Robert Fulton, Signed (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Werner, Honi (jacket design) (illustrator). First Edition. New York & Toronto:: Franklin Watts, 1985. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is rubbed and lightly frayed at the spine ends. NOT price-clipped (18.95). NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with 16 pages of old prints, photos, and document facsimiles. Lists of chapter notes/sources. Index. Bound in the original gray boards with a black spine lettered in shiny silver and metallic red. From the Dust Jacket: "Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was a renaissance man. This first full-scale biography of the American inventor, entrepreneur, and political visionary reveals the stunning diversity of his unique genius. World famous for his steamboats, Fulton originally hoped to be an artist. but when he was twenty-seven years old, he shifted his focus to engineering. Fulton designed a system of lockless canals. Even more important to him. were the submarine boat and bombs he built for the French and then sold to the British. Fulton returned to America in 1806. Within a year he had established the first steamboat service in the world and gained President Jefferson's support for his submarine weapons. With penetrating historical sweep and a wealth of personal detail, Philip's landmark biography presents a compelling and sometimes shocking in-depth portrait of the mercurial Robert Fulton. Based on contemporary letters, diaries, paintings and drawings, most of which have never been published before, ROBERT FULTON is as dramatic and surprising as it is true." . Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Werner, Honi (jacket design). 8vo. xii, 371pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tiny tears on head and base of spine. Otherwise a clean and unmarked copy in very good condition. Signed by author on title page. Mylar cover. Clipped. 371 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author inscription to half-title page o/w clean with light shelf wear, light foxing to edges but clean boards and pages. DJ has light wear to corners, spine but clean and bright. BP/US Naval History. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by the author on the title page. Included is a handwritten, signed letter from the author. Approx. 5 7/8" wide by 9". ; 21 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (1981) 192 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WALLY HUTCHEON ON FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER. DJ lightly soiled. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice. Inscribed & Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. Stated first edition. 8vo, 188pp. Hardcover, bound in original orange cloth with black lettering. In very good condition overall. Binding and hinges are intact and firm. Pages are clean and bright. Owner's name and address to corner of fep, otherwise unmarked. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to extremities. Remains a very nice, solid, copy overall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. This is a fine as new hardcover first edition copy #28/200 in a like new mylar protected DJ, red spine. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed and inscribed by Peyton F. Miller on the first free end page to Fulton descendant and biographer Alice Crary Sutcliffe. Also includes a handwritten letter from Miller to Sutcliffe laid in at the front. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned. Binding is sturdy. Covers show some wear around the corners and at the head and base of the spine. No dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, Repaired DJ. First Edition. 371pp. Index and illus. Two tears in d/j repaired on the reverse side with tape. Presentation copy SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes much of Fulton's engineering successes in Britain and France prior to his return to the US in 1806 and success in steamboats and submarines. (Loc 1067/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author signed on the title page. Gilt on black & grey covers in a black pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 371 pages. The dust jacket has a 1/2" mclosed tear at the head of the spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover price clipped light wear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Author inscribed on the first free end paper, with a September 30, 1909 date, in Hudson, NY. Included with the book is a 1909 newspaper clipping in which "French claim to Steamboat". Gilt spine lettering and front cover steamboat on blue covers. 12mo, 113 pages. Front inner hinge started. Spine ends rubbed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Title page personalized by Kirkpatrick Sale to Ted Spiegel. From the personal collection of notable photojournalist Ted Spiegel, known for his work with National Geographic and his portrait of John F. Kennedy. ; 256 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed by the editor. Ownership stamp of Arthur Campa. Fine in faintly worn dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Inscribed on title page by Dickinson. Book measures 22.5x15.5.cm. xiv,333pp,16pp catalogue, plates. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt crest and lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean. A nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Condition: Crimson cloth, Fine. First Editiion. First Editiion. Illust., including 12 of Fulton's own drawings. xiii, [i], 154pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed on ffep by the author. Illust., including 12 of Fulton's own drawings. xiii, [i], 154pp. 1 vols. 4to. Signed.

First edition of the author's compelling work on the inventor of the world's first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames. Signed by Ronald Reagan on the half-title page. Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. When Reagan left office in 1989, he held an approval rating of 68%, matching those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era. He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms after the five prior presidents did not. Evaluations of his presidency among historians and the general public place him among the upper tier of American presidents. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some pen markings to the rear panel. American engineer and inventor Robert Fulton is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat which successfully changed river traffic and trade on major American rivers. In 1800, Fulton was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to attempt to design a submarine and produced Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Gary, Elbert United States Steel president, DS granting Cornelius Vanderbilt proxy power at a meeting of the Robert Fulton Monument Association. Nice association between the men who helped build American industrial power. Signed by Author(s).

ROBERT FULTON (1765-1815). Fulton was an American engineer and inventor best known for developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat. ALS. 1 pg. 7 x 13. N.d. N.p. An autograph letter signed R. Fulton in pencil: My Dear Sir I find on calculation that it will be less expensive to place the machine in the ground and work the horse on one side for that purpose. I have made a sketch of a kind of shed to be covered with boat plank it is to be 50 feet long and 30 widefind a Carpenter, immediately show him the ground, and the kind of building you want and contract with him for time and price. In 1807, Fultons North River Steamboat (also known as the Clermont) traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 nautical miles in 62 hours. The letter includes a description of a drawing, which is found on the verso. The drawing depicts the measurements and purpose of a shed intended to house a machine and provide accommodation for a horse on one side. Steam engines did in the early days still often rely on horse power, though the latter quickly became obsolete and became a measurement of the power output of engines horsepower. Additionally, an issue of the Portland Gazette and Maine Advertiser, dated October 8, 1810, is included. This newspaper contains a front-page article that delves into the subject of torpedoes, which Fulton pioneered during his service for the British during the Napoleonic Wars. The letter and newspaper show signs of age, including folds and yellowing, but are in otherwise good condition.