Becky Swans Book by Musgrave, Susan ( SIGNED ) - 1978

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Dawkins. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, pale gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 2017. Signed by George Saunders, dated 2017 in black, red and blue. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, slate paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Small previous owner name at the top of the front-free endpaper. Winner of the 2017 Booker Prize.

New York: Dutton, 1978. Signed facing the title page at the top of his portrait by Charlton Heston. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in about fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this title. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ben Hur. From 1965-71, he served as the elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Five-term president of the National Rifle Association (1998-2003).

New York: Scribner, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Hell. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. Member of several early Punk groups: Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers. Leader of the Voidoids, seminal Punk-Rock group.

NY: Donald I. Fine, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in cream and black with blue stylized dust wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED ~ To Ruth & Al -- At the classiest Scene Of The Crime of all, Andrew Vachss 9/88 ~. Andrew Vachss' first novel and the first in the powerful series featuring private investigator Burke.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gill, S.A., 1995. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine. Text is in English and Spanish. A paperbound original. The first monograph in English on Waro Kishi.

Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire; The Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Hardcover (patterned cloth over leather spine). Ltd. edition #456/500. 73pp. Signed by Hugh Walpole on the dedication page. Privately printed with wood-engravings by Lynton Lamb. A fabulous account of Hugh Walpole's early life and a must read if you are a fan of his work. In near fine condition- a small chip at the top of the spine is the only blemish. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, his works have been neglected since his death.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1992. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

This listing is for a 1971 Coal Miner's Daughter vinyl album SIGNED by both Loretta Lynn and her sister Crystal Gayle. Condition is very good overall and the album presents quite nicely but please note there are thumbtack hole in each of the four corners.