Johnson by Hill, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing; Signed and inscribed by Hill at title page; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped jacket Very Good; An excellent copy. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Gallery Books, 2016. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin on title page (flat signed). Book is like new with bump to top right corner of back board. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Hill, Clint; McCubbin Hill, Lisa. Signed by both authors on full title page. Signatures only. Hardcover first edition, first printing published in 2016 by Gallery Books. Small nick at bottom of spine, near fine jacket otherwise. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by both authors on Title page. Black paper boards with red foil-stamped spine. As New (Very Fine) condition with NO flaws. NO chipping, rubbing, bumping, soiling, toning, folds, creases or tears. NO markings of any kind throughout. NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ is As New with price intact: $28.00. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Lancelot Speed (illustrator). Edition De Luxe. Small folio. Wraps. A fair copy in a very good slip-case. Spine creased with closed tear across spine and near three inch tear at join of spine and lower board. Spine lettering rather faint.Two gatherings loose. De Luxe limited edition of 160 copies signed by Birkbeck Hill. Pp.xviii,318. Numerous illustrations including full-page plates which appear in two states the first of which are signed in pencil by Speed. Other illustrations include a facsimile letter by Johnson and a folding route map. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: VG. Lancelot Speed (illustrator). 1st Edition. Deluxe edition of 160 copies. This unnumbered. Signed at limitation by G Birkbeck Hill. Frontispiece & 22 other bw plates, folding facsimile letter and folding coloured map. IN THIS COPY ARE 18 ONLY (OF 22) ADDITIONAL PLATES signed in pencil by Lancelot Speed. (Lacks plates at p142/166/200 and 224) Excellent bright copy (frontispiece slightly spotted). In rather worn original slipcase. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2021 £8) Packed weight 4100g. NOT AVAILABLE OVERSEAS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Caslon. One of 75 copies printed in black (the initials in red) on Arches paper. Frontispiece and six reproductions of drawings by the author. Quarter blue cloth, French marbled paper boards with printed labels. A fine copy with a signed presentation slip from the author. Keepsake Number 93 of the Columbiad Club of Connecticut. Signed by Author(s).

Published at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1887, 1st thus. Sixo volume set in matching full leather bindings. with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering on black leather patches to compartments two and three. Gilt decoration to other compartments. Gilt crest of Westminster School to front board. Gilt inner dentelles. AEG. Binding by Henry Sotheran & Co, London. Each 9ins x 6ins with marbled endpapers. Fourteen plates (8 folding) as required. Volume one: xxviii, 522pp plus 4 plates (2 portraits, a facsimile of ?ohnson's handwriting and a facsimile letter). Volume two :[vi], 480pp plus portrait and folding facsimile of handwriting. Volume three: [vi], 464pp plus portrait and a folding facsimile of a letter. Volume four: [vi], 446pp plus folding facsimile of handwriting. Volume five: [viii], 460pp plus portrait, folding facsimile of handwriting and coloured folding map. Volume six: lxxiv, 324pp plus folding table of Johnson's contempories. The first blank page of volume one is inscribed "St. Peter's College, Westminster. Election 1889 - The Marshal Memorial Prize awarded to E. H. Marsh" signed by the headmaster William Gunion Rutherford. Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG ( 1872-1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to a succession of the United Kingdom's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. [Wikipedia]. Slight rubbing to head of spine of volume one and too a couple of the raised bands, otherwise a Very Good attractively bound set.

First Edition Thus. Volumes I through IV measure approximately 9" x 6" while the fifth book in the set measures approximately 8.25" x 5.5". These volumes are in very good condition.Gilt lettering on the spines are bright and well preserved. Minor surface wear and staining to the cloth boards. Tour of Hebrides is dedicated to Robert Adam - who was the son of the famous Johnsonian book collector Robert Borthwick Adam. The book is signed by Robert Adam to his son and is also signed by the editor Robert William Chapman on the half-title page: "to the friend whose help made this edition possible". Volume I of Boswell's Life of Johnson comes with a signed letter from Lawrence Fitzroy Powell, who was the Samuel Johnson scholar that revised the present work. The letter is signed to R. B. Adam thanking him for his contributions to the four volume collection in the acknowledgment section. Volume IV has a signed letter from Oxford Clarendon Press laid in that is addressed to R. B. Adam. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.

On three sides of a vellum bifolium supplied by the London law stationers Witherby & Co. Dimensions of leaf 39 x 26 cm. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. The document is a draft, with several emendations in pencil, including a lengthy addition in the margin of first page, and a shorter one on the second page. Laid out in customary style, within red rules. Docketed on fourth side: 'Dated 15th August 1914 | The Earl of Ducie and Others | to | The Earl of Ducie and Others | Red Cross Garden | Assignment'. With stamp of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, signed by Hugh de Bock Porter. The document is signed by eight individuals: the Earl of Ducie, Lancelot William Bennett, Charles Stewart Loch, Mary Lumsden, Helen Ironside, Janet Johnson, Thomas Slingsby Tanner, Cecil Antony Nussey, with each of the eight signatures accompanied by that of a different witness. Eight wafer seals in red wax, on a length of green ribbon. The document refers back to the original 999-year lease of 1888, with original lessees 'the said Earl of Ducie William Waldegrave Viscount Wolmer M.P. Herbert Bulkey Mackworth Praed Robert Hunter C.B. [i.e. Sir Robert Hunter (1844-1913)] Octavia Hill and the said Helen Ironside and the said Janet Johnson'. The document explains that as Hill and Hunter (both instrumental in the foundation of the National Trust) have since died, 'the Assignors are desirous of vesting the said premises in the assignees'. Red Cross Garden was laid out in 1887 on the site of a burnt down paper factory and a derelict warehouse. With its ornamental pond, a bandstand, a covered play area for children, and colourful mosaics , the garden was the venue for the annual Southwark Flower Show, and other fetes and celebrations. The garden has recently been restored, and is now run by the Bankside Open Spaces Trust.