Verses Children, Signed (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Signed and dated by author under her picture. Clean unmarked softcover. Blue textured cover, age darkening, edge wear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper frayed at spine and a little frayed, front free endpaper a little marked at outer edge. From the library of the poet David Gascoyne; inscribed by the author, "For David & Judy with love from Leonard Clark", with, mounted below, a colour photograph (by Judy Gascoyne?) of the author, pipe in hand; David and Judy Gascoyne library book-label. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: new. Pages: 56 Language: Russian. Sovremennaja opera dlja detej v shesti istorijakh po motivam russkikh narodnykh skazok sozdana izvestnym peterburgskim kompozitorom Viktorom Pleshakom na libretto v stikhakh Olega Serdobolskogo. Skazka 5. "Lisa i Kotofej Ivanych". Dejstvujuschie litsa: Ded, Murka, Lisa, Kot, Medved, Volk, khor (vse uchastniki spektaklja). 9785061567754.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. hardback book in near fine condition,unclipped dust jacket [$4.00] is good,SIGNED by the author,most stories are animal-related. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp 110. Paperback. Original publisher's cream covers, lettered black on spine. Signed presentation from the author's children on the first blank page, "Josephine, Susanna, Honor, Juliet and William." Josephine Goodden contributes a brief introductory statement, noting that Wyndham Goodden died just prior to publication of this collection. Very slight light rubbing at spine, otherwise very good indeed.

Signed First Edition: Hardback, blue bds., cream spine, blue titles on white label, 135 x 190 mm., 200 grms., 94 pp., inscribed and signed by the author, M. W. M. dated June, 1920, no dw., VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-/G+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Oblong hardback book bound in brown simulated leather-covered boards with gilt title and illustrated paste-on on the front cover. Defects to note are wear along edges and rubs at spine, one corner of paste-on has a small triangular piece missing and former owner has taped a sheet of verse inside front cover that has stained the front end page. Book is SIGNED BY BOTH ILLUSTRATOR AND AUTHOR on first end page. Great silhouettes with accompanying verses. 111 pages Size: Oblong 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Oblong quarto; 111 pages; VG-; full red and green coated cloth binding with gilt titling and paper illustration to front cover; some shelfwear to covers, including rubbing to cloth and creasing, small closed and open tears, and one large closed and re-glued tear to paper illustration; textblock clean; signed flat by both Wheeler and Winant Wheeler on ffep; black and white illustrations throughout; shelved above case 14. Charles Barker Wheeler (1851-1935) was a judge and New York Supreme Court justice. Ruth Winant Wheeler (1880-1970) was an author and poet. "He was an artist of ability and frequently sketched attorneys and witnesses who appeared before him. [.] In 1931, when he was 79, Mr. Wheeler married in London, England, Miss Ruth Gunther Winant of New York." ("The Citizen Advertiser," November 22, 1935 via Find a Grave). 1364516. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First edition, later printing. Oblong 8vo (11"x9"). 111pp. Green/Dark red cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title & pastedown label to upper cover. Spine slant. Corners & edges rubbed. Label darkened by a non-acidfree glue. Pages toned. Crack to spine at p.64, binding is loosening but still sound (sewn binding). Inscribed to ffep by both Wheelers. Includes two illustrated cards: the back reads "These cards were finished three days before my husband's last illness. I know he would want you to have one." and is signed "Ruth". No dust jacket, covered in protective mylar by the seller.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Brooker, Christopher (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Poems about everyday things such as school, home, the seaside, etc made to seem new and exciting. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. A letter SIGNED by the author is included to the previous owner (D.R. Oldham). Spine and corners bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut and a little foxed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

Lovely book of Australian bushland poems with bird themes, signed by the author. Second edition. Large octavo in blue wrappers and outer dust-jacket; hand-coloured illustrations, foxing, a very good copy.

104pp. folio illustrated in color and black and white by Mary LaFetra Russell Tan boards with color pictorial pastedown and brown cloth back, pictorial endpapers 1st edition? SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author: "The clouds had a frolic (page 16)/ and the sun painted the rainbow (page 78)/ and I wove these songs for you/ just because I love you!/ The Weaver of these ./ Little Homespuns/ Beatrice Hubbell-Plummer" Extremities bumped and rubbed, top of spine repaired, some cover soil, else VG tight copy/no dj.

Hardcover. First Edition. v, 138pp + note. Brown cloth lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, all edges gilt. Printed on laid paper. Signed and inscribed by Charles M. Dickinson to Reverend L. R. Dickinson of West Park, NY, on the flyleaf. With the Dickinsons' armorial bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. The poem that gave the book its title was for many years considered the best written story about the life of a teacher and his scholars and was reprinted in many magazines. A letter by Charles Dickens the younger printed in the note at the end of the book confirms that it was not written by his father, as was previously erroneously believed. Light wear to extremities, short tear to cloth on front panel, fading to spine panel. A very good copy. ; 12mo; Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Tyler, Alice Kellog (illustrator). 8vo (oblong). Unpaginated. Blue cloth with illustrated paste-down. Faint soiling to front board. Very light foxing to fpd. Inner margins of first four leaves cracked but holding. Binding otherwise clean and sound. Colorful illustrations throughout. Music by Eleanor Smith, Jesse L. Gaynor, Frederic W. Root and Frank H. Atkinson, Jr. Warmly inscribed in blue ink by the author's daughter Sarah Coonley Davis to her granddaughter Judith Harwood, dated July 13,1944.

Condition: Good. Original decorated cloth with mounted title, edited by Eric Robinson, 36 etchings by Nicholas Parry printed from line blocks, printed & bound by Nicholas & Mary Parry in an edition of 150 copies (this is number 27), uncut, unpaged, 4to. Signed by Nicholas Parry, Mary Parry, and Eric H. Robinson.

Patterned Fabric. Condition: Very Good. Nicholas Parry (illustrator). Limited Edition. Tales and other trifles in verse for the amusement of young minds chiefly written for and related to the author's own children when under ten years old. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES, THIS BEING COPY NUMBER 2, not paginated, pages clean and crisp, 36 coloured relief printed etchings by Nicholas Parry and bound by him and Mary Parry in patterned yellow gold and blue fabric, grey endpapers, blue cloth-covered slipcase is a little marked, limitation page signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry and Eric H Robinson. THE TERN PRESS 1973-2012 We have been fortunate to obtain a collection of 25 titles from The Tern Press created by Nicholas and Mary Parry in 1973. Looking through the books you come to appreciate the love and care that Nicholas and Mary had for the craft of creating books as works of individual art. These slim volumes with their variety of illustrations, print types and use of different materials for binding make for truly individual works of art. Never more than 200 copies, often under a 100, these beautiful books make an ideal present and with their very small print run deserve to join the Private Press classic publishers of previous years as fine examples of the craftsmanship of their time. Size: 10.5 x 8 Inches. Illustrator, Editor, Publisher. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Parry, Nicholas (illustrator). Patterned cloth covers, printed paper label, in clean bright condition, contents unmarked, etched black and white illustrations, printed in relief by Nicholas Parry and signed by him, Mary Parry and the editor Eric Robinson, number 20 from an edition of 150 on Lana paper Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed By The Artist.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Number 36 of an edition of 100 copies designed and printed by James Guthrie at The Pear Tree Press in 1924,(21 leaves), very good condition in original decorated card covers, overlapping edges and corners of the covers creased, some dust marking of the covers and pages, inside of covers spotted, small mark to the lower edge of the paper label on the front cover. Loosely inserted are two small publicity sheets for publications from The Pear Tree Press, both spotted. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo ptdwraps with some uncut pages; Sign ded to Ferdinand Lessing on fep: Dr Lessing apparently started annotating text with chinchars but then left off after a few pp, and he apparently did not read the second part of the book because he left off cutting after page 73. ow VG:8vo. 193pp + fold-outs.+ errata + 3 planches dépliantes (index des caractères chinois), non rognées, brochure originale. Ded to fep=Prof Dr Ferdinand Lessing, als ein ein Beweis meiner tiefen Achtung. W. Jablonski./Cracow, Polska Akademja Umjejetnosci and Libraitie Franco-Polonaise et etrangà re in Paris, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. [iv], 193, three fold-out plates of Chinese text; wrappers frayed, internally fine. Very rare first edition of this in-depth study of Chinese children's rhymes, as one aspect of Chinese popular poetry. Jablonski examines as well how this genre was reflected in Chinese 'high' literature. In the early 1930s the Polish sinologist Witold Andrzej Jablonski (1901-1957) served as advisor of the League of Nations on educational reform in China and taught in Beijing. This book is based on his habilitation at Warsaw University./Association: LESSING, Ferdinand Dietrich. [Essen-Altenessen 26.2.1882 Berkeley 31.12.1961. German Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar in the U.S.A. U.S. citizen 1946]. Professor in Berkeley. Gymnasium in Lingen, matriculated in 1902. Studies of Chinese and Russian in Berlin (diplom 1905), guided by F. W. K. Müller. From 1907 on spent 17 years in China, conducting ethnographic and linguistic studies and working as a teacher. Returned to Germany to complete his doctorate. Ph.D. 1926 Berlin on a published work. In 1925-27 he taught Chinese at Seminar der Orientalischen Sprachen in Berlin, in 1928-35 successor of F. W. K. Müller in Ostasiatische Sammlungen of Ethnographische Museum in Berlin, in 193033 participated in Sven Hedin's Chinese-Swedish expedition. Leaving Germany, in 1935-49 Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages at University of California in Berkeley, where he was the first to teach Tibetan and Mongolian. In 1949 emeritus. Hon. Dr. of Laws 1960 Berkeley. Twice married, three daughters with the first wife. Lessing was mainly a Sinologist, but also much interested in Tibetan and Mongolian and in Lamaist Buddhism, which he had studied in Chinese and Mongolian monasteries. His major work was the great Mongolian dictionary. Beside these three he also knew Sanskrit, Manchu and Japanese. Among his students was A. Wayman. Publications: Much on Sinology (including his dr. diss.): 1935 Mongolen. Hirten, Priester und Dämonen. 211 p. B. 1935 (travel account); ,& G. Montell:1942 Yung-Ho-Kung. An Iconography of the Lamaist Cathedral in Peking. 20+179 p. ill. The Sino-Swedish Expedition Publ. 18:8. Stockholm 1942; 1960 MongolianEnglish Dictionary. 15+1217 p. Berkeley 1960; 1978 With A. Wayman, edited & translated: Mkhas Grub Rje's Rgyud sde spyihi rnam par gzg pa rgyas par brjod: Introduction to the Buddhist Tantric Systems. 382 p. 1968, 2nd ed. 1978; 1976 Ritual and Symbol: Collected essays on Lamaism and Chinese Symbolism. 183 p. Asian folklore and social life monographs 91. Taipei 1976. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A charming association copy of Holbrook Jackson's children's verses, presented and inscribed to his mother. The author's presentation copy to his mother, with a charming inscription by him to the front free endpaper, "With love and best wishes for your speedy ability to read herein: from your loving son: George Holbrook Jackson".An uncommon first edition.In the original cloth-backed card covers.An anthology of verse for children compiled by Holbrook Jackson, a noted journalist, publisher and leading bibliophile of his time. Featuring works from Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson and others. In the original cloth-backed card covers. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the edges and a small spot to the front cover. Slight lifting to the bottom edge of the front cover. Cracking to the hinges, but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd light spot. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: T. C. and E. C. Jack 16 Henrietta Street W.C. and Edinburgh, 1906, First Edition. In the publisher s cream, gilt decorated cloth with extensive gilt floral decoration to the front board and spine, circular gilt floral design to the rear board, page top edges gilt fore and bottom edges tanned, gilt lined endpapers, complete with 16 full colour plates including the frontispiece. Spine darkened. Dust jacket with the matching decoration in black to the boards and spine, some variable fading, worn with minor loss. Pagination: xxxi, [1], 361pp. Provenance: inscribed and signed by the author to Amy Steedman, her bookplate to the front paste down. Approximately 9 ½ inches (24.2cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration, fraying to the top, rubbed to the base, bumped to the top and base, darkened. Dust Jacket good condition rubbed and worn with minor loss, browned to the spine, faded to the back see photos. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition gilt decoration to the front and rear board, worn and gently marked. Page edges good condition top edges gilt, others tanned. Binding good condition attractive. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition floral gilt border, bookplate to the front. End papers good condition floral gilt border. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned. See photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage. 1. Grimus - London: Gollancz, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Book is fine except for a small mark across fore edge and an ink spot on lower paste down. Dustwrapper with minimal rubbing along spine ends. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid in is a review slip. 2. Midnight's Children - London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Boards marked, slight spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in a near fine dustwrapper with only the slightest hint of fading on the spine. Signed on the title page. 3. Shame - London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, signed by the author upon publication. 4. The Jaguar Smile - London: Pan Books/Picador, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers with some minor creases and rubbing, else fine with the usual paper browning. Signed by the author on the title page. 5. The Satanic Verses - No Place: Privately Printed, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. As New. A ring-bound photocopy of the fair copy of the author s typescript showing the final but very substantial holograph revisions and corrections in the author's hand on more than 100 pages. The front board depicting an exclusive alternative proof design for the dustwrapper, which differs from the one used on the proof copies and the regular editions. Copy V (in red) of the ten copies numbered I to X. Fine as issued and much more telling than any proof copy and as close to manuscript material as we will ever get.) 6. Is Nothing Sacred? - London: Granta, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. The Herbert Read Memorial Lecture 6 February 1990. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page on publication. 7. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - London: Granta Books, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Number 189 of 251 copies printed on Clan Book Wove and bound in calfskin leather, signed and numbered by the author. Fine as issued. 8. Imaginary Homelands - London: Granta Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Book and dustwrapper fine. Signed by the author on the title page upon publication. His essays and criticism 1981-1991. Contains his rare declaration "Why I Have Embraced Islam" dropped from later editions. 9. "The Bedside Guardian 35". A very good copy of the Proof, privately published in 1991. Very rare. 10. "The Wizard of Oz" - London: BFI Film Classics, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the half title upon publication. 11. East, West - London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Book and dustwrapper fine. Signed and dated ("6.10.94") by the author on the title page upon publication. 12. The Moor's Last Sigh - London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Proof Copy. Wrappers with a small scratch on the front, else as new. A very low No. 36 in a limited edition of 1000 and signed by the author on the title page upon publication. 12. The Moor's Last Sigh - London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers with a small scratch on the front, else book is as new. A low No. 36 in a limited edition of 1000 and signed by the author on the title page upon publication. 13. The Ground Beneath her Feet - London: Jonathan Cape, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Leather bound book and slipcase are as new. No. 43 in a limited edition, signed and numbered by the author on the title page. 14. The Screenplay of Midnight's Children - London: Vintage, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. There was no hardcover edition. Signed by Rushdie on the title page. As new. 15. Fury - London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Book and Dustwrapper fine. Signed by the author. 16. The Enchantress of Florence - London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Number 5 of 100 copies signed by Rushdie. Fine in fine original slip case. Please note that we will have to add additional shipping costs to this collection, particularly to the USA. Signatur des Verfassers.

First edition. First edition. Original black cloth with striking gold-blocked cover illustration, another similar but smaller gold illustration appears on back cover. Illustrated throughout with plates and text drawings by Cecile Walton (1891-1956), Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor. She and her husband Eric were two of the moving spirits of the Edinburgh chapter of the Symbolist movement in the early 20th century. Presentation Copy, signed by the author on verso of title-page, "John and Anne Priestman, with love from their brother, Austin, June 21st, 1926." A truly delightful and unique children's book. Corners bumped, newspaper article on the book affixed to verso of front free fly.