Steep Ascent, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by Jean Starr Untermeyer to her husband, the poet Louis Untermeyer: "To Louis- No ascent is too steep if I shall find him on the summit, Jean, 1928." The pair married in 1906 and divorced in 1926, but reunited shortly after the suicide of their son Richard, to whom this volume is dedicated. Remarried in 1929, they were divorced again the following year. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Light wear to the corners and tips; else near fine.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, slim octavo, black cloth lettered white to spine, lightly knocked at head and foot of spine, a tightly bound copy in a dust wrapper that is torn with some edge loss and cellotape repairs to the reverse, now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, foxing spot to fore-edge. This copy is inscribed by the authoress 'For Florrie from Anne, March 1944,' and is further signed by her underneath the half-title. Florrie was Florence, the first Lady St. Just, a letter to her is loosely inserted from J G Wilson of John and Edward Bumpus Ltd, thanking her for the loan of the book and expressing a wish for it to be published in the UK. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth. 8vo. 120pp. Pictorial dust jacket with unclipped flap. First edition (stated). Inscribed by the author in the year of publication and with her signature on the half title page. A novel by the aviator, writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh. It follows the journey of Eve, a wife and mother, on a perilous airplane trip with her husband over the Alps. A very good bright copy with some wear to the spine tips. The endsheets are lightly browned else the text is very good and clean. The jacket is good with some small chips and tears along the top and bottom edge. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. SIGNED 1955 first edition, 128pp, with dedication and message from author on endpaper and her signature on the title page; SIGNED FIRST EDITION 1944 viii + [8i] +120pp, blue cloth covers with VG-/G+ dustwrapper , signed dedication from author for Betty March 1944, and signed on the title page with full signature ; Octavo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good- condition (DJ). First Edition. xii, 120 pages of text. Binding with minor rubbing to the extremities. The unclipped dustjacket has a large chip to the top of the spine, two tiny chips, and several additional tears, creases and other minor shelfwear, and is sunned on the spine and the top of the rear panel; protected in archival mylar. First edition, first printing, with "first edition" printed on the copyright page. Signed on the half title page "Anne Morrow Lindbergh March 3rd 1944" with no further inscription. This is interesting as the publication date was two weeks later. The front endpaper was removed. The text is clean and unmarked. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Chipping at spine crown/heel. 1 inch open tears at top of front panel. ; Personalized by author on half title page. ; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Signed, half title page. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH dated her inscription on March 17th,1944 - the very date of original publication. Additionally, there is a mailing envelope - written in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's hand - postmarked from her home in Michigan to Mr. Conger Goodyear, a philanthropist & industrialist best known as a founding member of the New York Museum of Modern Art. industrialist "The Steep Ascent" is a fictionalized account of an actual flight event which occurred over the Alps - Anne Morrow Lindbergh's husband, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, was flying the plane of that event. Mrs. Lindbergh herself was a noted aviator -- she first flew solo in 1929, became the first American woman to earn a 1st-class glider pilot's license in 1930, and made many exploratory flights with her husband. "This is an explorer's book. about a woman's reaction to the power and beauty of flight" -- Atlantic Monthly In fine condition. Dust-jacket in excellent shape. Slip-case shows some scuff marks. Signed by Author(s). Book.

LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. THE STEEP ASCENT. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1944]. dark-blue cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Lindbergh on the half-title page. Also with a signed presentation from her mother on the front endpaper, to New York Times editor Charles Merz and his wife: "For Mr. & Mrs. Merz from the proud parent Elizabeth Morrow. April, 1944." Also with Morrow's personal calling card (with a paper clip stain), with an autograph note signed: "I'm so sorry that this comes so late but I've been off in Mexico! E.C.M." Near fine (pencil notation on front endpaper stating the book is from the Merz library, few paper clip marks where calling card was attached); little wear (small nick & tear) d/j. $850.00.

First edition of this work which chronicles Lindbergh's travels to the Alps, with the engaging philosophical observations which made her Listen, the Wind! so popular. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Esther and Norman Biltz Anne Morrow Lindbergh December 1948." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition stated, first printing. Inscribed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh to former owners on the front free endpaper, and signed by her again on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in white. Near Fine with light shelf lean, light rubbing to bottom edge of boards and spine ends. Pages lightly toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, which is worn, dust-soiled, darkened, lightly stained at the blank verso, and with a horizontal tear to the spine. A nice copy, signed and inscribed by the author.