Frozen River, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Bookplate on front free end paper. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 304pp. Cover by R. B. Kitaj. Light bump to the head edge towards the spine, leaving a crease and a short, superficial split, the wrappers slightly rubbed and soiled, but sound. This copy has been signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. 432p. First edition with full number line. Signed flat by Lawhorn on title page. Contents are otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight with hinges securely attached. Dark grey paper boards are pointed with silver foil lettering and two worming holes on lower spine, as pictured. Illustrated jacket is unclipped with mild shelf wear. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself in to American history. This copy, in as new condition as a hardback, 10th printing of the first edition with the GMA Book Club sticker on the cover, has no negative issues and is simply signed by Lawhon on the title page. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by author. Binding tight and pages clean and crisp. Corners square and sharp. DJ clean, shiny and intact.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition, first printing. Signed on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Worn paperback with creased front panel, little scrape mark on back panel. Two stapled sheets of typed poetry by Harwood are loosely inserted, inscribed by the author at the top of the first sheet. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. "First American edition." New York: George F. Hopkins, 1802. Octavo in 4s (8 1/4" x 5 1/16", 210mm x 128mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding engraved map. Bound in modern half green morocco over green cloth by Riviere and Son (signed at the lower edge of the verso of the front free end-paper). On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel, author gilt to the third, date gilt to tail. Green marbled endpapers. Top edge of the text-block gilt. A little bowed, with some sunning to the spine. Evenly tanned throughout. Repaired tears to the lower edges of 2E2-4 and the fore-edge of 2S4, not affecting the text. The fore-edges of 2Z3-4 and 2N3-4 roughly cut. The map backed on linen, with some tanning and offsetting. Ink-stamped "Ex Libris H. Leslie Smith" and ballpoint inscription "H. Leslie Smith" to the front pastedown. Presentation inscription "To Les from Annabel Christmas 1948" to the verso of the front free end-paper. Red ink Chinese eight-character seal to the recto of the first binder's blank. Ex libris of Ted Benttinen laid in. Sir Alexander Mackenzie's (ca. 1764-1820) account of his exploration of North America is the first published account of Mackenzie's two expeditions carried out on behalf of the North West Company, as it aimed to establish new trade routes from the over-saturated market of Hudson's Bay. His success in these explorations made him "the first white man to cross the continent," demonstrating his journal to be one of "surpassing interest" (Wagner-Camp). Mackenzie departed Scotland with his father in 1774, and by 1779, had secured a position with Finlay, Gregory & Co., a prominent fur trading company in Montreal. This volume offers a comprehensive history of the fur trade, alongside Mackenzie's accounts of his travels through the continent. It also provides a glossary to several Indigenous languages. The map, "A Map of America Between Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, Exhibiting Mackenzie's rout from Montreal to Fort Chepewyan & thenee [sic] to the North Sea in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793" is one of the oldest of this area. Hill crowns Voyages from Montreal "one of the most important of Canadian books." Henry Leslie Smith (1932-2018) was an English political writer and social activist. After serving in WWII, Smith moved to Canada with his wife, Friede. Smith turned to writing after the death of his son and became a frequent contributor to The Guardian and a repeat guest on BBC radio. At the time of his death, Smith had written six books with content ranging from historical and political commentary to personal memoirs of his life and loss. Theodore "Ted" Benttinen (1948-2023) was an MIT-educated oceanographer and explorer who went to both poles on research missions. Benttinen amassed a formidable collection of books of exploration, particularly strong in Pacific voyages as well as in polar accounts. The present volume was lot 176 in the Sotheby's New York 9 December 2024 sale of his library. Sabin 43415.2; not in Hill; not in Wagner-Camp.