Book Springfield, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (October 1920), First Printing; Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 329pp., brown decorated cloth hardcover, cover corners bumped & frayed, cover edges shelf-worn, short crack top of front exterior hinge but binding tight, Signed in full on front endpaper with author's full name: "Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Older gift inscription, spine professionally repaired, a very good copy without dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the front endpaper.

Condition: Very Good. Autograph book with signatures from the pop music world of the late 50s and early 1960s. Dated 1959-1962. Inscriptions addressed 'To Maud.' From the archive of autograph hunter Fred Bason. Signatures include: Billy Fury, Bob Cort, the Terry Sisters, Stanley Unwin, Pearl Carr, Glenda Collins, The Deep River Boys, Ivor Emmanuel, Colin Day, Maureen Evans, Gary Mills, Marion Grimaldi, Douglas Squires, the Viscounts, Russ Conway, Danny Williams, Craig Douglas, Alyn Ainsworth, Bob Miller, The Stargazers, Dennis Quilley, Frank Ifield x 2, Tony Brent, Mark Wyinter, Kenny Ball & Jazzmen, Johnny Bruce, Johnny Angel, Roy Castle, Humphrey Lyttleton, Gary Marshall, Rob Hart, David Ede, Monty Sunshine, Barbara Kay, Eden Kane, Alex Welsh, Arthur Greenslade, the Springfields, including Dusty Springfield 26/7/61, Helen Shapiro, David Macbeth, Brooke Brothers, Anita Harris, Ricky Stevens, Rosemary Squires Neat h/w dates and venues in a different hand (presumably Maud's), with FB's notes added occasionally. BOOK:105mm x 120mm. pp.61 in pale pastel colours. Original boards in dark red and black patterned, 'Autographs' in gilt. / Frederick Bason (1907-1973) was an English bookseller, writer and broadcaster most famously known for his collection of diaries that were published in four volumes in the early 1950s. He found his vocation in buying and selling rare, second hand books. It was through his experience in finding that publications had a much greater re-sale value with the author's signature, that a lifelong obsession with autographs began. His essays featured in The Saturday Book 1945-1972, presenting his work on the same platform as major literary and artistic figures of postwar Britain. Very good. Slight rubbing at spine. Two pages missing, one loose. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition book in good plus dust jacket. Author signed full name Nicholas Vachel Lindsay on FFEP. Brown cloth covered boards with spectacular art deco decoration in blue, black and gilt on front panel and spine. Boards are clean with minimal corner wear, also head of spine is chipped approx. 1/4" and tail of spine less than 1/8". Tipped in at front black is a poem on bifold parchment "On the Building of Springfield" undated but with printer's bug on the bottom of the cover. This too is signed with the author's full name. Glue transfer on endpapers and newsprint transfers on half title page and pp. 264-265. The jacket front panel is of the same design as the book. Triangular loss of 1/2" on lower front right corner. Loss across edges at head and tail of jacket spine up to 3/8". Significant loss on plain back panel, carrying over to back fore-edge fold - see photos. Closed tears along fore-edge folds. Small chips and closed tears along upper and lower edges on front and back panels. See photos for best inspection. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 329 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Contemporary full tan paper binding with black titling and gold and blue ornamentation to spine. spine. Covers protected with a mylar wrapper. Mild shelf wear and soiling, with corners bumped and shredded. Back joint starting; crown and tail of spine missing. Inscribed to a family member, with an original drawing by Lindsay, at front pastedown and free endpaper. Previous owners' names to front pastedown. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 8. 1346329. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 329 pages; VG-; contemporary full tan paper binding; spine with black lettering, and gold and blue design; mild shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped and shredded; both joints starting; small closed tear at crown of spine; small chip missing at tail of spine; inscribed to family member at front pastedown and free endpaper by Lindsay; previous owner's name at front pastedown; previous owner's inscription at second front free endpaper and half title; bookseller's sticker at back pastedown; name 'Rev. E. S. Frazee, of Shelbyville + Rushville' at gutter of page 5 with underlining; pen underlining at page 6; CX consignment; shelved Case 8. Rev. Ephraim Samuel Frazee was Lindsay's grandfather; in the underlined passage, Lindsay describes his grandmother's living room. 1346327. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition. Brown cloth, a near-fine copy in the scarce dust jacket (chipped on the spine). Inscribed by Lindsay on the front free endpaper, and with eight lines from his poem "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" in his handwriting on the paste-down.

First editions, except The Chinese Nightingale, 1919 (first published 1917). Uniformly bound for Thomas Rénaud Rutter, and each signed and inscribed by Lindsay on the first blanks: the first to Renaud's mother, Mrs. Louise Warren Rutter, with her bookplate to verso of the front free endpaper facing; the second with "My most fraternal good wishes to Thomas Rutter"; the last "Good wishes and good will to Thomas Rutter" with the first three lines from Lindsay's ambiguous paean to the city of both his and Rutter's birth, "Magical Springfield": "In this - the city of my discontent/Sometimes there comes a whisper from the grass/ Romance, romance is here", initialled on the front free endpaper verso. The latter two works have Rutter's nautically-themed bookplate. Springfield native Thomas Rénaud Rutter, the son of tea importer and engineer J. E. T. Rutter, was a Princeton-educated lawyer who at one time served on the staff of the Judge Advocate General of the US Army, before becoming an attorney for the American Sugar Refining Co. He retired to California in 1927, sometime commodore of the Newport Beach Yacht Club. All of the inscriptions are dated 12 May 1921 in Plainfield, NJ, home town of his wife Abbie, née Holstein. A not unattractively, if rather stiffly, bound group of the works of the "Prairie Troubadour", who was famed for his declamatory, performance poetry, with a pleasing Springfield association. 3 vols octavo (188 x 123 mm). City flag in colours to the title page of the last-named. Uniformly bound in contemporary black hard-grain morocco, titles gilt to spines, low bands, devices to the compartments, gilt panels to the boards, recipient's monogram within a laurel wreath to the front boards, marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, pale toning of the text-blocks, but overall very good.

Condition: Good. 28 x 17 inches. 4pp. Signed and numbered and with an ink drawing by the poet. Short marginal tears.A Map of the Universe Issued in 1909; This Map Is One Beginning of the Golden Book of Springfield (pamphlet), 2nd edition, privately printed (Spokane, WA), 1926. OCLC/WorldCat no. 2001634 Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley.

Good. Wear along original fold lines. Verso repairs to fold separations and at fold intersections. Slight loss at some fold intersections. Closed margin tears professionally repaired on verso. Size 26.75 x 31.25 Inches. This is a large-format signed 'map of the universe,' produced in 1929 by the author and poet Vachel Lindsay, whose work was characterized by ethereal imagery and esoteric influences. A Closer Look The sheet is divided in two, with the left-hand side including the 'map of the universe,' which refers to Lindsay's 1920 novel The Golden Book of Springfield , while the right-hand side includes illustrations relating to Lindsay's poem 'The Queen of Bubbles' as well as an additional poem 'The Amaranth,' text explaining the purpose of the poster, and references to portions of Lindsay's work relating to the illustrations. The Golden Book of Springfield is often classified as a work of utopian fiction, describing Lindsay's hometown of Springfield, Illinois as imagined to exist one hundred years in the future, in 2018. Though deeply rooted in Christianity, Lindsay's utopian vision of a multicultural future Springfield draws on a wide range of religious traditions and social movements, including Tibetan Buddhism, anticipating the New Age movement by several decades. Akin to his poetry but in prose form, Lindsay's text is difficult to say the least; a representative passage: 'The Thibetan Boy takes me, in one instant, to the far edge of Space and Time, way beyond the North Star and its dandelions. And as we stand on the shaking shore of Space and Time we see and hear, rolling in from Chaos, endless smoke and glory and darkness and dissolving foam.' The 'Map of the Universe' depicted here includes depictions of futuristic Springfield, UFO-like flying machines, and the universal 'ascension' discussed in the last part of the book. The map is surrounded by hieroglyphs representing the 'twenty-four hours' journey of the sun.' As the text at right explains, Lindsay first privately printed the map in 1904 and it was an ongoing theme or muse in Lindsay's work for years. 'The Queen of Bubbles' was also an important representation of Lindsay's larger musings on the human condition and the nature of the cosmos, the imagery of which he describes at length below the illustration. 'The Amaranth,' including in this description of 'The Queen of Bubbles,' anticipates The Golden Book of Springfield with its allusions to a great future city in harmony with the universe. Both poems were in a formative stage at the time, and when ultimately published would differ considerably. It is notable that both 'The Map of the Universe' and 'The Queen of Bubbles' were first conceived in 1904, the year when Lindsay first had intense mystical-religious visions. Publication History and Census This sheet, including the illustrations, was prepared by Lindsay in a limited run of 2,000, all of which he signed. It followed a first edition of the broadside, printed in a run of 500 in 1924 (OCLC 18399074). Selling these signed works was likely a means of ameliorating his financial difficulties at the time (see biography below). This edition of the signed 'Map of the Universe' is well-represented in institutional collections but fairly scarce to the market. References: OCLC 2001634, 18399074 (first ed.).