Book Gems, Signed (22 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 512pp. Printed card covers. Minor shelf wear and gentle rubbing. Signed and inscribed by author on title page 'To Toby.'. 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. He is focussed on work and she wants him focussed on her - who will prevail? Gently bumped. Inscribed on the title page "Genie, Thank you & enjoy! Iris Bolling.". Inscribed By the Author.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. SIGNED with best wishes by author. Oblong 12 mo., softcover, new in spiral binding. Self published. Book of thoughts on nature and Christianity with biblical Proverbs elucidated upon. Example: "One exception when givng is less blessed is receiving Jesus Christ as Lord.". Book.

Condition: Good. 2006. Second Printing. 320 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed by the author with dedication to first page. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Book 2 in The Kingdom of Gems trilogy, soft cover format, 12mo, 496pp, line illustrations from the author; card covers; VG+ Copy; author's presentation copy, inscription on half-title page reads: To Molly Harris Jasper Cooper Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. SilverWell Publishing soft cover.SIGNED TO TITTLE PAGE BY AUTHOR.Fine/as new condition.Shipped within 48hrs of ordering, sometimes quicker! Quality assured.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. re-print, signed to front end page by Author Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author on fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1972. First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Good to very good copy in good to very good dustjacket. The author looks upon various locations and their part in the Irish national character. Green cloth, map endpapers, color illustrated dustjacket. Edges rubbed, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some edgewear and some shallow creasing, little paper loss. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. SIGNED COPY : Published In 2011 : Reprinted Edition : Silver Well Publishing : Signed By The Author ( Dedicated ) : This Copy Is Right At The Top Of Like New : Just A Faint Spine Crease : Looks Un-Read : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall , A Very Nice Book : Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. re-print, signed to front end page Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. SIGNED COPY : Published In 2011 : Reprinted Edition : Silver Well Publishing : This Copy Is Signed By The Author : ( Dedicated ) : Overall , A Very Nice Book : Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied. 2006 SIGNED Paperback edition, SIGNED "To Sylvia Jasper Cooper". Excellent condition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Collectors Edition. Unpaginated (48pp), col ills. Pictorial stapled card covers. As new. SIGNED by Len Cram on the title page. No date (c2000). For each month there is a full-page colour photograph of an opal area, a page lined with numbers (according to the number of days in that month), followed by two pages for notes. January: Lightning Ridge; February: Coober Pedy; March: Andamooka; April: Mintabie; May: White Cliffs; June: Yowah; July: Black Gate; August: Duck Creek; September: Eromanga; October: The Hayricks; November: Opalton; December: beautiful opal. Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (The Birth of the Opal) inside rear cover. Special Collector's Reprint Edition of 1500 copies (originally published 1996). Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Paperback Edition / Second Print (number line on copyright page 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 496pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Signed and inscribed by author in black ink to half title page. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (54/2). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. White cloth spine with navy boards and gilt letting; spine browned from sun ; signed to the McFaddens by Author on ffep book tight very good. Signed by Author(s).

Sin Encuadernar. Condition: Nuevo. 1ª Edición. Marcapaginas, Punt de Llibre. Celtic Book Mark Sea Gems Ref-10 metalico 7.5x3.5cm Nuevo. Dedicatoria autógrafa del auto.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No date (1930s). Paperback in Very Good condition, 8vo. Black, textured stiff wrapper with titles and rules in silver, yapp-edged, contents include poems, aphorisms, and commentary by numerous authors, compiled by Knox. Very good condition, inscription by Knox on first (title) page. Bookseller accession no.: XM899. Authors include John Burroughs, R.W. Emerson, Horace Mann, Benj. Franklin, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, among many others, well-known and not. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. To subscribe to the One Picture Book Two series, and receive a copy of each future book and signed print at the subscription price of $40, please inquire (limited availability). Nazraeli Press One Picture Book Two Series, Set 6: Titles #21 to 24: All of the titles in the set share the following format: First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Each title is a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, with one loose 5x7-inch original print signed by the artist. Paper-covered photographically-illustrated boards with quarter-bound colored cloth (color of the cloth used varies with each set of four books), with printed title on matching paper pasted down on cloth spine, all contained in a paper-covered four-volume slipcase with debossed title printed in white and black; no dust jacket as issued. 16 pp., with four-color and/or duotone plates (number of plates varies by title). 8-1/2 x 6 inches (slipcase is 8-5/8 x 6-1/8 inches). #21. Carrie Mae Weems: Africa: Gems and Jewels: 18 four-color plates. ISBN: 9781590055465. #22. Ed Templeton: Auto-Hypnosis: 24 black-and-white and four-color plates. ISBN: 9781590055472. #23. Deanna Templeton: Love You: 18 four-color plates. ISBN: 9781590055489. #24. John Humble: Pico Boulevard: 13 four-color plate. ISBN: 9781590055496. New. All books, slipcase and prints are in flawless condition, in publisher's shrink-wrap (slit open for signature) and packaging. From the publisher (from the announcement of the new Series): "We are excited to announce the launch of One Picture Book Two: an upgraded, upscaled follow-up to our much-loved One Picture Book series of artists' books. Each title will be limited to 500 numbered copies, and will include a removable, signed, original print. The books will be a little bigger, with a fresh design, but the price remains the same. Subscribers to the series are guaranteed a copy of each release for $40, complete with four-volume slipcase. For non-subscribers, individual titles start at $50, with the price increasing as the books sell out. Subsequent releases will include titles by JoAnn Callis, Mark Ruwedel, Daido Moriyama, Susan Zadeh, Laurie Simmons, Michael Mulno, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Toshio Shibata, Todd Hido, Mark Steinmetz, Leon Borensztein, Corey Arnold, and many others." From the publisher: #21. Carrie Mae Weems: Africa: Gems and Jewels: "In the earlier 90s after traveling throughout the Sea Islands on the Southeast Coast on the United States, I decided that it was time to go home, back to Africa. There was something that I needed to know about the nature of myself. In love with customs, beliefs and material cultural, I made many pictures, but only a few of handful of people. The portraits for Africa: Gems and Jewels are that handful." â" Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems is one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Her work investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Weems is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Africa: Gems and Jewels is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist." #22. Ed Templeton: Auto-Hypnosis: "Auto-Hypnosis features both black-and-white and color photographs from Ed Templeton's photo archive, exploring our existence in and around cars and car culture. We are inevitably tied to the automobile from birth, starting from literally being strapped against our will into car seats as children, to them becoming a symbol of freedom and autonomy as teenagers. Templeton's photos explore the car as a cage, as a tool to assuage boredom, as a deadly weapon, and as a window to watch the world as you speed by. The car is both a fetishized object and a utilitarian tool, something we live inside of and use as a prop for fashion magazines. Templeton has long used the car window as a framing device for his photography inside and out, further fetishizing the culture surrounding them. Ed Templeton is an American artist/photographer whose work reflects human behavior with emphasis on youth subcultures, religious affectation, and suburban conventions using a cinéma vérité approach and embracing chance encounters. Templeton is a respected cult figure in the subculture of skateboarding, a two time world-champion, and Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee. He is best known for his photographic books, zines, and multi-media exhibitions. His work has been shown in museums worldwide including, Museum of ContemporaryArt, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; S.M.A.K. Museum, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Pier 24 , San Francisco. Each copy of this artist's book includes a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist." #23. Deanna Templeton: Love You: "Love You is a selection of photographs by Deanna Templeton centering around the idea of love and its symbolism, especially the heart shape as it manifests itself in myriad forms in public streets worldwide. Be it a lock clamped onto a bridge with a wish and a prayer, or a marriage proposal scrawled into the sand, public expressions of love date back to prehistoric cave paintings. At its core the heart symbol, like the two fingered peace sign, is the simplest way to express your feelings â" a shorthand for "I love you." A sentiment seemingly in short supply these days, and precisely why Deanna chose this theme for her One Picture Book. Deanna Templeton is an American photographer known for her documentary and serial work exploring youth culture and feminine identity. Since the 1990's Templeton has explored.

4to. XIX, (1), 548 pp. With colour frontispiece, 99 plates (including 17 in colour and one engraved). Citron crushed levant gilt, title in six compartments with five raised bands and gold tooling and gilt lettering, board edges and turn-ins gilt. One of the highlights of American gemology from the beginning of the 20th century. Richly illustrated with plates from various sources, some in colour, this is a presentation copy inscribed by the author to the head of Tiffany's jewelry workshop: "To Miss Julia Halsey Munson, with the compliments of the senior author George F. Kunz. New York, July 10, 1913". - For this book, Kunz drew heavily on his encyclopedic knowledge of gems. The Book of the Pearl presents the history of pearls from ancient China to the author's own times. Kunz describes the historical and current practices of pearl harvesting and how pearls are processed into jewellery and cult objects. He devotes much space to the region that he describes as the pearling centre of the world: the Gulf and the Red Sea. Kunz describes the mastery of pearl fishers and pearl cutters of the region and the rich collections of pearls of Arab shahs and princesses. He illustrates all of this through detailed maps. The text covers all aspects of ancient and modern knowledge of pearls, including the formation of pearls and the natural history of fresh- and saltwater pearls. In his bibliography of gemology, John Sinkankas praised the book as "[a] beautiful example of modern book design, executed in high quality materials [.] prized not only for the enormous amount of reliable information that it contains, indeed still unmatched in any work since", but also for the large number of high-quality illustrations in black and white. - G. F. Kunz (1856-1932) was one of the United States' earliest gem experts. Born into a Swiss immigrant family in New York, he was primarily raised in New Jersey, where he developed an early interest in minerals. He began collecting his first specimens by the age of 14 and had amassed a collection of approximately 4,000 stones only six years later. A self-taught expert, Kunz made his unrivalled knowledge as a gem expert available to Tiffany & Co. at the age of 23. He remained with Tiffany's for 53 consecutive years, eventually becoming the company's vice president. During his career, Kunz also became a prolific author, and he is credited with a legacy of important books on gemstones. He was one of the founders of the New York Mineralogical Club, a Secretary of American Society of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Curator of Precious Stones at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Curator for the New York Academy of Sciences. The pink gem variety of spodumene was named "kunzite" in his honour in 1903. - In very good condition, with only very slight wear to extremities. All plates intact, without browning or foxing. - Sinkankas 3690.

First Edition. Original soft suede printed 'wrappers', 121 pages, 7 by 5 inches. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Iverson at title page. Attractive post-prohibition cocktail guide, including recipes for such drinks as: American Flag, Waldorf Fizz, Paree Cocktail, Blinker, etc. An article in a contemporary Santa Cruz newspaper muses about this title thusly: "Cocktail hour visitors to the restful St. George hotel tap room are talking about John R. Iverson, recently 'discovered' by them as not only a modest, sincere and friendly bartender, but as an author of merit and one of the country's outstanding authorities on drinks and how to make them. Hiddin for almost the entire two months he has been at the St. George, his prominence under a natural screen of self-effacement, the young but serious-browed Mr. Iverson stood today revealed as the author of a deluxe 'cocktail manual, "Liquid Gems." A highly different but thoroughly authoritative book of drink recipes accepted as "tops" in its line by leaders of the beverage industry. Mr. Iverson, formerly of the world-famed Savoy hotel, London, compiled and published his novel work while at the California Golf Club in San Francisco. Beautifully printed and bound". Scarce, WorldCat locates two copies, both at the University of California. Very Good, covers darkened with modest wear.

The book of the pearl by Georg Frederick Kunz (1856-1932) is one of the highlights of American gemmology from the beginning of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with plates from various sources, some in colour, this is the presentation copy, inscribed by the author himself: 'To Miss Julia Halsey Munson, with the compliments of the senior author George F. Kunz New York July 10 1913'.Kunz drew heavily on his encyclopaedic knowledge of gems for this book. The book of the pearl presents the history of pearls from ancient China to the author's present day. Kunz describes the historical and current practices of pearl harvesting and how pearls are processed into jewellery and cult objects. Kunz devotes much space to the region that he describes as 'the pearling center of the world' (p. 140): the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. There lay the origins of pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf and Kunz describes the mastery of pearl fishers and pearl cutters of the region and the rich collections of pearls of Arab Shahs and princesses. He illustrates all of this through detailed maps. The text covers all aspects of ancient and modern knowledge of pearls, including the formation of pearls and the natural history of fresh- and saltwater pearls. John Sinkankis in his bibliography on gemmology praised the book as '[a] beautiful example of modern book design, executed in high quality materials [] prized not only for the enormous amount of reliable information that it contains, indeed still unmatched in any work since, but also for the large number of high quality illustrations in black and white'.Georg Frederick Kunz was one of the United States' earliest gem experts. Born into a Swiss immigrant family in New York, he was primarily raised in New Jersey where he developed an early interest in minerals. He began collecting his first specimens by the age of 14. He had amassed a collection of approximately 4,000 stones only six years later. Kunz was a self-taught expert and his knowledge was second to none. He applied his knowledge as a gem expert for Tiffany & Company at the age of 23. He remained with Tiffany for 53 consecutive years, eventually becoming the company's vice president. During his career at Tiffany's, Kunz also became a prolific author. He is credited with a legacy of important books on gemstones. Kunz was also one of the founders of the New York Mineralogical Club, a Secretary of American Society of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Curator of Precious Stones at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Curator for the New York Academy of Sciences. The pink gem variety of spodumene was named kunzite in his honour in 1903.Very good condition, only very slight wear to very slight wear to extremities, all plates included and intact, no browning or foxing.l Sinkankas 3690. Bound for presentation in light olive-brown goatskin morocco by The Atelier Bindery, New York (stamp on free endleaf), sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled spine (title and author in 2nd & 3rd of 6 compartments, others with decorations), gold fillets on the boards and board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, light brown watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt. With a signed autograph presentation inscription from the "senior author" to the Tiffany's jeweller Julia Halsey Munson, signed "George F. Kunz", New York 10 July 1913. With a colour halftone frontispiece portrait of the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna Alix (1868-1918), wearing her pearls (she, the Romanov last Czar Nikolai II and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks ten years after publication), 99 other plates (2 folding) including 17 in colour, mostly halftone photographs, but including 1 lithographic(?) reproduction of a 1743 engraving of Maria Theresia of Austria (facing p. 24, with a plate impression) and 2 collotypes(?) (facing pp. 416, 472). Further with 10 line illustrations on the integral leaves (including 4 maps), many full-page. The colour plates, lithograph and collotypes are protected by tissue guard leaves with letterpress captions printed in red. Pages: [XIX], 548 pp.