Essays Hands: Signed (12 results)
Published by Oxford University Press, London 1965
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Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.Abacus Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. 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.
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Seller: Rattlesnake Books, London, , United KingdomRattlesnake Books
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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).
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Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.Blue Leaf Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 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. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Magico Magazine, New York City 1994
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Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.Ann Open Book
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).
Essays by Divers Hands being the Transactions of The Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
Macan, RW (editor) Contibutors: Laurence Housman; Harold Child; Charles Morgan; Dame Una Pope-Hennessy; Sir Robert Rait; Prof JG Robertson
Published by London: Humphrey Milford, OUP 1933
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Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, , United KingdomCrask Books
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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 c…loth 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).

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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, , United KingdomBurwood Books
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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 Bon…o, 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.
More imagesPublished by Royal Society of Literature / Boydell Press, (Woodbridge, Suffolk) 1979
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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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 i…s titled "Writing for Children: Some Wasps in the Marmalade.") Seamus Heaney contributes the essay "Feeling Into Words.". Signed.

A Book for Boston in Which Are Gathered Essays, Stories, and Poems by Divers Hands Especially Written in Honor of the City Upon the Occasion of the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Its Incorporation, the Twentieth Day of September Anno Domini Sixteen Hundred and Thirty [Inscribed and Signed by Mayor White]
Kevin H. White [mayor]; Archibald MacLeish [foreword]; Julia Child [contr.]
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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 c…lean 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. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1943
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Seller: Tim Arlott Books, Newbury, BERKS, United KingdomTim Arlott Books
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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 a…s No.VII. Yours ever GRH 15th Nov 1943'. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Saint Albert's Press
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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 smudgin…g. Page edges have light scuffing and smudging. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Published by Cory, Adam and Mackay, London 1965
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Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United KingdomGeorge Jeffery Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 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.
More imagesPublished by Aylesford: Saint Albert's Press, 1961 1961
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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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. Sunne…d to spine and top of lower board. Near fine. A tribute to author and eccentric, Frederick William Rolfe. Signed.