Great Captain, Signed (27 results)

Condition: Good. Carol Tornatore (illustrator). Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page. Slightly dampstained.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. Presentation inscription is written by author on author/title page. Copyright 1990. Different Cover Art. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean and bright. Previous owner's name is written on first front end paper. Softcovers are good but have light edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair condition Softcover, Signed by the Author with no personalization on the Half-Title page. ARC-Includes Notes, Bibliography and Index, unpaginated. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. edge wear and age discoloration to dust jacket, moderate age discoloration to text paper, otherwise clean and sound, octavo, 312 pages, stated first edition, signed and inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. A near fine copy in a near fine dj. Has a little teddy-bear-stamp as a mark of previous ownership on the blank endpaper. Inscirbed in ink by the author as well: "To ______Good wishes George Hardwick.". Signed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Signed by Dugard. 294pp. Octavo hardbound, tight binding. Clean boards, sharp corners. Interior clean throughout. dj: Lightly worn, sticker on front. Signed by author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AS6 - A first edition hardcover book signed and inscribed by the author to previous owner in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on some edges and corners, tanning, light scracthes, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has discoloration (browning) and light shelf wear. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED and inscribed on the title page by the author. Includes an author's business card loosely laid in. This novel by the barber who defied Michigan Gov. Whitmer during the corona virus lockdown takes place on the Great Lakes. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. Slight crease to leading edge of cover near top. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 285 pages; Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Includes an author's business card loosely laid in. This novel by the barber who defied Michigan Gov. Whitmer during the corona virus lockdown takes place on the Great Lakes. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 285 pages; Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Softcover. Oblong format. Black and white photographs throughout. Author's signature to half title page. Covers and endpapers toned with some edgewear including a closed tear to rear bottom edge. Old owners' names to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. A neat and sound copy. Size: Oblong. Signed by Author(s). Book.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Gentleman George - The Autobiography of George Hardwick, Captain of Middlesbrough, Oldham Athletic, England and Great Britain. HARDWICK, George & WILSON, John (Editor). ISBN: 9780952862222. Juniper Publishing, Liverpool, 1998, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, NF/nf, boards dark green/gilt, one appendix, illustrated from 58 b/w photographs, 192 pp. Author signature on front free endpaper (see scan), no annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright Wrapper clean and crisp, original price clipped . BIOGRAPHY, SPORT, GEORGE HARDWICK, FOOTBALL PLAYER, MIDDLESBROUGH, OLDHAM ATHLECTIC, ENGLAND, CAPTAIN, COACH, FOOTBALL AMBASSADOR . 45570 BIOG/H £1300. 192 pp pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Autobiography of the Middlesbrough and Chelsea player and England International. Large 8vo. 192pp. Fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Hardwick on the title page. From our large stock of football books and publications. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Signed by author at FFEP, with previous owner's gift inscription just below. Corners bumped, some shelfwear to edges. Subtle sunning to spine, some slight scuffing overall to jacket from storage. Brown cloth boards clean. Age-toning to edges of interior.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Revised Edition. First Thus (First Printing of the 1988 Reprint Edition). Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page. Dark grey coated-paper boards with gold foil-stamped spine. FINE cond with one very small dent to top spine edge (NO chipping, rubbing, soiling or tears). NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ has very slight toning to inside of front flap only - NO other flaws. Price intact: $19.95. Protected in archival cover. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BROOKE-POPHAM, Sir Robert (RFC Wing Commander and later Air Marshal, 1878-1953). Autograph Letter Signed to actor and RFC Captain, Robert Loraine (1876-1935).  Royal Flying Corps, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain, 9 August [1914]. Two leaves (four sides), each on Royal Flying Corps headed paper, 170 × 230 mm, written in ink, dated 'Aug 9th'. Original folds, light toning, but clean and legible throughout; paper sound. Overall, very good. The letter is addressed to Robert Loraine and concerns practical arrangements during the opening days of the war: the despatch of a motor car to London, payment of repair and mess bills, a broken clutch, laundry and luggage, and cab fares between Waterloo and Montague Square. Though domestic in subject, the context is early RFC service life, written from Larkhill, one of the principal training and mobilisation centres of British military aviation in August 1914. The correspondent, Wing Commander Robert Brooke-Popham, would become one of the senior air officers, rising to Air Chief Marshal and serving as Commander-in-Chief Far East at the outbreak of the Pacific War. The recipient, Captain Robert Loraine (1876-1935), was a well-known actor who was also one of the earliest Royal Flying Corps pilots, joining in 1913 and serving from the beginning of the First World War. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover book in dust jkt. Inscribed by author on FEP, "Sincerely Yours, Mary Francis Doner." No other markings in the book. Book has some small stains on the fore edge and the bottom of the text block; the top of the text block exhibits foxing. The DJ is not price-clipped, with a 1/2" tear at the top of the rear panel near the spine, no other tears, chips or folds. 312 pgs. w/index and many B&W photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

hardcover. Condition: very good. no jacket. 17 1/2 x 11 3/8" unpaginated no publisher listed, most likely self published. "The planning of the gala 200th birthday for the United States amounts to the biggest party the world has ever seen. Yet as titanic and all encompassing as it will be, I genuinely felt that our nation's nautical log was not being stressed enough." priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire. blue cloth covers unevenly faded. signed by the author on the first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reese Brandt (drawings) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. xlv, [3], 655, [1] pages. Illustrated endpaper. Frontis illustration of Hernando de Soto. Footnotes. Index. Signed by both translators on the half-title page. Bookplate of Otto Orren Fisher on endpaper verso. Minor stain and print transfer on half-title page. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (12 April 1539 - 23 April 1616), born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He is considered the earliest-recorded mestizo in the history of the Americas. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, where he lived and worked the rest of his life. The natural son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman born in the early years of the conquest, he is known primarily for his chronicles of Inca history, culture, and society. His work was widely read in Europe, influential and well received. It was the first literature by an author born in the Americas to enter the western canon. After his father's death in 1559, Vega moved to Spain in 1561. His paternal uncle became a protector, and he lived in Spain for the rest of his life, where he wrote an account of De Soto's expedition in Florida. De la Vega entered Spanish military service in 1570 and fought in the Alpujarras against the Moors after the Morisco Revolt. He received the rank of captain for his services to the Crown. He wrote from an important perspective, as his maternal family were the ruling Inca. De la Vega's first work was La Florida del Inca, an account of Hernando de Soto's expedition and journey in Florida. The work was published in Lisbon in 1605 and became popular. It describes the expedition according to its own records and information Garcilaso gathered during the years. He defended the legitimacy of imposing the Spanish sovereignty in conquered territories and submitting them to Catholic jurisdiction. At the same time, he expresses and defends the dignity, the courage, and the rationality of the Native Americans. It was translated and published in English in 1951. Hernando de Soto (c. 1500 - May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been reported by various Native American tribes and earlier coastal explorers, and for a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River. In May 1539, de Soto landed nine ships with over 620 men and 220 horses in an area generally identified as south Tampa Bay. He named the land as Espíritu Santo after the Holy Spirit. The ships carried priests, craftsmen, engineers, farmers, and merchants; some with their families, some from Cuba, most from Europe and Africa. Few of the men had traveled before outside of Spain, or even away from their home villages. Near de Soto's port, the party found Juan Ortiz, a Spaniard living with the Mocoso people. Ortiz had been captured by the Uzita while searching for the lost Narváez expedition; he later escaped to Mocoso. Ortiz had learned the Timucua language and served as an interpreter to de Soto as he traversed the Timucuan-speaking areas on his way to Apalachee. Ortiz developed a method for guiding the expedition and communicating with the various tribes, who spoke many dialects and languages. He recruited guides from each tribe along the route. A chain of communication was established whereby a guide who had lived in close proximity to another tribal area was able to pass his information and language on to a guide from a neighboring area. In 1943, Dr. Varner joined the State Department and was sent to Latin America because of his proficiency in Spanish. Returning to Austin a few years later, Varner and his wife began to publish books about Latin America. The first of these was The Florida of the Inca (1951), which translated and edited Garcilaso de la Vega's account of the De Soto expedition. The book received scholarly and popular acclaim. Three years later, Varner and his wife travelled to Spain to begin work on a biography of de la Vega. Varner continued to work on this massive project for the next 14 years, completing and publishing El Inca: The Life and Times of Garcilaso de Vega in 1968.

Condition: Good. WITH A LENGTHY INSCRIPTION IN THE FORM OF AN ORIGINAL POEM SIGNED BY THE POET SCOUT CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The covers are heavily rubbed with some of the coloring scratched away. 152 pages, with the text printed in brown, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The front hinge is cracked and the top corners of the last several pages are creased. Good. First edition.Though 'Vol. 1" appears on the spine, we have found no evidence that any subsequent volumes were ever published.Inscribed in ink on the front endpaper by John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford with an original 20-line manuscript poem, signed "J.W. Crawford ('Capt. Jack') New Year 1911".Known as the Poet Scout, John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford (1847-1917) was a civilian scout with the 5th Cavalry Regiment during the Great Sioux War of 1876. He joined Brig. General George Crook's command after Custer's defeat and death at Little Big Horn and served as war correspondent for the Omaha Bee. Routinely carrying dispatches along the highly perilous route of 400 miles to Fort Fetterman, he is remembered by his friend Buffalo Bill Cody for delivering not only a letter from General Sheridan but also a full bottle of whiskey. It was, however, his daring 350 mile ride to deliver news to the New York Herald of General George Crook's victory over Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes that made him a national celebrity. Subsequently scouting in New Mexico, he then served as a special agent for the U.S. Justice Department for four years before taking to the lecture circuit, gaining in popularity as the "Poet Scout" entertaining audiences of thousands in music halls and on stages throughout the country.

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, Ex library, Inscribed, dated & signed by author to fellow writer Pat Lawlor, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 252pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing to spine and board extrems, minor staining to upper page edges, light tanning to eps, tape used to adhere d/w to pastedowns) in d/w VG (moderate fading and speckling to exterior, light rubbing to edges, moderate staining to top edge).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1866. VOLUME II ONLY. 782 pages. Illustrations and maps throughout. SIGNED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER BY GEORGE RUTHS, CAPTAIN, CO. B, 4th MARYLAND, VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Poor or better.Covers detached; textblock fairly good; lacking much of spine; worn. A great early history of the Civil War by the great newspaper man, Horace Greeley.A"fair and certainly honest history of the events" according to Sabin. In "his version of the entire history of the nation from 1776 to the second year of the Civil War. The second analyzes the final three years of the war and includes substantial material on emancipation and the crushing of the rebellionGreeley traces the seeds of the war and includes a large cache of public documents and speeches to make his case. Failed compromise is the predominating theme Composed during the war, the work is particularly notable for the presentation of predictions about the years to come, particularly regarding the slavery question" (Eicher 741 writing of Vol. 1). References:Eicher 741;Sabin 28482 Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 November 29, 1872)was founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire. He was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont and went to New York City in 1831 to seek his fortune. He wrote for or edited several publications and involved himself in Whig Party politics, taking a significant part in William Henry Harrison's successful 1840 presidential campaign. The following year, he founded the Tribune, which became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country through weekly editions sent by mail. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed. He popularized the phrase "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," although it is uncertain whether it originated with him. Greeley's alliance with William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed led to him serving three months in the House of Representatives, where he angered many by investigating Congress in his newspaper. In 1854, he helped found and may have named the Republican Party. Republican newspapers across the nation regularly reprinted his editorials. During the Civil War, he mostly supported Lincoln, though urging him to commit to the end of slavery before the President was willing to do so. After Lincoln's assassination, he supported the Radical Republicans in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. He broke with Republican president Ulysses Grant because of corruption and Greeley's sense that Reconstruction policies were no longer needed. [wikipedia] .

13 hand-coloured aquatint roundels each mounted separately on card with printed text verso (diameter 6.6 cm), brief titles at foot of rectos, housed in original bronze medallion case, obverse with profile portrait of Wellington facing left, reverse with title 'Picture Medal' and allegorical depiction of Victory, signed "'Porter F.'" and "Orme Direx" verso signed "Edwd Orme Direx, Bond St. London"', engraved roundel title mounted to inside of both obverse and reverse, the whole contained in the original red morocco case titled in gilt "Record of British Military Valour". Originally issued with a short strip of cloth joining them together in a string, this set "as always" has lost its joints but is particularly clean and unaffected by the "usual" loss of small bits of text where the cloth was affixed. An uncommon set of aquatints commemorating Wellington's victory in the Peninsular War. They were later reissued in Jehoshaphat Aspin's Naval and Military Exploits (1820; see Abbey Life 350 and Tooley 71). Here in particularly good condition and with the rare leather case, complete with its original hinge and metal clasps. (Abbey Life 466.).

Presentation copy of a later edition, with a lengthy inscription from the author to the doctor who attended to his father, Francis William Ponting (c.1842-1923), during his dying years in Southport. Herbert Ponting was personally invited by Scott to join the Terra Nova crew, and many of the plates are based on his fine photographs. Ponting's inscription, located on the front free endpaper of this fourth edition, reads, "My dear Mackie: My father had intended to give you this copy of my book as a small Xmas gift, which he thought you might like to have. He had asked me to send him this signed copy, to which he had intended to add a few words for the purpose. Owing to his death on December 22nd he was never able to add those words. So I personally ask you to accept the volume not only as a token of my father's affection for you, but also of my own deep appreciation of your devoted and untiring efforts to prolong his life. Yours gratefully, H. G. Ponting. Southport, December 24th 1923." Above the inscription is the signature and short inscription ("To Dr Campbell Mackie") Ponting originally provided for his father. The recipient is likely William Campbell-Mackie, who practised in Southport. Rosove 251.B3. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, 95 half-tone plates, map in text. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered and with expedition badge in red, 1967 ownership inscription of Clive Reginald Francis Crocker-Sherlock (b. 1945). Cloth lightly rubbed but well preserved, light foxing and toning internally: very good.

21 lines in blue ink on first & third side of folded 8vo leaf; lightly folded for posting. Docketed on verso of 4th side in black ink, 'Letter from Charles Dickens to Capt Frederic Brine. v.g. Not in Pilgrim Letters. Recorded by the Charles Dickens Letter Project. Dickens writes to Brine, a former Captain in the Royal Engineers, during the first season of his celebrated reading tours, giving an indication of the great rigours and personal sacrifices incurred by the schedule. He thanks Brine for his 'kind and hospitable letter', but informs him 'the fatigues of my hurried tour are so great, and its work so hard, that I find all social pleasures to be incompatible with them, and am forced to forgo all engagements and invitations'. He is nonetheless appreciative of his 'cordial remembrance', and 'heartily' thanks him for it. Signed 'very faithfully yours', with his customary flourish. Dickens was in Liverpool from the 18th to the 21st of August, before crossing the Irish Sea for engagements in Dublin. On the evening of the 20th he read, at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall, 'The Poor Traveller', 'Boots at the Hollytree Inn' and 'Mrs Gamp'. It proved a particular high spot in the tour, with Dickens remarking to Wills in a letter written the following morning, 'Last night, we had the greatest house, both in numbers and money, we have ever had: London included'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Flyer. 8.5" x 11". Handbill for a performance illustrated by Stanley Mouse (*Family Dog 23*). Illustration of three well-fed medieval minstrels holding forth with song. The psychedelic lettering has been colored in with red watercolors by an unknown person, somewhat sloppily but not unpleasingly. Signed by Stanley Mouse at the bottom with his "mouse" logo (and not inconceivably colored by him as well). Small tack holes in the corners, overall very good. Accompanied by a press release for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, known as The Great Gnome Biography written by Derek Taylor, the Apple Records/Beatles publicist. Ten loose sheets of typed ribbon copy with typed rectos only and stapled in the upper left-hand corner. With the address of Beefheart's management and public relations firms at the end. Fine. The famed rock critic Ralph J. Gleason's copy with his Signature at the top of the first sheet. The ten-page press release about the formation and evolution of the band in the form of a fable about The Great Gnome providing a greasy parchment of names for the band to choose from, with multiple (presumably imagined) quotes from Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), Alex St. Clair, and others. Gleason was a very influential critic of jazz and rock music, and was a founding editor of *Rolling Stone*. An amusing and inventive fable, we can find no evidence of publication, and this could presumably be unique.

Framing: Unframed An original photo measuring approximately 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches on a larger hard backing. Fine detail with light scratches and dimple indentions with tear to backing in lower right corner (stabilized with tape). Thanks for looking.On Jun-12-11 at 15:55:25 PDT, seller added the following information: Sellers: Delight buyers. Get your own map of past buyers. Region of Origin: US Size Type: Small (Up to 7'') Color: Sepia Photo Type: Snapshot.