Search Results: Signed first editions matching wwi books

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925 First edition, first printing. One of 2000 copies. Publisher's deep rust cloth, gilt lettering to spine; in its original cream-colored dust jacket, printed in black and white, and designed by Vanessa Bell. Fine book, with just some light offsetting to endpapers, and novelist Dennis Wheatley's bookplate to front pastedown; fine unclipped dust jacket, with a few small closed tears to panel edges, very shallow chipping to spine ends, light toning and a touch of staining to spine, panels remarkably bright and clean with just a hint of soiling to rear panel, and a tiny chip to front flap fold. Overall, an exemplary copy of arguably Virginia Woolf's greatest novel. Housed in a custom quarter leather box with folding chemise. Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 82. One of the author's best-known novels, Mrs. Dalloway tells the story of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares to host a high-society party. The text is a… Read More

CHUBB (Ralph)The Heavenly Cupid or The True Paradise of Loves.Privately Printed by the Artist, Fair Oak, near Kingsclere, Hants., 1934.One of 43 copies (#9); 30 for sale, each copy signed and numbered; the first 7 copies issued hand-colored. Reid A10a96 lithographic illustrations by Chubb to accompany his printed lithographed script text with signed and dated frontispiece. Folio, original half green morocco with dark green corduroy sides. Except for some binding scuffs, a very good copy. Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960) was an English poet, printer and artist, heavily influenced by Blake and the Romantics with a highly personal and sexually revolutionary mythology. He privately produced 17 works entirely by his own hand in very small print runs working quietly first from Curridge in Berkshire and then from Kingsclere in Hampshire. Part of his mythology was Chubb being the prophet and herald of the saving of England by a boy god. This eternal Boy-principle of the is announced as The Third Dispensation… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926., 1926. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone cloth and pic. boards, xxvi (2) -245 (1)p. "Songs Five" "Long Boy" follows p.246. (3). frontispiece (color) introduction, numerous illustrations by the author. John W. Thomason Jr. was an accomplished artist and author of several books; however, his true lifelong profession was as a Marine Corps officer. He served during WWI in the 49th Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment. His first combat action came at Belleau Wood. This book, long celebrated as the single finest account of Americans in battle in World War I, is a vivid depiction of US soldiers' lives in and out of battle on the Western Front during the final months of 1918 before the Armistice. The impact of the novel is considerably augmented by the author's numerous sketches and drawings of the soldiers, done contemporaneously on and near the battlefields portrayed in the book. This is not a history book, but an… Read More

First Edition. 8vo., title, half-title, colour frontispiece protected with tissue guard, profusely illustrated throughout with numerous monochrome illustrations and diagrams, including one folding plate. Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd (London), 1948.
Finely bound in a later Cosway-style full navy full morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Bath with their binder's signature to the front turn-in, the upper cover with inset hand-coloured oval portrait of Admiral Hood (1724-1816) under glass, the miniature within a gilt-tooled border, double rule gilt border to covers, foliate spray corner pieces, spine separated into compartments by five raised bands finished in gilt, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets, watered silk endpapers, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown.
A fine example.
This work provides a comprehensive history of the Royal Navy's origins, ships, officers, seamen, administration, important battles, weaponry, and… Read More

Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt, 1921. NUMBER ONE OF ONLY TEN SETS OF THIS OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO OF EXPRESSIONIST ETCHINGS, WITH MANY OF THE ETCHINGS PRINTED ON OLD JAPANESE PAPER. In 1918 German novelist Hans Bethge wrote "Satuila oder vom Zauber der Suedsee" ("Satuila or the Enchantment of the South Sea"), the story of a young woman in Samoa. It is a sensual, escapist tale: the situation in Germany was quite terrible after the defeat in WWI, and there was great demand for escapism. This novel was a hit, and a deluxe edition, with 6 original etchings by German Expressionist artist Georg Alexander Mathey, was published in Berlin in 1921. The etchings are extremely beautiful, perfectly capturing the lush sensuality of the landscape and the unabashed sexuality of the characters (similar to the depictions of Gypsies by Otto Mueller, from about the same time). This edition of the novel was limited to 250 copies. Aside from the book edition, 10 sets of the etchings were printed, with large margins. In… Read More

NP: The Author. F First Edition Collectible. H Hard Cover. Very Good. "For Peter, Playing Indian" is 130 page unpublished manuscript by author and adventurer Elisabeth Zulauf Kelemen (130 leaves, numbered top right, typed recto only) hand-typed manuscript is hand-bound in blue cloth, is one of only FOUR COPIES (this is copy "No. A1"), and is signed in pencil, and also signed and inscribed by author in ink "To my dearest Eleanor, who will recognize some of her own ideas!". It includes a leaf of the author's original holograph manuscript (with drawings), as frontispiece. The typed text also includes some holograph corrections and emendations in ink. The text is a young adult-oriented narrative set during the War of the American Revolution, in the wilds of the west. In rough outline: Joel is a boy living somewhere on the Western frontier of the colonies. He lives in an area where Native Americans have been killed or driven off, but is aware of some of their traditions… Read More

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania PA Mount Joy. Very Good. 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. Sensational archive of handwritten diaries centered around the Brubaker family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Twenty [20] books comprised of sixteen [16] handwritten diaries, three [3] small notebooks and one [1] published book with manuscript notes. The diaries are dated 1914, 1916, 1917, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927 and 1927. On average the books are 80% full. There are four authors: J. Henry Brubaker has written 12 diaries and most certainly 2 of the 3 notebooks. His wife Anna has written one notebook in her maiden name [Groff] and daughters, Anna Ethel [3] and Susan Violet [1]. The Brubakers appear to have been prominent rural business people in the farm supply business. A huge family as evidenced by the copious genealogical notes for the Lancaster County area as the notebooks specifically and the diaries are a wealth of family names and the connections.… Read More

London, Jonathan Cape, 1935 First trade edition 1st impression 1935.. Hardback, Large, 4to. approx 10.5 x 8 inches. Bound in full brown Harmatan morocco, featuring purple onlays, and finished luxuriously in 23.5 carat gold. The binding features a panelled design to the boards incorporating circular onlays of purple morocco which are also tooled in gilt. The spine features raised bands, with smaller circular onlays and gilt tooling in the panels. Double gilt lines to turn-ins, and gilt lines to board edges and headcaps. The binder's stamp in gilt appears on the front turn-in. Period marbled endpapers, hand-sewn silk endbands. Top edge of text block gilt, others uncut. With specially made slipcase. In FINE condition. Binders stamp to front endpaper lower edge in gilt. Inside pages all very clean and tight. Pages edges have all been trimmed and gilt coated top edge. A lovely fine leather bound copy. 672pp. Profusely illustrated with 48 full-page B&W portraits, and 4 folding maps. Illustrators… Read More

London: Mills & Boon. London, Mills & Boon, 1922-1923. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. Near fine copies. In the rare jackets. We were unable to find another copy of Herbert in the jacket (presumed later issue as per Locke I p139). Science fiction adventure set during WWI, the story in Herbert being completed in Prisoner. 16pp ads to both volumes. There's a little toning to the jackets and some chipping to the spine tips, but overall in excellent condition. Prisoner has a vertical crease to the spine. Spine tips bumped, a little offsetting to endpapers, dustiness to the edges. [8640, Hyraxia Books]. 1922-1923 . Near Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1922.

New York: Scribner, 1929. No "A" but bears first edition date of 1929 on title page. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Inscribed to George O'Connor, signed in 1942. Signed humorous card for Chaplain service laid in. A sketch apparently by Thomason laid in. Cover worn and soiled. Some pages roughly cut. Discoloration to.... Thomason, John W.. xi, 290 pages. 22 cm. Illustrations. This is a rare item with an inscribed title page, signed ephemeral item, and what seems to be a drawing by Thomason. Portions copyrighted by International Magazine Company in 1928 and 1929. Thomason died at the age of 51, after a brief illness. He has served in WWI, Cuba, Nicaragua and China. At the time of his death he was assigned to the Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet, stationed at San Diego, CA. This may be one of the last of his books that he autographed! Illustration on page 4 not cited in list of illustrations; there are a number of uncited illustrations marking… Read More

Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1914. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original superb color pictorial paper covered boards with picture of child riding a stylized horse on a sagging platform, with large voluminous white clouds and blue sky in background. This is the extremely rare children's book written and illustrated by Charlotte Schaller with gorgeous pochoir illustrations throughout. The first of two children's books on the war by Schaller (both written and illustrated by her, and both published during the war. The story depicts Boby, his two sisters, and the neighborhood children acting out the first few months of the WWI. On rocking horse, enlisting his toy soldiers, ally to Belgians. One illustration, anticipating Surrealism, enacts the battle of LiËge. The Belgian army, tiny black figures less than one inch high, wages a futile assault on a pair of Prussian boots that dominate the entire landscape and sky. Corners bumped, covers worn, finger-soiled, inner hinge week, on the whole a… Read More

United States: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. Signed by the Author. Clean text. Gently read. Heavy uniform toning to the edges of the text block. Toning to the edges of the cloth boards with light wear to the spine heel and crown. Blue cloth boards & spine, gold spine lettering. Dust cover has been clipped to the top corner of the front panel with the original price still intact to the bottom corner. Heavy chipping to the jacket extremities, rubbing to the flap creases and sunning to the spine. New mylar cover. Very interesting copy in that it contains a monologue written in pencil to the second FEP by an unnamed previous owner outlining a journey taken by aircraft from Berlin to Paris in 1945 in which he visited the WWI battlefield at Arras en route.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover w/ jacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paris?, c. 1915. A UNIQUE SKETCHBOOK WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS (including several spectacular ones on color) BY SEVERAL OF THE MOST NOTED CARICATURISTS OF THE BELLE EPOQUE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR, including SEM, CARAN D'ACHE, and HENRI FOURNIER. 40 leaves, almost all of which with drawings on both sides. Many of the drawings are unsigned (some are by Lafosse himself), but among the signed ones are several by Sem, Caran d'Ache, and Rola, and one by Fournier. First leaf: "Au grand artiste Robert Lafosse. Ses admirateurs." On very good wove paper. Oblong 8vo (13 x 21 cm). Original plain cloth cover. A couple of leaves detached (but present), else very good. Unique and important.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/fair. First issue (see details below), octavo size, 448 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was born into a literary family and showed literary genius from a young age. Although the horrors of "The Great War" and subsequent difficulties had a devastating effect on him, he would write almost his entire life, producing more than 135 books including the popular "I, Claudius" and, in addition to earning many awards, was presented by Queen Elizabeth with her gold medal for poetry. This work made Graves famous; it has been called "a searing work of genius in which [he] offers up a heavily rewritten version of his past life upon the altar of his present love." The first issue, of which this copy is one, includes the short passage on p. 290 and the letter to Graves in rhyming form by Siegfried Sassoon on pages 341 to 343; these two sections were expurgated from all future printings. Per the bibliography, it… Read More

Tall quarto (8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches), original half navy cloth and gray paper boards. Interior very fresh, mild toning to spine of original cloth, light rubbing to the spine. A desirable near-fine copy housed in a grey cloth clamshell case with Morocco label. First edition, first issue, of "the first of Lawrence's books to appear in book form," with large folding plan, seven full-page maps, plans and illustrations, 37 photographic plates and nearly 60 in-text illustrations, an excellent copy. "During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form" (O'Brien, 6). Their stated assignment was… Read More

R. Farmes & Sons. Trench football is a printed card maze within a wooden case and glass front. It was made by R. Farmers & Sons in 1916. The objective of the game is to guide the ball from "kick off" past the pot holes marked with cartoon images of German military leaders and politicians (such as Hindenburg, Terpitz and Zeppelin). The player needs to guide the ball past the Kaiser's open mouth into the back of the net. In superb condition, both front and back are with no damage or colour loss. There are copies in the Imperial War Museum and National Football Museum.  . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1916.

Jonathan Cape,, [1935]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.

Jonathan Cape. Large 4to., brown publisher's cloth, lettered and decorated with crossed sword device in gilt to the upper board; spine lettered in gilt; outer and lower edge untrimmed; in the printed dust jacket (30s. net); pp. [vi], 7-672; black and white frontis showing a sculpture of the author; together with numerous other full-page illustrations by the author, here reproduced in black and white; and four folding maps; a few light spots, perhaps a touch shaky in the binding; backstrip lining showing to foot of spine; a very good copy nonetheless, in the fragile dust jacket which is a little creased, a couple of small nicks to foot; one small closed tear to upper corner of front panel; also very good. First trade edition, in the original dust jacket. Seven Pillars was first printed in 1922, in an edition of just eight copies intended for the author's private use. Of these, only six known copies survive intact. A subscribers copy followed in 1926, privately published in a run of 211… Read More

Toronto, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two books: An uncommon first edition of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence's classic The Loghouse Nest, hardcover, with no other copies found online as of this writing. With illustrations by famed illustrator Thoreau McDonald. Near fine in a very good or better jacket with rubbing to rear panel. Together with a paperback reissue of the book, published just four years before she died, this copy signed boldly on the first blank with a felt-tip pen. Toronto: Natural Heritage, 1988. A fine, unread copy in white wraps, uncommon signed, with Thoreau McDonald's original illustrations.  The Loghouse Nest was de Kiriline Lawrence's second book and her first work of nature writing. It's described as "a charming account of the author's special relationship with the birds and wild creatures who share her northern homesite at Pimisi Bay, near Mattawa, Ontario." de Kiriline Lawrence is often referred to as "Canada's Rachel Carson." Born in Sweden to a naturalist… Read More

New York: Moods Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn, some typical edgewear. Front hinge cracked; paper on spine largely lacking; contents Very Good. Full parchment lettered in gilt. Copy #16 of only 50 autographed copies of a total edition of 500. This copy SIGNED by the editor, Edwin Markham, and 22 contributors including Louis Untermeyer and Joyce Kilmer, a very scarce autograph as he was killed in World War I. This anthology predates both Kilmer's and Untermeyer's first books.