Door Wall, Signed (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 62pp. SIGNED by the author on title page. White lettering against a light brown front cover illustration (detail from "Entrance to the Furstenschule" by Caspar David Friedrich). Black lettering on cream b/g to spine. Tiny crease to top of spine. Slight dust mark to top page edge. No inscriptions. Appears unread. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Printed pages: 62. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unread copy in first class condition throughout. Signed by the author to title page. Overall condition is Fine. Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches (13 x 21.5 cm). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed by the author. A bit of color loss along top of front board. Name former owner ffep. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Glossy wrappers. 62pp. Indentations on rear wrapper (not affecting text), near fine. Inscribed by the author to fellow poets Daniel and Elizabeth Hoffman on the half-title page. Poetry.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. 137 pages, signed author, Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st ed. illustrations, 112p. Original lightl blue cloth. dj. 23 cm. Jacket price-clipped and rather worn with chipping along edges (largest chip is around base of backstrip). Gold-colored Newbury Medal stick on front panel of jacket. SIGNED on title-page by de Angeli. This children's book was awarded the John Newberry Medal in 1950. Signed.

First edition. [38 pp]. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of seven numbered copies SIGNED by Tifft "For Friends of Wormwood.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of all books, please just ask! Signed American first edition, first printing. Signed on title page by author. Front of jacket has a long 3" chip to right side & a 1" chip to left side. Light wear to back of jacket. Front of jacket has a 2" round sticker on it. Jacket is price clipped. Minor wear to corners of covers. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Marguerite De Angeli (illustrator). 1st Edition. (1949). Stated first edition. Thin octavo blue pictorial cloth stamped in silver. With full-page in in-text b/w drawings by the Author. A fine copy in a near-fine dust jacket which has only light rubbing at the spine tips. The copy SIGNED BY DE ANGELI on the title page. Winner of the 1950 Newbery Medal. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Alvin Langdon Coburn (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories by H. G. Wells, Grant Richards Ltd., 1915. Illustrated with photogravures from photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn. DESCRIPTION: First edition of the U.K. Grant Richards Ltd. issue, one of only sixty copies signed by both Wells and Coburn in the handwritten limitation statement facing the half-title, dated January 1915. A collection of eight short stories by H. G. Wells illustrated with 10 tipped-in photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn, hand-pulled by Coburn and printed under his direct personal supervision. Large quarto 14.75 x 11.25 inches, 375 x 285 mm., 153 pages. Original quarter tan cloth and brown paper-covered boards binding, gilt titling on front cover, paper spine label, edges of text block untrimmed. Publisher's device printed in red on the title page. Photogravures protected with full page tissue guards, book is protected with a clear, archival Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. CONDITION: Fair/Good. Text block firm and square, no ex-libris or personal inscriptions, external and internal hinges intact. Light soiling and rubbing to paper-covered boards with damp stain at upper right of front cover and larger area of rubbing and paper loss at upper part of rear cover. All binding corners bumped. Wrinkling to cloth at head of binding. All ten photogravures present and intact with several having 1 or 2 corners unglued. Marginal tear 1/4 inch pg. 77 (see close-up photo) resulting from toning to uncut front edge. Usual (normal) offset from the photogravures to opposite pages. Internal text pages and photogravures in fine condition, free of foxing and toning. DISCUSSION: Perhaps the darkest, most pessimistic of H. G. Wells' literature, dealing with the irreconcilable gulf between rational thought and the mysterious forces arising from our imaginations. This is a groundbreaking twentieth century private press book, marking the rare instance of a world-class author and world-class artist/photographer planning and working collaboratively on a private press book, fully integrating the photogravures with text rather than retrospectively searching for pre-existing photographs as "best fit" for the text. This is one of only 60 copies of the Mitchell Kennerley edition issued in Great Britain in 1915 with Grant Richards' title page, numbered and signed by both Wells and Coburn. Scarce. NOTE: International shipping cost with USPS International Priority EXPRESS Mail to the United Kingdom and Europe is $75 U.S. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Please read my comments regarding USPS international shipping and tracking in my AbeBooks storefront. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nice copy of this classic Newbery-winning tale from De Angeli. Very good with some tanning to edges of boards in very good jacket with chipping to spine ends, most notably, 1/2" loss at heel, near fold of front panel. Edge wear and chipping to corners present as well. Original price of $2.50 in tact, and there is no Newbery sticker to cover. Stated first edition, 1949. Signed, inscribed, and dated by De Angeli in 1950 on the title page.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Inscribed first edition of The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli, the recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1950. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 112pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine, illustration on front cover. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Dampstain to fore edge of cloth, impacting both boards, minimal impact to text block. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 on front flap, lacking the Newbery Medal sticker on front panel, chipping along top edge with an archival repair to verso, remnant of dampstain to rear flap. Inscribed on the copyright page: "For Peggy - with good wishes. Marguerite de Angeli / 1949." This children's novel won the 1950 Newbery Medal and the 1961 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. De Angeli was also the illustrator of this book. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Marguerite de Angeli (illustrator). 1st Edition. Doubleday and Co. New York. 1949. 111 pages. Signed by author and illustrator Marguerite de Angeli on title page. Stated first edition; 1st printing. This book received the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1950. The book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong. Minor toning along light blue cloth panels. Illustrated endpapers are clean. Vintage gift inscription neatly written on half-title page; dated 1950. Original DJ with $2.50 price intact on flap. Small bookseller code written in pencil on flap (erasable). DJ shows small minor chipping in a couple of spots and rubbing along DJ edges and folds. A must for any collector of Newbery Medal winners; 1st printing; signed. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, British signed limited issue, number 31 of 60 copies signed by both Wells and Coburn, the handwritten limitation statement facing the half-title and dated January 1915. Considered Wells's most disturbing and evocative work of speculative fiction, The Door in the Wall "deals with a favourite Wellsian theme: the intrusion of mysterious forces into everyday life" (Coelsch-Foisner, p. 180). Grappling with man's inability to bridge the gap between science and imagination, the fantastical and the rational, it chronicles the life of the eminent politician Lionel Wallace, who in childhood had once entered through a mysterious green door in a white wall to find himself briefly in a luxurious paradise, only to be tantalized throughout his adult life by visions of the door in the wall, and eventually driven mad. "Six hundred copies of The Door in the Wall were printed in November 1911 [by Mitchell Kennerley of New York]; but publication was delayed by the spoilage of Coburn's photogravures, which were to be inserted in the books. When the crate arrived from England, it was discovered that a nail had accidentally been driven through the photogravures. Only three hundred copies were published with all ten illustrations. The remaining copies were sold with a label explaining the circumstances. Sixty copies of the Kennerley edition were issued in England in 1915 with Grant Richards's title page; these numbered copies were signed by both Wells and Coburn" (Bruccoli, p. 55). The fine French handmade Glaslan paper, the striking text (printed using types and decorations designed by the great Frederic W. Goudy and set by his wife Bertha S. Goudy at the Village Press), and Coburn's atmospheric photographs combine to make this a beautifully produced book. Currey, p. 518; Wells 43a. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman, 1986; Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, "H. G. Wells's Short Stories", A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story, 2009. Large quarto. Complete with 10 hand-pulled tipped-in photogravures, including frontispiece, from photographs by Coburn ("prepared by the artist, and printed under his personal supervision"). Publisher's device printed in red on title page, wood-engraved headpieces and initials. Original beige quarter cloth, paper spine label, brown board sides lettered in gilt on front, fore and bottom edges uncut. Spine label toned, wear to corners, light foxing to cloth and edges, spots of foxing to frontispiece, offsetting from photogravures, as usual, overall clean and well-preserved. A near-fine copy.