Unknown Man, Signed (28 results)

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . 2nd edition. Signed and stamped by author on half title page. Writing inside. Last page torn.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . 2nd edition. Signed by author on half title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pages toned and inner wrappers tanned. Otherwise an unread copy. Inscribed "To Neal" by Leonard on the dedication page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by author, book is in almost new condition including dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Tanning, DJ with tear and crease at bottom front panel, edgewear, clean square copy, signed and date August 30, 1970. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Signed and inscribed (takes up a full page) by Bill Rodgers on front endpaper and also signed by Benji Durden on inside front cover (he wrote "Always enjoy your running" and then added 1980 Olympic Marathon after his name. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2013. Brown covers with gilt lettering. Covers are slightly bowed. Rear endpaper has a small indentation on side edge. Book is in very good minus condition. Dust jacket has slight edge wear and is in very good condition. Large 8vo, 322 pages, 1.2 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 322 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Scarce. Signed on title page: "Fred R. Boland, Nov. 7, 1970". Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown cloth binding with gold colored print on spine. Tight, sound and except Author inscription unmarked. 322 pages. Dust jacket in mylar and not price-clipped ($ 26.99). Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition (softcover). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xviii, 302pp. 8pp colour plates, 8pp b&w plates. Original laminated card wrappers. Slight tanning to the leading edge of the text block, else this book is in very good condition. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN 1844139182.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Pages gently tanned with scattered spotting throughout; Signed copy. Hardback. Illustrated Brown boards with gilt & black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 7½" x 4ĵ" (0.6 kg); pp 211 (12); Publishing date unstated, dated from references but 24th thousand so probably a little later. Signed by the author, with dedication, on the verso first blank without provenance. Contains: Black & white drawings; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #184635 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One of 100 copies signed by Leonard. Hardcover, bound in maroon cloth with slipcase. Light scuffing to the slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "First Printing" stated. Original price of $8.95 showing to top of jacket front flap. Jacket rear flap coded 0677. "Signed" sticker adhered to outside of dust jacket protector at foot of spine. Signed "Elmore Leonard" to title page. Half-inch chip to top outside corner of jacket front panel. Modest staining to bottom 3 inches of front page edges. Alfred Hitchcock considered filming "Unknown Man No. 89," to which he had acquired the rights, as his follow-up film to Family Plot (1976), his 53rd and final project. But the film was never made. 264 pp. Reduced from $220.00. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First British Edition. Signed on the title page. A nice, tight copy, scant page edge soil. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. One of 26 lettered copies ("Q") SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, new in slipcase. With a new introduction by the author.

Signed by Elmore Leonard on a bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. First Edition/1st Printing. Very good minus hardcover in good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has some pink discoloration on the front panel. Book has a few blemishes on the front board and the lower spine end. No remainder mark, notes, underlining or highlighting. Book will be well padded in bubble wrap and shipped in a sturdy box. p2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin (illustrator). 1st Edition. "First Printing" stated. Original price of $8.95 showing to top of jacket front flap. Jacket rear flap coded 0677. Signed "Elmore Leonard" to title page. Slight (1/8 inch) spine lean. Alfred Hitchcock considered filming "Unknown Man No. 89," to which he had acquired the rights, as his follow-up film to "Family Plot" (1976), his 53rd and final project. But the film was never made. 264 pp. Reduced from $297. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Signed, First British edition, book slightly askew, White dj is slightly yellowed. Comes in protective clear archival cover. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition hardcover in very good plus condition in very good plus dust jacket - signed by the author on the title page - foxing to page ends, fading to cover ends, white dj slightly yellowed, not price clipped, early hard to find hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Third novel in his hard-boiled Detroit crime series. Probably the most elusive of Leonard's hardcovers after the three Westerns he published in the mid-1950's. Very good plus, with previous owner's stamp, date and initials on front endpaper, in fine dustjacket. Inscribed by Leonard on half title. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Slightest wear to book and dust jacket; signed by Elmore Leonard on a book plate which is attached to front free end paper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. Unread, new condition in original shrink wrap. Signed by Author(s).

8.5 x 5.75, cloth backed boards, 264 pp, covers rubbed and unevenly sunned (with perfect shadow of a right foot!) with a small stain at foredge of front cover, extremities worn and bumped, spine cocked, hinges loose, fairly bad glue stains on endpapers, hinges loose, pp a bit toned, in a worn and glue stained dust jacket. SWAF. FIRST ED, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELMORE LEONARD, AND AUTHOR'S SON PETER LEONARD (THE DEDICATEE) ON DEDICATION PAGE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 222 pages. Published in 1959. The author's debut New Novel. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Nathalie Sarraute's "Portrait d'un Inconnu" in a felicitous English translation by Maria Jolas. She also translated the dazzling Preface Essay by Jean-Paul Sartre. Preceded by her ground-breaking vignette-portraits, "Tropismes" (1939), here is the very first New Novel, the only serious - and ambitious - attempt of the 20th century to advance and complete literary modernism. Another great thinker, Hannah Arendt, hailed it as a breakthrough in the way it subverts - and transcends - the novel form's seemingly inescapable "psychology", by depicting the unconscious as a "physiology" instead: An objective "portrait" (of an ultimately unknowable human subject) rather than a subjective, psychological depiction (of a knowable and empathetic literary character). "I believe that by allowing us to sense an intangible authenticity, she has achieved a technique which makes it possible to attain, over and beyond the psychological, human reality in its very existence" (Jean-Paul Sartre). Sartre deserves full credit for championing her work even though it actively rejects his own approach. It is surely because of the New Novel's anti-psychological ambition that it has remained an ambition, literary, NOT philosophical in either the Sartre-ian or Camus-ian mode, and an acquired taste, destined never to land on bestseller lists. And yet: Sarraute's radical emphasis on plotless narrative has actually had enormous literary influence, and has since become the norm of serious mainstream literature. The late great satirist/social realist novelist Martin Amis, of all people, declared that only thrillers (which he was also good at) require a plot; all other modern novels depend on and are about the inner life (of a particular character), which he described as the "voice novel", emanating organically - that is, "physiologically", per Arendt - from the innermost thoughts, feelings, and sensations of a human being. The "voice novel" is another, brilliant way to describe the New Novel, whose achievement as such demands every serious reader's worthwhile consideration. An absolute "must-have" title for Nathalie Sarraute collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Nathalie Sarraute. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Her signature is superb: Clean, flowing, and elegant. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: John Calder, the publisher itself, NOT any previous owner, clipped the original price printed on the DJ flap and then replaced it with its own sticker of the corrected price (5.95 British pounds). A rare signed copy thus. "Tropismes" and "Portrait of A Man Unknown" are regarded by a panel of European publishers, scholars, and literary critics as two of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NATHALIE SARRAUTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. Translated by Maria Jolas. Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. Faint offsetting on endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in fine dust jacket, with just a touch of rubbing, and a small publisher's price sticker on the front flap. Signed by Nathalie Sarraute.

First editions. 14 volumes. 8vo. Original cloth, dust jackets. London, Jonathan Cape. A complete set of first edition James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, in near fine condition, about as nice as is practically obtainable. Over 70 years since the first James Bond novel was published the James Bond franchise continues to be immensely popular and Bond remains the most famous fictional spy in the world.  Live and Let Die signed by the dust jacket artist Kenneth Lewis, who executed the dust jacket design of the first three James Bond books.   All in fine, near fine, or very good condition.  Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A1a (1.1), A2a (1.1), A3a (1.3), A4 (1.2), A5a (1.2), A6a (1.3), A7a (1.2), A8a (1.1), A9a (1.1), A10a (1.2), A11a. (1.1), A12a (1.3), A13a (1.), A14a. (1.).   For a full description please enquire.

Plate : This drawing shows a portrait of a man, 19tt century. Lithograph on a vellin type paper. Description: Age: signed 1849.Artists and Engravers: Unknown or te be determined. Signature inelligable. Condition: Fine/good. General age-related toning. Light foxing. Tear at the bottom; repaired. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: (RCTPC) B59-03 The overall size is ca. 14.2 x 18.9 inch. The image size is ca. 13.8 x 14.6 inch. The overall size is ca. 36 x 48 cm. The image size is ca. 35 x 37 cm.

First Edition. UNKNOWN MAN NO. 89, Secker & Warburg, 1977, first English edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper. Signed by the author.

Unpublished, lost work by the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Reverend W Awdry. A devoted railway enthusiast and expert, it is well documented that Awdry began writing a biography on J.E. McConnell in the 1980s but no other copies have been located. This substantial typed manuscript is corrected throughout in Awdry's hand and tells the story of the engineer James E. McConnell, 'a very remarkable man, an inventive genius', the man in charge of the Wolverhampton locomotive works in the mid 19th century and Superintendent of the Birmingham and Bristol Line. McConnell was credited with the construction of a 'truly gigantic' locomotive he called ' Great Britain'. DESCRIPTION: In very good condition, bound together using treasury tags within yellow card wrappers. The 72 pp. typed manuscript is annotated throughout in the Rev Awdry's distinctive hand writing, many of the photographs within are attributed to the 'author W.A' and the foreword is signed off in type 'Rev, W V Awdry'. The manuscript is complete and meticulously researched comprising 5 chapters, fully referenced, listed illustrations, detailed appendices and circa 35 fully annotated photographs and illustrations. Chapter 1: Early life of JE McConnell; Chapter 2: Accidents; Chapter 3: Bromsgrove; Chapter 4: Mainly Locomotives; Chapter 5: Early Days on the Lickey. Circa 25 000 words. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.