Luck Book, Signed (14 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by author on dedication page. Volume 2. (juvenile fiction).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Ruddell, Gary (Cover); Norey, Virginia (Map) (illustrator). Signed and inscribed by author on title page, "To Craig Lynn Flewelling." Binding tight; interior clean. Appears unread! When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn't commit, he gains a mentor he never could have seen coming! 14th printing per copyright number line. 479pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. 243 pages. Illustrated by Pete Williamson. The third book in the Raven Mysteries books for children. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the title page. Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. Solstice and Cudweed are appalled to find their father has appointed a new school master. But things get even worse when the grumpy, viciously mean teacher actually arrives.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Hardcover, in dustjacket. SIgned, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. There is some spine twist. Else the binding is clean & bright. The is an inkstamped number (0127) at the bottom of the front flyleaf. Else the pages are clean. The DJ is clean & bright, with just a TINY bump at the spine head. ; 28D; 9-1/4" x 6"; 399 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Belina Huey, dj design and art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has a date in ink to the front free end paper. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00). 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 number line. Signed by the author on the title page.

Spiral bound. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Gross, Edward Red & Black cover art (illustrator). First Edition. GOOD Condition, corners bit bumped, White back cover minor lite smudges .SIGNED BY AUTHOR INNER COVER 'For fun in your kitchen Barbara I. Gillard". Clean text pages.Solidly bound, not torn at any spirals, etc. ; RED METAL spirals to stiff card board covers. ; 65pg thin pages; Favorite Recipes. same Small Drawing introduces each MENU section.Author of "PASS ME ANOTHER" cookbook. These recipes are for POT LUCK GATHERINGS FOR 6 to * for conveience. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Al Murphy, dj art (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the Author(s). The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.99). 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 number line. The book is signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. All three books are 1st edition, 1st impression, complete number lines, flat signed on title/limitation page by author, unread. Dustjackets are not price clipped, and have been covered in a clear non-adhesive archival quality covers. Books details as follows - Some Luck, Mantle in association with Goldsboro Books, 2014, limited 208/350, ISBN 9781447275596; Early Warning, Mantle in association with Goldsboro Books, 2015, limited 37/350, ISBN 9781447275640; Golden Age, Mantle, 2015, ISBN 9781447275671. Flat signed on title/limitation pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Decorative green cloth stamped in gilt, dark green, and blue. Slightly bowed with some bumping on the edges, spine a touch faded, a very good copy. Signed by the author on the front fly. Fictional sketches of hard luck that originally appeared in the New York Sun, told by the Harlem Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates. Though most books from this publisher are reprints, this is the first appearance in book form. Scarce, especially Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition of Hell of a Book by Jason Mott. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 319pp, [5]. Blue hardcover, title in silver on yellow spine. Stated "1st Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $27.00 retail price on front flap, with a "Read with Jenna" label on front panel, indicating the TODAY show book club with Jenna Bush Hager. Signed by Jason Mott on the half title. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first U.K. edition of Hell of a Book by Jason Mott. (illustrator). First U.K. Edition, First Impression. Octavo, [8], 319pp, [5]. Black hardcover, title in white on spine. Full number line on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, £14.99 retail price on front flap. Signed by Jason Mott on the title page, dated "3-12-22." A rare example. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition of Hell of a Book by Jason Mott, with a special inscription from the author. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 319pp, [5]. Blue hardcover, title in silver on yellow spine. Stated "1st Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $27.00 retail price on front flap, with a "Read with Jenna" label on front panel, indicating the TODAY show book club with Jenna Bush Hager. Signed by Jason Mott on the half title: "Jason Mott / 11-24-21 / 'I just want you to see it the way it really is.' pg. 304.". Signed.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Rough. Grant, Gordon (illustrator). First, Signed. This book is in very good shape. The upper corners of the boards has been bumped, cloth slight fray on upper corner of back board. but there is very little edge wear. No cocking of the boards. Upper edges of the boards have darkened. Small spot on bottom of front board near the edge. Back board has stain in the gutter between board and spine. End papers have darkened on edges and hinge gutters. Hinge paper is solid front and back. Frontis sketch retains tissue cover. Text is clean with occasional smudges. Author/ Artist has signed the half-title page. The DJ has fared worse. There is edge wear, spotting and chipping. The chipping is mostly at the head and foot of spine, and the flap hinges. There is also some staining and darkening of the spine. It is unclipped and we have placed it in a protective cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed By Artist.

?You need an awful lot of luck when working with the sea and with fish.??A fascinating, unpublished letter obtained by us directly from the recipient?s familyOn HemingwayAfter covering the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vig?a (?Lookout Farm?), an unpretentious estate outside Havana, Cuba. In 1940 he published ?For Whom the Bell Tolls?, which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in ?A Farewell to Arms? he focused on its pointlessness, and in ?For Whom the Bell Tolls? on the comradeship it creates. During World War II, he flew several missions with the Royal Air Force and landed with American troops on D-Day. He saw a good deal of action in Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge. He also participated in the liberation of Paris. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway returned to his home in Cuba and turned his attention to writing again. He also traveled widely, and at the end of their 1953-1954 African safari, the Hemingways survived a near-fatal plane crash, only to have their rescue plane crash the very next day. Though they survived the second crash as well, newspapers around the world carried brought the details to the reading public. Soon after, he received the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for ?The Old Man and the Sea?, a short heroic novel about an old Cuban fisherman who, after an extended struggle, hooks and boats a giant marlin only to have it eaten by voracious sharks during the voyage home. That book also played a role in gaining for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. It ran in its entirety in five million copies of Life Magazine, and the 50,000 copies printed in book form sold out in ten days.In 1955, back in Cuba, Hemingway turned fifty-five and tried to follow his doctors? advice by reducing his drinking. In October it is announced that he has been awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. All of his wife?s? efforts to protect his privacy were sabotaged by the crush of worldwide press and the fact that Hemingway invited any and all to the Finca Vigia to visit. In the summer of 1955 he was working on the filming of ?The Old Man and the Sea? starring Spencer Tracy. The pace of people and press, of lunches and drinking, finally takes its toll and in the autumn of 1955 Hemingway took to his bed for two months, suffering from hepatitis and nephritis.On his friend Mary LouA young American naval officer named Morris was on a training mission with the military and a liberty stop was scheduled for Havana, Cuba, in late January 1955. Mary Lou Firle, his girl friend at the time, and later his wife, was then a second year student at CCNY, and she arranged a trip Cuba so they could meet in Havana. She went a week earlier and stayed at Veradero Beach outside Havana with some other students. Their place at the beach cost $1.00 per day. Before she left she bet a friend that she would have Ernest Hemingway sign the book she had, ?Farewell to Arms.? Mary Lou and boyfriend Morris met in Havana. They went to the famous El Floridita for daiquiris and had dinner. She wore pants (slacks) which were unusual for ladies at the time. The next day they went to Veradero Beach. His ship departed on Sunday.A day or so Later Mary Lou telephoned Ernest Hemingway. When he answered she introduced herself and added, ?I have a friend at Fordham University.? Hemingway immediately assumed the friend was Prof. Bob Brown who had been in touch with Hemingway on several occasions. Brown was writing a book or articles about Hemingway. Hemingway told Mary Lou that his wife Mary was away and he had to entertain visitors from the French Embassy that afternoon. He asked her if she would come to his home and help him. Mary Lou agreed and Hemingway sent his driver to pick her up.At the meeting a member of the group, possibly the ambassador, said she looked familiar and that he had seen her at the Floridita with a naval officer. She stood out because she wore pants. After the meeting the group drove her back to Havana. Hemingway invited her back the next day for lunch and sent his driver to pick her up. They spent the afternoon talking. When Hemingway asked her about Prof. Brown, she replied, ?Who is Professor Brown?? She said she knew one of his students. Hemingway laughed really hard about that and her ?trick.? She had told him of her family background, that her parents were born in Germany. Since she had been at Veradero Beach for a week she had a deep tan, and Hemingway called her the ?Black Kraut.? The reason for the nickname, Hemingway said, was that he called his good friend, Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress, ?Kraut?; so Mary Lou would be the ?Black Kraut.? Later that day Hemingway?s driver drove her back to Havana.In the Spring of 1955 Mary Lou, a friend and Morris met Professor Brown at his home on Long Island. When Mary Lou wrote to Hemingway about a possible trip to Cuba in the Summer, he wrote back to discourage the trip (too hot in Cuba). He told about how busy he was with his film, ?The Old Man And The Sea,? adding that ?You need an awful lot of luck when working with the sea and with fish.?Hemingway?s letter to his black krautTyped letter signed, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, July 29, 1955, to Mary Lou. ?I don't think August is a good time to take a vacation in Cuba . It is cooler here in the hills than any place except the sea but last night it was so hot I couldn't sleep. The trade winds are not blowing and the general weather plan for July has been very hot mornings in town and moderately cool here until lately; then rains starting at noon. For two weeks the first part of July it rained nearly all day day and night. This was good for the farm because we had had a seven months drought. But it is poor vacation weather. August promises to be very hot and probably with rains in the afternoons. You would be much better off to take a vacation somewhere in the north where it should be cool by then. That heat spell.