Birthday Present, Signed (12 results)

Trade. Condition: Fine. 1st pr. SIGNED by Brian Aldiss on the title page, and also on Larry Ashmead's page, where BA has written a fond in scription to LA, who has also signed it, and written back. Book is square, solid, and unread. When you receive this book youll feel as though youve received a postcard from the Ringworld, a snow globe from Tran-Ky-Ky, or or a one-week guided tour of Trantor -- TRANSPORTED! In protective archival bag. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Elinore Blaisdell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red cloth covered boards with black design ( flower) to the front and black lettering to the spine. SIGNED " Mabel Leigh Hunt" to the half title page. First Edition, stated. Illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. This copy is VG in a GOOD + , price clipped DJ. Exterior is rich. lettering is crisp. one small faded damp spot on lower edge back board. minimal sunning to edges. Inside has PO BP to front EP. Firmly bound with very modest toning. DJ has ragged edges top and bottom, up to 1/2" in spots. Covers modestly soiled. UNCOMMON signed. Only signed copy with DJ as of November 2023. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 22.5 x 19 cm. Octavo. 128pp. Attached is a typed letter on Brian Aldiss letterhead addressed "Dear Friends" and additionally inscribed and signed in pen by both Margaret and Brian Aldiss. Tribute book to Brain Aldiss with stories, anecdotes, illustrations and more from his friends and colleagues. These books were presented to contributors and attendees of Aldiss' birthday party and was also printed for a wider release.

Hardcover. Large 8vo. Pp: [vi], 48. Limited Edition, numbered 52 of 80 copies. Publisher's blue leather and cloth boards, lettered in silver at spine. Edges of text block gilt . Blue and white marbled front and rear free end paper and front and rear pastedown. Black and white photographic portrait frontispiece. Signed by Stephen Spender [ed.].ISBN: 9781856194594 Very good. Light scratch to cloth front board (approx. 3.5cm). Rear board bumped at head of spine. Some small light scratches to front board at leather near spine (approx. 2cm x 0.5cm). Some light rubbing wear at tail of spine. Some small scratches to leather at spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Stab-stapled. Unpaginated (42pp.). An excellent collection, assembled for Harwood's sixtieth birthday, on 6 June 1999, and opening with a letter from the editors to the poet, who was in the Alps at the time. 'I imagine you sitting at some point half way up a mountain, at some traveller's resting place, sheltered under the curving canopy of a sturdy tree, to pull from your rucksack a phial of brandy and a rolled copy of this publication. in your romantic Alpine respite the words seem "just right". You know that they may never radiate that luminosity again, don't you? That's the primary mystery of reading that is at the heart of writing, at the heart of your writing more than most.' Contributors include John Ashbery, Tom Raworth, Bob and Jennifer Cobbing, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Douglas Oliver, Harry Guest, William Corbett, Anne Stevenson, Peter Riley, Tony Lopez, Ian Robinson, Ken Edwards, Richard Caddel, Alan Halsey, Kelvin Corcoran, and more. Moderate signs of handling, the staples slightly rusty. With a loosely inserted typed letter signed ('Robert') from the editors to Raworth, dated to the day of publication, plus a sheet of flyers for the book. Signed by Editor.

Condition: Good. Typed Post Card Signed, 5.5" x 3.5", Very Good. Provenance: Herb Yellin (1935-2014) was the highly respected publisher and founder of Lord John Press, considered by many to be one of the most important small presses of the 20th century.

Condition: Good. Typed letter signed, 2 pp., 8.5" x 11". Very Good. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, Thomas Parkinson archive.

[RENDELL, RUTH]. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. Spring, 1990 and a love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and attractive Tesham, a womanizer and ambitious politician. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember. A fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Stephen Spender. Half leather and cloth boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Light offsetting on front board from possible smoke damage, very good or better. Limited edition, this is copy number 71 of 80 numbered copies Signed by Spender.

Hardcover in jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Evaline Ness (illustrator). First Edition. Brown paper covered boards with black, white, and pink printing, in a corner clipped dust jacket with light edge-wear. The covers show light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This book is Signed by Maxine Kumin on the half title-page. ; Signed by Author.

Condition: Very good in wraps. First Edition. Two exhibition catalogues; 75th Birthday Exhibition; paintings and Works on paper, Cobra and After; Redfern Gallery 1990 15 x 21cm 32pp stapled wrappers, signed by Gear in blue ink, dated '96, + private view invitation card and 14 line letter hand written in blue ink dated '96 referring to another enclosed catalogue: William Gear, Past and Present friends, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1995 15 x 25cm 16pp stapled wrappers, also signed in blue ink; Gear '96. all in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Illustrated by Evaline Ness. Quarto. Pictorial papercovered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Maxine Kumin. Signed.