Diary Writer, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Toby Litt to an official bookplate affixed to the front end paper. A near fine, unread copy of a first edition, first impression paperback original. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is the Black Cover edition with french flaps. This copy is in MINT condition and is SIGNED by the author on a loosely inserted signature bookplate and also comes with four of the promotional bookmarks that were produced for this book. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover original. Fine book. Limited edition in black wrappers. Signed by the author on a publisher bookplate laid in. Publisher bookmarks laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth with unclipped dust jacket, x, 372 pages, dust jacket at top and bottom with very small loss, spine of dustjacket browned, rear flap of dustjacket with few small spots, endpapers and edges slightly foxed, also the first few pages, otherwise very good condition. Signed by Leonard Woolf on the title page and quite scarce as such. First edition, first printing. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050.

Second Impression. Octavo. Frontispiece, XII, 271 pages. With seven photographic illustrations on four plates. Original Hardcover with the very rare original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and foxing to the edges and several pages. This book is very rare in its original dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk (1854-1941): "To Lady Adam Smith from the Earl of Southesk - Jan 1934". With a newspaper-clipping on an event of Inverness Central School loosely inserted and with a newspaper-clipping shopwing the elderly "Earl of Southesk and Mr. Donald Steuart-Fothringham going out to shoot over Petterden Moor, Angus". A wonderful association copy ! Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk JP DL (20 March 1854 10 November 1941), was a Scottish nobleman. Carnegie was the son of the explorer and poet James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk and his first wife Catherine Hamilton Noel, daughter of the Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough. He had three older sisters, Lady Arabella Charlotte (wife of Samuel Romilly), Lady Constance Mary (wife of Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin) and Lady Beatrice Diana Cecilia Diana Cecillia (wife of the Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart). After his mother's death in 1855 at the age of twenty-six, his father remarried to Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray (eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Dunmore) in 1860. From his father's second marriage, he had seven younger half-siblings, including: Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, Lady Dora Susan (wife of Maj. Ernest de Rodakowski-Rivers), Lady Elizabeth Erica, Lady Helena Mariota, Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche (wife of Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar), Hon. Robert Francis (who married Violet Fraser), and Hon. David Wynford Carnegie. His paternal grandparents were Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet (de jure 8th Earl of Southesk) and the former Charlotte Lysons (a daughter of the Reverend Daniel Lysons). He was educated at Harrow and St Andrews University, and would later receive an honorary degree from the university in October 1902. Amongst his various offices, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the part-time Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Militia in 1872 and steadily progressed through the officer ranks until he became the Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in 1894, with the honorary rank of Colonel. He retired from the command in 1906. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus, Aberdeenshire, and Kincardineshire from 5 January 1900. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire and for Angus. In 1905, he succeeded his father as the 10th Earl of Southesk who had restored the family titles, with the original precedence, by reversal of the 1715 Act of Attainder in 1855. He had the reputation of being the best game shot in Scotland. In 1921, Kinnaird Castle, which was situated in one of the grandest Scottish glens and was the seat of the Earls of Southesk for more than 600 years, burnt to the ground. "Only a small part of the servant's wing has escaped. A considerable part of the library was saved, but many books impossible to replace, as well as Raeburn's portrait of Lady Carnegie, valued at £10,000, were lost." Lord Southesk rebuilt the castle. A prominent art collector, he owned "a large collection of paintings by old masters and antique gems." (Source: Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A WRITER'S DIARY. Being Extracts From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf. SIGNED & Dated by Leonard Woolf , 18th Sept, 1954. 1st edition, 2nd printing, January, 1954. Orange cloth. An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The first entry included here is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private world the anguish, the triumph, the creative vision of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. A Writer s Diary . . . is Virginia Woolf . . . The whole vibrates with the ups and downs of a passionate relationship . . . in the intensities, variations, alarms and excursions, panics and exaltations of her relationship to her art. New York Times Book Review "some cloth wear, spine edge rubbing, corner stubs, inside minor marks and spots, clean and tight and very good". Signed by Author.

First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Leonard Woolf. First Edition. Signed. A WRITER'S DIARY. Signed & Dated by Leonard Woolf: The Hogarth Press, London, 1953. First Edition. 8vo., 312pp. Edited, with a preface by Leonard Woolf. Inscribed on the ffe.: "Though actually the gift of Patrick Pritchard, I ventured to sign it as an editorial offering to Iris Birtwistle Leonard Woolf, Christmas. 1953". Presumably one of his house copies in orange cloth, gilt titles to the spine that he gave as a gift. Also included in the book is a postcard addressed to Miss Birtwistle dated January 26, 1954 from Mrs. Patrick Pritchard from Surrey: "Have you seen page 346 of V. Woolf's book - 10th line form the bottom refers to Dee?" [That page talks about the recent bombings in London and mentions Patrick Pritchard and others.] Iris Mary Birtwistle was a poet and gallery owner. George Pritchard was a solicitor who, as the story goes gave the collection of letters he kept at home by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes letters and others to his son Patrick Prichard, who passed them on to his wife who later sold them all to a dealer in New York City which caused some unpleasant controversy about their provenance according to Leonard Woolf's biography. A WRITER'S DIARY Reveals glimpses of Virginia Woolf & essential for an understanding of her writing methods & how her thought process influenced her life & relationships. It was not until Woolf's full Diaries were published that they were recognized, with her letters as companion, as her literary masterpieces. Virginia Woolf kept her diaries from 1915 until her death in 1941. Her husband, Leonard Woolf, notes in his preface that her "diary gives for 27 years a consecutive record of what she did, of the people whom she saw and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write." Leonard Woolf has here excerpted his wife's diaries from 1918 through 1941, including every reference his wife's diaries made to her own writing. The resulting book "throws light upon Virginia Woolf's intentions, objects, and methods as a writer. It gives an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within." Kirkpatrick & Clarke A31a. A rare & desirable Association Copy. Signed by Leonard Woolf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. On offer is the diary of a 21-year-old woman living near Syracuse, New York. In 1935, she is a working woman who is dating her future husband, breezing through a corporate day job as a bookkeeper at State Mutual Life Assurance, performing with a choir, flitting about Syracuse, and loving the life she has built for herself almost as much as she loves to dream about her future. This busy and bubbly young author is Melita Mary Goal (later West) (1914-2013). Melita is a first generation American and the oldest daughter of Hungarian immigrants who came to New York a few years before she was born. [To learn more about Melita and her family, SEE BIO NOTES at the end of the listing]. This diary should be a fairly typical "young woman in 1930s America" read, but Melita is a truly gifted writer. She paints pictures with her words and her diary reads more like a romantic comedy than a stuffy record of another century. Melita writes about her passionate, though restrained, relationship with JM (her future husband to whom she is already engaged) , her after-work adventures, and her feelings about it all. And does she ever have feelings! While Melita is respectful of the social norms of her household and society, she has an unquenchable excitement for the womanhood and independence that lies ahead. Her entries are usually long and descriptive, letting the reader experience her inner world. Excerpts follow: "Oh chills and heart-throbs. I can t work today somehow I just can t concentrate when there s a dance in the offing. All set to go to the President s Ball. Yipee - am I excited. Just a year ago tonite - [drawing of music notes] mm - mm - in his arms he held me tight - hot cha. Dashed over had my nails made beautiful and my wig curled then homeat 8: 30 JM put in appearanceWhat a crowd! ! ! .Danced in the main ballroom for a whileDashed down to the cocktail room for a bit of something. Ohgeeohgosh! ! ! Had a martini. Was it ever luscious and did it burn and did iI feel a bit good. Came down in an elevator that was overpacked - and down we went to the bottom - Below the basement even. Holy Smokehouse - and the nonchalance of JM! After 15 suffocating minutes we were finally raised. Then to the Wernon to partake of a delicious sandwich and coffee. JM is luscious" [Jan 30]. "Curses I knew I couldn t concentrate on anything but Boston Doro. New York Central Station, the time! ! ! Everything but business. At 9: 15 I dashed over to the Bakery to get some cookies for the Bostonians. Almost broke my neck trying to get over to the station on time and the train was over 20 min. Late! ! ! Ah the suspense was terrible! ! Some very businesslike individual tried to carry on a flirtation. And me looking like an add for Nitwit College. Here I stood - pastry box in one and handgift in the other. Some picture! ! ! And soon the train pulled inI ran the length of it but in the wrong direction. I had hot and cold flashes. Still no Doro. Far down at the other end appeared a very familiar figure. Doro! ! ! Here at lastI presented her with the package and pretty soon, ah, all too soon the time was up and Doro was gone! ! ! Woe is me. Brief but happy interlude" [Feb 7]. "The concert and am I ever excited. Fixed my luscious white dressJM thinks the dress is the nertz so do I think M is the nertz (chop-licking). Then the thought occurred to JM that perhaps Mrs. Lyman wouldn t care for the decoration [on my dress]. But my spirit was undaunted. Hid the sash every time anyone came near. The concert was grandThe concert was grandAnd so home. Partook in some smooth tasting wine and after a perfectly heavenly adios - I m still giddy - JM left. Boo hoo" [April 25]. "My birthday - JM and I celebrated at the Syracuse Hotel Terrace Roomthe biggest thrill I ve ever had tho was when John Michael presented me with a blue velvet box and the object it contained made me swallow hard. A diamond to seal our engagement. (ABE word limit reached context seller for full listing. Signed by Author(s).