Death Fox, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good/very Good. Inscribed by the author. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A novel of Elizabethan England. Tan boards, brown title label on spine with gold-color lettering, marbled endpapers, 739 pp., unclipped illustrated jacket. SIGNED by the author with brief insription on the title page. Light edge wear, clean text, tight binding. Jacket is edge worn and frayed at ends of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Slight dampstains on page edges, about very good. Inscribed by author on title page. An historical novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. A Good copy in cream cloth of the stated first edition, in an edge-rubbed Very Good dust jacket (not price-clipped). Bookplate at the front endpaper, and tanning at the outer edges of the text block. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and not ex-library. Briefly inscribed and signed by the author. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later printing. 739pp. Nicholas Delbanco's address label affixed to the front pastedown, corners bumped very good in a good only dustwrapper with edges worn and torn. Affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the author. A novel about Ralegh.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +. First Edition. 739 p. 24 cm. Beige cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Spine of jacket a bit discoloured. Book itself has some soiling and tape marks to cloth as well as rubbed spine label. Inscribed by author on title page.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1867). 1867 1st editions. Small 8vo (130 x 200mm). Ppviii,68+viii,78+2 page advertisement. Full dark green calf, spine & upper board titled & elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled end-papers. This copy was a presentation copy from the author to Dora W. Rooper, Christmas 1867. It carries George Rooper's bookplate and has the initials G.R. in gilt at the foot of the spine. Spine & corners rubbed but a good association copy of a scarce book. I think it is unlikely that this would have been the only copy bound thus. It was two years later that the two stories were combined with others in Flood, Field And Forest. .

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Autograph Letter Signed. Four lined sheets of 8" x 10½" paper, hole-punched on the left side. Folded twice for mailing else fine, in the lightly used mailing envelope. Garrett writes to thank Vanderbilt University English professor James Filroy for a positive review of his historical novel *Death of the Fox* (Doubleday, 1971) published in *The Nashville Banner*. Garrett writes: "Over the years I have seldom chosen the possibly arbitrary, self-imposed rule of not writing in response to reviews, favorable or unfavorable. But it seems to me that good manners and a sense of real gratitude combine to make it almost imperative that I dispense with all the rules. (.) You are too generous in your notice, and I am certainly cognizant of a good number of flaws and faults in the book. But I am grateful to you for your intelligent and most perceptive accounting of the positive." Garrett closes by hoping that "when and if" he visits Nashville, they will have a chance to meet. A cordial and seemingly genuine letter of appreciation for a positive literary review.

First edition of the Third Part. First edition of the Third Part. With 62 woodcut illustrations in first part, signed E.B., of which 23 are repeats, and 15 woodcuts in second part (repeated from first part). [80] leaves, A-U4; [56] leaves, A-O4; and 80 leaves, A-X4 (paginated [8], 160). 1 vols. Small 4to. An omnibus gathering of these three separately printed editions, each with independent register, and with the title of the first part taking into account the presence of the latter two. The terminal advert leaf to the first part is present. Wing attributes the text of the first part to John Shirley, and that for the third is occasionally attributed to the publisher, Edward Brewster. The first part was first printed in this form in 1667, and the second part in 1672; the first part was reprinted again in 1701. Among the most widely adapted of the beast fables, the tales of Reynard the Fox originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, with early versions in French, Dutch, Latin, and German being notable. Caxton printed the first English translation based on a Flemish text in 1481. The character of Reynard, an anthropomorphic fox and trickster, has since become almost an archetype in the literatures of many languages."The supreme 'anti-hero' of medieval fiction" (Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English). ESTC R24532, R218371 & R40614; Wing S3513, M2912 & S3436; Brunet IV: 1228. Lowndes VII:2076; Osborne II, p. 610 (with the first part dated 1701) Modern blind paneled calf, raised bands, gilt label. First two parts illustrated with spirited woodcuts. Occasional foxing and mild spotting, usual tanning, lower forecorners of E2-3 in first part torn away and replaced, with a few letters and a few words in the sidenote in ms, a few upper margins dust-soiled, last three gatherings in third part supplied from another copy and trimmed slightly shorter at lower margin. A good, sound copy, neatly bound With 62 woodcut illustrations in first part, signed E.B., of which 23 are repeats, and 15 woodcuts in second part (repeated from first part). [80] leaves, A-U4; [56] leaves, A-O4; and 80 leaves, A-X4 (paginated [8], 160). 1 vols. Small 4to. Signed.