Lost Horizon, Signed (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. An excellent copy, gently worn; Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An early printing in very good condition. The so called Hawthornden issue with the original jacket priced at $2.50. Cut signature of Hilton pasted to the first title page. Eighth printing of this issue from 1934. Uncommon. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hawthornden Prize Edition. Copyright Date Is 1934, Signed By The Author.Tthis Is The Hawthornden Prize Edition, Sixth Printing. Lost Horizon. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1934. 8Vo. Publisher'S Blueish-Gray Cloth Stamped In Blue (Cover Edges Gently Sunned); Original Unclipped Dust Jacket (Spine Panel Sunned With Tiny Chips Along Ends And Top Edge). Hawthornden Prize Edition, Later Printing Inscribed By Hilton: "Cordially/James Hilton" On Half-Title. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj not clipped, orange with black lettering and mountain insert in mylar, book boards are black with gilt lettering, front board cracked at spine from opening yet book is tight, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "for ?? with all good wishes from James Hilton, January 1947 this is the real I and believe, rather rare "first"" Pictures upon request. Signed by Author(s).

2nd or later. LOST HORIZON, Morrow, 1934, some tanning to the spine, else a nice, tight vg copy. Inscribed by the author and most desirable thus. Shangrila.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by James Hilton on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Ralph D. Hartman in Hollywood in July 1939. Hartman's bookplate to front pastedown. [iv], 277 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and pictorial blindstamping on front board, orange topstain. Very Good with rubbing to gilt and moderate wear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers and prelims from slips previously laid in, red penciled number and evidence of clipping removal to back endpapers. Contents lightly toned. In a scarce Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with moderate wear and light toning and soiling. Anatomy of Wonder 2-52. The book that originated Shangri-La, a mystical Tibetan utopia where humans live for centuries. Hilton's fantasy was a bestseller that spawned two film adaptations and a host of imitations. He moved to California in the 1930s and worked in the film industry, gaining American citizenship in 1948. Ralph D. Hartman likely sent Hilton this copy from Ohio, where he worked as a credit manager while pursuing his hobby of book collecting. A 1952 newspaper profile of Hartman noted that he owned some 2,000 first and special editions, many of them signed. Signed.