born 1945 (57 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis captures the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in a magical collection of Christmas stories that showcase her remarkable talent.Amazon. This copy, in as new condition as a hardback,first printing of the first edition has no negative issues and is inscribed on the title page with the as new dustjacket in clear mylarl covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping to you. Signed by Author(s).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated glazed boards, colour end paper maps. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains 64 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour illustrations and archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9038404972 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, burgundy endpapers. Dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated. Internally fine, very edges of cloth sunned, price to lightly handled dust-jacket struck through. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of £5.50 net. Small dent to fore-edge, offset toning to endpaper. Binding is fine. Wrapper lightly toned with the price truck through in pen. Very good.

[Rock Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[16]. A profile of the artist with both colour and black and white photographic images. Publisher's photographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling. Near fine.

[Rock Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[20]. A profile of the artist with both colour and black and white photographic images. Publisher's photographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.265; [1]. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket featuring an illustration by Luis Toledo, with printed price of £20. Signed by the author to a tipped in title page. A fine, as new copy. The first novel by The Who co-founder. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 352; [8]. Publisher's printed boards, decorative endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Rob Roth, with printed price of £20. Profusely illustrated. A fine, as new copy.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. Quarto. 9½'' x 7¼''. A fascinating photo-biography of Anne Frank's short and tragic life. Written for the younger reader, this is nonetheless a most useful reference for a dark period of history, containing many previously unpublished photographs. Contains [xii], 113 printed pages with monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0140369260 BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

[Rock Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[18]. A profile of the artist with both colour and black and white photographic images. Publisher's photographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling. Near fine.

[Rock Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[12]. A profile of the artist with black and white photographic images. Publisher's photographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling to covers, with moderate rubbing to spine, which is starting to tail. Very good.

Condizione: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [British Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 273; [1]. With four double-sided black and white plates. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. Slightly bumped to foot of spine, else fine copy. From the Library of Lord and Lady Moynihan, purchased by Hall's Bookshop, Tunbridge Wells. Baron Moynihan is an Olympic medallist, prominent Conservative MP, being the Minister for Sport under Mrs Thatcher, and the Chairman of the British Olympic Association.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.288. With in-text illustrations and diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Victoria Burroughs with printed price £3.00 to flap. Clean pages with spotting to top edge of textblock, sunned top edge of boards, dust-jacket lightly handled. Very good. Explores aspects of Carroll's literary work and his games and puzzles.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 160 printed pages of text with colour photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To James, Good luck and Best Wishes - Lawrence Dallaglio, also SIGNED by the Scottish broadcaster and former international rugby player, Ian Robertson, to the front free end paper 'James - Down the line a train came puffing - Scotland 50 - England Nothing. Best wishes Ian Robertson, p.s. Remember 1990!' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0340718390 SPORT [Rugby].

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 360. Publisher's grey quarter paper-covered spine, with gilt titles, and blue paper-covered boards. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lawrence Ratzkin, priced at $23.95. Some light handling, and a red remainder mark to top edge. Near fine. Lieutenant Alan Lewrie takes part in the battle at Toulon during the French Revolution.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 280 [16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by James Fraser, priced at £12.99. Promotional sticker to front cover. A fine, as-new copy. The first book in the eponymous trilogy, in which young Lief seeks to challenge the evil over-lord Hob. Signed.

1p., 4to. On aged and worn paper, with chipping along one edge. He begins: 'Word of the loss of your dear husband reached us some time ago, but I was not able to write you until just now when I received your address from Ralph Hawkes.' He offers his condolences 'on behalf of our whole organisation'. According to Hawkes 'the funeral service was a most impressive one' and 'Mr. Finck was a great figure in the musical world and that he shall be missed a great deal. I can readily understand all of these statements, because I know he was not only a distinguished musician, but a very fine gentleman as well.' Finck's 'In the Shadows' was among the last tunes played as RMS Titanic went down.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Military History / Espionage] FIRST EDITION thus with strikeline '1' present. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xxviii; 612. Illustrated with photographic plates throughout. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket, priced at £30. A frine, fresh copy. Fascinating account of spy operations, raids, disruptions and decryption during the second world war. From the espionage collection of Jon Gilbert, with pencilled ownership within.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Literary biography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.186 [6]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Top edge green. Internally bright and clean. Gift inscription in black ink to front flyleaf. Jacket price clipped. Some dustiness to top edge. Gentle edgewear. Bookmark loosely inserted. Very good. A series of crucial interviews with a landmark novelist of the 20th century.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST US EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 22cm), pp.[24]. With colour illustrations by the author to every page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at $9.95. Lightly handled with one small closed tear to jacket. Fine. Two children attend the funeral of their recently deceased pet cat, organised by the other cats in the neighbourhood.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Military History / biography] FIRST U.S. Edition, first printing. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 558. Illustrated with maps. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, fore-edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $35. A clean, fine copy. "A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston's War captures the full range of Churchill's endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings's Churchill comes brashly to life as never before" (from the blurb).

'Mr Flotsam and Mr Jetsam' are regarded as precursors of Flanders and Swan. The present item is on a 14 x 13 cm leaf torn from an album. The high-acidity paper is discoloured, otherwise in good condition, with no chipping or wear. Entirely blank on both sides apart from the autograph 'Flotsam', with diagonal flourish, beneath a highly stylized and simplified portrait of flotsam seated at his piano. A nice and unusual item. See Image.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 1904034683. Contains [xii] 276 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Condizione: Good. Original boards. 4to. 44pp. Presentation copy from the artist to the gallerist Solange Simon.Jean-Pierre Touchet est un Artiste Peintre français. Sa peinture contemporaine c'est construite comme des livres.Provenance succession Solange Simon, 1920-2016. Elle fut galeriste à Lille dans les années 60-80, puis collabora avec la galerie Convergences à Nantes dans les années 80-90.Elle fut également peintre, s'inspirant beaucoup de Pignon, Chagall ou de Staël entre autres. Expertise by Vincent Cesbron.

Condizione: Good. Artist's statement;18 page interview with Eric Davis from 1999; Reviews by Arthur Danto from 2000 and 2001; Preface from the Bernd Llueser exhibition form 1993; review from Modern Painters, 1993; and from the Wall Street Journal 1995 and ARTnews. Presented in a Knoedler & Company folder. From the collection of the art historian Peter Selz.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xxxviii; 628; [6], blank. Illustrated with maps and photographic plates throughout. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, photographic endpapers, dust-jacket, priced at £30. With author's signature to title page. A clean, fine copy. Signed at Hatchards, London (label tucked in). Signed.

[Modern literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 63 of 138 copies. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.51 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to publisher's limitation bookplate. Publisher's blue cloth, imprint blocked in blind to upper board, gilt titles to spine. Fine, as new. Titled 'The First Chapter of a Novel in Progress.'. Signed.

[Rock Tour Programme] SIGNED PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[16]. A profile of the artist with both colour and black and white photographic images. SIGNED by Don McLean in blue ink to centre spread. Publisher's colour photographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling to covers. Near fine. Signed.

[Rock Tour Programme] SIGNED PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (30 x 21cm), pp.[12]. A profile of the artist with both colour and black and white photographic images. SIGNED by Don McLean in black ink to front cover. Publisher's photographic soft covers, stapled twice. A fine, as-new copy. Signed.