Valley Bones, Signed (22 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on front endpage.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing Advance Reading Copy (ARC) softcover. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed opposite front end page (signature only). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. the book is clean and tight but may have been read gently/ the top of DJ has some wear on top. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. William Morrow, 2005, First Edition, stated. Signed by author on title page. Hardbound book. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition. Jacket shows overall shelfwear, some rubbing to tail of spine. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, corners are sharp, soft bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is tight. Text block shows some light discoloration. Pages are clean, crisp, free of any markings apart from author's signature in black ink on title page. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s) 0060577665 First Print. Signed by the author on the title page. NOT inscribed, clipped or otherwise marked. Dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Complete # line 10987654321. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition with the complete number line; signed and dated by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket with no apparent flaws; in archival protection. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new copy in Brodart cover. (see picture) 436 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Perfect Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by Author. No other markings. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Very Good Copy - Signed By The Author On The Title Page. Author'S Signature Only. First Edition, First Printing, With The Corresponding Number Line. Book Is In Very Good Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Small Amount Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Wrapper. Thanks And Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo., 436pp. Beautiful unread First Edition with little or no wear in equally attractive unclipped wrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION. Outstanding Copy - Softcover, Advance Uncorrected Proof. Signed By The Author On The Title Page. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean. With No Real Wear To Speak Of Along The Edge Of The Boards. Very Clean Page Edges. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Advance Reader's Edition (ARC) softcover. SIGNED by author on a bookplate on tilte page (signature only). Signed by Author.

Condition: FINE. First printing. The author's second novel, featuring Afro-Cuban Miami homicide detective Jimmy Paz, an international thriller, and an exploration of faith, with settings ranging from Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains to Sudan. SIGNED on the title page and dated 25 Jan 05, in the year of publication. 436 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book and jacket have mild shelfwear to the heel of the spine, else clean and tight with no marks or stamps. Signed on the title page by Gruber. First edition, first printing. 448 p. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The dustjacket is protected in a mylar cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Very good minus condition softcover copy SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book covers have some wear at extremities and some reading/handling wear and light staining. A gift inscription on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 11 Volume Set. Cassanova's Chinese Restaurant is SIGNED and inscribed by Anthony Powell on front endpaper: "Naomi Thompson, in memory of some very enjoyable meetings in New York, October, 1961, from Anthony Powell". Set includes seven 1st Editions. The later impressions are: A Question of Upbringing, reprinted August 1955 / The Vally of Bones, reprinted in 1964 / The Acceptance World, reprinted 1961 / A Buyer's Market, reprinted 1955. All volumes include their Broome-Lynne designed dust jackets. Shelfwear to DJs: light scuffing along edges and covers, water stain on cloth board front cover of The Soldier's Art, light foxing on cloth boards, some prices are clipped, small tear on front cover of The Acceptance World, large tear on rear cover of The Kindly Ones, some light chipping along edges. Dust-jackets are wrapped in mylar. Light tanning on page edges, some erased pencil notation on front endpaers, previous owner's name and address on front endpaper of The Soldier's Art. All volume are tightly bound. Set is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Run of 10 (of 12) first printings, 1955-1975. Condition: Near Fine: Very clean and bright original bindings, most with firm spine tips and sharp corners; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight text blocks with very little spotting or sunning. Dust jackets condition: Near Fine: very clean and bright original and matching first printing wrappers designed by Broom-Lynne; not price clipped, other than The Kindly Ones and The Military Philosophers. Complete with printed letterhead: "from Anthony Powell, The Chantry, Nr. Frome, Somerset BA11 3LJ (Nunney 314)", dated 26 June 1986, and signed by the author, explaining why he decided not to sign his books. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An exceptional, Fine set of A Dance to the Music of Time, one of the highspots of post-war English fiction, published over a 25-year period from 1951-75; comprising NINE FIRST PRINTINGS and three later impressions from the 1970s (Vols. 1-3: A Question of Upbringing, 9th, 1977; A Buyer's Market, 6th, 1974; and The Acceptance World, 5th 1972). Volume 8, The Soldier's Art, has been SIGNED by Anthony Powell on a plate to the ffep (and dated to the year of publication, 1966). All twelve volumes are crisp and clean: ten books are Fine and two (The Acceptance World & Hearing Secret Harmonies) are very nearly Fine, marred only by the lightest scattering of tiny spots to the edge of the page block. All are free from previous owner names and inscriptions; one volume, The Acceptance World, has the elegant bookplate of a Wiltshire country house to the front pastedown. Each is complete with its original Broome-Lynne designed dustwrapper: eight are Fine, two are very nearly Fine, and two are Near Fine - all are bright and vibrant, presenting beautifully as a harmonious and consistent set, and scarce thus. One dustwrapper has been clipped, two have been clipped-and-repriced by the publisher, and nine are unclipped. The Kindly Ones is a review copy and has a Heinemann (Australian division) review slip loosely laid-in. Dustwrapper notes: A Question of Upbringing: Fine. A Buyer's Market: Near Fine+. The Acceptance World: Fine. At Lady Molly's: Near Fine. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant: Near Fine+. The Kindly Ones: Fine. The Valley of Bones: Near Fine. The Soldier's Art: Fine. The Military Philosophers: Fine. Books Do Furnish a Room: Fine. Temporary Kings: Fine. Hearing Secret Harmonies: Fine. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. We are happy to answer any questions arising and to supply additional images. Shipped free within the United Kingdom; a large and heavy set that will incur additional shipping (to cost) outside the UK. M530A. Signed by Author(s).

First editions, inscribed by the author in two volumes. Powell has signed the front free endpaper of The Kindly Ones, "Inscribed for Miss Jane Cox, March 1973", also signing the title page. Valley of Bones is similarly inscribed to one Maureen Money and includes a postcard by Powell to her loosely inserted. The complete series of Powell's celebrated novel sequence was likened by Evelyn Waugh to "a continuous frieze in high relief, deep cut and detailed" (p. 548). Covering more than 50 years in the life of Nicholas Jenkins, "the novel is less about Jenkins than about the world he belongs to, in which the more raffish elements of the establishment commingle with the upper echelons of bohemia, the usual catalysts being their wives, mistresses, and lovers. Observing how these incoherent bodies interact, and the bizarre unions that result, Jenkins discerns a pattern dictated by the rhythm of life - hence the theme of the novel, which is that its characters, like the Seasons in Poussin's painting, are engaged in a ritual dance to the music of time" (ODNB). Evelyn Waugh, The Essays, Articles and Reviews, 1983. 12 vols, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt on black ground, publisher's blind device on rear covers. With dust jackets. Ownership inscription in Upbringing; Foyle's ticket in Buyer's Market and Kindly Ones. Toning to jacket spines, bright overall, occasional creases and small chips, front flap fold of Upbringing repaired, and of Casanova's with a puncture, two repaired closed tears to Buyer's Market, damp stains to reverse of Valley, only Soldier's Art price-clipped: a near-fine set in very good jackets.

First editions, first impressions, an exceptional association set of the complete novel sequence. Each volume is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his friend, the auctioneer and historian Anthony Hobson (1921-2014); the latter nine are inscribed to Hobson and his wife Tanya. Complete sets inscribed to the same recipient are rare. The inscriptions in the books chart the development of a rich friendship fostered over luncheons. A Question of Upbringing is inscribed with the cool and unfamiliar, "This volume belongs to Anthony Hobson, signed by the author, Anthony Powell", but The Acceptance World is inscribed "after a delicious luncheon", which evidently did much to thaw Powell, as The Kindly Ones is warmly inscribed to "Anthony & Tanya, with love from Tony, March 1963", and The Valley of Bones, (which charts Powell's experience in the Second World War), is fittingly inscribed "these military memoirs for a fellow infantryman". As their friendship progressed, Hobson and Powell dined at one another's homes. Hobson presumably made the first move: The Soldier's Art and Books do Furnish a Room are inscribed at his residence, Glebe House. Powell returned the favour, as the final two titles are inscribed at his home, The Chantry. The collection of ephemera with this set illustrates Hobson's fastidious bibliographical nature, saving clippings and notes charting the history of his acquisitions. Loosely inserted are an autograph letter signed from Powell to Hobson, remarking that he originally intended A Dance to the Music of Time to be only six volumes: "I did not know quite how long it would be at the beginning, but very long", and three typed letters signed and one autograph letter signed from Powell to reviewer John Davenport, thanking him for reviews of A Question of Upbringing, At Lady Molly's, The Kindly Ones, and The Valley of Bones. A Dance to the Music of Time, likened by Evelyn Waugh to "a continuous frieze in high relief, deep cut and detailed" (Waugh, p. 548), covers more than 50 years in the life of Nicholas Jenkins. "The novel is less about Jenkins than about the world he belongs to, in which the more raffish elements of the establishment commingle with the upper echelons of bohemia, the usual catalysts being their wives, mistresses, and lovers. Observing how these incoherent bodies interact, and the bizarre unions that result, Jenkins discerns a pattern dictated by the rhythm of life - hence the theme of the novel, which is that its characters, like the Seasons in Poussin's painting, are engaged in a ritual dance to the music of time" (ODNB). Evelyn Waugh, The Essays, Articles and Reviews, 1983. 12 works, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt on black ground, publisher's blind device on rear covers. With dust jackets. Together with three typed letters signed from Powell to John Davenport (Punch, 30 October 1957; 1 Chester Gate, 24 January 1951; The Chantry, 13 March 1964); one autograph letter signed from Powell to Davenport (Traveller's Club Pall Mall, 10 June 1962); one autograph postcard signed from Powell to Hobson (2 October 1971); one photograph; one manuscript note in Hobson's hand noting that A Question of Upbringing is in the first state; 16 newspaper clippings, and 35 booksellers' and auctioneer's descriptions. Hobson's bookplate on front pastedowns of each volume; bookseller's ticket of The Thackeray Bookshop on front pastedown of The Acceptance World. Spines largely cocked, a few ends bumped, extremities a little rubbed, head of front cover of The Soldier's Art creased, clean and largely bright; slight loss to ends of spine panel of A Question of Upbringing, a few chips and nicks to earlier vols, spine panels occasionally sunned, slightly rubbed, later jackets very sharp, unclipped: an excellent set, largely near-fine in like jackets.