Title Upper Cover, Signed (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Brown flexible cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Approx. 1 1/2" area of loss along upper front fore-edge (approx. 1/8" deep), a cosmetic blemish, otherwise only light shelf/handling wear. Signed by the author's son, Arthur T. Parke, in pencil on front flyleaf. Parke Sr. is credited as the author of the historical sketch by a penciled annotation on p. 8, the first page of the text. 70 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) was a sculptor and medalist; many world and literary figures of the first half of the twentieth century are among his subjects. In 1921 he started work on Men of Letters of the British Isles a volume containing medallic portraits of writers such as James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, A.E. Houseman, G.K. Chesterton among others. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. This rare limited edition features Clarke's distinctive artistic interpretation of Andersen's fairy tales. The illustrations radiate a lively energy, perhaps owing to the fact that this was Clarke's first published worka project that allowed him to finally earn recognition for his artistry. While remaining true to the spirit of Andersen's stories, Clarke imbues them with his own singular and extraordinary vision of the world. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large Paper Copy, one of Fifty printed on Van Gelder Dutch handmade paper for the American market. There were another 100 copies printed for the English market. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author on half-title page: "Francis Francis Esq, With Kind regards from Frederick M. Halford." Francis Francis was a famous angler and author of 'A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch' published in 1867. The first American edition of the first, and scarcest, of Halford's books. Ex libris Dermot Earl of Mayo. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition of sixty Numbered Copies, each containing an example of the author's personal pattern in a sunken mount, with his Signature. This book is "essentially a dictionary of over 800 traditional and modern dressings from an Irish fly-tyer's notebook, filling a major gap in angling literature: there is information on hooks, fly-dressing materials and their preparation, with a guide to vegetable dyeing and the materials used to obtain the subtle colours beloved by the traditional fly tyers. Trout and salmon fly dressings each have their own section, and there are appendices that provide information on where to fish throughout Ireland, and often on which flies are particularly effective in each area". Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Heaney's translation of Dante's Inferno (lines 1-90 of Canto XXXIII). The story of Archbishop Roger (Ruggieri) of Pisa and Count Ugolino is told in Dante's poem. Heaney explains that he was drawn to the material 'because I sensed there was something intimate, almost carnal, about these feuds and sorrows of mediaeval Pisa, something that could perhaps mesh with and house the equivalent and destructive energies at work in, say, contemporary Belfast.'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. James Connolly's achievements were as a labour leader. In Belfast he led a successful docker's strike. In Dublin he worked with Jim Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Worker's Union, organising a series of strikes which culminated in the unsuccessful 1913 Dublin Lock-out. He set up the Irish Citizen Army to defend the workers. He is best remembered for his part in the 1916 Rising and his execution by firing squad, although injured and unable to stand, in Kilmainham Jail. Extremely rare with signature. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. Issued on behalf of the fundraising campaign for the Linen Hall Library, the charitable body of which Seamus Heaney was a patron The Tree Clock includes seventeen poems delivered at a joint reading in aid of the Library, in 1989. This limited issue of 20 copies, each with a poem in the author s hand, is rare in commerce. Signed by Author(s).

42 oval portrait albumen photographs, each approximately 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches length. 4to (13 x 9-3/4 inches). An album of large oval portrait photographs of the members of the 1855 Massachusetts State Senate, all but 5 signed by the subject. The legislature that year sought to pass, among other things, resolves relating to Bloody Kansas, an act relating to the employment of children in factories, an act to establish the Boston Emigrant Aid and Mining Company, and an act to abolish imprisonment for debt. List of sitters and inscriptions as they appear in the album: 1. Signed "Yours Truly Henry W. Benchley". 2. Signed, "Yours Truly/ R. Libby." 3. Signed, O.W. Albee. " 4. Signed, "Your Truly/ B. Andrews." 5. Signed, Yours/ fraternally/ A.A. Cook." 6. Signed, "Your truly A.J. Wright." 7. Unsigned, Sylvester Baxter 8. Signed, "Yours Truly, G.L. Raymond." 9. Signed, "Yours truly A.E. Hildreth." 10. Signed, "Yours Truly, Edward Denny." 11. Signed, "Yrs. very truly, J.H. Lewis(?)" 12. Signed, "Receive my Considerations, God and Liberty, Selius C. Maine." 13. Signed, "Yours Sincerely/Ambrose Verner." 14. Signed, "Very Respectfully yours/ Francis De Witt." 15. Signed, "Yours &c./ S.M. Robinson." 16. Signed, "Yours Truly/ Wm. O. Fletcher." 17. Signed, "As ever/ Daniel Warren." 18. Signed, "Steuben Evans." 19. Signed, "Yours Truly/ L.L. Pellew." 20. Signed, "Yours truly C.K. Hawks" 21. Signed, "Yours truly Elihu C. Baker" 22. Unsigned, Chaplain Lyman Whiting 23. Signed, "Respectfully yours J.E. Carpenter" 24. Signed, "Yours Truly Jabez Fisher" 25. Signed, "Yours truly James D. Black" 26. Signed, "Bradford K. Peirce" 27. Unsigned, Joseph Earl Dawley 28. Signed, "Faithfully Yours Daniel K. Hitchcock" 29. Signed, "As ever, G. Pillsbury" 30. Signed, "Yours cordially R.B. Hall" 31. Signed, "Yours Truly Moses Tenney" 32. Unsigned, Alvan Greenleaf Underwood 33. Signed, "Yours Respectfully John A. Buttrick" 34. Signed, "Very truly yours C.H. Stedman" 35. Signed, "Yours truly John Batchelder" 36. Signed, "Truly your friend Gill Barker" 37. Signed, "Respectfully yours, Stephen Horse" 38. Signed, "Respectfully, A.A. Richmond" 39. Signed, "Yours B.J. White" 40. Signed, "Yours truly Jas W. Ward" 41. Unsigned, Billings Palmer. Contemporary black morocco, all edges gilt, gilt spine and gilt border, gilt dentelles. Minor shelfwear to covers, foxing to mounts, minor spotting to a few portraits, paste action to several 42 oval portrait albumen photographs, each approximately 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches length. 4to (13 x 9-3/4 inches).