Microcosm, Signed (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. RANCH ON THE PECOS, MICROCOSM WEST TEXAS U. S. A., Sue Littleton, softcover, first edition, illustrated, 1996. BOOK CONDITION: near fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. Signed and inscribed by the poet on the first free endpaper. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The illustrated wraps are in near fine condition. 9 x 6, 116 pages, 10 ounces XX [From the book] Born in Abilene TX, Sue Littleton spent her early childhood years on the Ranch on the Pecos. She lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 18 years where her three Argentine children and six grandchildren now live. In Buenos Aires she published her first two books of poetry, written in Spanish. In 1989 she received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude in Spanish and Latin American literature from St Edwards university in Austin, where she now lives and continues to write poetry on many different subjects. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A fine, fresh, hardcover copy with a clean, well-bound interior and an unmarked, blue exterior with gilt lettering on the spine. Housed in a good dust jacket with creases, chips, and other signs of edgewear. Apparent Catenian Association award inscription SIGNED by Grand Vice President.6"x9.75", xv+232 pages. A history of the establishment, growth, failures, and influences of the Catenitian Association, a Catholic institution of Great Britain founded in 1908. Includes historic photograph illustrations. Indexed. To access more books related to Christianity, go to Abebooks.com and search using our unique keyword BBLBX, or visit our shop in Fort Worth. Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 160p hardback, green photographic dustjacket, white lettering to spine, contains various illustrations, an excellent copy, signed by the author Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A NICE COPY as pictured Very good condition hard cover. signed by many student to Leah gently read clean pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 351pp. Heavily illustrated in color. Binding trifle cocked else fine in price-clipped and lightly worn, near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vintage Hardcover, First Edition, Signed by the Author, 1976, Plymouth Historical Society, 240 pages. Very Good+, in VG DJ. Just a whisper of shelf/edge wear to dark olive cloth boards with brown titles - corners sharp. Only flaw is a small smudge on the FFEP. Moderate shelf/edge wear, rubbing and some dust soiling to original DJ - now in mylar. Authors signature on the FFEP dated 2/13/76. No other markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Well done local history of Plymouth, Michigan from 1824 to 70's. 10 chapters, Assessment and Conclusion, Bibliography and index. 25 pages of vintage B&W photographs. Lots of local history here - families, businesses, churches, organizations and more. Recommended.A very handsome Signed First Edition in DJ.LOC SSE-02. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Notes, Index. previous owner's bookplate on small title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover in excellent condition (light handling), with fair dust jacket (small edge chips and tears, light to moderate wear). 291 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to the first owner. DJ protected by clear, removeable mylar. [1.5 lbs]. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition (?). B&W Illustrations; 8.6 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 240 pages; SIGNED BY AUTHOR, INSIDE FRONT COVER, DATED 2/14/76. Hard cover is wheat colored with brown lettering on front and spine. Slight bumping, and rubbing to boards. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. DJ has rubbing, scuffing, bumping, some nicks around the edges; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with 25 b/w photographs. "'Plymouth could be called an epitome of most of the small communities of the United States--a midwest microcosm.' .is a history of the community from 1824 when the first settlers arrived. Original sources are used to describe the naming of the township, the settlers' relations withe the Potawatomie Indians, and the wildlife abundant in Plymouth when the settlers arrived. .covers early economic development, including the era when Plymouth was the air-rifle capital of the world." Plymouth is still a charming, Detroit suburb, with a vibrant downtown. Bibliography; index. ; Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. assumed first edition. 8x10 Oblong gray black hardcovers. 26pp examples of thbe author's craft pottery. Numerous color photos. Inscribed and signed by author. Examples of his side fired pottery -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors., Signed.

319 S., Wegen der EPR-Bestimmungen liefern wir nicht nach Bulgarien, Dänemark, Estland, Griechenland, Irland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Kroatien, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Slowenien und Ungarn. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 505 OLn. 2, OU, hs, Wi e. Autors (M.Jha).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Booklet, stapled. Off-print. Pp. 55-71. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author to front free end-paper. A little fading to covers. A very pleasing copy. (a8). Inscribed By Author.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - 240 pages, indexed, bibliography, illustrated with maps and 25 pages of photos, Plymouth Michigan Local History, Underground Railway, Civil War, Michigan Genealogy, Henry Ford, Air Rifle capital of America, etc. - signed and inscribed on flyleaf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Volume 1 is flat signed by Gary Muir, the complete set of two volumes both have crisp clean unmarked pages, and solid tight bindings. slight wear to their edges. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed Limited Edition of 300 copies, this copy No.27 signed and numbered by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe to limitation page. Small 4to, pp160 plus b/w frontis Hardcover no dust jacket. specially bound copy with full tan morocco, gilt lines with blue, red and green leather inlays and gilt titles to spine. Binding in very good condition with a few small scratches to boards and a few marks. Inside a few small spots of foxing to prelims with all other pages in excellent clean and bright condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. 5th (Physician's) Edition, Inscribed association copy, 79 pages of text, with 38 unnumbered pages of Cole's work and critical comments thereon. With black and white reproductions of famous paintings and other artworks. Ex.-lib., inscribed by the author's son and editor, Jonathan Ackerman Coles, to Noah Brooks, one-time editor of The California Newspaper at the time Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Joaquin Miller were writing for it--Brooks is considered in part responsible for Twain's writing of The Innocents Abroad. Brooks also served as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln at the close of the civil war. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 160 pages.Solid copy with a slight spine lean, small bumps on corners of covers and covers show minor wear. Copy # 150 of 300. Except for editor's signature, the interior is unmarked. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Inscribed by Author(s)The boards are worn.Gift inscription signed by author.Previous ownership stamp.Foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First. First edition. INSCRIBED ON THE FFEP "MISS__________/ WITH THE RESPECTS/ OF THE AUTHOR". Slim octavo in forest green cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; 91 pps. Rather scarce printing of this lengthy verse piece relating to anthropology, delivered by Dr. Coles at the Centenary Anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of New Jersey. oles was its president at this time and his address, delivered in January, 1866 is also included here. A tight, very good copy with some wear at the tips and spine ends.

Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bound collection of poetry. Light wear to boards, mild foxing throughout, PP clean and tidy Size: 8vo. By Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 356 [4]. With 15 illustrated figures, and with 3 illustrated maps. Publisher's black quarter cloth with beige boards, silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Gorgeous copy, virtually no issues. Fine. Campbell's book looks beyond the campaign orientation of most regimental histories to explore how the Royal Americans helped to forge new Atlantic connections. Campbell takes a closer look at the motivations of regimental founder James Prevost (a Swiss mercenary) and explores how migration to America attracted rank-and-file soldiers. Signed.

4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, title and text in blue and black; ivory buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, silver top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 32). WITH THE AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION LEAF LOOSELY INSERTED. SCARCE.

4to. 160pp. Prontis plate. Number 84 of a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies. In white buckram with silver gilt titles and monogram. Top edge silver others uncut. a near fine copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 160pp. No 31 of a signed edition, limited to 300 copies. Printed on Millbourn hand-made paper and bound by Leighton-Straker bookbinders. Bound in strong ivory buckram cloth with silver lettering and motif. Silvered top page edges, all other page edges rough cut. Signed by Dorothy una Ratcliffe on the colophon page, as part of the limited edition. Also signed and inscribed by Ratcliffe, ' To K C, with love, from D U R, Xmas 1935' on the front free endpaper. (Boards very slightly soiled, gently rounded at corner points and spine tips). Internally very occasional, faint foxing. Dorothy Una Ratcliffe was a British socialite and writer, more often known by her initials, D U R. Although born and raised in Sussex and Surrey, she had a deep love of Yorkshire and the Dales, where her father came from. She wrote in the Yorkshire dialect, publishing 49 books and editing The Microcosm. This volume contains poems marking the demise of that magazine. Small 4to.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of Abraham Coles's poem, inscribed by the author to his sister. A signed presentation copy of this poem by the American physician, translator, author and poet Abraham Coles.Inscribed 'To Jeanie C Ackerman from her brother Abe Coles' to a front blank.A lengthy verse poem relating to anthropology, delivered by Dr. Abraham Coles at the Centenary Anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Coles was president of the society at this time, and his address is also included here. In a calf binding, with gilt detailing to back strip. Fading to black strip, as is common with blue leather. Rubbing to front board, resulting in area of fading. Light rubbing to joint heads and tails. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to a front blank. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed "with respects of the author to John C. Dalton" on the flyleaf. Dalton was an American physiologist and vivisection activist, who became the first full-time professor of physiology in the United States. A poem "read before the Medical Society of New Jersey at its Centenary Anniversary, with the address delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866". 91 pages, with 3 illustrations, each of which is a bit faded and 1 of which has a small edge tear. Frontis removed and then replaced with darkened glue residue. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Very slight wear at the spine ends, just about fine. Inscribed by Coles: "Dr. John J. Craven with the respects of the Author. June 8/66." At the time of this inscription, the recipient Dr. Cravens, surgeon for the 1st New Jersey Militia, was serving at Fortress Monroe where he numbered Jefferson Davis among his patients, and in 1866 he wrote *The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis*.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. August 1881- July 1882; Vol 1. 360; Vol. 2 (12 numbered monthly issues), August 1882 - July 1883, 384 pages. Inscription states, "To Wilford Grindle from his friend The Author A. Wilford Hall May 29th 1885". Devoted to the Discoveries, Theories, and Investigations of Modern Science in their bearing upon the Religious Thought of the Age, With other matters of general interest. Gilt and black letters. Gilt pictorial of world on cover. Pages yellowing. Frontispiece - engraving of A. Wilford Hall. Finger smudges on first three pages. Shelf wear and corner bumps. Spine starting at front and back covers. Binding tight otherwise. Interior pristine with the exception of a few dog-eared pages and a couple of pages with minor edge bumping. Signed and Inscribed By Author.