Princess Bride, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Cream paper boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket with poster by artist Shepard Fairey on reverse. Signed by author and actor Cary Elwes on publisher bound in page. Edge wear, small stains, rubbing and one or two small tears on edges of boards, light soiling on top edge of text block, back two or three pages have creased corners. Jacket has edge wear, chipping, rubbing and creasing, notably at head/tail of spine, and back panel of jacket has light moisture warping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/14th printing. Signed by author. "As you wish - Cary Elwes" not personalized to anyone. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. 2000 [but later]. Signed by William Golding and inscribed to a former owner. Mass market paperback, bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with trivial shelf wear to wraps.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Later printing. Briefly inscribed by the author on the half title. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

First edition of Goldman's classic novel, basis for the cult classic directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes. Octavo, original gray cloth. Boldly signed William Goldman on the title page at Yale University and additionally signed by director Rob Reiner and Cary Elwes on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed by all three. Ross MacDonald praised The Princess Bride as "[a] comic adventure romance which moves all over the world and dances through history.carried off with fantastic inventive energy and lightness, everything converted into pure story.The Princess Bride is a joyous and releasing book." "[Goldman's] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny.a 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers," said Newsweek. Basis for the 1987 film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, Andrà the Giant and Christopher Guest.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "First edition" printed on the copyright page with the correct First Issue point with BCDE. A fabulous copy SIGNED by William Goldman on a publisher's page tipped in. This original dustjacket is rich in color and has the publisher's $7.95 printed price present on the front flap. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 25th Anniversary Edition. 25th anniversary edition, second printing, signed by William Goldman on the introduction title page and warmly inscribed "For Florence / 60 is nothing / you are everything." xiv, [2], 399, [1] pp. Bound in oatmeal and maroon paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with light soiling and edge toning to boards and dust-soiling to textblock edges. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelfwear and rubbing.