Thistle by Gardner: Signed (12 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Frayed DJ. Later Edition. 59pp Illus Presentation copy signed by Sporn on title page. Small stain on foredge. Possibly missing rear endpaper. Sporn, Michael (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Michael Sporn. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light wear to the extremities. Inscribed by the illustrator with ALS laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint in library binding. Illustrated by Michael Sporn. Crown gently bumped else a tight, fine copy in pictorial boards. Signed by the illustrator, Michael Sporn, on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. SIGNED by John Gardner on front end-paper. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (2"- inch red marker line on bottom edge. Mild iscoloration to edges of boards & cloth. ) A juvenile title in library bnding. Without statement of 'first edition' on copyright page.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside. Illustration by Philip Carey. Measuring 8½" x 13¼". A fine copy with the tiniest crease in one corner. One of 150 copies printed by Stuart McCarty and Signed by the artist Philip Carey.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in mylar cover. First Printing. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by John Gardner. Fine in a fine, price-intact dust jacket. Michael Sporn (illustrator). SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Michael Sporn. Remainder stripe bottom edge, fine in fine dustwrapper with a nominal smudge on the front panel and a tiny tear. Signed by the author. A children's book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG. Jacket in mylar. Inscribed by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on title page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Michael Sporn. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Gardner. A children's book. From the collection of novelist Nicholas Delbanco. Gardner and acclaimed novelist and critic Delbanco first forged a friendship when Delbanco hosted Gardner during a reading tour at Bennington College in 1974. Delbanco ended up hiring Gardner for the English Department at the College. They and their families began a close professional and personal relationship in which each of the authors strove to critique the other's works in private and promote them in public, Gardner touting Delbanco as "one of the country's best novelists." Each acknowledged the contribution of the other in developing both their theories of literature and for specific elements of their respective works, whether it be Delbanco using Gardner's title *Stillness* for one of his novels or Gardner using Delbanco's writing to help clarify the husband-wife relationship in one of his own works. Delbanco's home and family became a refuge for both Gardner and his first wife during their messy divorce. Following Gardner's death in a 1982 motorcycle accident, Delbanco became Gardner's literary executor; editing and contributing an introduction to Gardner's posthumously published *Stillness and Shadows*. Delbanco's daughter Francesca, who was an occasional babysitter of Gardner's children, and who has herself published two well-received novels, *Ask Me Anything* and *Midnight in Manhattan* was the Dedicatee of one of Gardner's acclaimed children's books, *The King of Hummingbirds*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Swedish edition. Translated by Jadwiga P. Westrup. Pictorial boards. Fine. Inscribed by Gardner to his close friend and literary executor Nicholas Delbanco and his family, among them Delbanco's daughter, the writer Francesca Delbanco, the dedicatee of one of Gardner's three children's books *The King of Hummingbirds.*.…

One of 150 copies signed by artist. Drawing by Philip Carey. Folio broadside, 21.7cmx34cm. Printed in black and purple ink on blue paper. Stuart McCarty, Bellevue Press. Near fine, slight bent to upper right corner.