Ruskin John, Signed (49 results)

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Book Very Good. No dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by author, corners sharp, text block clear and binding tight. WR. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 250pp hardback, blue boards gilt in wrapper, illustrated with bw plates, inscribed by author to title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Wear on edges; otherwise very good in worn dj. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's ribbed blue cloth with gilt spine and upper board lettering, octavo, pp. 176. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and plates inserted in the text. NOTE THAT Plate VII, titled "Letter Dated February 15, 1863," is MISSING. Brief Presentation inscription from Alfred Mansfield Brooks to a resident of Gloucester, MA, on the free front endpaper. That recipient's ownership stamp appears near top edge of blank rear endpaper. Small bookseller ticket at bottom of rear pastedown. Shelf rubbing at spine ends and board tips. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Goss, G W (illustrator). 1st Edition. 96pp. Printed soft card covers. Bumping all round. Handful of line drawings. Tight, clean and bright.12mo.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. A near fine softcover. Signed on the title page by Dave Reeves. Corner clipped on title page. Produced for and first read at the launch of the exhibition, "The Ruskin Connection" by Stephen Morris, 6th. April 2000. Text and poems relating to John Ruskin. Contents clean, tight and bright. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback, stapled. 35pp. Illus. Signed by Clive Wilmer to title page. An excellent copy. (r19). Signed by Author.

Signed *First* Never read as NEW.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First American Edition. Very nice clean copy, inscribed on titlepage to Pauline. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 144p octavo. A very good copy without in green cloth. Author's bookplate on inside panel on whichj she has inscribed/signed the book as a gift.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated. 363pp. Light foxing on page edges, spine ends lightly sunned and bumped, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with edges rubbed. Inscribed by the author to fellow authors Daniel and Elizabeth Hoffman on the title page.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. Abridged Edition. Inscribed By the Author on front end paper "To Ronald and Maureen Grant, with very best wishes David Barrie 21 May 1993". Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAL RATES APPLY Packed weight. 1650g. Inscribed By the Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Sewn stiff orange wrappers, DW with cover label, 20, (5) pages. One of 350 numbered copies printed at the Whittington Press and signed by the author. Wrappers are Morris "Willow" pattern paper. A near fine copy, with light use only, in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 187 p.; 19 cm. (Methodist union catalog C3157) Signed by author on front free endpaper Contents: Prefatory note -- I. John Ruskin, preacher -- II. Jonathan Edwards [`His sermons are.most appallingly logical and, to put it very mildly, their theology does not attract the twentieth-century reader. Yet the fire of life and reality still burns in them.' (32)] -- III. Radiant vigor [`The man of lean soul has no power of inspiration. Among the great preachers of the last century, like a mountain in the clear, cold air of morning, towers the radiant figure of Phillips Brooks.' (49)] -- IV. The spiritual message of Whittier -- V. The art of being human -- VI. The white water lily [`But to strive for the unattainable is the common lot of man. We all live in two worlds.' (87)] -- VII. The fundamental teaching of Thomas Carlyle -- VIII. Cross-eyed souls -- IX. The American heritage -- X. Permanent values in the Biglow papers -- XI. Lessening the denominator. VG orig. red cloth, private lib. stamp ffep. Occas. pencilling.

Hardcover. 187 p.; 19 cm. (Methodist union catalog C3157) Signed by author on front free endpaper VG orig. red cloth, private lib. stamp ffep. Occas. pencilling.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition of 350 copies, of which this is number 275. Printed in 12 pt Monotype Caslon at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid paper, sewn into card cover, Morris 'Willow' decorated wraps, matching title/author cover label. Signed by Author. iv, 24, 4pp. A clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book " RUSKINLAND" has boards and binding which are square and tight, the text block is clean and bright and is accompanied by illustrations, the dust jacket is also clean and bright and has no tears. Book price includes Track 48 postage in UK only. Signed by Author(s).

Landscape 8vo. Pp: 32. First edition. Signed by author at verso front cover. Colour illustrated laminated paper covers. Illustrated in black and white. A very good copy, with general light edgewear and spots to top edge and first free end paper.

Condition: Good. 16vo. 178pp. Hard cover. Black and white plates. Very Good. Signed by Ernest Herbert, 31 December 1890.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by Dearden. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66, No.2, Spring 1984 Clean tight copy with rare signature. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 276 pp, index, illustrations. Signed and inscribed by author front free endpaper. Lightly bumped corners. Signed by Author(s).

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. 4ème Édition. Le culte du BEAU dans la CITE nouvelle. ( Peintre-Poete-Apotre ). Ouvrage biographique,reliure demi-chagrin à coins( bleu marine ),dos à nerfs.Couverture conservée, papier jauni. Dédicacé par l'auteur.

FOURTH EDITION, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF HENRY WALTER FINCHAM, AUTHOR. VERY GOOD IN RED CLOTH.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and signed Paper Slip by John Ruskin. John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 was a polymath, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Size 90 x 50mm Condition is good. Light folding creases. Ref 18815. Signed by Author(s).

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. New Edition C1900. Includes an Original Handwritten and signed Paper Slip by John Ruskin Attached to the endpaper. Beautifully bound in half vellum leather and Art Nouveau decorative gilt and coloured stamping. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. Light age toning to some pages. Gutter strengthened at front. More images can be taken upon request.Ref16443. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 29pp, [3], string bound in stiff paper covers, deckled page edges, with the silver point drawing by Ethel Webling, descriptive tissue guard intact. Spine area rubbed. Signed by the Author, with a gift inscription below dated 1915. In a protective mylar sleeve. BOOK SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Writer John Ruskin to possibly Constance F. Gordon-Cumming. From John Ruskin, dated 20 April 1873, enclosing a cheque (not present) to an unidentified woman (possibly Constance F. Gordon-Cumming, 1837-1924, travel writer and painter, fragment of a letter pinned to verso), 'I have ordered a book I am periodically busy on to be sent to you (there are incidental notices of women's work in it).', John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 was a polymath, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size of letter is 150mm x 100mm. Good condition. Folding centre crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18423. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written and signed Letter by Philosopher John Ruskin. Letter dated 1876. A handwritten and signed letter by the 19th century writer John Ruskin, written as Slade Professor of Fine Art to the linguist Arthur Cornwallis Madan. 'My dear Sir, I examined the little picture yesterday with great care. It is good quality, but does not assert itself as by any consummate master; and, on account of its painful subject, I should be distinctly adverse to its being placed in the University galleries:- though I am sure the Trustees would feel grateful for your offer of it. Believe me, Most truly yours, J Ruskin' John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 was a polymath, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Size 180mm x115mm. Condition is average. Repair to rear joining letter together and foxing. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17543. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An Original Hand Written and Signed Letter by Philosopher John Ruskin to Paleontologist, Thomas Rupert Jones. Letter dated 1864. Ruskin writes in December 1864 to the geologist and paleontologist, Thomas Rupert Jones: My dear Sir, Thank you for your note of the 29th putting me in mind of Geographical magazine. I have instantly ordered it: it will be of the greatest value to me. I am oppressed with accidental work just now - but I should like to send you a paper on that subject ? When would you want it? Truly yours, J. Ruskin. Ruskin made a slip of the pen. The periodical was actually Geological Magazine, which had been established in July 1864 and continues today as one of the oldest and best-known periodicals in the Earth Sciences. Jones was the original editor. The letter is written on the front page of plain, black-bordered four-leaf notepaper measuring 7" x 4½". It has folds and light markings. John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 was a polymath, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. Size 178mm x110mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease and ink-smudging on the final blank page. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17571. Signed by Author(s).