Through the Green Valley by Gowdy, Barbara ( SIGNED ) - 1995

London: Westminster Press, 1930. An unusual ex- library book. Opposite title page: "Two hundred and seventy-five copies of this edition; of which two hundred and fifty are for sale, have been printed by The Westminster Press...London...This copy is number 23." 23 is inked in and the author's signature appears below in ink. Label removed from inside front cover. Looks like first blank page has been cut and removed, pencilled price on flyleaf. Usual library markings. Library markings and stamp on title page, sticker and date due slip affixed to back cover. Cover has sun fading all around, gilt titles on spine. 142 pages. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase supports charity and benefits literacy and lifelong learning.. Signed by Author. Numbered. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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

Mamet, David. Homicide. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition, First Printing.
Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 220 x 135 mm), xv, [1], 126 pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page of this paperback original, a screenplay for a crime drama Mamet directed starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. "Homicide" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won Mamet a "Screenwriter of the Year" award from the London Critics' Circle Film Awards.
CONDITION: Near Fine, with a couple of light ink marks to the bottom edge.

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.

Koln: Konemann Verlag / Aperture, 1999. Signed by the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe and dated 9.26.05 on the half title page. First Konemann edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Secker & Warburg, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Signed by Author. Includes letter and greeting card from the author. Inscription on flyleaf in ink states: "For Reginald Hailing, with gratitude and good wishes, From Vera Wheatley, August 1957". The enclosed Christmas card c. 1950 vibntage is signed by Wheatley. the enclosed letter is a 2-oage typed letter to Hailing (too lengthy to reproduce here in full) which discusses various matters including the book. Full copy can be provided to interested parties prior to purchase). Letter is signed at foot of p.2 by Wheatley in ink, and a handwritten note added by Wheatley, also in ink: "One is almost afraid to avow love for anyone of the same sex nowadays! How I loathe this love of making everything horrible!". Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing… Read More

Berkeley California: University of California Press, 1925. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good+/None Included. VG+/1st ed./S(presentation copy). An attractive copy of this 1925 history of the contest between Spain and England over the ownership of Georgia. Very light shelf wear on the end of the spine, and the very tips of the outer corner of front and rear covers (no board exposed or break in cloth). Gilt on spine is complete and bright. All maps present and no foxing or marking to pages. Binding sturdy and tight. Signed by Herbert E. Bolton on presentation book plate on front free endpaper: " To my good friend, Joseph W. Flinn, master of the printer's art, collaborator in the making of this book. With grateful regards, Herbert Bolton". Joesph W. Flinn was Superintendent of the University of California Press where this book was printed.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). VG/VG, signed by author, tear to prelim page, his first book.

NY: Hyperion, 1992. FINE condition in FINE cover. NY. Hyperion. SOFTCOVER. 1992. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF as issued by publisher for the hardcover edition, April 1992. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author. AS NEW, bound in dust jacket image stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease.. Fifth in the series featuring Dave Robecheaux. Stored in Archival sleeve. SIGNED/INSCRIBED ~To Ruth, the lady whose support gave me a breakthrough in NYC I had never anticipated. Your old friend, Jim Burke.~. Signed by Author. Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

Seattle: University of Washington / Henry Art Gallery, 2004 Signed by Santiago Calatrava. First edition / First printing. Poster in blue, red and black. 15" x 24 Very fine.