Universal Library, Signed (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 8vo, paperback, with wrapper. Vg condition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Spine of paper wrapper slightly sun-faded, protected book spine pristine; covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 64 pp History, Library, Linguistics, Science,

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Joyce, William (illustrator). First Edition. Very fine, new, crisp and unread first printing, signed and with a short inscription; to (name) and stamped by the author on the title page, with map endpapers, fine dust jacket.In Summerland Chabon turns his wonderful story-telling magic on the younger set. When we first meet the book's unlikely hero he is notoriously known as The Worst Ball-Player in the History of Clam Island, Washington. Baseball, mythical creatures, and native legends are all part of a story that becomes an essential struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil played out against this magical setting. Cover art by William Joyce, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND STAMPED WITH CHABON'S ROUND SEAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR UNIVERSAL BASEBALL RESEARCH AND THE MOE BERG LIBRARY. SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Joyce, William (illustrator). First Edition. Very fine, new, crisp and unread first printing, signed and with a short inscription; to (name) and stamped by the author on the title page, with map endpapers, fine dust jacket.In Summerland Chabon turns his wonderful story-telling magic on the younger set. When we first meet the book's unlikely hero he is notoriously known as The Worst Ball-Player in the History of Clam Island, Washington. Baseball, mythical creatures, and native legends are all part of a story that becomes an essential struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil played out against this magical setting. Cover art by William Joyce, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND STAMPED WITH CHABON'S ROUND SEAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR UNIVERSAL BASEBALL RESEARCH AND THE MOE BERG LIBRARY. SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing of the first American hardcover edition SIGNED by Chabon on the title page with a black ballpoint pen. No inscription. Baby blue paper boards and white binding. This copy includes the scarcely found stamp on the title page of the "Moe Berg Library - Society for Universal Baseball Research." A remarkably well-preserved copy with sharp corners. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. LAID IN: a bookstore FLYER promoting an appearance by the author. Also available from this bookseller is a signed 1st printing of The Yiddish Policeman's Union (NY: HarperCollins, 2007). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Joyce, William (illustrator). First Edition. Very fine, new, crisp and unread first printing, signed and with a short inscription; to (name) and stamped by the author on the title page, with map endpapers, fine dust jacket.In Summerland Chabon turns his wonderful story-telling magic on the younger set. When we first meet the book's unlikely hero he is notoriously known as The Worst Ball-Player in the History of Clam Island, Washington. Baseball, mythical creatures, and native legends are all part of a story that becomes an essential struggle between the opposing forces of good and evil played out against this magical setting. Cover art by William Joyce, SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND STAMPED WITH CHABON'S ROUND SEAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR UNIVERSAL BASEBALL RESEARCH AND THE MOE BERG LIBRARY. SIGNED.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 633 page manuscript, with "the D scheme of classification representing the present arrangement of the collection of universal and old world history in the Library of Congress". The general works are subdivided into those written before 1800 and those since, followed by the general special, and at the end of each country division are placed the component provinces and districts, rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, towns, etc. "Here is classified everything within the scope of history and description having distinctly local interest". SIGNED by Schmidt on the upper left of the front cover. Cover has edgewear and light soils. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. This is signed Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffen and numbered 342. The covers and spine have moderate wear and light soiling and the spine is sunned. The re is a bookplate on the front paste-down. The pages are clean but many are uncut. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.

First Edition. Folio, pp. [8], xvi, [9]-47, 56-417, [3], with a frontispiece and 35 engraved plates by numerous artists (a couple slightly foxed, one with a ink blot); final leaf of subscribers; a good copy in modern half morocco, old calf spine laid down; a subscriber's copy, signed 'Thomas Weston' on the title-page and frontispiece, and dated May 1784.First edition thus, rare, published in 36 weekly parts, each originally accompanied with an illustration, and now correctly bound according to the complicated 'Directions to the Binder' at the end. Wright's exhaustive compilation, with notes and commentary on each page, assembled calendars, the book of common prayer, the psalms, forms of prayer, constitutions and canons, and two versions of the metrical psalms (Sternold and Hopkins, and Tate and Brady) The illustrations were equally copious.ESTC shows six copies: BL, Canterbury Cathedral (wanting subscriber's list), Queen's College Oxford, Bodley, University of London: and Huntington. Language: English.