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Published by Doubleday And Company, New York, 1962
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. 763 Pp. First Trade Edition Of This Combined Edition, With Blue Cloth Binding And Dj Priced $6.95. Book With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, Dj With Wear And A Few Minute Losses At Edges. Inscribed As A Christmas Gift By Irving Stone And Dated 1964. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1936
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition / 14th Printing. First Edition / 1Fourth Printing. 15 x 21cm. Hard Cover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper : "Congratulations to one of / the winners of the contest / for prize costumes at the / Van Gogh Period Artists Ball / Sat. Nov. 28, at the Drake / Hotel, Chicago / Irving Stone". Moderate wear to covers, rubbed along edges of binding, top 1/Eighth" of spine missing, front inner hinge cracked but holding at title-page, top left corner of rear endpaper is torn off. 489pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1936
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition / 14th Printing. First Edition / 1Fourth Printing. 15 x 21cm. Hard Cover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper : "Congratulations to one of / the winners of the costume / contest at the Van Gogh / Period Artists Ball / Sat. Nov. 28, 1936 - at the / Drake Hotel, Chicago / Irving Stone". Slight fading to spine, small water spot on rear cover near center of spine hinge. 489pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.
Published by Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rogers, Howard (illustrator). First Thus. Signed by Stone on front inner flyleaf. Full Dark Brown leather bond. Gold gilt lettering and pages edge; some abrasions to top text block. 4 ribs on spine. Brown satin ribbon marker. Silk moire endpapers showing discoloration at edges from sun exposure. Boards are in very good shape, text is unmarked. Will look very handsome on your shelf. Signed by Author(s).
Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennyslvania, 1981
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Very Fine. The Franklin Library. A very fine copy bound in full leather by The Franklin Library and Signed by the Author. A very nice copy. No bumped corners to book. No rubbing to leather binding. No bookplates. Silk moire end papers with ribbon. Gold gilt edges are very clean and bright.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Signed
Condition: Fair. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 763 pages. Signed by the author. Blue dust jacket over blue cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Faint water staining to front board. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.
Published by Longmans, New York, 1935
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Very good with a slightly faded covers and spine, light bumps at the spine ends and corners, an illustration of Van Gogh has been tipped onto the dedication page and another photo has been tipped onto the rear endpaper, lacking a dustwrapper. Novel based on the life of Vincent Van Gogh, and basis for the excellent film featuring Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. Signed by the author.
Published by Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981
Seller: Ink & Quill Books, Oak Harbor, OH, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Howard Rogers (illustrator). Size: 9.25"x 6.5", dark brown leather with gilt lettering & decor. Limited Edition signed on 3rd end page. 512 pages, light fading on end paper. Lost gilt on bottom page edge. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday Books, 1959
ISBN 10: 0385042701ISBN 13: 9780385042703
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Later printing. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.3. signed by author.
Published by The Heritage Press: NY, 1936
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Vincent Van Gogh, 9.75 x 6.5", yellow leather, 507pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities quite worn, hinges loose, pp toned at margins (esp. endpapers). INSCRIBED "To Muriel Magerl Kyle who helped me through luncheon." AND SIGNED BY IRVING STONE, who adds "Detroit, Nov 22, 1939". Muriel Magerl Kyle was a famous (in Detroit, anyway) operatic singer.
Hardcover. Condition: Good condition. 489p. Signed by the author for the Parsons in Stockholm, 1962.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, New York, 1934
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing. Signed by author on front endpaper. Measuring approximately 8.25" x 5.75" with 489 numbered pages. This book is in good minus condition. Minor tearing to both ends of spine. Moderate staining and sunning to spine. Minor staining to all edges of textblock. Front hinge is cracked making front pages loose from binding. Author's signature on front endpaper. Interior pages are bright and clean. Lust for Life is a biographical novel by Irving Stone about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his hardships. 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. Inventory #(O2-48).
Published by The Franklin Library, 1981
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Signed by the author in the prelims. Beautiful copy bound in full leather with raised bands, gilt decoration, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Near fine, scratch on the edges.
Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1981
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Ed. (In S signed by author/dark brown leather HB with gilt lettering and designs on spine and gilt book edges and silk end pages.
Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, 1981
Book Signed
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 8vo pp. 512, full dark brown leather, gilt-embossed, 4 raised bands, AEG, Silk endpapers, satin ribbon. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper.Â"The most famous of all of Stoneâ s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Goghâ "brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered?. Signed by Author. book.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1934
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The cover has brown cloth with goldtone letters. 489 pages. Spine strip: The letters have darkened to brown. The bottom edge is frayed; the top edge is less so. Three board corners are threadbare. The text block ends have darkened. A bookplate is on the front pastedown. The inscription is " To one good friend of Vincent Van Gogh's, from another, Irving Stone to Henry Goddard Leach." Scans e-mailed upon request. Inscribed (to a name) & signed.
Published by Doubleday & Company January 1937, 1937
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: SIGNED / VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. INSCRIBED TO DORIS CROWLEY BY STONE used hardcover in a SUNNED dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Inscribed by Author.
Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1981
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Collector's Edition. A beautiful black leather SIGNED edition of one of Irving Stone's classic works: the story of Vincent Van Gogh. This book was the source of the classic movie of the same name starring Kirk Douglas. SIGNED by Stone, the signature is protected by tissue guard. With moire silk endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, bound-in silk bookmark. Typical fading to edges of endpapers and light marks on page edge not affecting the gilt; otherwise in fine unread condition. A handsome edition worthy of investment.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co, New York, 1934
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1934. First Edition. Signed by Irving Stone with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 489 pp. Brown cloth lettered in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Wear to spine ends with very minor fraying; spine gilt dulled. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
Published by Franklin Library, 1981
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Rogers, Howard (illustrator). Limited Edition. Lust For Life **SIGNED, LIMITED FULL LEATHER EDITION WITH THE IMPORTANT SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKLET** SIGNED BY Irving Stone. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION from the FRANKLIN LIBRARY, 1981. Gorgeous full brown leather with gilt in AS NEW condition. Illustrated by Howard Rogers. Genuine leather binding with gold-stamped title and decoration, four raised spine-bands, all edges gilt, silk moire end-papers, ribbon bookmark, the publisher's protective tissue-guard is present and laid-in to protect the authors signature Includes a "Special Message to Subscribers" from Irving Stone. Also included is the "NOTES FROM THE EDITORS" supplemental booklet that came with the signed limited edition with valuable insight in to the creation of this book including biographical photographs of the author at work. A GREAT GIFT QUALITY COPY WITH THE IMPORTANT SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKLET THAT COLLECTORS REQIURE. This book is one of 60 published by the Franklin Library's Signed leather bound Limited Edition series published between 1977 and 1982. This is a high quality production from the Franklin Library!!. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1981
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. ; Signed by author on 2nd FEP. ; First Franklin Library Edition.; Signed by Author.
Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1981
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Howard Rogers (illustrator). Fine. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Signed, Limited Edition. Signed by Irving Stone on the third free end paper. First Edition Thus. Includes the rather scarce 22-page "Notes from the Editors", which accompanied this edition in its original shipment. Octavo, 512 pp., illustrations by Howard Rogers, commissioned for this edition. Full rich brown leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, deep maroon moire endpapers, with matching satin page-marker ribbon. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, in a limited signed edition of Stone's 1934 first major publication, the biographical novel 'Lie Down in Darkness'. Paper is 60-pound Franklin Library '1854' Cream, typeface is 11-point Bodoni Book, gilt is 22 karat. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. As New; pristine and flawless. As bright, tight and immaculate as it was on its first day in 1981; please note that the deep maroon endpapers, have, at the front, developed a wine-red perimeter color, a not-unpleasing type of fade that apparently happens to this specific Franklin title. With the author's 'A Special Message to Subscribers from Irving Stone', written for this limited edition, and, of course, the separate 'Notes from the Editors', a very desirable example. See scans. L-frnkln3. Signed by Author(s).
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on FFEP. xii, 309, [2] pp. 12mo, turquoise cloth, gilt spine lettering, deckled fore edge, 4 color plates of Van Gogh paintings. A few spots of (likely) silverfishing, owner's name in pencil above inscription to FFEP, very clean and sharp otherwise. Unclipped '$4.95' DJ shows some moderate rubbing to extremities, with some minimal loss and a short tear to tail of front hinge, spine just faintly sunned, otherwise clean, now wrapped in mylar and quite presentable.
Published by Doubleday, 1937
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Early edition. Warm personalized inscription by Stone ("Fraternally, Irving Stone) on front free-endpaper. Clean turquoise boards tight and straight. Gilt titles bright, corners sharp and inner pages uniformly clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows price of $10, very light edgewear, now protected within mylar cover. Exceptionally clean and gently used edition.; 399 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1937
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Signed
Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed copy of Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh by Irving Stone, inscribed to book collector George R. Sanders. (illustrator). Early Printing. Octavo, xii, 399pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Slight separation beginning at hinges, spine still strong. A touch of wear to corners, faint sunning to top edge, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $4.95 retail price on front flap, tape remnants to verso, with usual sunning to spine. A touch of rubbing to corners, overall a bright example. Bookplate of George Sanders on front pastedown endpaper. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "For George R. Sanders from an old-time friend and confrere. Warmly Irving Stone Feb 7, 1964.".
Published by Heritage Reprints, 1937
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Signed
later. LUST FOR LIFE, Heritage Reprints, 1937, a bright vg+/near fine copy with 150 Van Gogh reproductions. INSCRIBED by the author and his wife to their cousins as well as SIGNED by Norman Corwin, who wrote the screenplay which helped win Anthony Quinn his Academy Award. A unique copy !!! Books in to film.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., 1934
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. LUST FOR LIFE, Longmans, Green & Co., 1934, first edition, small innocuous stain to the lower front fore edge corner tip, else just about fine in vg dust-wrapper save for some small chips missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine and head of the front dust-wrapper flaps as well as some creasing to the spine folds. SIGNED by the author on a rectangle piece of paper neatly attached to the f.e.p.
Published by Doubleday & Company, 1937
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. ; Green cloth cover is rubbed at corners and lightlyl turned in spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Inscribed and signed by author on front end sheet. Pages are clean and pristine. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has wear and small tears at extremities and sunned on spine panel but overall in very good- condition. Publisher's price of $7.95 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); Signed by Author.
Publication Date: 1939
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed
Inscribed to Paul Darrow and His Family Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent van Gogh. New York: The Modern Library, 1939. x, [2], 489 pp. Publisher's cloth, blind frames and gilt symbol to front board, gilt title to spine. Light fading to exterior, somewhat heavier to spine, spine gilt mostly oxidized, front joint starting, wear to spine ends, front hinge nearly split, internally clean. Presentation inscription to front free endpaper: "To the Paul Darrows-/ and to Mary-/ because I have the/ warmest hopes that they/ will be my friends./ Irving Stone/ Chicago/ Nov. 20, 1939." $450. * Later edition. First published in 1934, this biographical novel based on the life of Vincent van Gogh was one of Stone's most famous works. He would go on to write Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941), a well-received biography of the great American attorney. This copy is inscribed to Paul Darrow and his wife and daughter, perhaps as Stone was beginning to plan his Darrow biography. Paul Darrow [1883-1956] was Darrow's only child and a businessman in Chicago for most of his adult life.
Published by Longmans, Green, London, 1934
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition. 1st edition. Signed and inscribed, in ink, "With my best wishes Irving Stone." Spine gilt a bit tarnished, else fine, dustjacket with a 1/2" edge tear, else near fine.