Essays Hands, Signed (13 results)

hardcover. 1st. 8vo, 157 pp., With a note signed by editor & contributor Church laid-in, Includes The Poet's Way of Language by C.Day Lewis, How a Novelist Works by Richard Church, Yorkshire and the Novelist by Phyllis Bentley, Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Enid Starkie. Shakespeare at the Desk by Ivor Brown, Myth, Metaphor and Poetry by David Daiches, The Greek Poet George Seferis by C.A. Trypanis & William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863 by Sir Charles Tennyson Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth in an orange-brown dw. Volume XLV; Royal Society of Literature. Slight shelf wear; dw spine slightly faded. Signed and dated by Michael Brock. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Oxford 1963 hardcover SIGNED BY Carola Oman (one of the essayists) Contents and cover clean, binding tight, dust jacket showing minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. VG- copy of the 1933 collection of essays (New Series, volume XII) for the Royal Society of Literature together with a record of speeches delivered at a luncheon for the Canadian Association. 162 pp + 6 pp (unpaginated) contents of previous volumes + 1 p publisher's advert. Dark blue cloth with lettering in black on a white paper label. The corners and spine ends are lightly rubbed and there is a scattering of white marks on the front board. The title label is very lightly browned and has a tiny chip at its top edge. Internally very bright. There is a presentation inscription by Charles Morgan (writer of one of the essays) on the title page to Princess Bibesco, daughter of Herbert Asquith. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. First Us Edition. Wraps. 8vo.pp. 224. Signed by the editor on the title page. ISBN:0060131985. Original publisher's wraps in pale blue, lettered black:"Uncorrected Proof." Five Black and white drawings illustrates the text. Contributors include: Ursula K. Le Guin, Edward de Bono, John Brunner, Harry Harrison, Alan Garner, Philip K. Dick. Near very good. Sound. Spine tanned. Very slight wear & slight marking of covers. Underlinings on the first page. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. ix, 162pp. Crown a bit bumped else fine in a somewhat edgeworn, very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine that has one small splashmark. Nicely Inscribed by contributor Jane Gardam on the front fly. (Gardam's contribution is titled "Writing for Children: Some Wasps in the Marmalade.") Seamus Heaney contributes the essay "Feeling Into Words.". Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. [Boston]: David R. Godine, [1980]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in price-clipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,216pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear and dust-soil, top textblock edge quite foxed; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by Kevin H. White, the Mayor of Boston, who also provided the preliminary text, "Dear Ambassador Fox, Boston's great history is enriched by this significant assembly. We welcome you and wish you every success. Sincerely, Kevin H. White." Almost certainly inscribed to Richard Kenneth Fox (1925-2017), who served as U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 1977 to 1979.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Essays by Divers Hands Volume XX 1943. Edited by Gordon Bottomley. Signed by contributor George Rostrevor Hamilton to English broadcaster and writer John Arlott (then a policeman) 'Dear J.A, Here is the RSL Volume, just out, with my paper on Verse and Poetry as No.VII. Yours ever GRH 15th Nov 1943'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Limited edition. SIGNED by the editor. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 46/300. Signed by both editors. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and bumping. Binding is sound. Endpages have light scuffing and smudging. Page edges have light scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Inscribed in free endpaper '' for Janet and Helen with love Paul, London, October 1966 '' Also signed by Hodin on half title page. Book measures 22x15.cm. ix,[1],201pp. Bound in original publishers fawn cloth, with red labels, gilt lettering. Binding in good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed, some loss on edges, short tear, dust marked. Jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A nice inscribed copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

First Edition. [Essays] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 216 of 300 copies. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 155 [1]. SIGNED and numbered by the editors in blue ink to the limitation page. Publisher's beige cloth, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Internally bright and clean. A couple of small, dark marks to lower board. Sunned to spine and top of lower board. Near fine. A tribute to author and eccentric, Frederick William Rolfe. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Top edge gilt. Glassine dustwrapper somewhat chipped, with some loss. Edition limited to 300 numbered and 14 lettered copies signed by the editors, this copy unnumbered and unlettered and inscribed by Cecil Woolf "contributor's copy": with the (Will Carter, blue) book-label of George Sims, who writes on "The Benson-Rolfe Manuscript", pp. 103-7. Signed by Author(s).