Great Citizen: Signed (13 results)

Gilt Lettering on Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited, Numbered, Signed First . Limited, Numbered edition this being #900 of 1500 copies. Signed by Gordon Ross on Limitation page. 219 page block is crisp and unmarked, edges untrimmed, top edge gilt, endpps slightly darkened. Full brown cloth with gilt design to covers, cloth discolored at rear lower board tip. Ten lovely watercolor plates by Ross. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In brown cloth with gilt titling and lined-ruled decoation to boards and spine, housed in publisher's slipcase, 4to, 219pp. Copy #989 of a limited edition of 1,500 copies Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount press, Boston. Signed by the Illustrator on limitations page. (slight dulling at spine, shelfwear to outer slipcase). Illustrations By Gordon Ross (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Limited edition, 1403/1500. Quarto, xvi, 270 pages. In Very Good condition in a Good slipcase. Slipcase in black paper; short tear to paper spine label and to bottom panel. Spine is brown with gold print on red paper title label. Boards in brown burlap. Text block has grey tinted edges. Illustrated: b&w text illustrations with color plates. Laid in: Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions, Club, February, 1968. Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex in column ND-QC. 1402202. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited edition. Quarto. XVII, 218pp. Uncut and partly unopened copy! Original gilt-stamped decorative brown cloth. Colored frontispiece. Black and red lettering on title-page. Beautiful edition of this masterpiece of English literature, profusely illustrated with numerous full-page colored illustrations by Gordon Ross. Limited edition of 1500 copies, this being No.1431 signed by the illustrator. Spine slightly faded. Binding in overall very good, interior in near fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slipcase - Good Condition. 1st This Edition. Brown cloth binding decorated with stripes and gilt circle with title clean square and tight. Interior clean and bright. Brown slipcase with worn pastedown on end is in good condition, a bit rubbed on edges. Signed on back endpaper by illustrator Gordon Ross - this is numbered 41 of 1500 limited edition copies. Ten color prints throughout. 219 pages. A very nice, collectible copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ross, Gordon (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited. This edition limited to 1500 copies, numbered and signed by illustrator Gordon Ross. This is copy no. 223. Purple cloth with gilt boards and spine. Spine fade and some gilt loss. One small bump to front board. Top edge gilt. Clean and tight throughout, with a tipped-in envelope at rear to pastedown with a two page typed note about this edition, the paper used, the cloth and other details about this production. Illustrations in colour by Gordon Ross. In a worn slipcase. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. There is a small chip on the edge of the front board, and the corners are bumped as is the head and tail of the spine Internally the book is near fine. Beautifully illustrated book with ten watercolour plates by Gordon Ross. Quite a few leaves are still uncut. Number 1062 of 1500 copies. Ross, Gordon (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

No. 1368 of 1500 copies. 10 illustrations after watercolours by Gordon Ross, signed by him on the limitation page. Printed by Updike at The Merrymount Press. Pp. xvii [1] 219 [3]. 4to., [19.5 x 26.5 cms], original brown gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g, others uncut, original slipcase, title label to spine. An attractive, largely unopened copy in a very worn slipcase. Robert Surtees began writing about the inimitable sporting hero John Jorrocks â" a cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting â" in the early 1830s and first published this collection of tales relating to Jorrocks's adventures in 1838. Humorously illustrated with Gordon Ross's watercolours.…

Hardcover. Illustrations by Gordon Ross. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and rules, paper-covered slipcase with paper spine label. xviii, 219pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, 9 full-page called-for color plates. Near fine/very good. Slipcase edgeworn but expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight and nice. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-64) is the British editor, sporting writer and novelist who introduced "sporting cockney grocer" Jack Jorrocks to great acclaim in 1838. The stately LEC production with lovely watercolor plates features colophon at rear noting limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #634) signed by illustrator Ross. Appropriate "Monthly Letter" laid in. NEWMAN 28.…

Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full natural burlap with a gilt-lettered crimson leather spine label, the front cover an "x" Plague symbol printed in crimson and the rear with the date 1665 printed in crimson; 618 pages. Introduction by James Sutherland. Defoe's account of the Great Plague that hit London in 1665. Illustrated by Domenico Gnoli with 8 full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white text illustrations, some rather harrowing. Copy #894 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Some darkening to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some discoloration. Domenico Gnoli (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarto, xvi, [4], 271pp. Full natural burlap, title stamped in gilt on red leather spine label, large red X printed on front cover and year 1665 printed in red on back cover. All edges stained black. Black endpapers. Housed in publisher's original black cardboard slipcase, title printed on label attached to spine, faint shelf wear, a fine example. Includes The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club for February 1968, Number 408. From a limited edition of 1500 copies, this being number 85, signed by the illustrator, Domenico Gnoli. From the Limited Editions Club, A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, signed by the illustrator, Domenico Gnoli. (illustrator). Signed.…

Single sheet, 18.5 x 29 cm. Partly printed document, completed in ink, and signed by Henry F. Yates, clerk. Seal in upper left hand corner. Old fold lines, with browning and small holes at folds. Uncommon to us though one would think there would have been many of them.

He praises the son of the "French Father of the American Revolution? for coming to live in the United States - ?the Republican Wilderness? -, laying the foundation for his future prosperity?Adams is also happy that his move proves that the motto - if things are going well, make no changes - is hardly universally applicable??I observed the motto of the Hotel de Valentinois which I had then the honor to inhabit 'Se sta bene non se move' - 'If you stand well, stand still.' But you have proved the Maxim not to be infallible. And I rejoice in it.??"As they neared their eighties, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson reflected on what they had done in 1776 and what the American Revolution meant to the march of liberty throughout the world. This letter discusses the connections between the Declaration and the 'candid world' it addressed, seeing a common effort to spread liberty throughout the world," writes historian Robert G. ParkinsonFrom the moment Benjamin Franklin arrived in Paris in December 1776, one of his closest friends and allies was Jacques-Le Ray de Chaumont, who provided Franklin (as well as John Adams in the 1780s), with housing at the Hotel de Valentinois, his home in Passy, as well as invaluable access to the King and court of France. This led to France providing essential military supplies and aid to the American cause during the Revolution. For these reasons, Jacques-Le Ray de Chaumont is known as the French Father of the American Revolution. When Adams arrived, he noted the inscription over the door at the Hotel in his diary, "a Motto over the Door Si sta bene, non se move, which I thought a good rule for my Conduct. If you stand well do not move; or stand still." He would repeat this line in letters to John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson and his son over the years, among many others. Likewise, Thomas Jefferson and others would adopt it and use it.James Le Ray de Chaumont was the son of Jacques Donatien Leray de Chaumont. Le Ray de Chaumont approved of his father?s aid to the U.S. He acted as a courier for letters and diplomatic correspondence when he came to the United States in 1785 to petition Congress for reimbursement for his father?s services. While on that mission he determined to make a commitment to the new American nation. He was naturalized as a United States citizen, married an American, and joined a group of exiled French nobility who were investing in the U.S. and speculating in land. The extensive landholdings he acquired in New York included two Jefferson County towns named for him, Leraysville (later Leray) and Chaumont. Le Ray de Chaumont divided his time thereafter between the United States and France, with his longest stay at his Leraysville mansion being 16 years - between 1816 and 1832. James Monroe visited him there in 1817. Le Ray de Chaumont?s friends and associates included Alexander Hamilton, Madame de Sta?l, Gouverneur Morris, and DeWitt Clinton, among others.A strong supporter of internal improvements, like canals and turnpikes, from 1817?29 Le Ray de Chaumont served as the first president of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society, and he was elected president of the New York State Agricultural Society before his departure for France in 1832. When he became president of the Jefferson County Agricultural Society, Le Ray de Chaumont gave a speech - ?An Address, delivered at the meeting at the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, December 29, 1817.? This was published in New York in 1818.The speech opened with the election of DeWitt Clinton as an honorary member; proceeded with a resolution to promote the use of domestic fabric by fining members who wore clothing made of foreign material five dollars per year; continued by outlining the purpose of the society, highlighting the benefits of the local climate and soil, calling on members ?to take all proper measures for the advancement of agriculture? as the surest way to promote American freedom, happiness, morality, and wealth; then urged th.…