Great Themes, Signed (8 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: good+. 294 pages + blank for notes; 8" tall; presentation copy inscribed by the author with message to John Vincent *******; some wear to extrems of cover. Signed by author. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A little curling to the edges. Otherwise very good. No markings. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full printing line with "1" on its copyright page, and publisher's original "$22.95" price on its jacket's front flap. SIGNED, with no personalization or inscription, by authors William F. Nolan and Howard Waldrop on the title page of their stories. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by light bumps on its spine ends, and a very slightly "cocked" spine (square at its bottom, with very slight "lean" at its top.) Its binding is sound, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright silver titles on its spine. Pages are unworn and otherwise unmarked. Not a remainder. It's dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in very good condition: whole, bright, and unmarked, witth traces of wear on its edges and folds, but otherwise unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 33 1/3rd record; 12 3/8" x 12 3/8", original pictorial stiff sleeve with plain inner sleeve; very good (minor signs of handling). Record appears to be in unplayed condition. Signed and inscribed on the front cover in black: "To Jane from Bob Ralston" Requires extra shipping for US and overseas. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! London: Paper Tiger, 2003. 4to hardcover. 128 pages. Numerous full-color reproductions of art throughout. Limited edition, copy 146 of 200. Signed by Jane and Howard Frank on front free endpaper. A very good book in very good dust jacket. Top corner of rear board lightly bumped. Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2003 First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust Jacket. No visible blemishes. Inscribed by authors on half-title page. Interior is clean and unmarked. DJ is Very Good with no visible blemishes. 128p.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1ST. Excellent Copy - Limited Edition. Number 175 Of 200 Numbered Copies. Signed By Jane And Frank Howard On The Title Page. Also Signed By Kim Fowler, Jim Burns, John Skipp, & Lisa Snellings. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, No Real Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks, And Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Oblong 4to. 10 x 8 x 1.75 in. [2], 52, [1] leaves, numbered in pencil manuscript, including manuscript index leaf listing all the paintings within, excluding the frontisp. & rear pastedown watercolour paintings. With 55 paintings, with most sized from 5.5 x 4.5 in. up to 7.5 x 5.5 in., all w/ neatly penciled manuscript borders, most w/ annotations below, and nearly all paintings signed, many dated, 2 smaller are mounted on leaf 25 of the Scottish Highlands, most are watercolours with graphite underdrawing, a few are graphite sketches, w/ watercolour highlights, and elements added. Contemporary black half-diced-calf over gray-brown pebbled cloth, white silk moire endpapers, gilt ruling & lettering on spines (minor scuffing, edgewear, minor wear to corners), still an exceptionally bright exemplar. This marvelous album of original Victorian watercolours by retired Royal Marine Artillery officer, and longtime art instructor at Sandhurst elicit a nearly pastoral sense, including nautical themes, historic homes, inns, castles, and landscapes. The album opens with a vivid watercolour painting of a decidedly bucolic Virginia Water, possibly on the present-day Wentworth Estate with small boat amidst the water and trees, and closes with a fine painting of steamship sailing past yachts tacking in the background and storm clouds above. The album begins with Milton's Cottage at Chalfont St. Giles where he completed Paradise Lost, and conceived Paradise Regained during the Plague years, and was a popular subject of other British painters, including Donald Macleod, Joseph Webb, and Charles Leaver. Other paintings include those of the Martello Tower at Seaford, one of the 103 towers built from Aldeburgh to Suffolk on the coast of Eastbourne in 1803 when Napoleon threatened to cross the channel; Brook Place at Chobham, a Dutch-gabled home built by William Beauchamp in 1656 after the original Elizabethan home had burned down in 1648; the HMS Hannibal at Portsmouth, warship laid down in 1840, utilized screw propulsion, and a 91 gunner commanded in the Crimean War by John Charles Dalrymple Hay -- at the time of this painting it was serving to alleviate overcrowding in the training ship Boscawan. Other nautical themes include No. 8 a view of ships in Portsmouth Harbour with the dockside in the background; No. 9 a sidewheeler steamship with lighters and rock nearby in the Medway off Gravesend; No. 11, a view of tall ships under sail at Fowey off Cornwall, and even No. 47, a nicely rendered painting of boats sailing on the Medway with sails in colour, and faint outlines of Rochester Castle and nearby Cathedral in the background.Fothergill also painted landscapes such as No. 14, Hindhead HIll, Surrey, on the main Portsmouth to London road, 13 miles southwest of Guildford, with Gibbet Hill rising in the background above the surrounding Heath; three beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, No. 48 Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull, Scotland in 1897, which would later be purchased in 1911 by Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean and restored; Beeston Castle above the Cheshire Plain; No. 24, Franks Hall in Horton Kirby, Kent, Framingham after the property had passed to Vavasour Earle, and in its original state; No. 26, the Mitcham Common Windmill, one of the few houses ever built on the common and operated as windmill until 1863 when two sails were destroyed as depicted here -- it was later dismantled down to the base in 1905. Other historic places such as the Old White Horse Inn in Edinburgh, where during the 1639 rebellion against King Charles I, the Presbyterian ministers urged a mob to lay siege preventing the noblemen from escaping except for the Marquis of Montrose. This painting reflects its dilapidated Victorian state, rather than the restored 1960's version visible today. Fothergill (1839-1903) remains an enigma to many of the typical art references for British painters, and exhibited three watercolours at the Society of British Artists between 1880 a.