Fish Two, Signed (13 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by Baldwin on title page.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by authors on front free endpage.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author Carole C. Baldwin on title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Wesley Murphey on the first page. Light creases to the covers. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Inscription on title page- "Hope you pick up some pointers to improve our catch!" and signed by author. Nice copy in very mildly worn covers. Black and white and color illustrations. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good +. 210 pp including index. Wraps have edgewear, gently curled corners. Spine lightly creased - no loose pages. Penned inscription and author's signature to title page. Interior is o/w unmarked and solid. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Brown/blue/gilt covers, Inscribed To William Eastman. Nov 20/30 Robert W. McLaughlin 156 pgs. nice copy. Signed by Author(s).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1976). 1976 1st edition thus. Large 8vo booklet (170 x 256mm). Pp179-197. Illustrated with charts. Card covers. Slight tanning but a very good copy. Laid in Institute of Freshwater Ecology compliments slip, signed by Richard Mann. A study of the diet and growth of pike from the Rivers Stour and Frome. An offprint from the Journal of Fish Biology. .

Hardcover. First edition, early printing. This first edition, early printing, was inscribed by Dr. Seuss for a young mother in 1963 at a bookshop one mile from Dr. Seuss's home in La Jolla, California. It was acquired by us directly from the person for whom this book was purchased, to whom it was inscribed, and whose family enjoyed this book for three generations. This copy is inscribed on the lower left corner of the front free endpaper verso in four lines "for | JiLL | with Best Wishes | Dr. Seuss" with a characteristic Dr. Seuss squiggle between the valediction and signature. ConditionAs Dr. Seuss surely intended when he signed this copy for a young mother in 1963, this book has been read, a lot, and then some more. If you seek a pristine, "trophy" copy, this book is not for you. Instead, it is imbued with provenance and story. This copy is an early (definitively 1963 or before since that was the year it was purchased and inscribed) printing. The book itself conforms to all first edition, first printing issue points identified by Younger & Hirsch. The dust jacket features "195/195" at the upper front flap, with the front and rear flaps, front face, and spine all identical to the first printing, but with a different rear face than the first printing. The rear face highlights the publisher's "Beginner Books" division founded in 1957 by Phyllis Cerf, Dr. Seuss, and his wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, on the strength of Dr. Seuss's groundbreaking The Cat in the Hat (1957). Condition is very good minus in a very good minus dust jacket. The glossy paper-covered boards binding is bright and tight, with moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Only the spine heel and lower corners show appreciable wear. The contents are bright, with only a few instances of spotting, conspicuous only as a dime-sized spot spanning the final three leaves. Dr. Seuss's inscription, inked in blue on the lower left front free endpaper verso, is bright and clean. Affixed to the lower left rear pastedown is the remaining, lower left portion of the printed and illustrated ticket of "John Cole's Book & Craft Shop" in La Jolla, California, where this book was purchased and inscribed; the balance of the ticket was peeled by kid fingers. The dust jacket is not only bright, but complete, with no loss. The jacket shows light overall soiling, modest shelf wear and fraying to the spine ends and corners, and a vertical crease and some wrinkling to the spine. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.ProvenanceThis book's life story is as compelling as the story within.In 1959, the family of the "Jill" to whom this book is inscribed moved from Los Angeles to Point Loma in San Diego a beautiful peninsula protecting San Diego's vaunted natural harbor. Point Loma is just a few miles south of La Jolla, the seaside promontory to which Dr. Seuss had moved in 1948, where he lived the rest of his life, and where he wrote the majority of his books. In July 1963, Jill had her first child a boy, Jeff. For Jill's birthday that November, her mom decided to give her a gift that she could share with her new baby. Jill's mom was friends with Barbara Cole, proprietor of John Cole's Books in La Jolla, and Barbara was friends with Dr. Seuss, who lived exactly one mile away from the shop. So, with Barbara's help, Jill's mom got Dr. Seuss to inscribe 22 brand new copies of his books of which this is one in the fall of 1963. Jill read and reread these books to Jeff and his little sister, Lauren, born in 1966, throughout their childhood. Jill and her husband raised Jeff and Lauren in Point Loma, in the same house where, eventually, they read and reread this and their other Dr. Seuss books to their granddaughters, just as they had once read them to their children. With both children and grandchildren grown, Jill decided to entrust her Dr. Seuss books to us. Hence we now offer this book from their collection to a new owner for the first time since it was purchased for Jill by her mom and inscribed by Dr. Seuss in 1963. Reference: Younger & Hirsch, First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books, 2002, with 2004 corrections, Entry 64, pp. 153-155.

Leather over boards. Condition: Good. Edition de luxe. Set of two volumes. Hardcover full leather (green morocco) over boards. Royal 4to. Pagination: volume I -- i-c, a-t, 118 pp; volume II -- 119-355 pp. Illustration: 54 b/w full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards (including portrait frontispieces) and about a 100 tipped-in, b/w wood engravings split between the two volumes. Part of a limited numbered deluxe print run of 250 copies, of which this copy is number 87. Signed by R. B. Marston (editor and publisher) on the edition page. Uniform binding. Six compartment spine with five raised ribs. Short title, authors, and volume number stamped in gilt in compartments two, three, and four respectively. Gilt monogram of the authors' initials stamped on the front and back boards. Gilt head. Deckled fore edge and foot. Gilt dentelle along the inside lip of the boards with a gilt double rule along the edges. Marbled endpapers. Two sewn-in green ribbon bookmarks. Paper label with bibliographical description in the top left of the front pastedown of volume I. Bookplate on the front pastedown of both volumes. Fore edge and foot have darkened. The text blocks of both volumes are slightly age toned with occasional foxing throughout. Generally they are clean, unmarked, and square with a strong binding. The boards and spines of both volumes are worn along the edges and crown/tail of the spine (rubbing off some of the gilt decoration), bumped and frayed in the corners, and rubbed with volume II showing more marks than volume I. Overall a charming set in good condition.

First edition, xiv, [ii], 123, [3], [2], 324pp., part II has a separate title-page, pagination and register, without endpaper, cont. calf, rubbed, hinges cracked. "The preface is signed 'Arabella Atkyns', which the B.M. catalogue says is a pseudonym. In it she states that the medical portion, which is much larger than the cookery, is taken from a common-place book of her brother who was a physician. It may be mentioned that she is the first lady who apologizes for her boldness in venturing to treat certain maladies which a lady would hardly be expected ti include. The cookery part is well arranged, the medical part is full of horrors. The treatment for appendicitis is to 'apply a live puppy to the naked belly' and follow up with a cataplasm of rotten apples or of 'sheeps-dung boil'd with milk'."Oxford, English Cookery Books. Oxford, p.71; Maclean, p.49; Bitting, p.550; Cagle, 673; Pennell, p.150; Simon, 658.

London, Published by Freemantle & Company, 1902. 4to. lxviii, 169; ix, 232 pp. Dry-point frontispiece, titles in red and black, foding facsimile of Walton?s will, etched plates by William Strang and D. Y Cameron. Orig. half morocco, spines gilt in six compartments. Top edge gilt, otherwise uncut. With minor foxing to preliminary leaves, spines slightly sunned. In original boxes. The Wincester edition, no 136 of 150 copies, signed by William Strang and D. Y. Cameron. .

9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Printed in ochre/olive green on beige paper. Original lithograph by Julius Klinger (1876-1942), Austrian painter, designer, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer. Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vienna. A large original lithograph signed with his circular monogram lower right. From Chwala Drucke, Verlag Klinger-Plakate. Wien, I Schellinggasse.