Search Results: Signed Books from Friendly Used Books

Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Limited, 1994. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Photographs and Facsimiles. Bound in blue cloth over boards with titles in gilt. Stated "First published in 1994" with no additional printings. Signed by the author (without inscription) on the half-title, otherwise unmarked. Just a trace of edgewear to book and dust wrapper - wrapper has no rips, chips or clips. Clean and tight; jacket in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Happy Camp: Naturegraph Publishers, Incorporated, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Laney (illustrator). Trade softcover; no additional printings. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication, otherwise unmarked. One corner with a tiny bump; just a hint of edgewear. Clean and bright.

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1993. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bound in gray and blue boards with spine titles stamped in silver. 276 pages. First edition with the full number line present. The fourth Davey Goldman/Bishop Regan mystery. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1993 on the half-title, otherwise unmarked. The boards show very light wear at the head and heel of the spine; the dust wrapper has just a touch of edgewear (no chips, rips or clips). A clean, tight copy, with the jacket now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Avon Books, 1997. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. The seond Hannah trevor mystery. Bound in off-white and gray boards, with the spine titles stamped in silver. 353 pages. First edition (stated) with the full number line present. Signed by the author on the title page (without inscription), otherwise unmarked. The boards show a bit of crimping at the head and heel, with a touch of wear at the corners. The dust wrapper has slight wear at the same points, but no rips, chips or clips. A clean, tight copy, with the jacket now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: William Morrow, 2010 Bound in blue boards backed with black cloth; spine titles stamped in gilt. Stated first edition with the full number line present. Volume five in this series. Signed, without inscription, by author Jon Jefferson on the title page, otherwise unmarked. Book and wrapper show only light wear at the head and heel. No splits or frays in the cloth. The dust wrapper is not chipped, clipped or ripped. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy, with the jacket now in mylar.. Signed By the Author. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Minneapolis: Building America Company, 1936. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Maps. Bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt. Corresponding 1936 dates to the title and copyright pages; no additional printings. Signed by the author, without inscription, on the title page. With two double-page maps and a frontispiece by Margo Wharton, in color. Bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad to the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. The author, a Minneapolis attorney, presents his ideas of bringing the country back into its prime, with emphasis on the Bible. The cloth shows only slight edgewear, with no splits or frays. Spine very faintly sunned. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Oxford University Press, 1924. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Two volumes bound in red cloth with titles and rules stamped in gilt. Corresponding 1924 dates to the title and copyright pages; no additional printings. Top edges gilt. Inscribed and signed by the author, dated Jan. 31, 1925, to fellow author Eugene McAuliffe, with McAuliffe's bookplates to the front pastedowns of both volumes. Pps xix, 1-475 (I); 476-959 plus index (II). In this forward-looking pre-crash work the author promotes a comprehensive program for a happy life through practical business management. Both volumes show only a touch of edgewear, with solid hinges and square bindings. Other than the authorial inscription, the books are unmarked. Eugene McAullife, the author of "Railway Fuel", was president of the Union Pacific Coal Company. His bookplate illustrates an ore tower with crossed picks, the border of which shows chunks of coal. Altogether a handsome set with an excellent… Read More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in boards and cloth, signed by Creeley and limited to 250 copies, of which this is #212. Corresponding 1980 dates; no additional printings. In the original acetate dust jacket. The jacket is lightly rubbed. Fine/Near fine.

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. First Edition (stated) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in gray boards with spine titles stamped in gilt. First edition (stated), with the full number line present. Signed by the author on the title page with minimal inscription (To --), otherwise unmarked. Just a hint of edgewear to the book; the jacket is fine, with no rips, chips or clips. Likely read once with the jacket off. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy. The author's debut novel.

Sioux City: Verstegen Printing Company, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Bound in dark green cloth with cover titles stamped in gilt. No additional printings. Signed by the author (as Mr. & Mrs. Lewis N. Moody) "With the Season's Greetings / Dec. 25, 1930", but not personalized. A 27-page Christian poem. Front hinge just starting, otherwise a tight clean copy. The cloth shows only a touch of wear at the extremities. Uncommon title. Ships first class.

Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1986. softcover in clamshell. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Photographs and Drawings. Small folio in printed wraps. With 53 black & white photos in a folding clamshell case. Signed by the author on the Joslyn Art Museum's applique, applied to the half-title. The case also has an "Autographed Copy" sticker applied to front board. Apparently the signed copies were limited, as there are a number of unsigned copies about, but no indication on how many were so issued. The book and plates are fine; the case has a touch of surface rubbing and small square of sticker residue (old glue; there is no actual scuff), to the rear panel. Clean, tight and unmarked. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

Unity: Five Star, 2005. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in pictorial boards with matching dust wrapper. Inscribed, dated in the year of publication, and signed by the author on the author's page, otherwise unmarked. Appears unread. Clean and tight; jacket in mylar.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good+. Maps. Bound in textured brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt. 104 pages, printed on the rectos only. A thesis presented to the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of the author's Master of Science degree. Signed by the author to his mother and father. The cloth shows a touch of edgewear. Excepting the inscription, the volume is unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Detroit: Five Star / Gale, Cengage, 2010. First Printing (stated). . Pictorial Boards. As New/As New. Parker Noble & Jerome Stankowski. Bound in pictorial boards; book and dust wrapper have the same illustration. First edition, first printing (stated), with the full number line present. 277 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, otherwise unmarked. An unread copy, clean and tight. The dust jacket has no wear; it has been placed in mylar. Uncommon signed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Minneapolis: The Friend Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Bound in blue moire cloth with titles in gilt. Published November 1938; no additional printings. Signed by the author on the title page, without inscription. The autobiography of this Norwegian immigrant, who went to Lutheran seminary and later worked in the publishing business. Signature of author W. P. Hieronymus to the front free endpaper, likely the book's original recipient. (His book "At the Feet of the Master", was published by Friend just the year before.) Bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad to the front pastedown. The text is clean and unmarked. The cloth shows only a hint of edgewear. The dust wrapper, which was cut a bit too long, has a 1" chip at the upper front corner and slight chipping at the upper rear corner; the upper edge has been bent over the book for many years and is thus creased at that point. The untreated jacket paper shows some surface scuffing and… Read More

Unity: Five Star, 2004. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in pictorial boards with matching dust wrapper. Inscribed, dated in the year of publication, and signed by the author on the author's page, otherwise unmarked. Appears unread. Clean and tight; jacket in mylar.

Reykjavik: A Kostnad Sigm. Gudmundssonar, 1884. Soft cover. Very Good-. Icelandic language (at least we suppose so - it's difficult to differentiate from Norwegian and Danish). Bound in the original printed wraps; 76 pages. An Icelandic saga of medieval origin. Signed by the publisher, Sigm. Gudmundsson, to Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, one of the era's preeminent Norse researchers and a professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). The rear wrap carries other titles by this publisher. The wraps have been reinforced at the spine with an old-fashioned cloth tape, which appears to have kept this fragile volume together over the years. The outer wraps show mild toning and are slightly chipped at the edges. Internally the paper shows only faint toning and is not brittle; there is a slight bump at the upper corner. Very scarce in any form. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: M. Evans & Company, Inc., 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Jay McGraw. Bound in light tan cloth with titles in black. Full number line present. Inscribed, dated in the year of publication, and signed by the author on the half-title, otherwise unmarked. There is a very faint mark to the front cover; it may be from a finger or just a slight variation in the cloth color. The book, however, has the feel of an unread volume (the cover opens only to 45 degrees before becoming quite tight). The jacket is now in mylar. Scarce signed.

Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1953. First Edition (NAP) . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bolden, Joseph (jacket). Bound in brown cloth with titles and rules in red. No additional printings. Signed in full by the author with a non-personalized inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Both the author's box and the rear panel of the dust wrapper list only to this title. Young readers story of a young man who moves to Nebraska during the volatile 1850s and, after meeting Abraham Lincoln, decides to fight slavery via journalism. The cloth shows just a trace of edgewear. The price-clipped jacket has light edgewear with three short (1/2" or less) closed tears (no chips). The mostly white rear panel is not soiled. Clean and tight; jacket in mylar.

New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Bound in brick and charcoal boards; spine lettering stamped in gilt. 247 pages. First edition with the full number line present. The second Davey Goldman/Bishop Regan mystery. Inscribed and signed by the author in 1992 on the half-title, otherwise unmarked. The boards show a slight bump at the heel; the dust wrapper has no wear. A clean, tight copy, iwth the jacket now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall