Sign Four, Signed (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition, No 7 of 221. This is a fine, as new, stapled paperback copy, illustrated white wraps. This edition is limited to 221 numbered copies, privately printed for presentation to the members of the Holmesian fraternity at Christmas, 2000, of which this is copy No. Seven. Inscribed by Hugo Koch. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First impression of this Graphic novel edition from 2010 in fine condition, signed by adaptor and illustrator to title page no markings, pages clean, binding firm, no jacket as issued, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Ray Lago, Christopher Moeller, Dave Dorman, Scott Hampton (illustrator). Soft Cover. Rolling Thunder Press 2005. Signed. 1st Edition. Book condition: NM - Near Mint. Full Colour illustrations. Yearbook 2005 features the art of Dave Dorman, Scott Hampton, Ray Lago, and Christopher Moeller! With eight pages of art by each artist, most taken from works created over the past year. This saddle-stitched book has 12pt cover stock, with 100 lb. coated stock interior pages This copy is signed by all the featured artists!! 35 pages. Size: 9" x 11" (220mm x 280mm). ISBN: 9780975385449. (1.2 SOF200501).

Paperback. Condition: As New. Dave Dorman, Ray Lago, Chris Moeller, Scott Hampton (illustrator). Soft Cover. Rolling Thunder Press 2003. This book is signed by all four artists! Signed. Full Colour illustrations. The Sign of Four is an annual art collection featuring the artwork of four of the most talented creators in the Comics/Science Fiction fields: Dave Dorman, Ray Lago, Chris Moeller, and Scott Hampton. The 2003 edition features 32 pages of full-colour art, printed on heavy 80lb stock, with gloss-coated card stock cover. Each artist is represented with an 8 page section featuring handpicked pieces from their recent creations. 32 pages. Size: 8" x 11" (215mm x 280mm). (0.2 SIGNOFFOUR2003).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Presentation copy, with a slip inscribed by John Robert Gregg tipped in on the front flyleaf. This curious edition of the classic detective story featuring Sherlock Holmes is written entirely in Gregg shorthand and was intended to promote use of the system. Gregg shorthand is a form of stenography that was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888. Like cursive longhand, it is completely based on elliptical figures and lines that bisect them. It remains the most popular form of pen stenography in the United States. Small octavo: [2], 188 pp. with shorthand plates written by Alice Rinné Hagar. Original brown cloth binding, with dark brown-stamped titling, borders, and emblem on the front panel. Tiny bit of rubbing to the corners and tips; else near fine.

[Literature] AUTHOR'S EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, LIMITED to 1000 sets of which this No 472, SIGNED by Conan Doyle in the first volume. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), illustrated with plates. In fact only 510 sets were issued in 1903, all being bound by Smith Elder. The dormant 490 quires were reissued in and after 1917 by new owners John Murray with fresh Murray title-pages, back-dated to 1903. All volumes in the present set are First Issue with Smith Elder imprint. Bound in full light blue leather, tooled in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With tipped-in AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 'To My Dear Shorter', declining the offer of an interview. The recipient is almost certainly Clement Shorter, the British critic, journalist and friend of Dr. Doyle. Contents clean, presentation label to pastedown, binding gently rubbed and handled; pleasingly aged. The Author considered this edition to be of great importance: he revised parts, and added notes and a number of special introductions, stating: ".I have expended all pains into putting these books into their final form, and so I leave them." Doyle only signed the 1000 copies of the UK edition, and none of the US issue. This set was formerly housed at Rare Books Special Collections, San Diego Public Library, donated in 1975 with ca.700 volumes, to the Wangenheim Room, in memory of Mildred W. Warner, and her father-in-law, Dr. V. Van Zele. Recently de-acquisitioned by The Friends of the Library. there are no institutional stamps or markings apart from the presentation bookplate on the pastedown. An attractive set. Green & Gibson [A60]. Signed.

[Detective fiction / crime mysteries] VINCENT STARRETT's copy, SIGNED AND ANNOTATED BY HIM. Large Octavo (21 x 15cm). Contains four titles in one volume, one being illustrated by Sidney Paget. The George Newnes 'sixpenny novel' sheets and others, bound together in full red pebble-grained cloth, titled in gilt to spine 'REPRINTS FROM THE STRAND MAGAZINE'. Starrett's ownership signature in black ink, dated '14 January 1954', together with his pencil notations initialled 'V', and decorative 'Holmes' bookplate. Cheap paper rather toned, binding rubbed at joints, inside paper joints cracked. An unusual collection of classic crime novels, owned and used by the great Sherlockian Vincent Starrett, who notes to rear pastedown "The Meade and Halifax stories are scarce titles in any edition". A fine association. Signed.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [ca 6 pp.]. Very Good+. Cover sheet plus 5 illustrations, each numbered and signed by Sam Greene. Staple bound in clear plastic cover. Scarce.

London: George Newnes, Ltd. 1902; 1904; 1902. Three volumes, 8vo. Original dark blue cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt to upper covers and spines after a design by Alfred Garth Jones, lower covers stamped in blind; upper edge gilt; pp [I:] [8], 285, [1]; [II:] [8], 341, [1], frontispiece and illustrations by Sidney Paget; [III:] [8], 296, frontispiece and illustrations by Paget; extremities lightly rubbed, spines a little sunned, slight spine lean; some occasional light spotting and light marks to pages and edges, some off-setting to endpapers, but generally very good; The Sign of Four with contemporary inscriptions in ink to front free endpaper and title (". Xmas 1903"); The Memoirs with slip of paper signed by Doyle and pasted to title.Souvenir editions, reprints (first published in 1901). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes signed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to slip of paper pasted to title page.The first two titles of the Souvenir Edition, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (originally titled in the Souvenir series as The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), were issued by Newnes in September 1901 to coincide with the opening of the play Sherlock Holmes at the Lyceum Theatre. The Sign of Four completed the trilogy in December 1901.The Sign of Four, the second Sherlock Holmes novel, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in February 1890, under the title The Sign of the Four, and was released in book form in October 1890 without the second "the" of the original title. Likewise, in the following British and American editions, including the present Souvenir edition, the second "the" was omitted. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the earliest collection of Holmes short stories; originally published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892, it first appeared in book form in October 1892. Finally, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is the second Holmes collection. First published in The Strand Magazine from December 1892 to December 1893, it appeared in book form in 1894.

Souvenir Edition. A reprint (first published in 1901). Octavo (19cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; patterned endpapers; [viii],285,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author along the upper margin of the title page: "Yours truly / A. Conan Doyle." Forward lean, light wear to extremities, with a hint of foxing and a touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+ or better. Housed in a custom velvet-lined clamshell case by the Chelsea Bindery. An attractive copy of the second Sherlock Holmes novel, which "makes use of the Thames in an unforgettable manner, and the detection is more active than in A Study in Scarlet as well as fraught with danger. For one thing, Watson succumbs to the charms of Miss Morstan, and for another the two detectives are nearly disposed of by Tonga, the Andaman Islander (Barzun & Taylor 1143). The first two titles of the Souvenir Edition The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were issued by Newnes in September, 1901, in dark blue cloth with a gilt sphinx design by Alfred Garth Jones, to coincide with the opening of the play Sherlock Holmes at the Lyceum Theatre. The Sign of Four was added in December 1901. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, infrequently found signed or inscribed. Gibson & Greene, p.578.

(FIRST LADIES). PS. 14 x 11. No date [circa 1991]. No place [Simi Valley, California]. A color photograph signed Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford. This image of the four Republican First Ladies was taken at the dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on November 4, 1991. The signatures are on the matting above the color image. It is professionally framed.

(REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS). PS. 15 x 12. 1990. Yorba Linda, CA. A colored photograph signed by Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Gerald R. Ford. The photo shows these four Republican presidents standing in the Richard Nixon Library to commemorate its opening. It is in mint condition with dark autographs. This photograph is professionally framed and in very good condition.