Resemblance, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Inscribed by Michael Randall. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* In Building Resemblance, Randall examines the complex development of analogical imagery linking the imperfect human to the perfect divine in the poetry and prose of Jean Molinet and Jean Lemaire de Belges, two official historiographers working at the court of Burgundy, and in the novels of Francois Rabelais. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed and personalized by the author. 1st edition/1st printing.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. 1st edition hardcover in fine condition in fine dust jacket - signed & dated 11/10/22 by the author on the title page - author's debut novel - Detective Marlitt Kaplan police novel set in Georgia - new, unread copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition hardcover, SIGNED by Allardice on the title page. Black boards, red lettering. Jacket fine, no edge wear, not price-clipped. Allardice's first novel. 265 pages. M05133. Signed by Author(s).

CUMMINGTON PRESS (illustrator). Signed Limited edition. One of fifty-two copies signed by the author, out of a total edition of 246. This being number 36. Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 133 mm). [1]-37, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [5, blank] pp. A large hand-colored initial at the start of each of the three pieces. Printed on Crown & Sceptre paper. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. Boards slightly beveled. Spine lettered in gray ink. Edges untrimmed. Boards lightly browned, and edges very lightly rubbed. Overall about fine. "These pieces were read, in February 1947, at Harvard University under the auspices of the Morris Gray Fund; they were first printed in Partisan Review for May 1947, & appear in the present edition by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher of Mr. Stevens' Harmonium, Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Parts of a World, & Transport to Summer." (Introduction). Edelstein. HBS 68426. $4,250. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. First Edition. Fine first edition, only the most minute wear. A bright fresh copy. 37, [2] pp. With hand-colored initials.(8vo), cloth backed decorative boards. One 52 copies signed by Wallace Stevens on Crown & Scepter watermarked paper. Delightful book.

A unique item. This play was written for a fund raising dinner for the distinguished Arvon Foundation. The dinner took place on Sunday 18th November, 2001. The instructions for the play, placed at the end, states that the first two acts should be played after the guests have had their first and main courses. They will then be served with sweet course and coffee, during which each table can consider its verdict. Each table will be provided with a paper bearing three questions. This script belonged to Cathryn Brichto, who organised the event and a copy of the covering letter to P. D. James, dated 17 April, 2005, asking Baroness James to sign her copy is tipped-in at rear, to provide provenance. P. D. James has signed the title page and has also provided a signed postcard of Michael Taylor's portrait of herself. This has been tipped-in to provide a frontis. for the bound play. Also bound in is her A4 compliment sheet. The whole is A4 sized and the text is in 53 pages. It has been very handsomely bound in half black morocco gilt with contrasting red lettering pieces, raised bands. The boards are of a green baize and the endpapers are of mottled-brown marbled paper which is in keeping with the 1930's Golden Age of Detective Fiction feel of the play. Title page and compliment's slip creased in original postage, rear sheet sl. stained, probably during meal! 3 ink scribbles to pp.38 not affecting text o/w Fine.