Pieces Book, Signed (14 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. Ruben Toledo (illustrator). The One Hundred is signed by the author. Color ils throughout each volume; black cover to Little Black Book. & silver cover to The One Hundred; red slipcase has a bit of wear to extrems. Signed by author. Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Limited. [1st printing](2005) Cover art by Caniglia. Limited to 450 signed, numbered copies, of which this is 173. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, this copy is tight and the interior is clean of any marks. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine -. 223 pages filled with musings on nature by the writer / columnist as published in the Wellington Advertising. Green, glossy, pictorial wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Minor corner ccrling. ***Inscribed by Author***.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Signed copy. Signed by Author(s).

Illustrated Papered Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 31 x 22 cm landscape, each approx 160 pp, colour photo illus, illus papered boards. Volume 1 with corner bump, and flex stress mark to reAr cover. Volume 2 , with bump to lower spine at rear. Volume 3, with small corner bump. Internally all are very good. A very heavy set - please ask regards postage. Signed by Author(s).

1/2 leather with printed boards. Boards are quite dark, edges worn. xiv, [2], 384 pp. "While the present edition of the Harmonist is the result of the careful and undivided attention of the committee, it is proper to remark that the immediate preparation of the sheets, and their supervision while passing through the press, were, by their request, done by Mr. Wm. C. Brown, of Boston."--Preface, p. iv. Signed by the compilers. Published by T. Mason & G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry-Street James Collord, printer. American Imprints 44672.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Scott Church's first book of photography, "Thirty Pieces of Silver", was praised world wide. Released in a LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES which sold out very quickly. This is number 354 and has been boldly signed in blue felt pen on the half-title and dated in year of publication. Sensuous nude photographs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair w/ Protective Cover. Signed, Second Impression. This copy is a stated second impression. Author has signed upper edge of fep, dark black ink. Bound in a medium green {upper edge of textblock has matching tint} with gilt lettering and decoration of the spine, front cover. There is very little corner bumping or edge wear. Very light fade of edges. Hinges and gutters are solid, light shadowing. All endpapers have light to medium foxing of the edges. "Read 1-10-77" inked very small bottom edge of back cover paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Slight crease upper corner of text from fep to page 79, possibly done during binding process. Text has slightly yellowed with age, clean and solid in binding. Unclipped DJ has quite yellowed with rubbing and edge wear, Upper edge has chipped, mostly head of darkened spine section. "Another" completely missing and "G" of "Gardener's" {head of spine} as well. Hinges are quite rubbed, mostly solid. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this charming collection of short fiction pieces, a presentation copy from the author to his daughter. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.The author's presentation copy, inscribed to the verso to the front endpaper, 'Katie Moore, from the author, . from Papa'. Presented from the author to his daughter.A collection of charming poems and short stories, an entertaining collection.Written byJohn S. Moore.Publisher's adverts to the pastedowns and to the front endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A small amount of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Front hinge is a little strained but remains firm. Author's inscription to the verso to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a small mark to the gutter of pages 14 and 15. Very Good. signed by author. book.

1p, 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded once. 'I was hoping you would make a suggestion about price. I had at first thought of asking £5 for each copy, but if you would throw in that copy of my father's book (my own is in pieces) I suggest £12 for the three. Of course I want you to make your profit.' He ends by asking if Hancox would like the books signed.

Oblong 4to. 9.5 x 7 in. [140 pp (unpaginated).], filled w/ 55 original pen & ink sketches, oil paintings, watercolour paintings, cartoons, etchings, pencil sketches, decorated autograph pages, poems, 2 photographs (1 - 8 x 6 in.), some tipped-in and mounted, others directly rendered on the pages of this artist's book by the individual passenger artist, along with autographs, personal notes, and more. Polished padded calf, hand-tooled monogram and decorative border of W.F. on front cover, lion rampant armorial w/ Latin motto Liber et audax on back cover, decorated endpapers (rebacked, some edgewear, scuffing, slight splitting to fore-edges in a couple spots), still a VG exemplar, w/ nearly all the original art in excellent condition. This wonderful commonplace/autograph book opens with a well-executed floral design signed by Freeman, with watercolour landscape in the upper left corner. Two of Freeman's pen & ink sketches are devoted to his heroic actions as First Officer on the Atlantic Transport ocean liner SS Maine Jan. 10, 1906 leading four men in a life boat to carry out a harrowing rescue of sailors from the derelict Nova Scotian schooner Kipling, which had been battered by North Atlantic storms for 3 weeks since leaving Liverpool in December. The NY Times reported that First Officer Freeman was ordered by Captain Prager of the Maine to take the rescue, and after hard rowing they were able to reach the Kipling, where Captain Webber and his men jumped into the lifeboat, and also rescuing the mongrel terrier Dick. After being smashed by the Kipling's jib boom and holing of the lifeboat, the injured Freeman bailed as fast as possible while to the Maine and rescued all hands. The second of his pen & ink sketches of the incident, he succeeded in having all of those saved from the sinking sign in his autograph book.His others include a watercolour painting seascape entitled "Quiet Meditation," pen & ink sketch of "Honey Lane" Hertford, England in 1906, a pen & ink of naval ship firing upon a fort dated Jan. 11, and a humorous cartoon of a sailor being chased by a polar bear "A Dash for the Pole." The majority of the passenger artwork Freeman managed to secure, encompass those traveling on the SS American Trader, a steamship liner built by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock in Philadelphia, and sailed under the American Merchant Lines following the failure of the Dollar Lines in 1923, and proved popular with budget-minded "one class" line passengers. Several of the contacts took place on the SS President Roosevelt where he served as Chief Officer, which was a United States Line passenger liner until 1940 when taken by the War Department and designated as the USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) troop transport through the War.Notable artists which lovingly created works for Freeman include such names as:Towar Bates (1874-1938), featuring here a watercolour painting of ship's stack & mast dated Nov. 18, 1927, noted New Jersey landscape and maritime painter.Ray Bethers (1902-1973) very young American Impressionist and later Modern Artist painter who gave Freeman an original colour pencil sketch of "Indians in Southern Arizona" dated June 22, 1929.Roy Brown (1879-1956), noted landscape painter who studied at the Art Students League, and Julian Academy in Paris, who here features a pastoral pencil sketch scene dedicated to Chief Officer Freeman March 28, 1929.Paul Brown (1893-1958) famed equestrian artist and commercial artist has included a signed printed sketch of hunting scene, and etching of thoroughbred steeplechase races, and is perhaps best remembered for his Brooks Brothers catalogues, and cover art for Morrow's edition of Bagnold's "National Velvet."Fred Buchanan (1879-1941) humorist, cartoonist, and Tuck postcard artist has drawn a wonderful pen & ink cartoon of 'Jack Ashore" of a sailor with Pig & Whistle sign in the background. Still more artist's feature encompass a wonderful painted landscape scene and Chaucer quote with calligraphy by Bristol artist, Clifford H. Henley; a wonderful signed woodcut engraving of "The North Rose of Notre Dame" tipped-in by George W. Hibbitt; two splendid watercolour paintings executed onboard the SS American Trader in August, 1929 showing a seaman painting a spar, and the other a deck scene by noted landscape and watercolour artist Walter Kumme (1895-1975); an allegorical partial-nude pencil drawing by noted British-American artist Gerald Leake (1884-1975); Pittsburgh, PA artist Jean Thoburn's (1887-1934) pencil sketch drawing of Canterbury through Christchurch Gate - Mercury Lane," and even a wonderful drawing with small photo from Dora Weisbaum, and Heinrich Heine quotation. Other artist's are just initials, or this cataloguer was unable to specifically identify them, but they have added sketches, paintings, and drawing of stuffed animals, flapper girls playing tennis, a wonderful small portrait of an Edwardian girl in her stylish hat, and many others.

1 vols. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by A.J. Liebling on the flyleaf, "For Dena and Leo, Abbott (D-Day seems unreal already)." There are a dozen pieces by Liebling herein Leo Stone was a psychiatrist and friend of Abbott Joseph Liebling's from Dartmouth class of 1924. They met at registration their first day at college. Grey coth. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed.

VOLTAIRE (1694-1778). Voltaire, the pen name of Franois-Marie Arouet, was a French Enlightenment writer, satirist and philosopher. He was a strict advocate of freedom of speech and the separation of church and state. His best-known work remains Candide.ALS. 1pg. 7 x 4 . May 2, 1739. Cirey [France]. An autograph letter signed Voltaire to an unnamed correspondent. The great author and wit penned in French: Copy of repudiation I have always disavowed Le prservatif [The Preservative] and I have had nothing to do with gathering the pieces in that booklet, which include some that were not at all intended to be made public. At Cirey, 2 May 1739. Voltaire. In 1738, Voltaire published Le Prservatif Ou Critique Des Observations Sur Les crits Modernes [The Preservative, Or A Critique Of Observations On Modern Writings]. The work railed against the French journalist Pierre Desfontaines. Voltaire has entrusted the printing of the work to Chevalier de Mouhy but, in this letter, he disavowed the book. In the month this letter was written, Voltaire and his mistress, Gabrielle-milie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Chtelet, fled to Brussels due to a lawsuit. In the time that followed, they moved between Belgium, Paris and Cirey. There is a pinhole in the document not affecting any text and a small piece of tape in the upper right corner, again not touching any text. This is the first Voltaire letter Ive ever handled.