Literary Characters, Signed (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing. 8vo. 31 pages. Soft cover bound in tan wrappers. Light rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. INSCRIBED by the author on the last leaf. Signed by Author(s).

Black Hardcover. Condition: Fair-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. George Price (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the author on the verso of the free front endpaper, "Ira J. Wallace, Chicago, 1951" (bottom of inside back cover has label of the Red Door Bookshop, Chicago; perhaps Mr. Wallach took part in a book-signing session there). Binding is very worn and chipped and has soil; outer fore edge and several margins have stain(s) and/or soil. 134 p. [M1:3:5]. Signed by Author.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near VG Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: NVG. George Price (illustrator). First Edition. Book has one slightly bumped corner. Dj has edgewear and rear cover soiling. Signed by the Author on the fep. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1954. Edwin Baker (illustrator). Printed in the city of Oxford at the: Alden Press, 29 pp, printed paper wraps, with red string as binding, First edition, minor foxing to covers with page edges surrated still in GOOD TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. Signed by Author(s).

[Literary Offprint] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.32. INSCRIBED in black ink to inside of cover on behalf of the publisher. Publisher's plain paper covers with woodcut illustrations, bound with thick brown string. Lightly toned and spotted. Browning to spine and outer edges, with some thumbing and creasing to covers. Very good. 'This series of Literary Characters appeared in 'Now & Then' numbers 77-87 and is here reprinted by Jonathan Cape Limited for their friends Christmas 1954.'. Signed.

Three Quarter Morocco Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two Volumes complete. FIRST EDITION. Lovely tan three quarter morocco leather signed by the binder Duvald. Raised bands, gilt tooled designs in comparments. Modest wear to the extremites, Top edges gilt. Ribbon. Marbled boards and endpapers. 422 pages and 316 pages. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. JOHN FISKE (March 30, 1842 - July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian. John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where his father died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. As a child, Fiske exhibited remarkable precocity. He lived at Middletown during childhood, until he entered Harvard. He graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and from Harvard Law School in 1865. He had already admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1864, but never practised law. His career as author began in 1861, with an article on "Mr. Buckle's Fallacies" published in the National Quarterly Review. After that, he was a frequent contributor to American and British periodicals. From 1869 to 1871, he was university lecturer on philosophy at Harvard, in 1870 instructor in history there, and assistant librarian 1872-1879. On resigning the latter position in 1879, he was elected a member of the board of overseers, and at the expiration of the six-years' term was re-elected in 1885. Beginning in 1881, he lectured annually on American history at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and beginning in 1884 held a professorship of American history at that institution, but continued to make his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He lectured on American history at University College London in 1879, and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1880. He gave many hundreds of lectures, chiefly upon American history, in the principal cities of the United States and Great Britain. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Binder. Hardcover.