Chips by Hilton: Signed (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hilton, James. GOODBYE MR. CHIPS. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket still sporting the original publisher's wraparound band. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JAMES HILTON TO ETHEL "BIP" PARES (1904-1977), FAMED ILLUSTRATOR OF GOODBYE MR CHIPS and one of the leading British Art Deco dust jacket designers of the 1930s: "To Bip Pares, who saw her Chips as I did -- With all good wishes from James Hilton, October 1934." [With:] A framed and glazed ORIGINAL PEN & INK ILLUSTRATION ON ART BOARD for GOODBYE MR. CHIPS, a discarded variant of the first (of four) illustrations in the novel -- this one featuring Chips meeting his wife while climbing the Lake District's Great Gable (image size measures 4 ½" by 3 ½"). Along with the book and the illustration is an archive of other materials including an Autograph Letter, Signed, in which Bip Pares gives the history of her involvement with the novel; this includes the surprising revelation that after she illustrated the initial periodical appearance of GOODBYE MR. CHIPS -- it was she who suggested to Osgood & McIlvaine that GOODBYE MR. CHIPS deserved book publication and she agreed (for five guineas) to provide virtually every design element of the first edition's physical appearance. Further, the archive contains newspaper clippings retained by the illustrator pertaining to the novel's success as well as a later newspaper account of James Hilton's death in 1954. Finally, added to this collection, is a fine first edition copy in fine dust jacket (signed) of the sequel TO YOU, MR CHIPS (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938) with another round of beautiful illustrations by Bip Pares. The 1939 film adaptation starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson was nominated for ten Oscars (winning three) and remains one of the best loved and most enduring British films of all time. Housed in a custom slipcase. Bip Pares (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 127pp; presentation inscription in green ink to fep. with date 1955; another presentation inscription to ffep. (previous owner's) in ink with dates 1934 & 1953; illustrated; blue boards with gilt title, spine faded, some edgewear to spine-ends and tanning to board edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book. …

Illustrator inscribed Reprint: Hardback, blue bds., gold titles, 140 x 195 mm., 400g., 128 pp., illustrated with line drawings and dustwrapper by Bip Pares, decorative eps., inscribed and signed by the illustrator, Bip Pares, (respected Detective Fiction dustwrapper artist) on prelim., original pictorial dw., rubbing to crns. and edges, G+/VG copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Reprint Edition. A little aging here & there.; Signed by the author: "Sincerely James Hilton" on the front free end-paper. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 125 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by H.M. Brock, 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-lettered parchment backed boards, 132pp, spine a little darkened, covers a little rubbed, old inkstamped price inside rear cover, else a nice copy. "BIRTHDAY EDITION", LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #510), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JAMES HILTON, AND BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, H.M. BROCK.…

Light Tan Cloth. Condition: Nearly Fine. Nearly Fine. 153rd Thousand. Dust jacket has one small closed tear top edge and a minor brown spot near top. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR top of front free endpaper. A beautiful clean and crisp copy in unclipped dust jacket. A novella about an English school teacher. it was adapted to film in 1939 starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson, again in 1969 with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. 126pp. Size: Octavo. Signed by Author. …

[Literary correspondence] Typed letter signed, addressed to Dr. Clifford E. Case, reading "Delighted to autograph your copy of "Goodbye Mr. Chips"b if you will send it to the above address. I may be away for a few weeks, and inaccessible to forwardings so please understand the delay that may occur if it arrives after my departure. Yours sincerely James Hilton." One sheet of headed note paper, signed in black ink, trimmed to bottom edge (13 x 16cm). Presented mounted in a grey cloth-covered diptych case, with gilt titles to spine. Fine condition. The author's most famous work, Goodbye Mr. Chips describes the modest life and adventures of beloved public school teacher Charles 'Chips' Chipping. Basis for the 1939 Oscar-winning film starring Robert Donat and John Mills. Signed.…

Hardcover. dj. Reprint. Octavo, ix, xi, 132 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine yellow with red and dark blue lettering. Exterior has severe wear including several instances of chips to the spine/edges, moderate soiling/staining and slight foxing to the jacket interior. Boards have slight plus wear including sparse, faint brownish spotting to the spine, tiny chip to the front joint and mild sunning. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Slight foxing to few interior pages including to the end papers. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Reprinted. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2. 1410699. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Early printing of Hilton's novella about a beloved schoolteacher. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ernest Lintschish, with warmest regards and admiration from James Hilton Christmas 1944." In near fine condition. A sharp example. Originally issued in 1933, as a supplement to the British Weekly, James Hilton's novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips tells the story of a beloved schoolteacher, Mr Chipping, and his long tenure at Brookfield School, a fictional minor British boys' public boarding school located in the fictional village of Brookfield, in the Fenlands. The story was adapted into a 1969 musical film starring Peter OâToole and Petula Clark, with songs by Leslie Bricusse and an underscore by John Williams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, Japanese vellum and brown paper-covered boards lettered in gilt; publisher's slipcase. Birthday edition. One of 600 numbered copies, signed by Hilton and the illustrator H. M. Brock. A gorgeous copy of a classic work. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj foxed with some chips, yet dj is in mylar cover, book is foxed, clean and tight, signature on the 2nd fly page, interesting emphemera postcard embossed address Ingoldsby Woodford Road, Wantstead E. 18 17July35 "certainly I'll autograph your copy/JH", pictures upon request., no price on dj, also includes clipped Chosen by Howard Spring as the Evening Standard Book of the Month for October. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 128pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Very slightest of binding edgewear; bit of foxing to page edges and occasional leaf; lacks dust jacket. Tight and bright first edition of the English novelist's best-known work, basis for the popular 1939 romantic drama film starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson. Tipped to inner flyleaf is a choice autograph addition: Typed Note Signed from Hilton, 1p, 7½" X 10", Burbank, CA, 10 July 1939. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Near fine. Two original folds. On "Warner Bros." letterhead (for Hilton was writing the screenplay for his 1937 novel "We Are Not Alone" for Warner Bros., who produced the 1939 film version), Hilton sends "Many thanks for writing to me and for sending me your bookmark. I appreciate this and consider it an excellent method of tieing up the literary and cinema angles." Boldly signed in full in black ink. 1939 was the year in which the film "Good-Bye, Mr. Chips" was released, so whatever the bookmark that Gates sent Hilton, he likely suggested a bookmark that linked Hilton's 1934 novel with the just-released film version of it.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not a First. Fine copy In Like Jacket Later Edition(November, 1935) Signed "Sincerely James Hilton" $1.25 on Flap Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Great Classic Vintage Movie of The Same. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A 1938 printing with the original jacket that has some red stains to the spine and some at the base of book's spine as well. This copy inscribed and signed by Hilton to the book's original owner. A nice bookplate with the owner's name on the verso of the cover. Uncommon trade edition signed by the author. Bases for the renowned sentimental film of the same title. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Seventeenth Printing of the Illustrated Edition published June 1935. Signed by author "Sincerely, James Hilton" on ffep with NO names or other markings throughout. Illustrated by H.M. Brock. Green full-cloth boards with brass foil-stamped cover and spine & pale green topstain. Near FINE condition. Flaws: light bumping to bottom board corners & spine edges with NO chipping or tears. Slight rubbing to spine edges with NO other flaws. DJ is Good in archival cover. Price intact: $2.00. H.M. Brock (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. "Birthday Edition" of Hilton's most celebrated novel, published on the first anniversary of the first edition and with new illustrations by H. M. Brock throughout. Limited to 600 numbered copies signed by both Hilton and Brock, of which this is number 245. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. Publisher's quarter Japanese vellum over paper covered boards, printed on all-rag paper, housed in the original slipcase with printed and hand numbered label to spine; pp. xiv, [3], 132. In near fine condition with just traces of rubbing to the vellum. Internally clean. Slipcase shows light shelfwear and rubbing. Signed by Author(s). …

132 pp. Illustrations by H. M. Brock. 8vo, publisher's vellum-backed boards in slipcase. Birthday Edition; one of 600 copies (this one unnumbered), signed by James Hilton and H. M. Brock. "Sample" copy, with publisher's slip, printed in red, with typewritten date of publication and price, on slipcase. Near fine in a tanned and lightly rubbed slipcase.…

Birthday Edition. 132pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 vellum over tan boards with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Housed in publisher's slipcase with printed title and limitation number on the spine. Book is near fine. Slipcase shows age toning to the extremities and the spine. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the limitation page. Includes twenty-two illustrations by H.M. Brock. The "Birthday Edition" was limited to 600 signed and numbered copies, this is copy 311. Beloved work that has been adapted for radio dramatizations, films, musicals and television.…

First Edition, 1935. Limited "Birthday Edition"--#347/600 copies, specially printed on all-rag paper from the plates of the new Illustrated Edition and bound in tan paper covered boards, vellum spine stamped in gilt, all edges untrimmed; each copy SIGNED by Hilton and the Illustrator H.M. Brock, on the limitation page; in paper covered slipcase with printed spine-label with matching copy number. 132pp. This novella was successfully adapted twice to the cinema, and has remained popular since it first appeared--sad and touching without being maudlin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by the author in pencil to the front endpaper. Accompanied by a couple of letters written by the author's father, John Hilton. Original orange cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Previous owner name and date to front paste-down with some toning to edges. Binding a bit exposed at front endpaper. Some browning to front endpaper and to pages 14 and 15. The original dust jacket has a few shallow chips and nicks to edges with some browning, most notably to spine panel. A good copy of a book that is seemingly rare signed with associated ephemera. PLEASE NOTE: This book is available to purchase and will be reserved immediately upon ordering. Orders placed between 29 September and 18 October will be dispatched promptly on Monday 19 October. Please order only if this temporary delay is acceptable. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Goodbye Mr. Chips, early reprint, signed by author, very faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed, slight chipping and tiny loss to spine head and top edge. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Early Reprint. 12mo. Pp. 126. Beige cloth covered boards with titles printed in navy blue on cover and spine. Front free endpaper author signed in ink. Unclipped dust jacket features a "For Your Holiday Reading" illustration and lettering in festive red and green: spine sunned, light stains, short closed tear at the lower hinge. First published in June of 1934, the book became a huge success requiring dozens of reprints during the Great Depression. Jacket states "153rd Thousand!" in the span of one year. The sentimental story chronicles the gentle life, moving romance, and long tenure of Mr. Chipping, a beloved Latin teacher at the fictional Brookfield boarding school. A fresh, signed copy with dust jacket now housed in a clear, removable archival cover. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Octavo. viii, (iv), 132pp. The "Birthday Edition." Illustrations by Brock throughout head each chapter and appear as full-page plates. Hilton's novella of a schoolteacher gone sentimental, but no less influential, was adapted by MGM Studios into a Robert Donat-Greer Garson vehicle and remade in 1969 with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. Bound in brown paper over boards backed in white with gilt titling to spine. Slight soiling to margins of spine where a reader pulls the volume from its slipcase, slipcase itself mildly soiled and toned, else near fine and partially unopened. One of 600 copies, signed by Hilton and Brock. With an additional inscription from Hilton to the photographer Yousuf Karsh.…

First edition of Hilton's classic novella about a beloved schoolteacher. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sincerely. James Hilton." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Originally issued in 1933, as a supplement to the British Weekly, James Hilton's novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips tells the story of a beloved schoolteacher, Mr Chipping, and his long tenure at Brookfield School, a fictional minor British boys' public boarding school located in the fictional village of Brookfield, in the Fenlands. The story was adapted into a 1969 musical film starring Peter OâToole and Petula Clark, with songs by Leslie Bricusse and an underscore by John Williams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. British first edition, Inscribed and signed by the author on a blank prelim with the date 1934. Lacking dust jacket. Blue cloth cover with bright gilt lettering shows minor wear, bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing, few small open tears along panel edges.; Personalized photograph of James Hilton neatly laid in.; Signed by Author. Signed.

First Edition, First American Edition (we have seen two dustjacket variants on first edition books, this is the one with 'Opinions of Good-Bye, Mr. Chips at top rear panel). First true hardcover edition, previously published by the Atlantic Magazine and as a supplement for an English newspaper. This copy signed by Hilton at front endpaper (along with other previous owner). Basis for two films in 1939 and 1969, a 1984 TV mini series, and a TV show in 2002. The most popular of these productions was the 1969 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Peter O'Toole, Petula Clarke, and Michael Redgrave. Would be Near Fine but newspaper reviews have been glued to verso of half-title (which has also darkened the verso of the front endpaper), in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket.…

dj. First English edition of James Hilton's tale of the shy schoolmaster Mr. Chipping, who over the course of a long career becomes a legend at Brookfield, "a good school of the second rank." Deeply Victorian in sympathy, "Mr. Chips" rises to the challenge of the First World War, and survives into the 1930s, beloved by generations of boys: "In my mind you never grow up at all. Never." Originally issued as a supplement to The British Weekly in 1933, Goodbye, Mr. Chips was reprinted in The Atlantic in April 1934, followed by book publication in the United States in June and England in October; the nostalgic novel was a runaway bestseller during the Depression, inspiring the Oscar-winning 1939 Hollywood film starring Robert Donat. This first English edition is wonderfully illustrated by Ethel "Bip" Pares, one of England's leading Art Deco book designers. Accompanied by two typed letters written and signed by Hilton, during his stint as a Hollywood screenwriter, to prolific Chicago-based author and anthologist Marjorie Barrows (1892-1983), regarding reprint rights for his short story "Mr. Chips Meets a Star" in The Family Reader. This was likely Barrows's personal copy of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as Hilton's letters were once secured (via paper clip and tape) to the opening pages. A very good copy, with signed "Mr. Chips" correspondence laid in. Single volume, measuring 7.5 x 5.5 inches: 127, [1]. Original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, endpapers printed in blue with Latin quotations, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket printed in blue and black. Title page printed in blue and black; black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Traces of tape to boards, endpapers, and front flyleaf; jacket lightly soiled, tape repairs to verso, shallow chips to head of spine and rear panel. WITH: two typed letters to Marjorie Barrows signed by Hilton, the first dated 1946 and measuring 8.5 x 7 inches, the second dated 1948 and measuring 5.75 x 6.5 inches. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Later printing. Flat-signed by author on ffep with NO inscription. Mustard full-cloth boards with navy blue text imprinting on cover and spine. Very Good cond. Flaws: minor sunning to spine and upper extremities of boards. Very slight bumping to spine edges with NO rubbing, chipping or tears. NO foxing or soiling. NO markings throughout. DJ has moderate toning and fading to spine cover only. Minor chipping at spine head and one tear to top of front cover. Price intact: $1.25. Protected in archival cover. Signed by Author(s).…

First Illustrated Edition; 'Birthday Edition;' one of 600 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. About a fine copy in the publisher's slipcase (a matching number), which is very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.…