Collectible : Signed Copy Books

Utica, NY, U.S.A: North Country Books, Incorporated, 1994. Soft Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed in ink by author on half title page with her drawing of a butterfly and a message to recipient. Fine condition except corner fold at bottom of page 19. From cover: An alphabetical tour of the Adirondack Mountains with a hidden Cecil stowaway on each page. Teaches children names of Adirondack wildlife & has a game to find Cecil the mouse's hidden image in drawings on each page, plus front & back covers. Covers color illustrated. Inside pages b/w & brown illustrations. 31 pp. (more information)

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NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed by author, title page; book is 5"x 8" (13 cm x20.2 cm); gold emblem on cover: Autographed Copy; First Anchor Books Edition; corners of cover, pp. slightly curled; spine is creaseless; cover’s clean; text clean, bright; text, 291 pp. followed by Questions. Biography, Information, photo of M.A. inside rear cover. A novel about the lust for sexual and political power, the need for compassion. A young journalist in the Caribbean where her rules for survival no longer apply. (more information)

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Dallas: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Signed by author who also wrote a short note and dated it 10/25/05 on title page. Mild loosening at title page. Dust jacket: mild edge wear, with a round green sticker, spine foot/Good. 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches. Facts about witchcraft practices, the chilling events of the Inquisition, the hysteria in Salem, and the 20th-century renewal of the ancient traditions, and more. All are drawn from historical resources, contemporary scholars, and modern-day practitioners. Center section of black and white illustrations. 264 pages. (more information)

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NY: Random House, 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed by author in black felt pen, ffep. Tall 8vo. Lower fore edge has faint pencil marks; dj has very mild edgewear; over 388 pp. Categories: Savannah, Georgia Fiction (more information)

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NY: Teachers College, Columbia Universit, 1934. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed "C.W. Brackett" (author's name) in pencil, fep. Text contains editorial notations in pencil. Author Signature and edit notes are evidence that this was the author's personal copy. Lois Hayden Meek, Editor. Dedicated to the memory of C.W. and H.I. Brackett. Child Development Monograph (Series) No. 14. text, tables, and charts, 90 pp.; Bibliog., p.91. (more information)

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Rochester, NY: CItizens for a Quality Philharmonic, 1989. Trade Paperback. Fine Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. 79 pp. followed by 33-page appendix, 1943-44 Radio Concerts by The Rochester Civic Orchestra (programs). Photographic & other illustrations. Gilt front cover decoration, lettering & spine labelling Brown paper leatherette covers. (more information)

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NY: Dial Books, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation copy SIGNED by author. An excellent collector copy. Thin 4to- 8.75" x 10.75". Paintings set in the Hudson River Valley- by Thomas Locker (award-winning book illustrator)- color separated & reproduced in full color. Unpaginated. (more information)

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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1983. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. DJ: One closed edge tear, 1/2 inch, rear flap fold. Author signed with personal note to past owner & date. Author: former publisher of PARIS REVIEW. One previous bestseller: DON'T EMBARASS THE BUREAU. 359 pp. Fiction, Mystery, Suspense. According to reviews by NYS Gov. Hugh Carey, Joe Persico, George Plimpton, etc., the story treats the death penalty in a chilling way. (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A: Camelot, 1994. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Good . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (Award-winning) author signed & dated 3-29-96. Very Good except 2-inch ink block inside front cover. From front cover: It's more than catching a big fish that makes Ben risk his life...Categories: MYSTERY DETECTIVE STORIES YOUNG ADULT JUVENILE CHILDREN FICTION (more information)

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NY: Leisure Books/Dorchester, 1993. PB; VG; Signed by Author on title page; ex-library copy; Library name in ink, then stamped inside book cover & on first page, which also has markings in pencil; text, 346 pp. (more information)

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William Morrow, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine Signed over to pass owner on title page/Fine. 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches. Biography of a man who grew up in Duanesburg New York, the youngest in a family of Jewish converts to Catholicism. Later in life, he converted back to Judaism. He was also a writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine. He was a finalist for the Koret National Jewish Book Award and won a Quill Award. This book is listed as his first in Wikipedia. 320 pages. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine Signed by Author/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Categories: Signed Copy, Horror Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction. Presentation copy signed, a location handwritten, and dated by author. Text is printed in green ink. Page edges, ep's, book, and jacket are all green. DJ subtitle: The Story of a Garden with a Mind of Its Own. 282 pp (more information)

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London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. First English Edition, Second Impression. Hard Cover. Good Signed by Author/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation copy inscribed in blue ink by author on front end piece. Message: To J...K... - with all good wishes for a bright future - René Fülöp-Miller. 1957. Past owner signature, same page, top. Binding cracks at some pages, pages yellowing, but text is clean. Title stamp on spine fading. Dark green cloth boards. Frontispiece illustration: portrait of Lenin (from a portrait by Andreev). Translated from the German by F.S. Flint and D.F. Tait. 343 pp. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A: Morrow/Avon, 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Good Signed by Author. Signed and dated 11/4/97 by author to past owner on title page. Author's first novel, second book. Winner of the Edgar Award: Best Young Adult Mystery. 164 pp (more information)

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Morton Grove, Illinois, U.S.A: Albert Whitman & Co, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Handwritten message to past owner dated 12/1999, signed by author. B/w photo illustrations. 144 pp. with index. Keywords: Signed Copy UNITED STATES CONGRESS JUVENILE LITERATURE WOMEN LEGISLATORS BIOGRAPHY POLITICS GOVERNMENT (more information)

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good, except (2)1/4" creases in page edges. Dustjacket Good with price clipped on flap corner and closed edge tears. Collectible, signed with characteristic humor by author on ffep: "Always check for gunshot wounds! M Fishbein". Dr. Fishbein is listed in medical biographies and bibliographies. He is known to the medical profession as "one of the most important leaders of the American Medical Association". He was author of THE NEW ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL AND HEALTH ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE MODERN FAMILY HEALTH GUIDE (check to find if this bookseller’s copies are still for sale), MODERN HOME MEDICAL ADVISER, as well as many other important works in the medical field. (more information)

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Gilbert, Arizona, U.S.A: Square Peg Pr, 1997. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dated, signed over to a couple by author on free front end paper. Print size is larger than normal. 286 pp. Keywords: RUSSIA FEDERATION BIOGRAPHY CIVILIZATION AUTOBIOGRAPHY Family Emmigration (more information)

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Princeton, NJ, U.S.A: Princeton University Press, 1972. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy by author to: 1) an IBM friend/associate and 2) his wife. A bit of foxing at top page edges, lesser amounts scattered on other page edges and DJ. DJ: small amount of edge wear. Binding sound, pages clean. B/w photos. 378 pp with index (more information)

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Boston: Boston: Little, Brown, & Co, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by author, front end paper. Dustjacket: 1" tear at rear top edge, lightly soiled, some foxing inside. Humorous Maine folklore; Inner Subtitle: 'which, considering our peculiar present, has no motive, purpose, and dedicated aim, and is meant only to be amusing- which not very much is nowadays, is it?’ Yellow paper boards, spine green cloth. Illustrations by Edward Malsberg. 213 pp. (more information)

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NY: Farrar Straus, and Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Presentation copy inscribed to his friends and dated 3/25/90 by author in English and Hebrew. Translated from Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Black specks at top edge of some pages, all else Fine Condition. An Israeli novelist, commissioned to report what he saw, spends 3 months on The West Bank of the Jordan River. From dustjacket: His account...has the power to make the reader entirely reconsider one of the most tormented issues in world politics. Hailed as a stunning masterpiece. 216 pp. (more information)

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Schenectady, NY: Riedinger & Riedinger, 1970. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible. Inscribed by author "May your memories all be happy ones! Larry Hart". One of only 3,000 copies; a newspaper journalist’s accounts of personal experiences with dignitaries; accompanied by photos. An important part of American History. Vignette on Ronald Reagan page 58-60, quotes him on the McCarthy era Communist purge, discusses his role with his employer General Electric, his Schenectady, NY visits, speech there in 1954, more. The people of Schenectady, NY remember Reagan fondly and as a special part of their family. It was during this period that he developed his extreme anti-communist point of view, which would later (and to the surprise of many) serve to usher the end of the Communist empire as it was then known. Page 59: captioned b/w photo of Reagan, 1954. Also included are Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, James Cagney, Ginger Rogers, John F. and Robert F. Kennedy, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth, Joe Louis- who is asked the title question- and many more; 215 pp. (more information)

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Brooklyn, NY: Self-Published, 1902. Hardcover, Cloth. Good Signed by Author. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collectible. Title page subtitle: SENTIMENT - SATIRE- HUMOR- LIFE - DEATH - GLORY. Rhyming poetical verse. Tissue paper between frontispiece and title page intact. Frontispiece consists of a reproduced photographic portrait of author beneath which is handwritten With Compliments, then his signature. There is an ink blot on the tissue paper it touches, and the blot matches the handwriting- evidence that this is an actual signature and not a facsimile. Spine: faded discoloration where spots ranging in size up to about .5 inch) occur. Author's tp note: A Half Century Under the Nom-de-Plume Frank Myrtle. Rep: fountain pen marks, 178 pp. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A: New Amer Library, 1985. 4th Edition, 26th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good Signed by Author. Author signed book over to past owner inside front cover. Heffner was producer and host of public television's prize-winning The Open Mind- the nation's longest-running public television interview program- which he began in 1956. He also headed the motion picture industry's (MPAA) Classification and Rating Administration. Cover & all pages well attached. Pages yellowing. Small amount of handwriting in text. Past owner drawing inside rear cover. 382 pp. (more information)

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Webster Groves, MO: The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors, 1932. Hard Cover. Good Signed by Author/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fair to Good dj, with fading, mild staining, & a closed 1.5 cm tear, top edge; Presentation copy signed "Affectionately, Sister Mary Evangela, BM (there may be a third initial - not clear from way it's written)." on free front endpaper. Ink-stamped in publisher area of title page: The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors. This also appears at free front endpaper. Printer: Twin City Printing Co., Champaign, ILL. Mild foxing of page edges, ep’s. Text pages tight, hinges intact. Bright green cloth covers, gilt lettering. An important piece of Catholic, Irish-American history; 190 pp. (more information)

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Hicksville NY: Exposition Press, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Signed by Author/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All Very Good except white spots on a few areas of cover. Onion-skin dustwarp serves as jacket. Signed by author on ffep. 64 pp. (more information)

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St Martins Pr, 1993. 1st Paperback Edition. Trade PB. Very Good Author's first novel which he signed on title page with "All the Best to.." (past owner's name). Cover & all pages clean, firmly attached. No extraneous marks. Cover: mild wear at extremities. Page 15 has a few tiny puckers. 0.8 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches. Beauregard is a cub reporter at the Birmingham Standard-Dispatch, a job his father arranged for him. But Beauregard's stories--Pet of the Week and obituaries--have never been printed closer to the front page than section B, page four, hence his nickname. Hoping to win the respect of his fellow reporters and a girl's love with a front-page scoop, B-Four investigates an anti-Atlanta campaign by the Birmingham Boosters. His resulting misadventures and triumphs soon set him on the path to self-discovery. (more information)

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Chicago: Beef Industry Council, 1984. Trade Paperback. Good . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by James Beard on transparent ffep. .25-inch tear, lower spine edge. Color photos. Prominent chefs share a beef recipe & write about how they remember their friend James Beard. 47 pp. (more information)

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Schenectady, NY: Union College, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine Signed by Author/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Categories: Signed Copy, Huntley, C. William, Union College, Schenectady, NY, Universities, American, History, USA, United States, Educational Institutions. Cover: Red leatherette, gilt-stamped Union College insignia, front; gilt lettering, banding, spine. Presentation Copy, with message inscribed to a friend and fellow Union graduate. 273 pp with index (more information)

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A: Harvard University Press, 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good Signed by Author/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Presentation Copy SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Jacket: light soiling, yellowing, o/w Very Good. Biography of Hester Lynch Salisbury Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821), and the Thrale and Salisbury family. Hester Thrale was a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Her husband Henry was a prosperous brewer and member of Parliament in Great Britain. The story in this book is built around entries Hester wrote into a "Family Book". Streatham Park was the setting for the family country home to which many cultural luminaries of their time traveled for visits. B/w illus. NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS gave a favorable report on Mrs. Hyde's fresh account of Boswell's agony. It also recommended this as a book that all Johnsonians will greatly enjoy. 373 pp (more information)

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Secaucus, NJ, U.S.A: Carol Publishing Group, 1996. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Handwritten gift message to past owner, ffep. Highlighting in text on some pages in first half of book. Author signed: With Love, Anita Johnston, on title page. She is a psychologist specializing in women's issues & eating disorders who cofounded the Anorexia and Bulemia Center in Hawaii. 212 pp. (more information)

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