Crewe, Signed (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 112 pages, 150 photos, many maps and diagrams, and illustrated end-papers, 8.8"x 11.8", two small decorative bookplates are pasted onto the title-page, each of these being signed by one of the authors, a near-fine hardback in a very good dust-jacket (minor repairs), the First Edition [071101809X]. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Volume 1. Signed by author on title page. (Plymouth, Massachusetts, Legends, Folklore).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Signed by all of the contributors. Signed by Author(s).

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 80pp. Collection of fifty poems in four sections. The author's first published collection of poetry. Illustrated front cover (The Arrival of the Normandy Train by Monet) with blue lettering. Blue title on spine. Midnight blue end papers. Birthday greetings signed by the author to Patricia (Oxley) on the title page. Her neat ownership stamp on inside front cover. Appears unread. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this book. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Author.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. dedication to previous owner by author. Author.

Condition: Very Good. pfas151 Antique hand signed 5.5" x 3.5" photo for?David Aylmer?who has personally signed the souvenir where his signature rests perfectly accompanying his portrait - one small fault on reverse where lifted from album otherwise mostly great so overall vg/vg+ grading and undedicated autograph too.David Aylmer was born on March 31, 1929 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sara Crewe, and his regular appearances on Sunday Night Theatre in the 1950s.? He had many other roles too.? He died on July 20, 1964 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Signed by J Bratherton. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo, xviii+206 pages, original boards, a very good copy. First edition, signed, inscribed to English novelist Anne Wignall.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed Card by Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, KG, PC, FSA 1858 - 1945, known as The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British Liberal politician, statesman and writer. Size 100 x 85mm Condition is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16120. Signed by Author(s).

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

Clean black boards, with gilt titles to spine and an unclipped DW. SIGNED by both authors to FFEP, with no dedication. Contents are tight, bright and clean, with no inscriptions and no foxing. Features hundreds of superb black and white photographs throughout. 252pp. (22.5x30.5cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Hutchinson, London. 1991. First edition. Hardback with DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Presentation copy SIGNED by the author to the half title page; " For Barbara and Gordon with love Quentin September 1991." Wrapper browned and slightly shelf worn, otherwise a nice clean copy.

N.d. Metal-engraving. Signed in the plate. 76 x 53 - Paper 103 x 78 mm. [119991].

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Illustrated card covers. Inscribed to title page by Bob Crewe. Light wear/staining to covers else tight and square. Third Exhibition catalogue at the Jan Baum Gallery. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A history book about Making Cars at Crewe. "Peter Ollerhead, a former Rolls-Royce employee, has spent years researching the history of the company in Crewe, from 1938 to 1998, focusing on the endeavours and the experiences of its employees: this is a book about people." Signed by the author. In a black cloth binding in an unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart with just minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is smart with just minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. There is an author's inscription and signature to the recto of front free end papers. Fine. signed by author. book.

Limited edition, 50 copies only . Sheets in cloth-covered clam shell box blocked with title. on spine and front. Eight signed etchings on zinc, printed in colour .A fine example. With a lineblock facsimile of Coleridge's original manuscript, artist's notes,an introduction, and plate list .Heavy book extra international shipping charges may apply. 10181.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. 8 individually signed etchings on zinc, printed in 3 to 5 colours, incorporating the text in 24pt Baskerville on Barcham Green mould made paper. Number 8 of 50 copies. Sheets in cloth-covered drop back box blocked with title. A fine copy. The second Freehand Press book. The work includes a lineblock facsimile of Coleridge's original manuscript, an introduction, plate list and artist's notes. Signed by Illustrator(s).

First edition. [2], 20pp. Title page engraved, with large copper-engraved vignette from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Finely bound in antique style calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tipped corners, gilt. Thomas Davidson's copy, with his ink inscription to FEP and title, bookplate to FEP. A rare provincial publication by Richard Wallis, Rector of Seaham on the Durham Coast, with a handsome copper-engraved vignette to the title by Robert Nicholson (although signed Thomas Bewick) after a design by the author. This copy was likely acquired by Thomas Davidson (1754-1823) because of Bewick's involvement: the two Thomas' were friends, and Bewick engraved Davidson's bookplate. Somewhat remarkably, given that 500 copies of the separately printed engraved title were produced, this is now a rare book: OCLC and COPAC locates five copies in British libraries (BL, Cambridge, Durham, Newcastle, Oxford) and four elsewhere (NYPL, Stanford, Yale, and Wellesley). Not in Jackson. Not in Johnson. Tattersfield TB 2.231. Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. First edition, only printing. This rare prize is the British first edition of My African Journey, signed and dated by Winston S. Churchill upon publication. Three lines in black ink on the front free endpaper read: "From | Winston S. Churchill | 1 Dec 1908". Publication was 30 November 1908. An armorial bookplate affixed to the front pastedown testifies that this copy belonged to the Marquess of Crewe, Churchill's fellow Cabinet member when this copy was signed. Condition of this copy would be noteworthy even without the inscription. The distinctive illustrated red cloth binding remains square and tight with sharp corners and only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. We note minor overall soiling. Shelf presentation is impressive for the edition, with only slight spine toning. The contents are bright with a crisp feel. Modest spotting is intermittent, primarily confined to blank inner margins, heavier only to first and final leaves. All 61 photographs and three maps are intact, including the frontispiece and tissue cover. Confirming the age and originality of the bookplate, the ghosted outline of the bookplate is clearly visible amid transfer browning to the signed front free endpaper.Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945) both inherited his father's title and "shared his father's Liberalism". His father's death in 1885 put him in the House of Lords as Baron Houghton, where he was made a Liberal whip. The death of his first wife in 1887 sidelined his political career. Like Churchill, he supported Home Rule, which led to his 1892 return to politics as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1894, a year before the Liberals fell from power, the third Baron Crewe died and Baron Houghton succeeded to the Crewe estates and became Earl of Crewe. From the beginning of Campbell-Bannerman's premiership, "Crewe became a pivotal figure in Liberal governments from 1905-1916". Crewe enjoyed the trust of both Campbell-Bannerman and his successor, Asquith, to whom Crewe was "principal political aide and confidant during the eight years of his premiership". Crewe thus served in Cabinets alongside a young Winston Churchill, who first joined the Cabinet in 1908, the same year that he published My African Journey. Fittingly, in 1908 Crewe succeeded Lord Elgin as Colonial Secretary; Churchill wrote his travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa while he was serving as Elgin's Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. Crewe was made a Marquess in 1911. Though Asquith's departure from office "virtually ended his career as a national politician" Crewe later served as ambassador to France, spent ten weeks in the Cabinet of Ramsay MacDonald, and led independent Liberals in the House of Lords from 1936 to the end of 1944. In the summer of 1907 Churchill left England for five months, making his way after working stops in southern Europe to Africa for "a tour of the east African domains." In early November, Churchill would kill a rhinoceros, the basis of the striking illustration on the front cover of the British first edition of his eventual book. By now a seasoned and financially shrewd author, Churchill arranged to profit doubly from the trip, first by serializing articles in The Strand Magazine and then by publishing a book based substantially upon them.In November 1908 Hodder and Stoughton published My African Journey as a book, which was a substantial 10,000 words longer than the serialized articles.The British first edition is striking, with a vivid red binding and a prominent front cover bearing a woodcut illustration in blue, grey, and black of Churchill with his bagged white rhinoceros.The red cloth spine proved exceptionally vulnerable to sunning and the lovely books seem to have attracted handling, making wear and soiling the norm.Spotting is also endemic.Bright and clean copies are scarce, contemporary signed copies exceptionally scarce. Reference: Cohen A27.1, Woods/ICS A12(aa), Langworth p.81.

1p, 8vo. On bifolium addressed on verso of second leaf to 'Mr. Erskine'. In good condition, lightly aged. Autograph jeu d'esprit, signed at foot 'J. Jekyll. | June 30th. 1800'. A short poem reading: 'Tell Mrs. Crewe | I envy You. | But sit on Lu- | nacy. || Yet Mrs. Crewe | will think I'm stu | pid in my lu | -cid Intervals.' Jekyll's entry in the Oxford DNB concludes, perhaps unkindly: 'If he is remembered by later generations, it is chiefly as a wit. It has to be said, however, that his wit, which consisted in large measure of excruciating puns, has not lasted well.'.

Condition: Good. Reprints. Two volumes, each signed by Frances Hodgson Burnett and inscribed to Victoria Buel on the front free endpaper. ix, 290; x, 236 pp. Bound in publisher's cream cloth with decorative stamping in red, green and gilt. Good condition with toning, moderate soiling, and a few stray pencil marks to covers, foxing to covers and textblock edges. Sarah Crew binding cracked at page 41, foxing to prelims. Front hinge of Little Lord Fauntleroy exposed and very tender, soiling and paper loss to first two leaves. Rare association copies, inscribed to the sister-in-law of Burnett's son Vivian, the model for Little Lord Fauntleroy. Victoria Buel was the younger half-sister of Constance Buel, who married Vivian Burnett in 1914. The inscription to Little Lord Fauntleroy reads "Yours Affectionately," while the inscription to Sarah Crew is longer: "To dear little Victoria Torrilhon Buel with the love of her affectionate relative. Jan 1916." Victoria was about nine years old when these books were gifted to her. She married Hugh Currie Thompson in 1935, and her married name is written in pencil at the top of the page, above an older label bearing her maiden name. Signed.

DAME MURIEL SPARK (1918-2006). Spark was a British novelist.TDS. 1pg. N.d. N.p. A one-page typed excerpt from chapter one of, The Abbess of Crewe, signed Muriel Spark. Sparks 1974 novel about authority and scandal in a Roman Catholic convent is generally considered to be a political allegory. THE ABBESS OF CREWE Chapter One What is wrong, Sister Winifrede, says the Abbess, clear and loud to the receptive air, with the traditional keyhole method? Sister Winifrede says, in her whine of bewilderment, that voice of the very stupid, the mind where no dawn breaks, But, Lady Abbess, we discussed right from the start Silence! says the Abbess. We observe silence, now, and meditate. She looks at the tall poplars of the avenue where they walk, as if the trees are listening. The poplars cast their shadows in the autumn afternoons end, and the shadows lie in regular still file across the pathway like a congregation of prostrate nuns of the Old Order. The Abbess of Crewe, soaring in her slender height, a very Lombardy poplar herself, moving by Sister Winifredes side, turns her pale eyes to the gravel walk where their four black shoes tread, tread and tread, two at a time, till they come to the end of this corridor of meditation lined by the secret police of poplarsThe trees of course are bugged, says the Abbess. How else can we operate now that the scandal rages outside the walls? And now that you know this you do not know it so to speak. We have our security to consider, and Im only the arbiter of what it consists of, witness the Rule of St. Benedict. Im your conscience and your authority. You perform my will and finish. Muriel Spark. It is in fine condition.