Fables by George Ade: Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, limited edition of one thousand copies, numbered and Signed by the author. Spine is broken at ffep, else very good. Clyde J. Newman (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author: "To Florence Judd, with best wishes. George Ade. The Belleview Belleair Heights. Florida. March 7-1920" Binding holds, but bottom of title page is ripped along bottom. Light pencils markings alongside table of contents. Light age spots within. Additional photos happily provided upon request. John T. McCutcheon (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ade, George. FORTY MODERN FABLES. New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. 303 pages, green cloth spine with brown pictorial paper covered boards. Binding loose. Signed by Horace Edgar French, son of famous piano maker, Jesse French.

hardcover. Condition: Very good. Illustrated by Clyde J. Newman. Dark yellow cloth covers (approx. 4 1/2" wide by 6 1/4" tall) with design in blue and black over yellow and with black titles. 201 pages plus 1 page of publisher's ads for Ade's books and 1 page colophon. Very small former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. "Nineteenth thousand" on copyright page. Inscription to un-named recipient: " A good Jolly is worth whatever you pay for it / George Ade / Chicago -Aug 8 - 1900". Light wear and soil on covers. Newman, Clyde J. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Red paper over boards with grey spine lettering, slipcase with pictorial sides. 171pp. Frontispiece, decorations, decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Minor archival slipcase repairs. Tight and handsome copy of this Christmas keepsake published by the Virginia paper firm in an unspecified limited edition. Hoosier humorist, columnist and playwright Ade (1866-1944) first published this in 1899. This copy bears fascinating ephemeral eddition: Tipped in facing half-title page is an envelope bearing the printed name of "Hazeldon Farm," Ade's famed country manor in Brook, Indiana, postally cancelled on 21 September 1929. Inside this is a Typed Letter Signed (not by Ade but by secretary Joseph W. Reeve): 1p, 8½" X 11", Brook, Indiana, 21 September 1929. Addressed to a Pierre Bosman in Johannesburg, South Africa. Near fine. Original folds. On imprinted letterhead, Reeve writes: "Mr Ade is at present confined in the St. Luke's hospital in Chicago with a broken arm, as the result of a fall at his country home near Brook, Indiana this week. Aside from a broken arm he received a few minor injuries but nothing of a serious nature and the eminent doctors assure him he will be out in a short time. when he is able to go over his mail your message will be brought to his attention." Ade had been rushing to answer a telephone when he fell down a flight of stairs, causing his month-long hospital stay and release in October.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago, IL: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Mixed Editions (see below); two 12mo volumes; uniformly bound in publisher's mustard decorative cloth stamped in blue and teal, top edges gilt; [8],201; [8],218,[6]pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Moderate wear to cloth margins with pinpoint exposure at corners, rear boards a bit soiled, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper of the first volume; overall Very Good and sound. The author's two breakthrough volumes collecting together his syndicated pieces of short humor. The first volume, Fables in Slang, has a bookplate signed by the author affixed to front pastedown stating "This Edition is Limited to One Thousand Copies," of which this is no. 238. There is, however, the printing statement on the title page verso "Nineteenth Thousand." The second volume an unsigned first edition. Signed.…