Signed Books from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1966. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Von Schmidt, Eric. Enchanting children's book about a skinny young boy living with strangers who sets out to find his lost brothers & sisters, & has a series of rollicking adventures along the way when he joins forces with… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Williams, Garth. The timeless story about the little girl, Fern, who, with the help of other creatures in the barnyard, save their beloved friend Wilbur the pig from a terrible ending. In 184 pages with 47 black-and-white illustrations… Read more about this item

Palos Verdes Estates, California: TW Publishing, 1972. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/VG-. Autobiographical account of how the author escaped from Russian-occupied Austria during World War Two, where, as a teenager, she had seen her parents imprisoned (& her father die) for their political activism & for helping refugees escape Hitler. Seeing signs of the same… Read more about this item

Corte Madera, California: Omega Books, 1976. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Mulford, Judy Hamner. The personal back story (though age 83) of the pioneering educator who founded the private Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, CA in the early 20th century. SIGNED by the AUTHOR with a personalized inscription to "My Dottie" on ffep, dated… Read more about this item

Tucson, Arizona: De Grazia Gallery in the Sun, 1974. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. De Grazia. A book the author/artist calls "exciting" as he attempts to capture different moods in metals & colors, focusing on jewelry of gold, silver, & precious gems. In 47 +1] pages, this is the Artist Proof Edition, a Limited Printing that preceded… Read more about this item

Simply Read Books, 2007. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Maguire, Thomas Aquinas. Lovely children's illustrated story about a little girl, Ariel, who goes on a magical journey to recover her stuffed bear &, in the process, transforms the dispositions of some bullying real bears. Unpaginated. Approx. 32 pages of text & pictures. A FIRST… Read more about this item

Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1975. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. True story from a woman who was indoctrinated into Nazi philosophy as a young girl in Czechoslovakia, then her rejection of their anti-Semitism & atheism & conversion to Christianity in the US. She would found her own ministry in 1974. In… Read more about this item

New York/Cleveland: Collins & World, 1978. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Tudor, Tasha. Magical tale about a young girl who befriends a curmudgeonly old man in the neighborhood through an emergency involving her dog. This is another collaborative effort by the talented daughter (author)-mother (illustrator) Tudor team! From a single owner collection, it is SIGNED… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1944. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Autobiography of the famed celebrity gossip columnist & screenwriter from the 1910s-1950s, whom many in Hollywood feared more than the movie critics. In 194 pages, SIGNED by the AUTHOR (her name only) in blue script to ffep, this is… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 1976. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Tudor, Tasha. Magical tale about a young girl who nurses a sick goose back to health & has to decide whether to keep it on the farm or let it go free. This is the second collaborative effort by the talented daughter (author)-mother (illustrator) Tudor team! From a… Read more about this item

San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1949. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG-/No Jacket. Official records from the Pinkerton detective agency & other documentary sources are drawn on to present the story of "a plot and counterplot, stranger than fiction" involving a plan to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln while en route to his inauguration in Washington in 1861,… Read more about this item

Berkeley, California: Lancaster-Miller, 1981. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oda, Mayumi. Internally acclaimed silk screen artist uses themes from Japanese folk culture & woodblock prints to portray the female form & feminine principal as a "playful goddess." In 78 pages, with a Preface by the author/artist, lavishly illustrated throughout. A FIRST EDITION, First… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1962. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Von Schmidt, Eric. Enchanting children's book about a family of traveling magicians, in 151 pages with pen-and-ink drawings throughout (& DJ art) by Eric von Schmidt. This was the author's first book for young readers, based on his own interest in… Read more about this item

San Diego, California: self-published , 2010. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Dubisch, Mike. Celebrated fantasy/horror illustrator who has long explored the dark world of H. P. Lovecraft & created his "Black Velvet Necronomicon" to showcase his visions. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 2010, SIGNED by the Author/Artist (his name only) in silver pen… Read more about this item

Christchurch, New Zealand: Caxton Press, 1968. Limited Numbered Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bensemann, Leo. Stunning Limited, Numbered Edition from 1968 by New Zealand's Caxton Press of Coleridge's classic poem, with frontispiece (full-page woodcut illustration), titling, & initial letter by Leo Bensemann, who has SIGNED beneath his name on the limitation page in rear. Hand-set… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1974. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. The famed occultist, preacher, Freemason, astrologer, & metaphysical guru (1901-1990), whose death was as mysterious as his life, weighs in here on one of his most popular topics, reincarnation & the afterlife. In 68 pages, this copy was SIGNED by… Read more about this item

New York, New York: H. C. Lindquist Publications, Inc, 1947. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Brooklynite Mary Lewis, founder of the National Doll & Toy Collector's Club, invites the reader into her own collection of bride dolls, one of the most extensive in the world. She is joined by Dorothy Dignam, an expert of… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Viking Press, 1982. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cooney, Barbara. Enchanting story of a little girl named Alice who travels all over the world & returns to her house by the sea, keeping her promise to her grandfather to do "one thing to make the world more beautiful." A winner… Read more about this item

Last Gasp , 1996. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. Anthony, Gene. Thousands of people flocked to the corner of Haight and Ashbury during the Summer of Love, but few saw the unfolding phenomenon as clearly as did Gene Anthony" (trps.org). This book is SIGNED by the celebrated photographer on the title page. Here, at… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1983. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Personal life story of the basketball legend, co-authored with his lifetime friend & former editor of "Crawdaddy" magazine. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from1983, this book is SIGNED by Abdul-Jabbar on the title page. In 324 pages + 16 pages of black-and-white photos in center. Hardcover octavo… Read more about this item