Booked to Die : A Mystery Introducing Cliff Janeway by Dunning, John - 1992

William Morrow And Co. , N. Y.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. hardcover with dustjacket. 0688174418 . Signed First Edition. Boldly signed on the half title page, by the then Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, soon after to become the Nation's 43rd President. It is his signature only - not signed to anyone - signed by him directly on the page with a bold black felt tip pen, not on a book plate. 253 pages, index. Original publisher's price of $23.00 is on the dust jacket. No wear or tears on the jacket and no writing (other than President's signature) , marks, or any other names or writing in book. Has the complete number line of "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10" below First Edition statement on publisher's page. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition, without defects. ; 6 1/4 in. x 9 1/2 in.; 253 pages; Signed by Author .

Tokyo: Shokokusha Publishing Co 1964. Signed on the title page and dated by the author. Additionally Inscribed: Aug 26, 1965 To: Frank Jones Best Wishes Masao Kinoshita. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth with gilt title on front cover in English and Japanese title in white on the spine. Fine in very good slipcase With rubbing and wear. Clear plastic jacket is not present. Both white paper flaps with author information in English and Japanese are present and are in near fine condition. Text in English and Japanese. Kinoshita worked with Sasaski, Walker and Associates; Eero Saarinen and Associates, and other prestigious firms and schools.

Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2004. Signed by Rem Koolhaas. Also signed by the architect Joshua Prince-Ramus. First edition / First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000. Joshua Prince-Ramus founded the New York office of OMA in 2000, and was a principal designer, along with Koolhaas, of projects such as the Seattle Public Library and the Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum. In May 2006 the New York office split from OMA to become the firm REX.

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

[Waldo, Francis] Willis, Wm. Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith and the Rev. Samuel Deane, Pastors of the First Church in Portland: with Notes and Biographical Notices: as a Summary History of Portland. By Wm. Willis. Portland: Joseph S. Bailey, 1849. [vi; 483 pages] 8vo; 22.5 cm. Second edition. Frontispiece of Thomas Smith, illustrated with 8 engravings: Interlined portraits and text illustrations. One engraving is of Harvard Hall, Cambridge, built in 1682, destroyed in 1764. Also a map of Portland at the time of the fire of 1775. Embossed black publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, this copy is signed by Francis W. Waldo: "Francis W. Waldo from his uncle Francis Waldo." Francis W. Waldo was a descendent of Samuel Waldo, the founder of Waldoboro, Maine. This copy is also signed by Elizabeth G.C. Menzies, and dated by her August 1974, the noted Princeton photographer and author. Book tag of Charles E. Tuttle & Company, Old and Rare Books, Rutland, Vermont. Some spotting of introductory… Read More

NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. 8vo., xi+306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day, Best wishes, Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles, offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New and unread. Beautiful book.Slight push to top of spine.Very rare signed...

Boulton, Major (Charles Arkell)Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions With a record of the raising of her majesty's 100th Regiment in Canada and a chapter on Canadian social and political life.Toronto: Davis & Henderson/Grip Printing and Publishing, 1886Red buckram hardback with very nice gilt illustration and lettering upon red front board and gilt lettering upon spine.Floral front and end papers.- Frontispiece portrait (head to toe) of Major-General Fred Middleton with tissue guard - title page (with small repair to tear)- dedication - preface - reminiscences pp8-469appendixes; - official despatches pp471-498, - List of officers and Men pp499-531Condition; lacks pp 57-64 map and 1 illustration but appear never to have been bound in.Extra(!!); signed by the author Boulton.

A NEAR FINE FIRST EIDITON IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE

New York: Little Brown, 2021. Signed on the title page and dated 23 Aug 2022 by Rebecca Donner. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Mildred Fish Harnack was an American citizen who was part of the resistance underground in Germany during WWII. She was executed on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler in early 1943. Winner of the 2022 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Biography. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2021. Rebecca Donner is the Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. The publisher seriously underestimated the demand for this book and it was out of print within days of publication. With the supply chain issues during the pandemic, it took weeks to get a second printing to stores and warehouses. Also due to the pandemic, all author publicity for hardcover publication was Virtual, meaning that few signed copies of the first exist. This is… Read More