Great Return, Signed (13 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Like New dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate inside on front endpage. WND Books Collector's edition.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) .This copy is Signed by the author on the title page - No other names. The author is a registered Maine Guide. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. condition as new. DJ Fine. !st ed. Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, 304 pp, slight shelfwear to jacket, else a very nice, clean and near fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Printing. This 271 pp. indexed "coffee-table" style book is full of equine photographs by the renowned photographer, who also wrote the accompanying text. Genuinely inscribed and signed by him on the back of the first flyleaf. A prior owner's inscription is on the facing blank page. Otherwise, in gift condition. Photos upon request. Inscribed by Author(s).

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo 273pp., b/w pls., map, index, Signed by Bruce Scates on title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Author signed first edition fist printing in as new condition. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Jefferson, Ohio: Printed for the Author at the Sentinel Office, 1856. First edition, 1856, signed by the author below the frontis portrait. Flawed copy, with pages 73-88 repeated rather than pages 89-104, all in the diary section. Brown blind-stamped cloth with spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, viii, [1], 10-88, 73-88, 105-302, errata page. Front cover spotted, chips to front joint and spine foot, good hinges, sound text block, variable foxing throughout from light to moderate, no other names or markings. A previous owner made their own attached bookmark by making a tiny hole at the top of the spine head through which they tied thin pink cord (faded where exposed) with both long ends used as bookmarks. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original decorative green cloth hard covers, professionally rebacked with original spine. Original yellow coated endpapers. Printed for private circulation. Signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper. Edges mildly toned but internally fine. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Half-title present. viii,96pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

IN-8 (11,5 X 19,5 X 2 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 187 PAGES, RELIURE DE L?EDITEUR A LA BRADEL PLEINE PERCALINE VERTE, PLATS ENCADRES DE FLEURONS A FROID, TITRE DORE SUR LE PLAT SUPERIEUR. EDITION ORIGINALE. ETIQUETTE EX-LIBRIS COLLEE SUR LE CONTREPLAT SUPERIEUR. TIMBRE HUMIDE EX-LIBRIS ET SIGNATURE AUTOGRAPHE SUR UN FEUILLET BLANC DE GARDE. PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, DONT PETIT ACCROC SUR LE PLAT INFERIEUR, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.

Scarce, privately printed account of an Englishman's trip to the Eastern United States and Canada. He gives bills of fare on shipboard, scenes in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, then going south to Washington, then to Niagara and Canada. This copy is inscribed by the author to his friend, Thomas Adams. HOWES M768, "aa." SABIN 50377. Original green cloth, stamped in blind. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Inner hinges cracked. Lightly foxed. About very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. On offer is a fine diary of a young man who had just returned to rural United States from WW1 service. The author of this diary is Martin Oliver Skrovig (1894-984). Skrovig was born in Radcliffe, Iowa. To learn more about Skrovig, see BIO NOTES at the end of the listing. Martin kept this diary in 1917, in his early 20s. Although he makes no reference to his service, context suggests that he had been recently released from service and is now working on his accounting/bookkeeping education. He attended Capital City Community College in Des Moines. Excerpts give a sense of Martin s writing: "Finished my Trial Bal. And Balance Sheets and closed my books. Boys went skating" [Jan 16]. "Doc Earle of [ ] College at chapel. Got 100% in Word [ ] test Still beat Four C. . Got home 1: 30. Pressed suit A. M. And P. M. Cut wood. Over to Neubaner s eve" [Mar 23,24]. "Tom, Alf & I to G. C. To register forenoon and chopped wood P. M. Raw weather. Windy & stormy" [June 5]. In the autumn of that year, we see that he is working not only on his studies but on helping on the family farm, mostly picking corn"Penmanship. Wrote about 14 pages" [Oct 18]. ". At home. Started picking. Picked 70 bu. Rain eve but picked our rows out 6 apiece" [Oct 26]. "Tom & I picked each 90 bu it was 28 below [ ] picked 24 rows & 75 bu. Si over & helped. Picked 39 rows" [ Dec 13]. For a social historian, this diary gives a very clear picture of life for a young man in the American midwest in the early years of the 20th century. Even though he was working on his education, the demands of daily life to ensure the means to maintain that schooling had to be met. Those demands were accepted as part of the normal course of life and offer a clear contrast to student life a century laterBIO NOTES: Martin Oliver Skrovig was born to parents Ole Ivarsen and Thorbjor (Tilda) Endresdatter Enderson, both of whom immigrated from Norway. He served in the United States army in WW1. Martin married Myrtle Olson (1901-1998) in 1924, and together they had three children. Skrovig worked in banks in Radcliffe and Ellsworth before coming to Marshalltown, Iowa in 1932. In Marshalltown, Martin was a bookkeeper for the Marshall Canning Company, then a clerk for the Railway Mail Service and at his retirement, he was a bookkeeper for Vernon Pries Insurance. In his private life, Martin was a Deacon and choir member at Elim Lutheran Church, and a member of Frank Louis Glick American Legion Post 46. He was a Chaplain and funeral ceremonial unit commander in the Legion Post. He was also commander of WWI Veterans Barracks 1104, and a Scoutmaster. This diary measures 5.25x2.5 inches and contains 52 pages. It is 100% complete. The covers are intact but show definite signs of staining. The binding is good and all of the pages are intact. The handwriting is cramped but legible.; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages; Signed by Author. Signed by Author(s).

ALFRED ELY (1815-1892). Ely was a Congressman from New York. He watched the First Battle of Bull Run and was captured by Confederate forces; he spent six months in Richmonds Libby Prison until he was exchanged for the arrested Confederate minister Charles Faulkner.ALS. 4pg. 5 x 8. September 1, 1863. Washington Arsenal. A lengthy autograph letter signed Dear Father on Assistant Quarter-Masters Office letterhead. He wrote to his daughter: It is now a little more than thirty days since you and dear mother left Washington I have been very lonely without you and you can hardly imagine how much pleasure it would give me to see you. You made a long visit in Orange and had a great deal of gayitie [sic] and a very grand time in going to parties and dancing and riding and doing many other pleasant things. Of course you were very happy and I hope you was so lady like and agreeable that every body was pleased with all you said & did. You may be very certain if you do anything in the least improper, I shall know all about it and therefore I want you should behave yourself in the best manner all the time, and especially do I expect you to be good and kind and obedient to dear Mother, for if you are not you will make me very unhappy, and that I know you will try not to do. Cata has gone to school. Her mother & aunt took her to Penn. and she will not return till next summer. Duda will leave tomorrow. They are going to live in a little house at the Hospital so we shall have no little girls at Mrs. Holeands. All the folks here ask often about you and they all seem to have a very high appreciation of you and to have formed a very great fondness for you, and I trust most sincerely that always hereafter your good behavior will fully justify their favorable opinion. How happy you must be to get to Haverhill again, with all your friends you love so much and how delighted they are to see you and I am almost afraid that they will do so much to make you happy you most want to return to Washington to see me go driving to the Soldiers Home, Insane Asylum, Arlington House, Fort Albany and all the other pleasant drives we took. Do you think you shall want to come back again? I want you should read and spell a little to dear mother very often. So that when you return to Washington you can read all your pretty books to me. You must also go to Sunday School and learn to sing and learn good lessons with the other little children. When you come back here, I shall have you go to Sunday school every Sunday. You must be a good girl and do all you can to comfort and make dear mother happy. You are all the one she can depend on now. Tell dear Mother I feel very lonely without her and you and shall want your back pretty soon. Give her a great many sweet kisses for me & I send a great many to any dear little daughter also. Good bye with love from dear Father. The Washington Arsenal letterhead is unusual; it is where the four Lincoln assassination conspirators were held and hanged. Today, it is known as Fort McNair. The letter has light waterstaining that smears some ink; it is in very good condition.