Pleased, Signed (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1952 printing. Very good condition book in Good condition dustjacket, signed by author on ffep. No other marks, DJ is not price-clipped. [0304]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Wear to corners and spine ends. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ltd. to 300 copies. Signed by author on title pg. Very Good+++. Signed by Author(s).

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition (INSCRIBED). Very fine copy -- illus. wraps. Title page INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author ('To [-], / @ VIWF 2006 / Thanks for your good works'). Quality paperback original with French flaps. Inscribed & Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very Good Hardcover In A Near Fine Dust Jacket. 346 Pages In This Beautifully Crafted Novel, Moses And Nefertiti: The God's Heart Is Pleased, Frank James Gentile Transports Us Back Through Millennia Into The Mysterious Past Of Ancient Egypt--To The Time Of Moses, And The Exodus Of The Jews From Slavery To The Promised Land. There Is A Thank You Inscription To A Couple And Signed By Frank Gentile Plus A Longer Note About The Book On A Sheet Of Unlined Paper And Sign And Dated Frank. In Addition A Copy Of A Newspaper Review Laid In. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Softcover. Advance Reading Copy. Fine book in illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. Ownership signature of John Metcalf to the front flyleaf. A book of stories. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A signed first edition. Worn corners and erasure to the front endpaper, otherwise about very good condition. No jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu. Putland, Michael (illustrator). 1. Auflage. Genesis Publications, England, 1999. Hard Cover in Slip Case. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Box Case. Author (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition Limited Edition of 1750 this is # 450, Hardcover in black board with black leather spine, picture of Keith & Mick tipped to front board with orange letters . A 226 page book with illustrated end pages and illustrated in color and black & white photos through out . This comes in a slip case box ( see image ) and is also signed by the photographer / author michael Putland . A complete book with a ribbon lift and publishers other book catalogs booklets included. Signatur des Verfassers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Putland, Michael (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback. Folio, pp 228, copiously illustrated in colour and black & white throughout. Number 361 in a limited edition of 1750 signed by Michael Putland, The Rolling Stones official tour photographer of the 1970's and 80's. Black quarter leather, black cloth, all edges silver. Pic of Mick and Keith on cover. Fine in fine black and orange cloth custom silk-screened solander box with die-cut window, printed in black and orange. Fine in original serviceable Genesis publishers mailing box.Genesis publications Rolling Stones Pleased to Meet You 4 sided colour flyer/ pre publication promotion leaflet loosely inserted. ISBN: 0904351718 Genesis state : "A superb archive of images with accompanying text, from the Stones official tour photographer, the series of photos run from just before the 1972 world tour through to the 1986 Grammy awards. With a foreword by Mick Taylor. Putland's archive documents the seventies which many consider the most interesting decade in the band's history, and beyond, resulting in a photographic history second to none; including shots of Mick Taylor in the line-up; the incredible It's Only Rock'n'Roll video shoot; the arrival of Ronnie Wood; the first pictures of Keith after his Toronto drug bust; backstage at the Palladium; and the fantastic 100 Club gig. Other musicians also photographed here include Paul McCartney and Billy Preston (The Beatles/Apple), Bob Marley and Peter Tosh (The Wailers), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) Eric Clapton, Ian McLagan (Small Faces) and Van Morrison. Unbelievably, Michael Putland's images have rarely been published, never exhibited, and never before presented in such an exquisite art form." Fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition / 1st Printing. Signed / autographed by the author on the front endpaper. 1st edition / 1st printing. Very good, no dust jacket, slight wear at top & bottom of spine, small tape ghosts near center on both inside covers. 12 x 17. hard cover. 171pp. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Signed & Inscribed By Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited to 200 signed copies. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

17 & 33 lines on 1 & 3 sides respectively of an embossed, folded 8vo sheet, the first together with a stamped envelope. Two letters from the prolific dramatist James Robinson Planché to the cricketer and civil servant Spencer Ponsonby. Both are dated November 1875, and relate to a request from Ponsonby for assistance. The first, dated 6 November begins: 'Thanks for you kind note. I certainly should have applied to you had I been aware that the permission came from the Lord Chamberlain's office; but when I was favour'd with it some five and twenty years ago, it was accorded to me by the Board of Green Cloth.' The second thanks Ponsonby for his 'kind support' having signed a memorial which was 'favourably considered and a grant accorded to me of 100 per anno'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition. Near Fine. Inscribed by author on free front endpaper: "Para Mis Amigos Mike & Anita Con Mucho Carino Herbert Cerwin". 1 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Cerwin's memoirs, detailing his life in San Francisco and South America. Glossy red leatherette with gilt titling on front. Covers show very mild shelf wear. Interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, except as noted unmarked. 35 pp. Approx. 8.75" x 11.25". Very scarce. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.

Hardcover in slipcase. Signed Limited Edition. This being number 408 of 1750 signed copies, near fine oversize hard cover in a bespoke illustrated slipcase. VG- case, which ha a split along a one and a half inch deep seam. Heavy Book may incur extra shipping charges if shipping outside of the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is number 1678 in an edition of 1750 signed copies in near fine condition. Signed and numbered by Michael Putland to title page. no markings. Please see pics, any questions please get in touch. Signed by Author(s).

[Rock music photography] COLLECTOR EDITION, number 1066 of 1750 copies, SIGNED by Putland. Foreword by Stones' guitarist Mick Taylor. 'GROUP' window image- each subscriber chose the photo to be used on the box from a range of shots (Keith, Mick, Charlie, Bill, Group, etc.). Quarter black goatskin over buckram boards, blocked in orange, with vignette portrait. Housed in a custom silk-screened solander box with die-cut window, printed in black and orange. Fine/as new, in the original card mailing box. A pristine copy, purchased by ourselves and dark stored since publication. A superb archive of images with accompanying text, from the Stones official tour photographer, the series of photos run from just before the 1972 world tour through to the 1986 Grammy awards. With a foreword by Mick Taylor. Putland's archive documents the seventies which many consider the most interesting decade in the band's history, and beyond, resulting in a photographic history second to none; including shots of Mick Taylor in the line-up; the incredible It's Only Rock'n'Roll video shoot; the arrival of Ronnie Wood; the first pictures of Keith after his Toronto drug bust; backstage at the Palladium; and the fantastic 100 Club gig. Other musicians also photographed here include Paul McCartney and Billy Preston (The Beatles/Apple), Bob Marley and Peter Tosh (The Wailers), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) Eric Clapton, Ian McLagan (Small Faces) and Van Morrison. Unbelievably, Michael Putland's images have rarely been published, never exhibited, and never before presented in such an exquisite art form. Signed.

First edition, first printing, number 119 of 1,750 copies signed by the photographer. Before their 1972 world tour, the Rolling Stones chose Putland as their official tour photographer. His photographs are reproduced in this volume. They form a striking record, with Putland often mere feet away from the musicians onstage and capturing private moments backstage. Quarto. Illustrated throughout with Putland's photography; printed on 200 gsm matt art acid-free paper. Original quarter black morocco, lettering to spine and front cover in orange, roundel picture of Keith Richards to front cover, all edges silver. Housed in the original illustrated cloth box. All in fine condition.

JOHN CAMPBELL (1720-1790). Campbell was a British naval officer rising to the rank of Rear Admiral, navigational expert, and colonial governor of Newfoundland. LS. 2 pg. 7 x 10. July 28, 1783. Leicester fields. A letter signed Jn: Campbell to Right Honble Lord North: My Lord Having been informed by Mr. William Newman a Principal Merchant trading to Newfoundland that an American vessel arrived at St. Johns from Boston in May last, laden with Rice and Flour And that the Customhouse had refused to admit her to an Entry and come to a resolution of detaining her until the Governors arrival; I think it my Duty to communicate to your Lordship this information and to request that your Lordship will be pleased to furnish me with Instructions how to Act in this Affair. This letter from John Campbell, the Governor of Newfoundland, to Frederick North, British Home Secretary, reflects the continued distrust and disagreement between Britain and the United States as the American Revolution came to a formal resolution. Lord North served as British Prime Minister through the Battle of Yorktown, which brought down his government. In his subsequent role as Home Secretary, North was tasked with helping to complete what would become the Treaty of Paris. Though the treaty would grant shared access to the Mississippi River and American fishing rights near Newfoundland, continued British military presence near the Great Lakes and harassment of American commercial vessels in the Atlantic perpetuated tension between Great Britain and the United States for the next few decades. This tension resulted in the polarizing Jay Treaty and Embargo Act and culminated in the War of 1812. The letter is in fine condition with the first page of the letter being toned.

After early education in Cambridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?s sons Charles and Ernest attended Thomas Bradford School, a private boys school in Boston, in 1857. Their weekly reports were good, with one Latin note exclaiming ?Quam optime Baeclare!? (How very bright!).The following letter clearly relates to the boys? entry into the Bradford School and may be for the payment of tuition. In any case, Longfellow shows that he was proud that one of his sons (probably Charlie) was so highly thought of, and suggests that he enter as a sophomore. Autograph letter signed, Cambridge, March 4, 1857. ?Enclosed is a check for $98.42. Harry?s bill just received. I am happy to hear such good account of him. My impression is that he would do well to enter sophomore if he could do it without too great a strain on him. In this, however, I defer to your better judgment. With my compliments to Mr. Hoffman, I remain?Henry W. Longfellow.?An interesting letter showing Longfellow as a father, attending to his children?s education.

He writes, as the Kennedy family starts to collect materials for the planned John F. Kennedy Library, ?I am confident that these interviews will be an invaluable part of the historical record??Lewellyn E. Thompson was one of the most important American diplomats of the 20th Century.? He was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, serving two separate tours in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and then acting as advisor to Richard M. Nixon.? Few Ambassadors faced as many crises as Thompson did in Moscow - the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Russia, the great confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall, very difficult summits between Soviet Premier Khruschev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the August 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and tensions over the Vietnam War. But there were also steps toward better relations. At Thompson's suggestion, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S. in 1959. Thompson helped arrange (and was present for) the 1967 summit in the U.S. between President Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, after the Six-Day War in the Middle East exacerbated tensions. Also in 1967, the Soviet Union and U.S. agreed to begin cooperation in space, with the joint Soyuz-Apollo program. The first treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed on July 1, 1968.Thompson ended his first tour in Moscow in 1962, when President Kennedy brought him home to Washington to become his Ambassador-at-Large, as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), advising the President on Soviet affairs. He was barely home before he was called upon to play a key role in resolving the Missile Crisis in October 1962, and to share that key role with Attorney General Robert Kennedy.? That crisis pitted the United States and the Soviet Union nose to nose, closer to nuclear war than they ever had been or ever would be. In the early evening of Friday, October 26, 1962, as war over the Missile Crisis seemed inevitable, Khrushchev sent Kennedy a conciliatory letter in which he offered to remove Soviet offensive missiles from Cuba if the United States would promise not to invade Cuba. As Kennedy was considering that letter, Khrushchev sent a much more belligerent one early the next morning, October 27.? He offered to withdraw missiles form Cuba only if the United States would withdraw similar American missiles from Turkey.Kennedy?s advisors pondered the second letter, with some arguing for military action based on it and others considering trading the missiles in Cuba for those in Turkey. Thompson argued vociferously against either course. He resisted the idea of military action, and also opposed trading away the Turkish missiles because he knew that America?s NATO allies would perceive a trade of missiles under pressure as meaning that the United States had abandoned them. Instead, he urged Kennedy not to consider the second letter as negating the first one, but to respond to Khrushchev_s first and conciliatory letter and to ignore the subsequent belligerent one. He knew that an American promise not to invade Cuba would let Khrushchev off the hook, since Khrushchev could claim strategic success in avoiding an American invasion.? Thompson correctly perceived that Khrushchev did not want war but wrote the second, bellicose letter under scrutiny from Soviet generals and hard-line members of the Politburo.? ?The important thing for Khrushchev, it seems to me,? Thompson said, ?is to be able to say ?I saved Cuba; I stopped an invasion.? And he can get away with this, if he wants to, and he?s had a go at this Turkey thing, and that we?ll discuss later.?Ultimately, Kennedy took both of Thompson?s pieces of advice: The National Security Council meeting resulted in a letter from the President accepting the terms of Khrushchev?s first (and conciliatory) letter.? Then, outside of the National Security Council, the President met secretly in the Oval Office with a small group that included Thompson, Robert F. Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk.? He instructed Bobby to have a back-channel meeting with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin in order to convey clandestinely to Khrushchev that, although the President could not publicly agree to remove American missiles from Turkey, the United States would dismantle those missiles in time.? Echoing Thompson_s concerns, Bobby was told to emphasize that dismantling the missiles was not a trade.? The diplomacy worked, and the Missile Crisis was over.Dean Rusk later wrote that Robert Kennedy presented the proposal that the National Security Council adopted, but it was originally Thompson_s idea. Robert Kennedy echoed the President_s respect for Thompson.? JFK, he said, ?liked Tommy Thompson.? This is obviously influenced by my personal opinion, you know, and I expect it?s based on the conversations that we had.? Tommy Thompson he thought was outstanding.? I also thought he was outstanding.? He made a major difference.? The most valuable people during the Cuban crisis were Bob McNamara and Tommy Thompson, I thought.?Typed letter signed, on John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library letterhead, Washington, April 8, 1965, to Thompson, then Ambassador at Large, expressing gratitude for his helping document the Kennedy administration and its role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. ?I have just learned that the oral interview which you so kindly made for the John F. Kennedy Library has been completed. I am confident that these interviews will be an invaluable part of the historical record of the years in which John Kennedy was active. I hope that you derive satisfaction for this endeavor, and I am sure that future scholars and students will be in your debt.? We have never seen this letterhead before, and this is not surprising, as t.

Wright first wrote to Lewis Mumford in 1926, when he was in his 50s and already renowned, but at a low point in his career and in desperate need of renewed critical interest in his work; Mumford was in his 30s and making his name in cultural criticism, with much of his writing focused on architecture and urban planning. His writing, however, connected the separate domains of philosophy, architecture, anthropology, and literature to one another and to the human domain in general. He greatly admired Wright's work as "the exemplar of organic design, built in accordance with the rhythms of modern life"; the two men shared ideas and interests. Wright first approached Mumford with an admiring note, and they developed an often wary friendship that meanders from growing intimacy to a break over politics and then to a gradual reconciliation. Their correspondence, which has been published, stands out in particular for the intensity of the pair's intellectual discourse.Both Wright and Mumford rejected what they considered the harsh designs of European modernists like Le Corbusier, whose spare cubist minimalism and focus on efficiency shaped the Modernist movement and earned the name the International Style. Wright and Mumford were very American with distinctly democratic style preferences, and shared a kind of Emersonian and Jeffersonian wish that architecture and technology should better serve humanistic ideals.Peter Behrens was a German architect, influential in Europe in the evolution of the modern architectural style. He established before World War I a predominantly utilitarian type of architecture that at the same time achieved qualities of clarity and impressiveness. Behrens is known for factories, residences, workers' apartment houses in Vienna, and for his pioneering work in industrial design. Among his pupils were Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mi?s van der Rohe. In 1931, Wright?s work was exhibited at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Behrens then wrote an article critical of Le Corbusier?s designs as obsessed with geometry and static, naming Wright as an obvious counterpoint. Thus Wright was placed in opposition to Le Corbusier throughout the architecture world in Europe, and he was very concerned about how his philosophies and work were presented in the article and wanted to know if the translation was really accurate. At any rate, he thought it was time for him to confront excessive modernism. He sent Mumford a copy of the article.Catherine Bauer was a social historian interested in public housing, urban, and regional planning. She and Mumford were romantically linked for years. In 1931, when Wright's lectures were published in the Princeton monograph series for art and archaeology, Bauer described the book as "the very best book on modern architecture that exists."Typed Letter Signed, Taliesin, September 10, 1931, to Mumford, sending the letter, asking for his opinion on the translation, mentioning that he?d sent Bauer a copy while teasing her at the same time, and inviting a visit. ?This may interest you - I would like to know if it ?gets over? in the German or is distorted. I thought it time to go to the mat. The thing is all over Europe by now. Behrens picked me up at once contra Corbusier. I?ve sent a copy to Catherine Bauer. I replied to her very characteristic note and hope she doesn?t mind teasing - for I called her ?Communist Catherine? There are lots of names she could call me to even up. The three evenings at the New School are Sept. 16, 17, and 18th and the 19th. We sail for Rio to make the award of the Columbus Memorial returning Oct. 26. A job on my hands. I can?t vote for anything the previous trio recommended. I guess I am going down to register a minority report._N.B. I have a job. New home in Washington, D.C.? He then adds in holograph, ?Won?t you come to the ?one man Parliament? and bring Catherine and others. We may have some fun!? Included is a copy of Mumford?s fascinating letter in response, courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Foundation.Wright was teaching architecture at the New School in New York at this time, a fact that that school proudly relates on its website today. As for the sail to Rio, the Wrights were invited to visit Rio de Janeiro as guests of the Pan American Union to judge a series of designs for the Columbus Memorial. The Washington house he mentions here does not appear among the list of Wright?s projects. In fact, to highlight his difficulties during these years, he received no commissions that are listed as finished projects from 1929-1934.