Target by Holmes John: Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue boards with white blocked titles to spine, 210 x 145 mm approx. [viii] + 248 pp. First Trade Edition 1972 inscribed by the author in blue ink to free front end paper. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. very Good/ Very Good (Book- Mild general shelf rubbing to boards, inscription as above, hint of foxing to edges of book block. Dust Jacket - shelf rubbed and shelf soiling where laminate shy of paper, no printed cover price or publisher price sticker. No other defects to book or jacket). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Near fine. First Edition. 248 p. 21 cm. Blue cloth in dustjacket. Signed "John Holmes" on title page. Faint discolouration to jacket. Book itself has indentation in rear board. One of Souster's rare forays into fiction, detailing experiences from World War II.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. First Edition. 248 p. 21 cm. Blue cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Faint mark at top front of jacket. Folded order form at rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. Octavo, 5.6 x 8.25 in., pp. 248. Limited Collectors Edition #10/99, signed (Raymond Souster) and dated (1973) by author. Blue boards with gold title to spine. Protected in mylar. Blue paper slipcase has sunning to top, bottom, and one inch strip of one side. John Holmes is a pseudonym for Raymond Holmes Souster (1921 - 2012) , a Canadian poet "whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of poetry by others. A resident of Toronto all of his life, he has been called that city's 'most loved poet'. Robert Fulford wrote of Souster in 1998: 'You can't read the history of Canadian poetry without encountering him, yet somehow he remains obscure. His legendary shyness has created, over five decades, a curious form of anonymity: he's at once omnipresent and invisible.'" (Wikipedia) He published three works of fiction, only one under the name "John Holmes." Near Fine / Fine Dustjacket / Very Good Slipcase. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket a touch sunned around the spine head, else a clean and tight copy, about fine, in a blue paper slipcase. Collector's edition of 99 copies, signed by the author, this is copy 66. Signed by Author(s). …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 248 pages. Harry Howith's copy, number 1 of 99 signed by Souster. A limited, signed, dedication/ association copy. Signed, limited, association c.