Great Answer, Signed (8 results)

Condition: Good. 2012. First Printing. 316 pages. Signed by the author. Plain paper covers. Flatsigned by author to half title page. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The book and dust jacket both have light rubbing and toning overall. Inscribed in ink by Phil Swift on the front endpaper. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. A Speech at the Whig Club; or, a Great Statesman's own Exposition of his Political Principles. An Answer to two Letters Signed "Hon. St. Andrew St. J. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition :. Octovo in full leather, A fine binding signed: W. H. Dalton, firm binding, five shallow bands on spine, marbeled endpapers, clean unfoxed pages, book plate, very bright retaining freshness, covers have very faint shelfwear, two small chips on spine titles, else VG+++ or better. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Jonathan Cape, from 1972; Bloomsbury, from 1990; others earlier. First editions, first printings throughout, with full number strip starting with 1 where called for. An Answer From Limbo, Andre Deutsch, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +, with clean and firm boards and tight text block; short (one inch of letters) former owner's name to top of fep. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine, with no tears or nicks; not price clipped. Catholics, Jonathan Cape, 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine, with single closed quarter-inch tear to bottom of spine; very thin sunning line to top inside of wrapper; not price clipped. The Great Victorian Collection, Cape, 1975. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. The Doctor's Wife, Cape, 1976. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine. The Mangan Inheritance, Cape, 1979. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good: neat former owner's mark to top of fep. Dust jacket condition: Very Good +: sixteenth-inch high by one-inch long nick to bottom of front flap; not price clipped. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes, Cape, 1981. Hardcover. Condition: Fine: UK imprint but printed in the US. Dust jacket condition: Very Good +, with no tears or nicks, but fading to spine and to bottom of front wrapper; neat price clip but with publisher's printed price sticker and Irish bookseller's printed price label above. Cold Heaven, Cape, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine: single one-inch light indentation to rear board, otherwise fine. Dust jacket condition: Fine: neat price clip but with publisher's printed price sticker adjacent. The Colour of Blood, Cape, 1987. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: nicks to top and bottom of front flap and to top of front wrapper; not price clipped. Lies of Silence, Bloomsbury, 1990. Hardcover. Condition: Dedicated, signed and dated (24 April 1990) by the author to the title page. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. No Other Life, Bloomsbury, 1993. Hardcover. Condition: Fine: Signed by the author to the title page. Dust jacket condition: Fine: not price clipped. The Statement, Bloomsbury, 1995. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine: no tears but with tiny nicks to edges; not price clipped. Extra postage will be required for the 11 books, particularly overseas. This will be requested following an order. Signed by Author(s).

415 pages, indexed. Copy of Zenas Alexander of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (see notes below). Hardcover bound in original full leather. The binding is worn but sound. Old rubbing and scuffing, especially along the front hinge. There is a puncture hole in the front cover which extends into most of the front half of the book. The text block is sound, and the text is browned and foxed. The text has some occasional pencil markings. There are several early ownership notations in the book. The rear flyleaf has the inscription, "Zenas Alex. / His Book / bought Charleston / Public Auction / Price 3 1/2 cts / .(?). by the scribe named." Another early inscription on the front flyleaf reads, "Zenas Alexanders Book / Wrote against Deism / in full / By Halyburton Thos." Beneath this is written in a different hand, "James Potts Book / Bought at Z. Alexanders .(?). / September 29th 1826." The following leaf (the half title) has another inscription from Zenas Alexander and an inscription from "Wm. J. Potts" dated 1840. At the bottom of the page is another old inscription reading "We worship God best / Who resemble him most." (signature illegible). Zenas Alexander (1771-May 26, 1826) lived in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is uncertain if he was any relation to Abraham Alexander (1717-1786) also of Mecklenburg County and who was instrumental in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of 1775.

First edition. Engraved cartoon and two columns of verse, printed on laid paper, 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches [plate mark: 11 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches]; the illustration, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, occupies the top third of the page, signed in type below "J. Jones, delin et sculpt." The print pictures an ass (striped like a zebra) which has just kicked a portly man down, causing him to drop a leaflet on which is printed the title "The Queen's Ass. A Song by H. Howard." Another man is shown with his feet in the stocks, another in Scottish tartan sits astride a lion, a man of the cloth gazes into a mirror which reflects back the image of an ass, etc., all the action being viewed by three Cherokee Indians, recently arrived in London. The poem commences "Permit me good People (a Whimsical Bard) / And Snarl not ye Critical Class / If once I presume without fee or Reward / to prove that each Briton's an Ass." OCLC locates 7 copies (British Library, Oxford, Morgan, Yale, Huntington, Princeton [giving 1766 as the publication date], Jewish Theological Seminary of America); Library of Congress and Colonial Williamsburg also hold copies. Nice impression of this rare print, a satirical commentary on the Revolutionary Era. (9849). The satirical cartoon and verse represent the political climate in Britain near the end of the Seven Years War: "[Prime Minister] Lord Bute is mounted on the back of the saddled, bitted, and bridled British Lion, who, as it is insinuated, is an ass to allow this indignity. A Jew sits in the stocks. The Rev. G. Whitefield sees his countenance reflected as the face of an ass by the mirror he holds ." (F.G. Stephens "Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum," v. 4, no. 3941). Other figures in the illustration include a group of three Cherokee Indian chiefs who had arrived in London in June 1762; a blind Sir John Fielding using a telescope, and considered an ass "for continuing to assert that he can tell right from wrong"; Henry Howard, author of the poem "The Queen's Ass"; and Rev. Charles Churchill, a preacher and well-known satirist, chasing away two literary figures, Tobias Smollett (editor of "The Briton"), and Arthur Murphy (who represented "The Auditor"), all defenders of Lord Bute [cf. Joan Dolmetsch, "Rebellion and Reconciliation: Satirical Prints on the Revolution at Williamsburg," Colonial Williamsburg, 1976, p.30]. From May 1762 to April 1763, Lord Bute, a Scotsman, served as Prime Minister to King George III. He helped conclude the Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years War, and levied taxes on the American colonies to support the British military presence there, an act which would lead to the American Revolution. Cataloguing by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for its OCLC entry, quotes the quatrain in the verse: "Old Shylock the Jew who in Change Alley strives / The Wealth of the land to Amass / While into your Pocketts he openly Dives / Of Each Bull & Bear makes an Ass." The three Cherokee chiefs traveled to England to meet the King following a truce of sorts in their battles with the British on the frontier toward the end of the French and Indian War, accompanied by the Tennessee explorer Henry Timberlake, whose memoirs, including a description of the trip, were published in 1765 as "an important source on the Cherokee nation and on the little-known southern phase of the French and Indian War" (Howes T-271). Nothing much came of the trip, however, and a second, in 1764, hoping for a decree from the king to forbid settlement west of the Appalachians, was even less successful, leading to more all-out war in the area during the Revolution.

London, 1730 (+) London, Francklin, 1730 (+) London, Robert's, 1730 (+) London, Francklin,1730 (+) London, 1729 (+) (London), 1729. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Edges of boards gilt. Gilt Super ex-libris to both front and back board. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Parts of gilting on spine worn off. Hole in the leather to front board, affecting the super ex-libris. A good copy. 55, (1), 36, 32, 34, (2), 29, (1), 23 pp. A highly interesting sammelband with six works all dealing with the Treaty of Seville, formally ending the 1727?1729 Anglo-Spanish War. This treaty was a significant diplomatic agreement between Great Britain, France, and Spain that aimed to resolve ongoing conflicts and tensions among these powers, particularly concerning territorial disputes and trade relations in Europe and the Americas. The treaty was signed on November 9, 1729."In 1727 Spain, with Habsburg support, began a siege of Gibraltar, held by the British since 1704. It was not pressed with much vigour and an armistice was agreed in 1728. By the treaty of Seville in 1729 Spain restored Britain's commercial concessions while Britain agreed to support Spanish claims in Italy." (Oxford Reference). The Free Briton Extraordinary "is a reply to William Pulteney?s anonymous ?A Short View of the State of Affairs,? our no. 80700, vol. 19. The latter pamphlet has been confused frequently with another with a similar title, also printed in this controversy, by ?Caleb D?Anvers of Gray?s-Inn, Esq.? and which has the half title, ?The Craftsman?s Observations on the Peace, &c. and the Answer.? Nicholas Ambhurst, as editor of the political journal, ?The Craftsman,? used the pseudonym ?Caleb D?Anvers.? This journal published anonymous pieces of Bolingbroke and others.? (Sabin 101167) Sabin: 101167"80700 101147.