Scott's "Terra Nova" Hardcover - Special Edition, by Francis Davies (Author) full black leather with gilt embossing, New in slipcase. One of only 160 copies, numbered and signed by editor, Joy Watts, and book designer and publisher, Nicholas Reardon My interview with Captain Scott, he explained what would be expected of me. My principal job, he said, would be the erection of Winter Quarters for the Southern party, which was to make an attempt to reach the South Pole. He also told me that I would be paid GBP40 a year, adding that if I made a success of the job, he wouldn't say what he would do for me, but if on the other hand, I failed to come up to scratch, I would be for the high jump. The geographic and scientific accomplishments of Captain Scott's two Antarctic expeditions changed the face of the Twentieth Century in ways that are still not widely appreciated over a hundred years later. The fact of accomplishment has tended to be lost in speculative argument as to how Scott should have done this instead of that, supposedly to achieve the extra few yards per day to save the lives of the South Pole Party in 1912. Also lost to a generation overwhelmed with information, however, is the sublime sense of adventure into the unknown, which Scott's expeditions represented to his generation. We have forgotten what it is to take the awesome life-gambling risk of sailing beyond the edge of the map into nothingness and rendering it known. We send robot explorers instead. As a result, after two millennia of maritime and exploration history, we have become detached from the sea which surrounds our island and the tradition of exploration which it represents. With Scott: Before the Mast is a unique account that serves as an antidote to this disconectedness. It is no fictional 'Hornblower', although it may seem so at times. This is a true story. It presents one man's account of his part in a great act of derring-do, the assault on the South Pole in 1912. Most records of Captain Scott's British Antarctic Expedition aboard Terra Nova (1910-1913) are the accounts of officers. With Scott: Before the Mast is the story of Francis Davies, Shipwright, R.N., and Carpenter. The title says it all but may be lost on landlubbers. Before the mast means 'to serve as an ordinary seaman in a sailing ship'. This makes it a rare and hugely important account, presenting a viewpoint from the lower ranks. Such insight is rarely available and the long overdue publication of this account is greatly to be welcomed. When I first read this manuscript some years ago, I was hugely excited by the refreshing perspective that it gave to a well-aired story. Although an autobiographical period piece, written with an eye to publication many years after the events that it recalls, it is still of great interest. It tells the often forgotten story of the vast majority of Scott's men, the sailors of Terra Nova; the supporting cast, if you like, to the Shore Parties of officers and scientists. Through a kaleidoscope of memories, this book gets to the heart of the huge logistic effort that was the British Antarctic Expedition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Number 48 of only 100 copies. A collection of 50 cyanotype images, many of them nudes. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket and in a fine cloth slipcase. Signed and numbered by Dugdale on the colophon page and with his fingerprint and a small drawing of a pair of glasses. A very fresh copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Limited ed. One of 350 numbebered copies only, signed by William F. Nolan who penned the biographical introduction. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. 197 pp. Collection of six short stories that first appeared in 1942pulps and the early 1960s. Included are "A Date to Die" (first appearance 1942 in Strange Detective Magazine), "Mad Dog!" (1942, Detective Book Magazine), "Handbook For Homicide" 1942 Detective Tales), "Befoer She Kills" (1961 Ed McBains Mystery Magazine), "A Cat Walks" 1942 Detective Story magazine), "The Missing Actor" 1963 The Saint Detective Magazine).

First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.60. Octavo (22.5cm); marbled paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [iv],45,[7]pp. A Fine copy without dustjacket, as issued. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Very Fine. Sealed. Mint condition without any flaws. A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting and defying the expected. Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have unformed his previous, highly praised works of fiction. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 320 pages. Limited edition of 250 specially bound and numbered copies. A terrific collection of essays divided into these sections: Food, Travel, Sport and Literary Matters. Also includes a bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in marbled paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Harrison on the half title page. One of the better books from this talented American writer. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Russell Chatham (illustrator). Limited Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION IN SLIPCASE. Number 128 of 250 copies. Gray cloth spine with gold lettering. One-eyed Harrison caricature blind-stamped in cloth on front board. Marbled paper over boards. Gray cloth over boards slipcase with one-eyed Harrison caricature embossed on front panel. Not issued with dust jacket. Colophon page at the rear is hand-numbered and Harrison has signed the book on the half-title page. Bright and fine. See photo. Signed by Author.

First Edition. First edition. Short story exploring the personal connection to the telephone as mode of communication. Number 19 of 75 copies (entire edition) SIGNED BY CALVINO & FRASCONI. This copy designated as printed for Jeffery Alan Hoffman. Bilingual, with original Italian followed by English translation. Illustrated with four colorful woodcuts in the text by Frasconi. 4to tan leather-backed patterned paper boards; plain spine; text finely printed on handmade paper; pages containing illustrations printed on uncut folded leaves; unpaginated. Housed in original tan cloth-covered clamshell case with publisher emblem on front. Both book and case are fine. Scarce. Signed.

Hardcover in tray case. Condition: Very Good+. Antonio Frasconi (illustrator). Limited edition of only 75. Italian text and English translation. Signed. Plain Wrapper Press. One of Gabriel Rummonds finest books, with illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. --- --- Cottondale, AL, Plain Wrapper Press, 1985. Hardcover in tray case, 12.25" x 7.5". 1st Edition, limited to 75 numbered copies, signed by Calvino and illustrator Antonio Frasconi. This is copy no. 52. Printed on an 1847 Washington handpress at Gabriel Rummonds & Alessandro Zanella's Plain Wrapper Press. Housed in a cloth covered traycase with the publishers signet on the front. Hand-set in Berthold Post Mediaeval with Post Mediaeval display; text in 16D. White Magnani handmade wove paper printed damp on a Washington handpress in black and blue; woodcuts printed by Antony O'Hara and John Coleman. Bound by Craig Jensen in quarter leather with decorated paper over boards. Original Italian text of Calvino's short story followed by English version translated by William Weaver, Calvinos longtime translator. Illustrated with 4 colored woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. (Smyth item 37) Some faint foxing on the paper edge and in the margins of some pages. Very solid tray case with very light shelf wear. In all Very Good+. ABOUT: Book collectors worldwide acknowledge GABRIEL RUMMONDS (19312024) as one of the world's pre-eminent handpress printers of the late Twentieth Century. For almost 25 years, using the imprints of Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia, he printed and published illustrated limited editions of contemporary literature on iron handpresses, primarily in Verona, Italy, and Cottondale, Alabama. Rummonds has had several exhibitions of his work in Rome, New York, San Francisco, and Verona, culminating with a major retrospective exhibition held at the Biblioteca di Via Senato in Milan, Italy, in 1999. Many of the world's most famous museums (including The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art) and libraries (including the rare-book libraries of Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, The University of Georgia, The University of Oregon, and The University of Texas), as well as numerous private collections of fine printing, house his books. The University of Alabama appointed Rummonds the founding director of its MFA in the Book Arts Program in 1984. Several of his students have become prominent fine-press printers. He has also given workshops on Problem-Solving on the Cast-Iron Handpress at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, and at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Rummonds authored four trade books on printing: Problem Solving and Printing on the Cast-Iron Handpress (Rochester Institute of Technology, 1991), Printing on the Iron Handpress (Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1998), Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress (Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004), and Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer (Ex Ophidia Press, 2015). He won a prestigious "Fifty Books of the Year" award for excellence in book design from the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Publisher Mark E. Fischer and late Publisher Emeritus Gabriel Rummonds relaunched Plain Wrapper Press in 2021. Sadly, Rummonds passed away on Friday, August 23, 2024, at age 93. Over the past three years, however, he had worked tirelessly to revive the press, which will continue to publish fine-press editions in the tradition that he established over 50 years ago. plainwrapperpress. no dj, as issued. In custom tray case.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Signed limited numbered (26/50) first edition, quarter-bound in leather. Slipcase in near fine condition, corners square, boards majority clean some threads have come loose on the edges. Book in near fine condition boards/pages clean, spine straight, corners square, text block has some foxing on the underside. 'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.'Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child. Called "the best English novelist of his generation" by Nick Hornby, Jonathan Coe extends his range in this magnificent account of a Shropshire family in the last half of the twentieth century. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: About fine. First edition. A box set with original giclee, signed and numbered print and handcraftedÂbook titled "Before The Flood". The print housed in a handmade paper sleeve.ÂThis limited edition set was published in conjunction to the AGO exhibition. In fine condition. Clamshell box with a couple unobtrusive handling marks.ÂÂ Â Â Â Â .