Damien Leper, Signed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Printing with full number line down to 1. Inscribed by author (Richard Stewart) on title page. Stain (coffee?) on top of book block that also stains top of some pages (see photos 7-9). Cover has wear. Wear to corners. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. 444pp. Inscribed to former owners by Richard Stewart. O. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1937. 230 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Insert to front pastedown signed "Compliments of the author". Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Tenth Printing (October, 1941) in black-stamped full red-orange cloth and original $2.75-priced light blue dust jacket with paste-on panel illustration SIGNED by author & Academy Award-winning director & screenwriter John Farrow with personalized inscription to Gertrude Ruhnka direct to title page; Ruhnka was a longtime research librarian at the Huntington Library who assisted Farrow with his book about Thomas More; boards are sharp-cornered with slight shelf wear, jacket shows very minmal chipping to edges and is toned at edges with darkened spine (titles clear & legible), Ruhnka's donation bookplate to her alma mater (Occidental College) tacked to front pastedown, else clean tight copy of Farrow's bestselling biography about the inspirational Catholic priest, scarce in early printings with dust jacket, uniquely signed by a film legend (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xx) 230pp indexed. Signed by Author.