Room Top, Signed (16 results)

Yellow Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Dustwrapper By Leslie Worn (illustrator). Unknown. An inscription on inside dust jacket reads 'RIP OCT 1986'. this refers to death of author in 1986.please e-mail for further details. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: As New. CHAU2970 This is a large 10" x 8" hand signed photo for Delena Kidd in Room At The Top who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait in mint condition and undedicated too. You wont source better.

125 S. Vorsatz mit Widmung des Verfassers an Prof. Heinz Reinhold, Berlin. - Zustand: Ecken berieben, Name auf Vorsatz, sonst sehr gut. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 22,5 x 15 cm, blauer Orig.- Halbleinen mit Rücken- und Deckeltitel, geunden.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Excellent clean copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 4to. pp (144). Original publishers grey boards. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed on title page by the author. ISBN: 0955831407 This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. "Tony McGee's atmospheric series of photographs of the ballet dancers of the Central School of Ballet in London. All the images were shot in a small studio on the seventh floor of the school's premises in Clerkenwell. McGee captures the beauty, focus and physical exertion of the young dancers." VG in slightly used near very good dust jacket slightly nicked at edges. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the front endpaper, and includes a letter from (and signed by) the author's secretary. First edition (not stated in text). DJ condition is Fair, book condition is G. Text is bright, clean and clear of writing, highlighting, or other markings. Binding in great condition. Back hinges have a bit of give when pressure is applied, but are overall robust and firm, with gutter endpaper intact. Pages are lightly toned. Some pages have lightly bumped corners. Photo plates appear to be in great condition, without foxing. Half title page is creased down the middle, and there is some sticking in the gutters of the first few pages. Book has a notable old book odor. Top and bottom edges of hardcover boards have moderate bumping, which was caused a bit of a warp to top edges. Hardcover board corners curling in. Heavy ding to top of fore edge of front board, which ripped the fabric and took a small chunk out of the board. DJ is heavily worn; small chunks ripped off at corners and top/bottom of spine; ripping and chipping along fore edges; warping and creasing along spine; small rips and chips along edges; DJ toned/darkened; crease lines along portions of DJ; top of DJ spine interior taped. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fifth Impression. Fifth impression of 1957, the same year as the first impression.Blue boards, 256 pages, 5.25 X 7.5 inches.Spine faded, page edges a little browned with a few fox blotches. Otherwise very good. No dustwrapper.The book has the original owner's name "Dianne Doubtfire, /Karachi 1957" written on the front free endpaper, Signed by the author ;"Sincerely/John Braine" also on the front free endpaper. This book was from the estate of Dianne Doubtfire, author and teacher of creative writing. Many of her books were signed often personally inscribed to her by their authors. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Tenth Impression. 10mo, 256 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine brownish beige with gilt lettering. Boards have slight shelf wear including moderate age toning to the spine. Minor age toning to the edges. Text block has slight age toning/soiling to the edges. Mild age toning to the end papers. Tenth impression. Inscribed to Madame Prunier [Simone Prunier] by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1384555. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1st Edition, 4th Printing, AUGUST 1968, SIGNED, VG+/VG-, RUB WEAR small Chips Extremities of DUSTJACKET & Slight Soil, , THICK BEIGE CLOTH ,Tight binding and clean pages ,Jacket is in Good condition, the book is VG+. 812 pages.INDEX, BACK TOP SPINE OF DJ SMALL EDGE CHIP AT TOP ,Who Really Owns America ? How do they Keep their Wealth & Power ? Room at the Top the New Rich, The Inheritors, American Plantation, Great Tax Swindle, largest Net Taxable Incomes since 1940, Upper Executives, Companies with Largest Total Assets , Cleverness of the Rich ,ETC. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition, 1957. First American Edition. A Fine hardcover copy in scarlet paper covered boards, dark grey cloth spine stamped in red, in salmon colored dustwrapper, not price-clipped. This copy SIGNED by Braine on the front endpaper. 301pp. Author's First Book, the story was adapted to the screen in a feature starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First American Edition. Surprisingly well preserved. Unmarked but for large inscription to Dr J. M Affectionalely grateful on front endpaper by author. Tight and square but for faint crack at page following front endpaper. Clean, attractive copy. Oversize. Many photo's. Price intact jacket has only minor edgewear and is clean and bright. It is thought that she may have been the inspriation for the opera singer in Orson Welles masterpierce, Citizen Kane. In mylar Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.

Photos, 9.5 x 6.5, cloth, 504 pp, covers worn and toned at edges, extremities beginning to fray, hinges loose, pp toned at edges, in spotted, edge worn, edge torn dust jacket with hole in spine. FIRST ED (SD), WARMLY INSCRIBED "To My dear friend Anastasia, with love" AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR GANNA WALSKA. Reputed inspiration for the character of the opera singer in Citizen Kane, Walska bought her own opera house in Paris after her marriage to a rich guy. Scarce title, scarcer signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Octavo. 256pp. Binding a bit cocked, a bit of light offsetting on the endpapers, and one pair of conjugate leaves neatly tipped back in, about near fine in a near fine "2nd impression" dust jacket with a bit of soiling on the lower panel and a few nicks and short tears. Inscribed on the title page: "Best wishes to Michael Curtis - John Braine 1981." Author's important first book and the basis for the 1959 film directed by Jack Clayton and featuring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret. Signoret and Neil Patterson, who adapted the book, won Oscars; the film itself, Harvey, Clayton and Hermione Baddeley were nominated.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this popular novel from author John Braine. Including a loosely-inserted card signed, 'With best wishes, Cheltenham 1958 - John Braine'. 'Room at the Top' is a novel by John Braine about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. In a green cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper is quite smart, though with some slight chipping, and handling marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, though with some scattered instances of foxing. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

BRAINE, John. ROOM AT THE TOP. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1957. Small 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket. First English Edition. Signed presentation from Braine on the front endpaper: "John Braine. With my best wishes to Harold Downs." Downs is a teacher whose students spotted a grammatical error in the text. With a typed letter signed from Braine to Downs laid in: "It is very flattering to have one's work discussed- I should have dearly loved to have listened in- though rather frightening. For, no matter how much care one takes, errors creep in. Often I've spotted errors in others work myself, and each time have vowed that I would never be so careless. Alas, I have sinned. Not once, but several times. Some of the errors have been corrected in later editions; but I didn't even know about this one. Your students are right; it should be SELLER's. Congratulations to your students on being so hawk-eyed; but if any of them write a novel, warn them that I shall go through it with a fine-toothed comb!" Considered one of the seminal "angry young man" novels of the 1950s, "Room At The Top" was the basis for the 1959 film directed by Jack Clayton. The movie was nominated for six Academy Awards and won an Oscars for Best Screenplay and for actress Simone Signoret. The film was also nominated for Best Picture. Near fine (bright); moderate wear & soil (little chipping to spine ends) d/j. Enclosed in a custom-designed, clam-shell box with a gilt-tooled spine and a depiction on the front cover duplicating the image on the dust jacket. A nice presentation of an interesting book. $2875.00.

A first edition, first printing published by Eyre and Spottiswoode in 1957. Signed presentation inscription from the author "to my very good friends Royston and Ann Millmore, con amore John Braine" on front free endpaper, lightly browned, original cloth, spine faded, foxed. In the very good dust wrapper with wrap-around band (lightly spotted, spine toned), jacket spine head a little frayed, spine very lightly faded, still very sharp and fresh overall, 8vo, 1957. Addressed to the author's close friends, the Millmores, lifelong correspondents and friends.