First Four Years, Signed (26 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Contents are tight; top back edge shows abrasion spot; SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Second Printing. DJ edgewear. Clean text. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author. Pictorial boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. No writing in text. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine with no wear looks new. Inscribed in ink to a noted local historian by the author: "To Bob ____, who redefined the Inland Valley for us. David Allen 4/28/18.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Fine Condition. As new. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Inscribed & signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 381 pages. This is a grippling personal account of life in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Intriguing insights into the culture of the tribal territories that straddle the two countries.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine But For Insignificant Traces Of Use. An Apparently Unread Copy With No Spine Crease. Signed On The Title Page, By The Author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). San Ramon, CA: Target Publishers, 1980. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. The rear panel of the jacket has three small edge chips. NO fading. Minor ding to the top edge of the cover but NO pages are affected [i.e. there are no page creases]. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO highlighting, underlining or margin notes. NO foxing. Laid in are 3 pieces of Ruff ephemera -- Ruff House TV schedule for 1980-81, a full color 8-page catalogue of publications in the Ruff Reference Library, with unused order forms, and Library Update. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brown leatherette. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Howard Ruff from A to Z: is an uncommon encyclopedia. [that] tens of thousands of people paid up to $300 for the information contained in THE RUFF TIMES, Ruff's financial newsletter. That valuable information has been re-sorted, alphabetized, and carefully edited to provide concise, detailed and up-to-date information. The result is this reference work.". Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Thick 8vo. xxiv, 774pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hbk 4to, 124pp, SIGNED by the author on half-title page, no dj as issued, fine decorated laminated boards, an excellent clean, tight and unmarked copy, as new. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine. First edition. No d/w, (as published). Glazed pictorial covers. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, TO DR DEREK HYDE. Inscription on title-page reads, 'Derek Hyde returns/to Woodbridge school!/Carol A Weaver/Michael Weaver/Sept 22 2007'. The Derek Hyde part of the inscription was written by Michael Weaver, and presented to Dr Hyde on his attendance at a school re-union on September 22 2007. Dr Hyde was Director of Music at the school from 1956 to 1961: he created the first orchestra in the history of the school. Woodbridge School was founded in 1577 'for the poor of Woodbridge'. It was integrated with the Seckford Foundation, a Tudor almshouse charity, in 1861. With Bibliography. A fine copy of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. Presentation Copy From Both Authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. Signed by Richard Reinhardt. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Don Rosa (illustrator). Signed by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Michael Matsuda on title page. Small square quarto in stiff paper cover. B&W photos. Fine condition. 303 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed and inscribed by author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. No edition stated. The wraps are in near fine condition. Internally the pages are no clean and complete. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by Mr.Wills on title page (his name only). Brand new.Unread/ Map laid in.Great new book and fine dust jacket. Bright clean and tight.Shelf 232. Next day shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** Signed "Best Wishes Greg Fielden - No marks on text - My shelf location - k-18-e*. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Trade paperback. Thick octavo. 536pp. A couple of stress creases on the spine else near fine in wrappers. Warmly Inscribed by the author to author Peter Taylor and his wife the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.25 inches. xi, [1], 123, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed on the half title by the author. Foreword by Kevin Starr. Richard Reinhardt is a journalist and novelist. He is a long-time resident of San Francisco, California, and author of many articles and books on California history, state and local politics, and environmental issues. In 1848, the discovery of gold lured people from all over the world to California. By 1853 most surface gold was mined out, pushing the town of San Francisco into economic decline. A flood of former miners had no jobs, skills, or prospects. The Mechanics' Institute began in 1854, with four books, a chess room, and a mission to start a vocational school. The founders of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco held their first meeting on a winter night in 1854. Among the charter members were skilled machinists, carpenters, dealers in building supplies and manufacturers of such basic products as stoves, hand tools, wheels, barrels and wagons. Their common link was a boundless faith in the future of San Francisco as an industrial center. Their mission was to stimulate the growth of industry on the Pacific Coast by igniting the ambitions and honing the practical skills of their fellow mechanics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Racing. 4to. Beautiful copy issued in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. 336 pages with b/w and color photographs throughout. Book would grade higher except for foxing to pages ends and a few interior pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two Volumes Complete. Illustrated, Fold Out Map. Previous Owners Stamp O/W Sound. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound in navy blue cloth, 401 pp, 500 pp official roster of ohio troops. Laid in is a printed CDv of the author Col W. L. Curry signed on the back.This copy with shelf wear, a bumped corner, scratches on back cover. One page, an illustration, repaired with archival tape. A good solid copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Autograph; xii, 264, (2) pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very good dustjacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author on ffep to his classmate from the Harvard University Class of 1915. Includes a bit on big game hunting with Theodore Roosevelt. Robert Winthrop Kean (1893 1980) was an American Republican Party politician and member of one of the nation's oldest and longest serving political families. He served in the National Guard and later in the U.S. Army during World War I under the command of General John J. Pershing, earning the rank of lieutenant, the Silver Star, and the Distinguished Service Cross. Kean became involved in politics at a young age, observing the Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. Young Kean was a Roosevelt supporter, although his uncle and father had publicly endorsed the incumbent President, William Howard Taft. After the war, Kean worked in investment banking in New Jersey and New York City, heading a firm known as Kean, Taylor & Company. He was a founder of the Livingston National Bank. Kean became U.S. congressman in 1938, representing New Jersey's 12th congressional district serving ten terms in that role. During his twenty years in Congress, Kean served as Ranking Minority Member of the House Ways and Means Committee and on the House Banking and Currency Committee. He was considered an expert on Social Security and Taxation law, and was called "Mr. Social Security" in Washington.; Signed by Author.

First edition of this work on evolutionary thought. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn a picture of an ant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. "If ever there were an education in a book, there's one in this massive volume.What is most probably the commemorative par excellence of the Origin of Species sesquicentennial" (Ray Olson Booklist).

Condition: Very good plus. Reprint & First Edition. Three volumes. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gilt and red lettering on the spine. Original decorative dustwrappers. Half-titles. Illustrated with numerous plates (both sides) from photos, including frontispieces. Vol.I is "Reprinted, with corrections, October 1945". The other two volumes are first editions. Cloth has very light wear and slight bumping. The dust wrappers have light wear and fading on the spines but otherwise present very nicely. This incredible 3 volume set gives an authoratative and highly anecdotal history of the overseas service of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Vol.I: February 1940 to August 1943. Vol.II: September 1943 to August 1944. Vol.III: "the final surge forward" and the Axis surrender. Sir Peter Alexander Clutterbuck GCMG MC was a British diplomat who was high commissioner to Canada and India and ambassador to Ireland. The set has the presentation inscription hand lettered in each volume with each volume signed by the Honourable Brooke Claxton Minister of Defense. The inscription is dated September 30, 1949 Trenton Ont. A wonderful association copy presented on the occasion of the presentation of the Memorial Gates of the BCATP.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL OVER 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE set includes SIGNED (ON TITLE PAGES IN MATCHING PURPLE SHARPIE) FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS of 1) THE PATH TO POWER, 2) MEANS OF ASCENT, 3) MASTER OF THE SENATE, 4) THE PASSAGE OF POWER. AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE ONLY. All Dust Jackets are covered in mylar. PUBLISHING ALERT ON BOOK 5: STATEMENT IN EDITOR ROBERT GOTTLIEB'S OBITUARY of JUNE 2023: "This monumental project stretched over four volumes, with the FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT DUE LATER THIS YEAR. SHIPPING (WITHIN USA ONLY) CHARGE WILL BE $20.00 WITHIN USA OINLY. Buy now and add the final book(s) later as Mr. Caro is currently in Vietnam doing more research for BOOK 5(s which may be more than one. Signed by Author(s).

Ike wrote that asked ?for help in dealing with this crisis, your company at once furnished?the same team - Mr. Leo C. Beebe and Mr. Charles A. Pink - who did so much to make a success of our work?for the Hungarian refugees four years ago.?In the wake of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, a Cuban exodus began as the new government allied itself with the Soviet Union and began to introduce communism. Tens of thousands of Cubans left Cuba starting in late 1959 and picking up in 1960, and the United States became the country of first asylum as the Cuban refugees sought and found political refuge here. For the first time, the United States Government found it necessary to develop a program to help refugees from another nation in this hemisphere.In the forefront of this effort was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was in the waning days of his administration. In November 1960, Eisenhower directed Tracy S. Voorhees, a former Undersecretary of the Army, to act as the President's Personal Representative for Cuban Refugees, to look into the Cuban refugee situation. To do this, and deal with the broader challenges the refugees presented, Voorhees reached out for assistance to Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Company, who had been of great help on a similar occasion in the past. In 1956, Ford lent one of his senior executives, Leo Beebe, to the U.S. government to supervise the resettlement in the U.S. of refugees fleeing Hungary after the failure of the revolution there. Beebe became executive vice chairman of Eisenhower?s Committee for Hungarian Refugees. In addition to his committee work, during 1956-1957, while working out of Camp Kilmer in northern New Jersey, Beebe and his aide Charles A. Pink, a Ford staff member, oversaw the relocation and resettlement of 35,000 Hungarian refugees in the United States, eventually finding them permanent residences in this country.In 1960 Ford came through again, and provided the services of the experienced Beebe and Pink for the Cuban refugee effort. The Cuban Refugee Emergency Center was established in Miami, and became the focal point of refugee registration, assistance, relief and resettlement, as well as coordination of government and independent agencies? programs. Federal funding provided for the center?s operations, record keeping, publications, coordination of agencies and research on different aspects of the refugee situation, as well as for programs. The latter included financial assistance, educational loans, health care, adult education and re-training, resettlement and care of unaccompanied children.To understand the scope of the effort, in the first two years after the Cuban Revolution, over 50,000 Cubans fled and established new homes in the United States.Typed letter signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, January 16, 1961, to Henry Ford II, thanking him for again lending a much-needed hand in this critical venture. This letter was written a mere four days before Ike left office and was succeeded by John F. Kennedy. ?Tracy Voorhees, my representative for the Cuban refugee problem, has told me that in response to his request to the Ford Motor Company for help in dealing with this crisis, your company at once furnished to him the same team - Mr. Leo C. Beebe and Mr. Charles A. Pink - who did so much to make a success of our work at Camp Kilmer for the Hungarian refugees four years ago.?With their unique experience gained at Kilmer, these men have been largely responsible for setting up our Cuban Refugee Emergency Center in Miami, and making its work a success. May I express to you and to the Ford Motor Company mysincere appreciation of your again answering our call for help??This letter remained in the Ford family until recently, and it has never before been offered for sale.