Search Results: Signed Copies from Richard Beaton

London: William Heinemann, 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated (with twigs and blossom) in dark green and white on front board, and spine. Spine darkened and scuffed on ends, otherwise good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads (rather oddly): "Mamie's dedication to Beresford". The novel was reviewed in The Spectator: "[Magda Stacpoole's] engage- ment to, and ultimate rescue from, a deliriously decadent lover is described with an intoxicating exuberance of polysyllabic preciosity.".

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. Association copy. "Literature of Yesterday and To-day." Undated, c1944. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Sylvia with love from (the author's daughter) M. R. Crockett, March 1944". M. R. Crockett is Maisie Rutherford Crockett. Sylvia is Sylvia Mary Ward (her signature is on the rear pastedown). Spine faintly sunned, faint partial ring mark on front board, good. Signed by Author's daughter.

London: Digby, Long & Co., 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 2nd Edition.. Original navy blue cloth, with chrysanthemum design in gilt along right portion of front board, lettered in gilt; green-and-white patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, paper on front inner joint lightly cracked, good. Inscription on title page reads: To Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Pitt with the Author's compliments and best wishes, Edin 15/7/99. A gentle tale set largely in Ulster. Scarce..

London: Simpkin, Marshall etc, 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Two-t0ne cloth, joined across the diagonal (top left to bottom right); red and cream, lettered and decoratively framed in gilt; green-and-white leaf-patterned endpapers. Spine lightly sunned and board edges marked, thus only good. The dedication leaf (preceding contents page) gives a printed reproduction of letter from Cotton to a "Mrs Jessop"; but there is a presentation note in author's actual handwriting ("Miss Stoddart with the Author's compliments | December 11th 1893. F. C") on a blank prelim. A sporting novel (mainly hunting)..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition.. Original fine-ribbed emerald green cloth, with blindstamped shamrock designs on front board, lettered in gilt. Light scuffing, foxing on early/late pages, inscription on front free endpaper, very good. Inscription reads: Evelyn Hellicar from S. R. Lysaght March 1907. The hero, Desmond, is clearly based on the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell..

London: National Review, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Undated, but inscribed by the author: "Arthur D Richardson with the Author's compliments 5th August, 924" on front free endpaper. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in black. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, very good..

London: Mills & Boon, 1924. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, framed and lettered in black. Spine and board edges sunned, corners bumped, foxing spots, good. Undated signature on half title: W. Pett Ridge. A collection of twenty-six short stories..

New York: Macmillan & Co., 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First American Edition.. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black. Spine ends scuffed, good/very good. Without its dustwrapper but inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To Henry Waffen in friendship from Eden Phillpotts May 1935..

London: Ernest Benn, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Original crimson cloth, lettered in black on spine. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Miss Jill Arnison with much appreciation of her help & the good wishes of F Britten Austin. 30 Jan 1932. A collection of ten stories, on the theme of war, through history from Ancient Greece to the end of the nineteenth century..

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). New Impression. Original light green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Spine sunned, a little faint foxing, good. Inscription on verso of half-title reads Mary Blundell "( M. E. Francis")..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Frontispiece photograph of author. Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Free endpapers tipped in, lightly scuffed, spine faintly sunned, a little foxing, good. The printed dedication -- To the wise in the hope they will agree with me -- has been amended and signed by the author, to now read To the wise Richard Bownton in the hope he will agree with me W. Pett Ridge Easter 1908. A series of essays on aspects of life in London.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1924. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Presentation Copy to Margot Asquith. First Edition. No 413 of 995 signed copied issued. Frontispiece. Original orange cloth over blue moiré boards. Spine darkened, some soiling and partial ring mark on boards: fair/good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: Margot Asquith with Compliments of the Author. New York 1924 George Lewys. Margot Asquith was the famously witty wife of the British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. It seems Lewys signed every copy of his book: but this one has a nice association to a leading figure in early C20th society..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Copyright Edition. Early C20th crimson leather over marbled boards; patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed. corner of blank prelim torn, otherwise very good. Todd [4174]. First/only issue. Half-title bound in. Inscribed on a blank leaf before the half-title: "Mrs Max Beerbohm, with the kind thoughts of the writer, Marie Belloc Lowndes". The dedicatee was Florence, Lady Beerbohm (nee Kahn)..

Boston (Mass): Little, Brown & Co., 1891. Book. Illus. by Frank T. Merrill. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Original two-tone cloth: boards white with cameo of woman's head in white, pink and gilt; spine brown, lettered in gilt. A little marking on cloth, otherwise very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Mrs Frank D. Allen with the kind regards of the author E. J. Carpenter, May 1894..