Third Act, Signed (20 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited, 1st edition. 79pp, tall octavo. #183 out of 550cc, signed by Garris.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited, 1st edition. 79pp, tall octavo. #187 out of 550cc, signed by Garris.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited, 1st edition. 79pp, tall octavo. #191 out of 550cc, signed by Garris.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited, 1st edition. 79pp, tall octavo. #186 out of 550cc, signed by Garris.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. William Stout (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. William Stout (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new copy. (see picture) 79 pages. Special Signed Limited Edition,One of 550 copies.The number box does not show the # very clear.One very tiny mark on the dustjacket back. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Horror novella. Illustrated by William Stout. 550 SIGNED and numbered copies; this copy is marked "PC" for Publisher's Copy. Fine in jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED; signed by author on title page. Limited Edition 178/ 550. FINE in FINE dust jacket. Appears unread with NO markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 550 numbered copies. SIGNED by the author. A fine, bright copy. NF/NF. Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. ***** This is the third edition, with "Third edition, augmented by two new plays" stated on the inside front flap of the dust jacket. There is no mention of later printings on copyright page. ***** This book is SIGNED by the author (Tennessee Williams) on the second page. The author has not inscribed this book to anyone; it is just signed by the author. ***** Signed examples of this title are rare. ***** Very nice hardcover with dust jacket. There is NO writing, NO bookplates, and NO remainder marks. It is NOT a book club edition and NOT a former library book. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50). ***** CONDITION: The book and the dust jacket are in very nice NEAR FINE condition. ***** We include new mylar (clear) dust jacket protectors with all books at no charge. ***** OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU: All books are guaranteed to be as described. We believe that no sale is complete until you are happy. Any book is returnable for a full refund (including postage) if you're not 100% satisfied. All books are packaged very carefully and shipped via USPS Mail with Delivery Confirmation. ***** Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. I am offering - at the time of listing - a complete matching numbered set (#94) of the Cemetery Dance Signature Series - the first 13 titles. EACH book is a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION hardcover published by Cemetery Dance between 2006 and 2018. EACH book is number 94 of 550 copies and signed by the each contributing author and artist. In EACH CASE the jacket is Very Fine and unclipped and states $35.00. IN EACH CASE the book is Very Fine with straight spine, sharp corners and firm spine ends. IN EACH CASE the copyright page states "First Edition". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Novella: illustrations by William Stout. LIMITED EDITION: 576 copies printed of which this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author in traycase. This is letter ''Q''. Book 12 in the Cemetery Dance signature series of novllas. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket and traycase as (new).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. William Stout (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is the lettered edition of Tyler's Third ACT it is signed by the author and was limited to 26 copy's done and comes in a custom trey case # 12 in the signature series. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. 1st Edition. A very fine complete set of first printings in likewise unclipped dustwrappers. 1 Killer Instinct SIGNED nad Publication day DATED. 2 Riot Act SIGNED LINED & Publication Day DATED. 3 Hard Knocks SIGNED LINED & Publication Day DATED. 4 First Drop SIGNED LINED + card. 5 Road Kill SIGNED LINED + card. 6 Second Strike SIGNED LINED Publication Day DATED + card. 7 Third Strike SIGNED LINED Publication day DATED + card. 8 Fourth Day SIGNED, LINED & Publication day DATED. { ultra scarce book 3 has a dollar price overstickerd to the english price }. ALL are in the very finest collectable condition and very scarce to find a complete set with these superb attributes. Additional P&P charges will be requested. All Author Signed.

A rare and foundational piece of early American legislation and a vital steppingstone on the road to a permanent United States Post Office, signed by Thomas Jefferson as secretary of state. Originally established under the Continental Congress in 1775, the duties of the Post Office were more or less inherited by the Washington administration at the end of the Revolutionary War. Shortly after the Constitution was adopted in 1789, an "Act for the temporary Establishment of the Post Office" was passed by the first Congress, solidifying its position in the new government. The present act is one of three passed between 1789 and 1792 which extended the duration of that original act while a final version was debated, bridging the gap until the Postal Service Act of 1792 finally made the Post Office permanent. In addition to extending the lifetime of the temporary Post Office, the present act also provides free franking privileges to officials in the Treasury Department and extends postal service from Albany to Bennington. The main text reads in full: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the act passed the first session of Congress, intituled, 'An act for the temporary establishment of the post-office,' be, and the same is hereby continued in full force until the end of the next session of Congress and no longer. "And be it further enacted, That all letters to and from the treasurer, comptroller and auditor of the treasury, and the assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, on public service, shall be received and conveyed by the post, free of postage. "And be it further enacted, that the postmaster-general shall be, and he is hereby authorised to extend the carrying the mail from Albany, in the state of New York, to Bennington in the state of Vermont." The act is signed in manuscript by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, and is signed in type by Frederick Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House, John Adams as Vice President, and George Washington as President. The final act permanently establishing the Post Office was passed the following year and would confirm Congress' role in determining postal policy, allow for special rates on the mailing of newspapers, and forbid tampering with or opening of private mail for any reason. ESTC and OCLC together record five copies, located at Yale, Williams College, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. A rare and important piece of American postal history, signed by Thomas Jefferson. EVANS 23871. ESTC W17602. OCLC 54177042, 319437800, 1230250042. Lightly soiled, old folds. Some splitting along folds, reinforced with tape on verso. A few small closed tears to margins, repaired on verso. Very good overall.

2pp. on single folio sheet. Signed in print by George Washington, John Adams and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. In 1791, as part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program, the Federal government issued a tax on distillers of whiskey. After several years of tension and hardships faced by farmers on Pennsylvania's western frontier (for whom whiskey was a principal source of income), violence began spreading against the region's tax collectors. The present separately-printed Act, approved by George Washington on May 9, 1794, authorized the President to require the governors of each state "to organize, arm and equip" and "hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning . of eighty thousand effective militia, officers included." After negotiations with the insurrectionists failed, Washington declared martial law in the region on August 7, 1794. A military force, composed of various state militias as authorized with this act, and under the direct command of Washington, Hamilton and "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, assembled and marched into western Pennsylvania. In the face of an army numbering well over ten thousand men, the rebels scattered and no large-scale use of force was necessary. While the tax remained nigh impossible to collect, the government's response showed the growing power of the Federal government and that the infant nation had the willingness and ability to enforce its laws. There would appear to be two printings of this act, the other issued by the War Department on 1-page (see Evans 27979). Evans 27852 Disbound. Numerical notation at upper left 2pp. on single folio sheet. Signed in print by George Washington, John Adams and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.

Broadside. 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 cm. A true copy, signed in type, and sent down for Concurrence by Perez Morton, Dep. Sec'y., in the House of Representatives, November 7, 1775. Read and concurr'd and sent up by J. Warren, Speaker, who signed in type, along with the following: James Otis, W. Spooner, Caleb Cushing, J. Winthrop, Joseph Gerrish, John Whetcomb, James Prescot, Eldad Taylor, B. Lincoln, M. Farley, J. Palmer, S. Holten, Moses Gill, John Taylor, and B. White. This copy has an ink note at the left margin, "Greenage" [sp.?]; and another note on verso correcting "Greenage" to "Greenwich," presumably the destination for this copy of the hand bill. Another note reads: "Nov.r 7: 1775 an order of Court Respecting Licenses or Taverns." Old fold lines, a few spots, some overall toning to the sheet, ink on verso bleeds through but text all legible. ESTC: AAS, MHS. Library of Congress also appears to have a copy. EVANS 14198. FORD Broadsides 1876 [which adds Mass. Archives Div.] CUSHING Mass. Laws 896.

One side of single sheet. This Act of the first session of the third Congress of the United States authorized Federal construction of a lighthouse at Cape Hatteras and a lighted beacon at Ocracoke. Although the Act was signed into law by President Washington in 1794, construction of the two navigational aids was contingent upon the State of North Carolina ceding the land for them to the Federal government. This process along with the construction of the lights were not accomplished quickly; the beacon at Ocracoke was not put into operation until 1798, the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras not until 1803. Separately issued Acts of the early Congresses ("slip laws") such as this were printed in very limited quantities -- in the dozens as opposed to hundreds; they appear only infrequently on the market. NAIP locates copies of this Act at four institutions -- the American Antiquarian Society, Brown University, Library Company of Philadelphia and University of North Carolina. Evans, American Bibliography: 27853. [For a discussion of the print runs of slip laws, see Powell, The Books of a New Nation, United States Government Publications, 1774-1814: pp. 87-99.] Folio. Edges browned. Three stab holes in left margin from prior string tying. Erased pencil markings at head of sheet.

Single sheet folded to 28.5 x 19 cm. 3pp. of text, docketed on last page. A few splits at folds, ink spots not affecting ability to read. Approved, March the third, 1791. Signed in type by George Washington, President of the United States; John Adams, Vice- President, and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House. Evans 23861 locating copies at NYPL, LOC. OCLC adds Yale. We add AAS, Hist Soc. of PA.

Oblong folio (236 x 322 mm.). 2 pp. 206 measures of music notated on 20 hand-ruled staves in dark brown ink on both sides of a single leaf. Mostly on 3-stave braces, but also on 2- and 4-stave braces. With numerous corrections, deletions, and corrections; 2 entire measures canceled. Browned, but on good quality laid paper and in very good condition overall. Attached at corners to thin window mat, at the foot of which is an inscription in an unknown 19th century hand in German identifying the manuscript as follows (in translation): "Original manuscript by Carl Maria von Weber. The present piece is the first draft of the chorus and ballet from the third act of Oberon. Thanks to its bouncy, exquisite melody, it became a favorite of the German people even before the opera's first performance, based solely on the piano-vocal score. The draft has English text because Weber composed Oberon, which was destined for London, with English text to get as close as possible to the spirit of the nation. This prompted him to a most serious study of the language in his final years. August 1847 [Signed with Initials] [? Etw] . Berlin." For an account of various manuscript sources of Oberon, see Jähns 306, p. 391. Oberon, to a libretto by James Robinson Planché after Christoph Martin Wieland's eponymous poem, was first performed in London at Covent Garden on 12 April 1826. "The première . was a great success, with lavish settings and spectacular scenic effects that impressed even Weber, and the opera remained popular throughout the season. . It contains some of Weber's most delightful music, which has assured the work a permanent, if peripheral, place in the repertory. . The brilliant overture opens atmospherically with Oberon's horn-call, which acts as a motif throughout the work. With the overwhelming success of his opera Der Freischütz in 1821 [Weber] became the leading exponent of German opera in the 1820s and an international celebrity. A seminal figure of the 19th century, he influenced composers as diverse as Marschner, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Liszt." Paul Corneilson, Clive Brown, et al. in Grove Music Online. Signed.