Gremlins, Signed (16 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Paperback edition. Signed by author on title page. (grammar, business communication).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. No publishing date. A signed gift inscription by the author is dated 1944. Original pictorial dustjacket age-browned and chipped. Red cloth gilt VG. Pages foxed at the edges, internally clean & tight. No inscriptions. 120 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Freas, Kelly (illustrator). First edition. Signed one the title page by the illustrator, Freas. One tiny spot of offsetting to the front free endpaper, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket with light rubbing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kelly Freas, dj art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has light soiling to the edges of the page block. The dust jacket has a three-quarter-inch closed tear to the top of the spine panel, light rubbing, and is unclipped ($6.50). Signed by the author, Ben Bova, on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Freas, Kelly (illustrator). First hardcover edition. Signed by Bova and the illustrator, Freas. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with one tiny tear. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frank Kelly Freas (illustrator). First Edition. Humorous SF novel of gremlins trying to hitch a ride on a Saturn V being launched at Cape Kennedy. Nice illustrations by Freas. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Bova and Dickson. Small closed tears on the front of the (unclipped) jacket, slight spine roll, slight foxing on edges of page block. A nice copy. Signed by Authors.

Signed first edition, lacking dustwrapper. pp.120. Wrapped in stamp adressed postal envelope to: Mrs. Nina Davidson. Red cloth covers, rather soiled, with black tles to spine. "W. H. Smith & Son's Library" label to verso of the front board. Ink inscription to front endpaper: "Nina, Sorry - but its out of print so you'll have to excuse this copy. Paddy Carstairs: '56". Hinges loose.Small stains to first 3 leaves. G+ .

GROSSFOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT.

First French Edition. Text in French. Signed by Gremlins film director Joe Dante twice -- once on the half-title page (the page preceding the title page containing only the book title) along with cinematographer John Hora as well as on the title page ÒAnother edition I never heard of! Ð Joe DanteÓ a movie tie-in novelization of the Steven Spielberg produced movie, George Gipe story from Chris ColumbusÕ screenplay. Hardcover, 5 x 9 inches, 249 pages, 8 page color photo section. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First edition of Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin, "Sorry Ray That's a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice." Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of The Truth About Mother Goose, Noah's Ark, and A Symposium On Popular Songs, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon. In total, Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features. Good in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and wear. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House.

First edition of Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walt Disney on the half-title page, "To Joan With Best Wishes Walt Disney." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Walt Disney. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House. The 1984 film Gremlins, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, is loosely inspired by Dahl's characters, featuring evil and destructive monsters which mutate from small furry creatures.

First editionÂof Dahlâs rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Tim xxx from Roald Dahl 19/6/43 There should be a bowler hat and a tail." Dahl has added a drawing of a hat and a tail on the gremlin. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed in the year of publication. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attachà for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post, he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins, a childrenâs story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore (notwithstanding Dahlâs claims to have invented the word) and sent it to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie, at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942, and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project, however, was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren, and invited Dahl to the White House.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Dahl on a laid in signature. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. This First Issue dustjacket has the $1.00 printed price present on the front flap. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Dahl First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

GROSSFOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT - Farbfoto, mit seinen 'GREMLINS'.

Großfoto (4°), eigenhändig signiert.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Michael Biddle, from Roald Dahl. 14/6/43". The US copyright card catalogue provides a publication date of 10 May 1943, and this copy is therefore inscribed within a few weeks of publication. Writing in 2006, the Disney historian Leonard Maltin described the volume as "a milestone" and a "charming book". During the summer of 1943, Dahl received an invitation to spend the weekend with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, the president's country retreat on the Hudson River. This copy was signed around this time for Michael Biddle, then aged around nine. Biddle (1934-2013) became a notable painter and printmaker, who lived in Croton-on-Hudson for most of his life. The stamps are for Hessian Hills School, in Croton-on-Hudson, which was a progressive school founded in 1925. It closed in 1952. The Gremlins was the author's first book. It was written as a promotional device for a feature-length Disney animation that was never produced, partly because the studio could not establish firm copyright in the "gremlin" characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once before) and partly because the British Air Ministry wanted final approval of the script and production. It was eventually agreed that royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book is described on the title and the front cover as being "From the Walt Disney Production"; the Disney studio wrote to Dahl in August 1943, after publication, cancelling any further preproduction work. Leonard Maltin, "The Gremlins Got 'Em" in Roald Dahl, The Gremlins, 2006. Quarto. Coloured illustrations throughout. Original red cloth-backed illustrated boards, spine lettered in black, yellow and red pictorial endpapers. Extremities worn with some minor loss, creases and bubbling to rear cover, some light soiling to spine, contents a little finger-soiled, some closed tears to occasional leaves, ink stamps to two pages, some scattered foxing: a good copy.