Being Hundred, Signed (38 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pages a little tanned, endpapers more so, cover has rubbed and faded edges, backstrip faded; wrapper in thin paper edgeworn, unevenly tanned, particularly spine. Signed on title page by author, signed inscription by author on front endpaperr, autograph letter by author laid in, as are a few newspaper clippings and another letter referring to the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st ed. xii,134pp. Illus. Inscribed for JO:- with love from the Author, January 1960. The ep's are partly yellowed o/w very clean internally. The boards are sl. stained. The dw is price clipped and is missing a large "v" shaped section of the top edge. It is also a little rubbed & creased. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has slightly bumped corners, modest wear. Inscribed and dated by the Author. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Staple illustrated wraps. 22 pages. Edge wear to the covers and spine. Occasional light foxing to some of the pages. Staples are rusted. Contents are a strange mix of varying ads placed in the newspaper 100 years ago including Negroes for Sale; Rewards for runaway slaves; Wanted postings, etc. Signed, inscribed by the author. Edition limited to 60 copies.

vi+261pp. Ex-university library presentation copy. G; outer and lower edges untrimmed; upper edge dusty. Rubbing and wear to perimeter and bumping to corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 217p. plus [3]p. publisher's advertisements. Flexible blue cloth. 24cm. Cover lightly soiled and slightly warped. Signature of Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas (one of the listed poets) on endpaper. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. (Ref. HH2R) Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine titles and gilt crest to front of board. Some minor signs of shelfwear otherwise very good and unmarked contents. DJ is a little scuffed and rubbed at extremities with a few small marks and some small tears to head and heel of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Card Covers. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. JOHN HASSALL. (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to John Hassall. Signed " From the Gifted Author to the Talented Artist/WE to JH 1911" A worn copy. The front cover is edgeworn, with a crease at the top edge. The top half of the, delicate, spine is missing, as is the rear cover. The front cover is quite clean and the author's insc. is at the top, above the title.Contents clean and tight.76pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Useful history of the Royal Military School of music. 1st Edition 1959. 134pp., ills., Foreword by Field Marshall Sir Gerald Temple. Very nice copy in slightly chipped still very good dustwrapper. Long two page letter relating to the book etc signed by author, his Memorial service programme in 1963 with music scores tipped-in, other nespaper cuttings etc. Interesting collection. Signed by Author(s).

115 p. Hardcover with dustjacket (Exteriors of the dustjacket slightly worn, otherwise in good condition with clean interiors and inscribed and signed by the author.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 342 pages, 12mo. No DJ. Signed and inscribed by author to novelist and spiritualist Stewart Edward White, thus: "Stewart Edward White, with best wishes and grateful thanks for kind hospitality, Ian Hay, May 27, 1917, Burlingham, Cal." Light tan cloth boards with orange lettering. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and cover boards, light tanning. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed on a piece of author's stationery(with the address 17. Stonegate, York) tipped on to the title page: "Professor Grenville Cole / with the author's compt (sic) / & pleasant remembrances / of S. Africa." 4to. (26 cm.) xxviii, 202p. Profusely illustrated with 105 black and white captioned photographic plates by the author. Photos are tipped in opposite descriptive text. Bibliography. Blue cloth with red letters on the front cover and yellow letters on the spine. Wear to extremities with corners just barely rubbed through, rubbing evident along the edges of the boards, bottom of spine abraded to about the size of a thumb, seven inch split along rear gutter, photos in find condition, else very good and better with no internal markings. Tempest Anderson [1846-1913] was an ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital in the United Kingdom. He was also an expert amateur photographer and vulcanologist. He was a member of the Royal Society Commission which was appointed to investigate the aftermath of the eruptions of Soufriere volcano, St Vincent and Mont Pelee, Martinique, West Indies which both erupted in May, 1902. Some of his photographs of these eruptions were subsequently published in his book, VOLCANIC STUDES. [Wikipedia] According to a vulcanologist friend of mine, Tempest Anderson was the first person to use the term pyroclastic flow. Grenville Cole [Grenville Arthur James, [1859-1924] was an English geologist, from 1890 the Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and from 1905 the Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. [Wikipedia] This book, VOLCANIC STUDIES IN MANY LANDS, contains some amazing photographs of volcanoes and the aftermath of their eruptions from around the world. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Oblong 12mo. 140 unnumbered pages ; 8 x 17 cm . Signed by the author on the title page. Original publisher's printed Illustrated orange / yellow wraps. Only 3 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue. All in USA Very slight creasing at edges, otherwise about fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Autographed "Ian Hay Beith - Jan 31, 1917" on the front fly-leaf. Illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait of the author. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Previous owner's signature and date (April 7, 1917) on the second blank leaf. The lettering on the spine is faded. There are a couple of ink stains on the front cover and a stain on the rear cover. Scattered foxing on the edges. The contents are bright and clean. Lacking the dust jacket. Very good condition. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; Color frontispiece; 12mo.; viii, 342 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed and Published between 1896 and 1905. 6 volumes in 18 parts. Beautifully printed on hand-made Whatman paper, all volumes excepting 2 signed by Joseph Wright. A limited edition but although complete they are different edition numbers (A limited edition of 150) They are in the original paper wrappers, some of these are slightly marked but the contents are in lovely condition, with deckled edges but many signatures remain uncut. Quarto. Very heavy set (30 kilogrammes without packing) Please ask for postal rates when ordering. We can supply photographs if needed. The books are at present stored in West London (Barnes) in case a buyer would care to collect and save postal charges. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ninth Edition. 8vo; vii, 922 pages, full sheep, leather spine labels, lightly edgeworn The references to the decisions of the Supreme Court are current to the 96th Michigan Reports. This is the fifth edition continued by Andrew Howell and Charles Arthur Howell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hartford, CT: Aetna Insurance Company, 1919. First edition, 1919. Specially bound copy with red textured leather flexible covers printed in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated throughout in black and white. Gift notation to Director John Davis on his election to the Aetna Board on January 7, 1952, signed by a Clinton L Allen. Very good condition with a minor spot along the front joint, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, bookplate on blank at front, no other names or markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. N/D (ca. 1910?); 48 pages, saddle stapled and string bound into paper wrap covers; Signed beneath author's portrait on frontispiece "Best regards / I. S. Hallam'; There is a one by two inch open tear from the bottom edge of the front cover, just beneath the border of the illustration and not affecting image or text; There are a few other small tears and chips along edges of covers; Volume remains tight and contents are very clean and intact. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Inscribed and signed in pen by the Author on the 2nd fep; Brown cloth, gold cover title on black printed label, gold cover border, frontis portrait, & in original cardboard shipping case; A near fine copy; 42 pages. Size: 5"x7". Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Pale grey boards with vellum spine lettered in gold. 2/50 copies signed at limitation Wright Dain Peyton & Co. Folding plate. 4 page list of subscribers. Some spotting mostly to early and late leaves and text edges. Else Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: D'occasion - Bon état. Vol. XXIII de la Nelson's continental Library, publié vers 1916 (d'après la dédicace manuscrite sur page de titre). Reliure en plein chagrin marron à 5 nerfs, légèrement frottée et décolorée, en très bon état sinon. Premier plat de couverture illustré conservé. Tranche supérieure dorée. Corps de l'ouvrage en très bon état. Envoi rapide et soigné dans enveloppe à bulles.

First edition. Tall 8vo. [xvi], 301 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. No. 47 of 50 signed copies. Cloth binding in very good dustwrapper, very good copy. (88284). Foreword by Charles Sanford Terry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Small 4to. 220mms by 245 [xvi], 301 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. No. 43 of 50 signed by Katherine Parker. Original publishers purple cloth ovr cream buckram lettered gilt at the spine and cover Foreword by Charles Sanford Terry. Bookplate of writer E V Knox, very good indeed in faded and tanned else near vg purple d/w. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 342p. SIGNED & inscribed by Capt. Hay to Captain Malin Craig. " with Acknowledgement of great indebtedness to him for the pleasure and profit of the first reading of this soldier's book". Craig served as Brigadier in the Great War where he served as Chief of Staff in I Corps & 3d Army. After the war he held the post of Chief of Cavalry and later Chief of Staff of the Army from 1935-1939. Died 1945. Spine lettering faint. Front hinge weak. Near Fine Copy. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. This is the very rare 1935 edition signed by the author on the blank first page. Very nice bright book. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 47 plates on 44, a folding plate on japon, 3 coloured Dickens wrappers in facsimile (all original tissue guards present) and double-page coloured house publication in facsimile (original tissue guard present); original black buckram, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, fore-edge very lightly spotted else a very good, bright, crisp copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN LESLIE BALE WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published a month after the first edition. One of the most lavish publishing centenary histories, naturally emphasising the firm's relationships with its most notable authors including Ainsworth, Carlyle, Forster, Meredith, Trollope and, above all, Dickens. Bale was Managing Director of the fim from c.1914 to 1930 (see pp.272-4 et seq., plate facing p.272). 'The present position of the house as scientific and technical publishers owes simply everything to the vigour and judgement of Mr. Bale' (Waugh). AN IMPORTANT AND SCARCE ASSOCIATION COPY.

Hardcover. First edition. 108 pages. 18 x 13 cm. 12 page introduction. 29 Maxims. Four full page colored illustrations and each page within illustrated boarders. Signed presentation copy in ink 0n half title "To H. Fisher Esq. with the compliments of Gelett Burgess 1907.A woman's a woman For a chat" with small drawing of woman below his inscription. Contents and illustrations almost as new. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in matching near fine dust wrapper with slight loss at backstrip head.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, with additional material which comprises a new ten-page preface and a two-page epilogue by the author, the former incorporating the text of a review of the original 1930 publication by Arnold Bennett, and a second review in the form of a four-page letter to the author from T. E. Lawrence (writing as 'T. E. Shaw'); and the latter including an obituary of Kermode from 'The Times' of February 1959. 8vo. 194pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. This copy inscribed by the author to his son on the front free endpaper: "For Richard, a top-class writer, from Henry Williamsonm 3/11/68" and with the recipient's handsome armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Beneath this is a second bookplate stating: "From the Library of Writer Henry Williamson and His Family", which identifies it as one of a batch auctioned following the death of Richard Williamson in 2022). At the base of the preface Williamson has also inked the text "See Epilogue". The top- and fore edge fractionally spotted, and with a touch more spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel. Richard Calvert Williamson was Henry Williamson's fifth child and fourth son. His first book, written with the encouragement of his father and started whilst he was serving with the R.A.F., was 'The Dawn is My Brother' (1959), which was runner-up for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He published two further books 'Capreol: The Story of a Roebuck' (1973) and 'The Great Yew Forest' (1978), and from 1964 until shortly before his death wrote a weekly wildlife column for the 'Chichester Observer'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1929, 4th printing 1931. Small octavo, 21.1*14.5cm, xxxviii+300pp. Cover faded at edges, spine darkened, endpapers cracked along hinges. Tape stains to head and foot of front pastedown. Inscribed by Witter Bynner on front free endpaper to Mildred Taylor. Also laid in 3 letters from Bynner addressed to Mildred Taylor, the second wife of artist, theatrical designer and puppeteer Blanding Sloan. With an inscription in pen by Mildred Taylor on the front free endpaper below Bynner's inscription. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. 3 Volumes ~ by Thomas Hardy, Signed by the Author in Vol 1; pub by Macmillan And Co, London 1927. Limited Edition of 525 Copies. Quarto - 8" x 11" , bound in ¼ Vellum with title in gilt on spine of each vol and with decorated paper covers. Hardy's signature is on inside page of volume 1. Printed on hand made paper at The Chiswick Press, side and bottom edges are uncut. Many pps of each vol are still uncut. A small sticker is on the inside pg of each volume noting ' Phoenix Book Shop, 41 East 49 Street, New York City'. Some slight wear on covers and 4 corners are bruised of each volume. Books in good condition. Vol 1 - xii + 168pps; frontispiece is an engraved portrait of Hardy by Francis Dodd, with original tissue cover. Vol 11 - vi + 212pps. Vol 111 - xiii + 238pps. Signed by Author(s).