Five Arts, Signed (10 results)

Various (illustrator). HB DJ first edition signed by Author. DJ not priced, not clipped. Dark red cloth boards, gilt publisher logo front. Gilt titles spine. 27.8 x 19cm. Facsimile of 'Candidate for Membership' on e/ps. b/w photo frontis. Profuse b/w, f/c illusts and photos throughout. Presentation notice on half title page 'For Peter Rouland with best wishes from Bernard Denvir' black biro, handwritten. Condition: DJ slight sunning on spine. Slight rub top and bottom of spine DJ + corners. Minor though, VGC. Boards lovely colour and condition. Title page slight ghosting of B Denvir's writing. Otherwise like new. VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Buckram. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Light brown buckram, modestly soiled. Slightly toned endpapers along inner hinges, a few nominal library marks on copyright and facing pages, else clean, noncirculating with virtually no shelf wear. Inscribed on front flyleaf by editor Shipley, dated 1 June 1950. 100 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, also Philadelphia area advertisements. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed By Editor. Book.

First edition [issued as American Eduacational Theatre Association Monograph No. 1]. Inscribed by William W. Melnitz, to a scholar, in year of publication, on front flyleaf: "For Dean Curtis Canfield with my sincere wishes and in true gratitude, William W. Melnitz, October 1959." INSCRIBED. A very good copy [issued without dust jacket] First edition [issued as American Eduacational Theatre Association Monograph No. 1]. Signed.

See his entry in Who Was Who. The thirteen items in good condition, lightly aged, most with RSA date stamp and annotations. A total of 12pp, 8vo, in autograph; and 5pp, 4to, typed. The first ten signed 'D T Chadwick' and the last three 'David Chadwick'. The earliest letter, to RSA Secretary Sir Henry Trueman Wood on 22 December 1916, deals with the publication of Chadwick's remarks 'at the discussion on Prof. Todds paper before the Indian Section of the Society of Arts'. On 11 July 1918 he asks if it is possible for the Department of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, to 'go up for Membership, as a record of the papers read are of undoubted use to this office', discussing the matter at some length. ('I want the journal to belong to this office [last two words underlined twice] & not be claimed by the Dept. Is my confrere in Calcutta - the Director General of Commercial Intelligence [named in a subsequent letter as H. A. F. Lindsay] - a member? He ought to join.') He concludes the letter that follows 'No thanks are due to me for trying to help the Society. I think it is most useful.' Letter of 3 September 1918 concerns the publication in the RSA journal of a lecture given by him at the British Scientific Products Exhibition, concluding 'I found I had omitted all mention of Indigo & of the Behar planters. For Heaven's sake don't tell anyone so.' Among other letters on the same topic is one of 9 September 1918, explaining the reason for an addition he is making to the lecture: 'I have added this because I see from some of the brief Press extracts which have appeared that a somewhat false impression has been conveyed, namely that all classes in India were benefiting economically from the war. Such, of course, is not the case, and I think it should make it clear that my lecture was in no sense an economic survey of India in war-time, but merely a summary of some of her industrial efforts.' On 29 May 1930 he writes with regard to an IAB 'conference of those engaged in the Empire on research in regard to fruit production', for which the RSA has agreed to rent out rooms, with payment 'for current used and something to the operator of the lantern. The Society would also, if necessary, provide teas, of course on payment by those attending the Conference'. The last two letters also concern this 'Empire Horticulturists' Conference'.

First edition. 12mo. Vol 1, No. 2. 81, [12] (adverts) pp. Woodcut. Book-plate of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Hardcover, printed boards, decorated, light surface wear, in portfolio and further encased in custom made slipcase, gilt lettered spine, for Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (91272). Cover, ffep, title-page signed by Epstein. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr. (1909-1988) was an American art collector, museum benefactor, and collector of rare books. Chrysler, whose father was Walter Chrysler, founded the Chrysler Corporation in 1925.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Copy #65, signed by Kinder on the limitation page. Cover shows minor wear, tanning, staining, and slight loss on the corners. Pages tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Texas Arts Journal Number 1. Patron's Edition. [1977] numbered limited printing (1 of 22); includes folder with five signed typescript pages, one of each (contributors to the journal): John Updike, William Saroyan, George Garrett, James Purdy, and Morse Peckham. Journal is in fine condition or nearly so; folder and loose leaves are fine; slipcase is at least very good, with some rubbing to label. A very rare item for the collector of literature and/or Texana. 15855. 650. Inscribed by Author.

British sculptor (1882-1962) and 'MEDALLIST AND ENGRAVER | TO | HIS MAJESTY THE KING' (as per letterhead). All six items one page, quarto. All six signed 'Allan G. Wyon'. Five bearing the R.S.A. stamp and two docketed. All six very good though dusty (but see secretarial item below). ITEMS ONE (19 October 1916, typed) and TWO (21 October 1916, typed) discuss the practicalities and cost of repairing the R.S.A. 'broken Seal Press'. ITEM THREE (25 January 1919, in secretarial hand, with small spike hole in centre): He is sending '21 Silver and 33 Bronze Medals which I have prepared in accordance with your instructions of the 31st. December last.' Explains why he has been forced to increase the charge for the work. ITEM FOUR (20 September 1924, typed): Acknowledges an order for '11 Silver and 6 Bronze Medals'. ITEM FIVE (11 March 1925, typed): Acknowledges note enclosing '1 Silver Medal for cleaning and polishing'. ITEM SIX (10 June 1925, typed): Acknowledges letter 'ordering the Gold Albert Medal'. Signed autograph postscript concerning 'a specimen of the kind of case we are now supplying for Gold Medals'.

British railway magnate and industrialist in India (1862-1949). The collection is very good. The five autograph letters are 12mo, and printed on letterheads. All items signed 'C H Armstrong'. Several items docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. Mainly concerned with Society committee matters, but two letters of interest. The first (autograph, 15 February 1928, 2 pages, 12mo): 'You will no doubt have seen the remarks of the Lord Chief Justice in the Mitchell Hedges case - Times of 14 inst page 5 column 2 - on "learned societies . . . . which for the payment of a modest sum were prepared to confer upon anybody what ought to be the honorific title of "Fellow" | As the Royal Society of Arts comes under this Category would it not be admirable - if the Chairman agrees - for the Council to discuss the matter at their next monthly meeting?' Letter two (autograph, 18 February 1928, two pages, 12mo): '[.] I do not think we ought to confer the title of "Fellow" without qualification of any kind. My suggestion is therefore that for 3 or 5 years a new subscriber should be an "Associate" or "Associate Member" only and after that a "Fellow" [.]'.