Colonists, Signed (30 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed. A Very Good or better copy in paper covers. Light sun-fading at the spine (not affecting lettering), clean/unmarked within. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication. (Not ex-library.). Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Unidentified (illustrator). Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Signed by both authors with dedication to students and faculty at copyright page [title page for this book is on the left and copyright page on the right]. Pages [187] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Covers clean, colors bright, no reading creases at spine, minor edge and handling wear. Takes four young heroes back in time and what starts out as a Civil War Metal Detecting adventure turns into a treasure hunt searching for answers to the story of a love lost long ago in a lost civilization. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Authors.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. As an historian and granddaughter of Barr Colonists, Bowen recounts the adventures of 2000 middle-class British citizens who followed the charismatic but inept Anglican minister Isaac Barr to settle 200 miles from Saskatoon in 1903. Most were unprepared for the harsh Prairie climate and theirs is a story of struggle. viii, 234 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. A bright, clean copy. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Signed by the author on the title pages which also contain a dedicated inscription by the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 47pp; spine reinforced with red tape This first separate edition is an offprint from the Journal of Presbyterian History, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 1962. This copy is inscribed: "With the Compliments of Maurice W. Armstrong." 9" x 5.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bottom fore-edge corner a bit bumped, small bend to that corner of front cover. ; Maps, signed by the author; 63 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'In this volume Dr. Payton examines the experience and impact of those Cornish Colonists who helped found the embryonic city of Adelaide and pushed forward the boundaries of agricultural settlement in South Australia. He sets the Cornish experience against the broader backdrop of Australian history.' SIGNED with best wishes by author An almost like new copy of this book with very light shelf wear to cover and a tiny blemish to end paper Size- 215mm. x 150mm. (8v0.). Pp.143. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. 1st edition. Sm 4to Paperback. 273pp. B/W photos and text figures. Signed by Sternbach on customized label on title page. Very Good book. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science, space, non-fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 260 pp.; Black & white photo illus., endpaper map; author has signed on front pastedown endpaper in red ink. Clean copy, no markings; Pictorial boards are clean, with a very slight wear at top edge of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. German Colonists and Their Descendants in Houston Including Usener and Allied Families by Dorothy E. Justman. Signed by author on full title page. Hardcover first edition published in 1974 by Nortex. Clipped jacket. Jacket severely scuffed with twp large missing chips at top of spine. Signed by Author(s).

xii+316pp. Small 4to. Original cloth in dustwrapper, backstrip a little faded. Black and white illustrations. A near fine copy. First edition. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf and dated 30 March 1953. A few scattered red pencil marks, with corrections written in text. 1964 Corrections glued inside back cover. Neat pencil notes on facing page. Red cloth. Note on title page that this is one of 250 copies printed. SUPPLEMENT published 1952. 48 pp.; also inscribed. An early edition of this Genealogy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj, maroon cloth. Vg+ condition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the endpaper verso. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 259 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited/Numbered. 167p D-J (fading spine) Paper over boards VG - Near Fine The signed, limited edition, with illustrations, the background of the foundation of Dunedin and Otago with European immigrants, and a biography of the city's first leader and of early Dunedin. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed on the half title page: "Jan 1985, To Mary Cromwell--I hope your concern for + knowledge of the environment are only heightened by this ecological history. Bill Cronon." Uncommon signed. Cronon's important and influential first book, while he was still at Yale, and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. Third printing, 1984. Very good with light edge wear and some to lower spine, and light foxing to text block faces and to the front page, which holds the inscription.// Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original pictorial white boards with red map endpapers. xi, 260 pages, illustrated with historic photographs, plus bibliography and index. Inscribed in red ink on the map endpaper by the author: "1/20/61 For -- A new Anaheim resident from a native daughter Mildred Yorba MacArthur." Prior owner has applied a clear mylar dust jacket, attached to inside covers. Scarce, especially inscribed. SIGNED.

Soft cover. Condition: New. New. Paperback edition, as pictured. ISBN #0870815296. Inscribed and signed by author in inside blank page. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. xxi, 439 pp. Octavo. Bronze pictorial dust-jacket with black lettering on spine of jacket; description of book on flaps. Gold vinyl binding with black lettering on spine. Trimmed edges. Mapped endpapers showcasing British Columbia from 1847-1871. Half-title present; inscribed by both authors on half-title in blue ink, undated. Colour frontis showcases photographic portrait of Sir James Douglas. Epilogue, bibliography, and index at rear. 74 further B/W photographic illustrations and drawings on plates; 9 further B/W maps and diagrams throughout text. Text is internally very clean. Boards and spine are fine. Dust-jacket shows minor shelf wear near edges. Otherwise, a very clean, tight, and vibrant signed first edition copy of this 1977 book. Very good condition. Inscription reads: "To Carl and Hala(?) Borden with our Best Wishes. Philip and Hala Akrigg." Referred to as the father of archeology by the Canadian Archaeological Association, Carl Borden was a professor of archeology at the University of British Columbia and an accomplished author of numerous archeological titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by the editor John Hale on the title page. Book plate tipped in on the front inner board by Ian Mackenzie. Publication of 407 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed chipped pieces along the edges and tape repairs neatly done on the inner part of the jacket. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth on boards with silver gilt outline of chair on front and titling on spine. Large book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out, other than warm gift inscription from author to collector and prior owner Marius Peladeau "in grateful appreciation ." Book is Fine. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows original price of $14.95 and has very little scuffing or shelfwear to speak of. Very Good+. Inscribed by Author(s).

First separate edition, a reprint from "The Journal of Southern History, Vol. XIV, No. 2, May, 1948. Small 4to. [247]-271 pp. Signed by the author on the front wrapper. OCLC locates four copies (Calvin College & Theological Seminary, Michigan, two in Netherlands). Very good. Original printed wrappers, stapled. (#7475).

Paperback. (25pp) (Offprint from SEER, Vol. 60, No. 4) London 1982. Author's signed presentaton copy Very good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 259 pp. presentation inscription signed by author. very good in e =very good original cloth gilt and very good dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed by the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited. 116 pages (complete). Inscribed (for Mr Frank Bradlow from whose library this book once belonged) and signed by Cyril Shuter on the opp-first free page. Also included is a handwritten note from Shuter to Bradlow (dated: 15/9/63). Numbered 76 of a limited edition of 1200 copies. The dustjacket has scuffing, wear, handling marks. The dj is comfortable, sure. The boards are tidy, healthy. The contents have aging marks. There are blotches, smudges of foxing throughout. However, the contents are placid, clear, convivial, certain, generous, assured. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition; hb 12mo emboss gilt rust cloth, gilt titles to cover and spine, blindstamp portrait medallion to fntcvr, quarterinch nibble at bottom edng fntcvr, ow appears unread nodj: xv+270pp; SIGNED: 2 signatures, Pres. [Weeks[ & Clerk [Gilmore] of Massasoit Memorial Association pn 2nd ffep.It is signed by Alvin G. Weeks, the President and Alexander Gilmore who was the clerk. Presentation line left blank; Massachusetts indian Plymouth colony tribe Samoset Squanto Hobamock Wampan oag Pilgrim. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition; hb 12mo emboss gilt rust cloth, gilt titles to cover and spine, blindstamp portrait medallion to fntcvr, quarterinch nibble at bottom edng fntcvr, ow appears unread nodj: xv+270pp; SIGNED: 2 signatures, Pres. [Weeks[ & Clerk [Gilmore] of Massasoit Memorial Association pn 2nd ffep.It is signed by Alvin G. Weeks, the President and Alexander Gilmore who was the clerk. Presentation line left blank; Massachusetts indian Plymouth colony tribe Samoset Squanto Hobamock Wampan oag Pilgrim. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 8vo. xi, 259 pp. Illustrated, portrait plates. Onslow County, North Carolina, family. Signed by the author on the title page. Not in Thornton. Gray cloth. Review affixed to rear endpaper, owner's name, related materials laid in. Very good. (3267).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Later edition. 112p duodecimo A fine copy in green cloth. Bookplate of Francis James Stanislaus Grace New Zealand expatriot born about 1878 and settled in the United States in New Zealand here he has penned 16 lines on the front fly leaf "At about the time of this voyage my maternal grandfather John Johnston set sail from England for New Zealand with his wife, as passengers on the "Wild Duck". And in the course of the voyage my mother Agnes Mary Johnston, was born, and as was customary with those born on English Vessels at sea, was registered in the Parish of Chelsea, London Francis J S Grace".

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First. AN AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY -- TO THE TEA-MAN TO KING GEORGE II. First edition (of Part I, all issued). London: [S. Baker?], 1762. Quarto (9 3/4" x 7 5/8", 248mm x 194mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in quarter calf over marbled boards by Brockman in 2024. On the spine, five raised bands. Author and title gilt to the second panel, date gilt to the tail. Conserved by Brockman in 2024 (full report available). Evenly tanned throughout. Some marginal loss to the front binder's blank. Abrasions to B1r (p. 1) touching about a dozen letters. Ink presentation inscription from the author on the recto of the front binder's blank: "Presented to M.r Robert Sanxay, by his/ most obedient/ humble servant/ The Author". William Bollan (ca. 1710-1782 ) was born in England but emigrated at a young age to Massachusetts, where he studied law under Robert Auchmuty and then practiced with William Shirley, who served as colonial governor. He shored up the connection by marrying Shirley's daughter Frances in 1743; she died in childbirth 17 months later. Governor Shirley looked after his son-in-law, advocating successfully for his appointment as the king's advocate-general for the colony. Recently widowed, Bollan was dispatched to London as an agent and advocate (in modern parlance, a lobbyist) for the legislature and people of Massachusetts -- generally in front of the Board of Trade as advisors to the privy council -- who were subjects of the crown and thus entitled to petition and protection. As the demands of the colonists tended toward independence and finally Independence, Bollan took to publication to advance their more radical demands. The present work places the "rights of the colonists" into its broad intellectual and historical framework. Bollan uses his legal training to adduce comparisons from the Saracens to the Portuguese, exploring historical developments in mapping from Ptolemy through Galileo, and taking every chance he can get to swipe at the Roman Catholic church and the papacy (Bollan was an adamant Anglican). This first part was the only to be published, but it certainly intrigues one to learn where he planned to go with this broad historical argument. Bollan's job in London was to be well-connected, and so it should come as no surprise that presentation copies of his work, while by no means common, are not surpassingly rare. Robert Sanxay (1716-1780) was from 1754 druggist and "tea-man" to George II. Trading from a shop in the Strand (near the present Charing Cross Station), Sanxay eventually became Sanxay and Antrobus, which, over many years, came to be acquired by Twinings -- but Sanxay's warrant is the origin of the present firm's appointment as Tea and Coffee Merchants to the late Queen Elizabeth II and to the former Prince of Wales, now King Charles III. Howes B 568; Sabin 6209.

Printed broadside, 12 x 8 inches, headed, "Certificate No. [14], The State of Texas, County of Comal," with two manuscript entries completing the text, the certificate number ("14") and the acreage involved ("six hundred and forty"). Signed in type "John O Meusebach / Commissioner," appointed under the provisions of an Act of Legislature entitled 'an act supplemental to an act to secure to the German Emigration Company and their Colonists, the land to which they are entitled . approved 3d of February A.D. 1854.'" Henry Fr. Fisher, authorized agent of the German Emigration Company had appeared before Meusebach in New Braunfels on Feb. 26, 1855, asserting that the company had "introduced previous to the first day of September, 1847, over and above the number of heads of families and single men already proven up before Granville H. Sherwood, commissioner, the additional number of two hundred heads of families and four hundred single men, over the age of seventeen years," and that therefore the company was entitled to an additional 20 certificates of one section of land (i.e., 640 acres of land) as part of the Premium lands secured to them by law. OCLC locates one example (SMU). Some age toning, else very good. John O. Meusebach (1812-1897), born in Dillenburg, Germany, was appointed Commissioner-General of the German Adelsverein in Texas in 1845, succeeding Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels. Between 1845 and 1847, he managed to acquire headrights in the Fisher-Miller land grant and treated with the Comanche, founding three other colonies in addition to the one at New Braunfels. Over 5000 German citizens arrived in Texas as settlers between 1845 and 1847. Despite Meusebach's efforts the colonies and the company struggled with planning and mismanagement problems and the intrigues of land speculators. Meusebach resigned his commission in July 1847, but in 1854 he received an appointment from the Governor of Texas, Elisha Pease, to issue land certificates "to those immigrants of 1845 and 1846 who had been promised them by the Adelsverein," the original name of the German Emigration Company [Handbook of Texasonline].