Boy Friend, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Large softcover, beautiful color-illustration on front and spine of young black Union soldier holding bandaged dog, small illustration on back wrapper, 180 pages plus short bibliography and photos of Civil War re-enactors. Signed by author on title page next to her printed name. Mint copy. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. vi, 14pp. Frontispiece. Fine. A touching essay by the noted educator and president of Lincoln Memorial University, profiling his mentor, an earlier president of LMU -- Dr. George A. Hubbell, who befriended the author when he was an undergraduate at LMU. Uncommon -- issued in a small quantity strictly for distribution to Kincaid's friends. Tipped opposite the title page is a nice autograph addition: a Typed Letter Signed from Kincaid, 1p, 7" X 10½", Middlesboro, KY, 1958 December 5. Addressed to noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar ARNOLD GATES (1914-93). Near fine. Cordial note to the "Lincoln Herald" book reviewer, promising to write some reviews and general Lincoln chitchat. "We have greatly appreciated your faithfulness in handling the literary section of the Lincoln Herald. I have always marveled that you could find the time and the willingness to do it. The coming year is a big one for all of us. All of us will really spread our wings." Signed simply "Robert." Laid in is a heavy stock "Season's Greetings and Best Wishes" card.

Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Signed presentation copy from the author. Slight wear otherwise very good.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Childrens story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.126; [2], blank. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's black cloth blocked in colours, illustrated endpapers and dust-wrapper. With gift ink gift note to preliminary blank, signed by Valentine Fleming. Minor wear at crown else fine. Provenance; Valentine Fleming (1935-2015), Grenadier Guards officer, nephew of 'James Bond' novelist Ian Fleming. From the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled note within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Signed.

Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 126 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author, Nicolas Bentley, and Vida Hope with dedication to half title page. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild fold to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Mild mottling to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Mild water staining to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Second American Edition. This author's presentation copy of the second American edition of the author's first published book was inscribed in two lines on the front free endpaper recto in 1936 to Frost's friend, fellow poet, and future governor of Connecticut Wilbert Snow: "Bill from Robert | Amherst 1936".This second American edition, published in 1934, was bound in tan linen cloth with a gilt-stamped brown front cover illustration panel (intertwined scythes) and brown spine title panel. The tan dust jacket features an ivy-covered fence post illustration repeated from the title page. Condition is very good minus in a very good dust jacket. The binding is square and tight with sharp corners, its chief defect spotting to the linen cloth, primarily proximate to the spine and at the upper edges of the covers. The contents are clean, with no spotting or previous ownership marks, just a bit of perimeter browning to the endpapers from the pastedown. The dust jacket is unclipped and substantially complete, with shallow strip loss at and adjacent to the spine head. The jacket shows mild spine toning and is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.The recipient, Charles Wilbert "Bill" Snow (1884-1977) was, at turns, an Eskimo teacher and reindeer agent in Alaska, a U.S. Army artillery officer, a professor at various prestigious universities, and author of several volumes of poetry. Snow reportedly met and befriended Frost in March 1925, when he was asked to speak at a public dinner for Frost's 50th birthday. In 1944, eight years after Frost inscribed this volume for him, Snow entered politics. In 1946, Snow was Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and the Democratic Party's candidate for Governor. He lost the race but became governor anyway albeit for just 13 days; the outgoing Governor resigned early to take a seat in the U.S. Senate, leaving Snow to fill in for the short interval before his victorious opponent took office. By the time he was approaching the age of 40 in 1912, not-yet-iconic American poet Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) had dropped out of Dartmouth and Harvard, tried farming and teaching, and decided to move to England with his wife and children "the place to be poor and to write poems". That finally catalyzed his recognition. The manuscript of A Boy's Will was completed in England and accepted for publication by David Nutt on 1 April 1913. A convocation of critical recognition, introduction to other writers, and creative energy supported the English publication of Frost's second book, North of Boston, in 1914, after which "Frost's reputation as a leading poet had been firmly established in England, and Henry Holt of New York had agreed to publish his books in America." Accolades met his return to America at the end of 1914 and by 1917 a move to Amherst where this copy was inscribed "launched him on the twofold career he would lead for the rest of his life: teaching whatever "subjects" he pleased at a congenial college and "barding around," his term for "saying" poems in a conversational performance." By 1924 he had won the first of his eventual four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (1931, 1937, and 1943). Frost spent the final decade and a half of his life as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with a host of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961). When publishing Frost's first two books, Holt reversed the order of British publication, publishing the U.S. first edition of North of Boston in late March 1915, followed swiftly thereafter by the U.S. first edition of A Boy's Will in April 1915. Holt did not publish this second U.S. edition of A Boy's Will until 1934, by which time Frost's reputation had grown considerably. Fittingly, this second U.S. edition is a considerably larger and more handsomely produced book than the first edition.References: ANB; NGA; Crane A2.2.

pfas152? Antique 4.5" x 4" hand signed photo for Hugh Paddick who has personally autographed the souvenir where his signature rests perfectly below his portrait in pristine condition and undedicated?too. You wont source better.".Hugh William Paddick (22 August 1915 9 November 2000) was a gay English actor. He starred in the 1960s BBC radio show Round the Horne, performing in sketches such as "Charles and Fiona" (as Charles) and "Julian and Sandy" (as Julian). He and Kenneth Williams were largely responsible for introducing the underground language Polari to the British public.? ?Paddick also enjoyed success as Percival Browne in the original West End production of The Boy Friend, in 1954.?In his diaries, Kenneth Williams, so often scathing of his colleagues, spoke warmly of Paddick's kindness as a man, and of his "subtlety and brilliance" as a performer.".

Rare original sketch signed and inscribed by American painter Franz Kline. One page, with pen and ink caricature sketches on both the recto and verso. Kline has drawn five caricatures on the recto which he has signed and titled "The Boyfriend". On the verso, he has drawn a single figure and inscribed the work, "You've lots of friends let me be among them. Franz Kline." In near fine condition. A rare and desirable piece exhibiting Kline's early style. Framed. Associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s, American painter Franz Kline was a member of the New York School along with fellow action painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner. Kline's artistic training focused on traditional illustrating and drafting. During the late 1930s and early 1940s Kline worked figuratively, painting landscapes and cityscapes in addition to commissioned portraits and murals. His most recognizable style was developed in the late 1940s, when he dedicated himself to large-scale, abstract works using fluid, dynamic and completely nonrepresentational brushstrokes. Color became a rare element in Kline's paintings and, because of his impact and concrete style, he was dubbed the "black and white artist". A wide varaiety of artists working during Kline's life and afterâ"such as Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly, Mark di Suvero, and Brice Mardenâ"have all called Kline an inspiration.

October 1992 was the home stretch of the re-election campaign of President George HW Bush.? Although he had successfully managed and won the war in Iraq, a flagging economy and strong challenge from Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton did not bode well.? And on October 1, Ross Perot, who had announced his candidacy in February and then withdrawn in July, re-entered the campaign, meaning there would be a challenge of a third party likely to draw votes away from Bush.Bush had a close friend and political backer who helped him during campaign season, and whom he appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission. This backer had a young son with Cystic Fibrosis who had hit a rough patch and needed surgery.During this trying and busy time, Bush took the time out from his hectic schedule to write this sick boy, who was just 14 at the time.? Autograph letter signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, October 2, 1992. "Dear Billy, Your dad is my friend. He told me you're fighting hard. Get well quick.? I'm thinking about you.? Good luck, George Bush." This is a very uncommon Bush ALS as president.This child would receive a lung transplant which dramatically increased the length of his life. It is a powerful and touching story that involved the personal intervention of the President of the United States.We have withheld the identity of the boy for his privacy.? This unpublished letter has never before been offered for sale.