Profiles in Courage by Kennedy, John F - 1956

London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First editions, first prnts. Each volume is signed by Golding on the title page. CLOSE published in 1987 (ISBN:0571147798) and FIRE in 1989 (ISBN:0571152031). A digital photo of Golding with a UK bookseller at a 1992 booksigning event is laid-in RITES. RITES has two small indentations on the front pastedown upper corner with two corresponding impressions on the dustjacket flap and a small rubbed spot on the topedge which has caused a tiny nick on the topedge of a few text pages; the book is in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. CLOSE AND FIRE are both in Fine condition in a Fine dustajcket with an archival cover. RITES was the Booker winner in 1980. The three volumes comprise Golding's Sea Trilogy in its original publications.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York. Doubleday, Page and Company. 1910. Bound in half Vellum and paper covered boards.Gilt titled morocco labels to spine. Deckled edges. Top edge gilded. Thick 4to. 7.5" x 10". This Edition is printed upon special Hand Made paper and Limited to 125 numbered copies of which this is #54. Signed boldly in ink by Kipling to the Limitation Page. Illustrated with 17 full page captioned and tissue guarded tipped in colour plates and monochrome drawings by W. Heath Robinson. A splendid compendium of Kipling's verse enhanced by the illustrative prowess of Robinson's plates. Covers moderately soiled. Usual darkening to Vellum along front join.Spine a bit rubbed with small stain to Title Label.A Very Good, extremely crisp copy with brilliantly luminescent Robinson plates.

The Roycroft Printing Shop. New York. 1896. First edition, pirated by Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roycroft movement. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "I repudiate all responsibility for this bowdlerised piracy. Elbert Hubbard, who perpetrated it, is dead. Why not bury it with him? G. Bernard Shaw. 27/5/22." Additionally inscribed by Hubbard on the front free endpaper, "To Leonard D. Abbott with all good wishes from his friend Elbert Hubbard." Original cloth-backed boards. Housed in a blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. A fine copy.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Hardcover, purple paper, white cloth spine, slipcase but missing glassine. Very Good in Good slipcase/No Jacket. Signed, limited edition in slipcase, presentation copy. Purple paper is faded, and there are some small ink (?) spots on back cover, as well as a small smudge on the bottom corner of the limitation page. SIGNED limitation page with 'Dorothy Parker' in blue ink, states �this edition limited to 275 copies, of which 250 are for sale.� This copy is numbered in the same blue ink as 322, and the word �Presentation� in black ink follows. 75 pages, many unopened, printed on Boni & Liveright watermarked paper. Slipcase worn and faded, all edges rubbed, splitting at top and bottom. Label affixed to slipcase states �Autographed Edition. This edition is limited to 275 numbered copies. Each copy is signed by the author.� At the upper right corner is the number 322 in ink, mirroring the number on the limitation page of the volume. From the family of T. R. Smith, who… Read More

Paris: Editions de la Difference, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Illustrated glazed boards in like slipcase. With double page illustration in black felt pen by Robert Combas on pastedown and endpaper signed and dated 91. Black and white illustrations and color plates throughout. With biography illustrated with black and white photographs, list of solo and group exhibitions and extensive bibliography. 358 pp. 30 x 28,5 x 4,5 cm. Fine in near fine slipcase. .

FLAME, 1962. B/W Photo of Her in White FUR Stole & Evening Dress on MAGAZINE Cvr, American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s .MAGAZINE Signed on cover, Dinah, ORIGINAL Jan 1962, THE FLAMINGO FLAME MAGAZINES, FROM FLAMINGO CLUB, GOOD- Condition Light rub, wear scuff, EDGE CHIPS, & FEW SMALL HOLES. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Printer Wrapper. Good/No Jacket.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.. VG-. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition matching all of the points in Roger's "Zane Grey First E ditions" bibliography. Bound in green cloth with horizontal black line rectangular border in the background. The border encloses two basebal l players, a field, buildings and trees stamped in black and white. Th e baseball player in the foreground bending down for a ground ball in black and white. The spine with baseball cap, diamond and crossed bats is also in black and white. Five interior illustrations by H.S. DeLay . The copyright page reads June 1909. A VG- copy. Slight spine lean. R ubbing along the edges. The corners and spine tips are frayed. The clo th is clean and tight. The white paint is lightly rubbed on the front board and spine. There is mild rubbing along the spine seams. The inte rior is clean, tight and unmarked. A fairly attractive copy of a scarc e book. .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition of the first major collection by the 1992 Nobel laureate, preceded by three volumes of verse and several plays only published in the West Indies. 80pp. Green paper marbled boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket with a couple of minor age spots on the endpapers, this copy also has the extremely rare dark green wraparound band with the Robert Graves quote ("Derek Walcott handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most (if not any) of his English-born contemporaries."). This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Walcott and dated April 99.

Baghdad, The Times Press Ltd., 1932, hardcover, First Edition, issued without dustjacket, Good condition in original red cloth-covered boards. Laid-in is a bookplate Signed by the Author and dated 1982 in her hand from the collection of autograph enthusiast Derek Birch with his initials in one corner. Also laid-in is a one page (both sides) handwritten signed letter (ALS) dated 12/2/70, where the author discusses the state of her health, the research she is doing on the Mongols for her book Turkey: A Sketch of Turkish History published by Thames and Hudson (1971) in which she provided the text to accompany the photographs of her nephew Fulvio Roiter, and sends her love to Christopher Pirie-Gordon who served as British Charge D'Affaires in Transjordan and later in Yemen on two separate occasions. Boards lightly soiled and spotted, with bumped and fraying corners and spine-ends, spine title label chipped barely affecting text, front label complete, discoloration to endpapers from substandard glue, light… Read More

450 illustrations, by 50 graphic artists, including 5 original engravings. The original engravings are by: Alberto Beltran, Alfredo Zalce, Francisco Mora, Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma and Leopoldo Mendez. Each of the engravings is pencil signed. This is a spiral bound softcover book. The spine shows no sign of wear, all the corners are square, and the pages are clean and unmarked. A previous owners name is written in ink on the half title page; therefore, this is a near fine copy.