Man by Briggs: Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author and by Bill Camp. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations. Dust jacket is wrapped. Minor wear including foxing to page edge. HB HS. Signed.

Decorative Hardback. Condition: Near Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design . Complete number line at copyright page. Signed by author [name only] at title page. NON price-clipped DJ [$16.00] in new archival mylar, clean, crisp, colors bright, minimal edge wear, two small, shallow dents. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Pages [57 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Pictorial boards, clean, colors bright, small area scuffed at bottom edge. Sundarbans is a Tiger Reserve in India and Bangladesh. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Briggs, Eleanor (illustrator). Signed by Author.…

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by William J. Briggs. Octavo, red and tan cloth, gilt letters, xiv, 341 pp. Illus. Biography of a man who revolutionized California agriculture in the early twentieth century. Very Good+ with very light foxing to page edges. Agriculture, cotton, Whittier College, Farming. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Second edition, a fine book SIGNED on title page by Briggs, Dust jacket has minimal edge wear. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 4to. [28 pp]. Fine in side-stapled and taped wrappers. One of 7 numbered copies "For friends + patrons of Wormwood" SIGNED by Briggs. His first book, issued as No.2H.C.P.-64 SERIES.

CRIMINOLOGIEBRIGGS (L. V.).The manner of man that kills. Spencer, Czolgosz, Richeson.Boston, 1921, in-8°, cart. pl. perc., avec qq. pl., 444p. Exemplaire dédicacé à Pierre Janet, et portant son cachet. 1000 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Julia MacRae, London in 1992. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a little toning to the extreme page edges. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with just a hint of toning to the spine and edges. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been inscribed but he author to the title page : 'For John, Raymond Briggs, 1998'. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Leonard Bernstein on the FFEP in black felt pen, 'For SO + RS / [Signed] / '89.' 275pp. 12mo, two-toned black and red cloth with printed photo image of Bernstein on the upper black front cover, lettering stamped in gilt; B/W photo plates. Exceedingly clean and sharp, a FINE copy; DJ tips worn, price clipped, clean and bright otherwise. Briggs chronicles 'Bernstein's meteoric rise, at the age of twenty-five, to the conductorship of the New York Philharmonic' as well as scoring West Side Story, On the Waterfront, and many other major Broadway musicals. Although Briggs depicts Berstein as a happily married family man, by this point he had been having affairs with men and women for many years. It was in California where Bernstein first lived openly as a gay man in the 70's and met Stathis and Ralph. He signed this and two other books with a greeting for his last Christmas before dying in October of 1990. Of particular note is this book's association with the prominent LA gay couple, Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos. In addition to Stathis's highly regarded photography, the two operated the great fine-press publishing concern, Sylvester & Orphanos. Signed.…