Search Results: Signed from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Buckingham: Network Publishing, (2010). First edition, First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated twice in black marker by Patrick O'Connell of the 5-star Inn at Little Washington. 4to, 552 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's black paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Apparently a special edition of this title which was sold at the gift shop of the Inn, with their applied label on the front flap of the jacket. The dust jacket additionally features a photographic portrait of O'Connell in lieu of the more generic illustration on the regular edition & adds a sub-title: "From Relais & Chateaux ... Including Recipes from Patrick O'Connell of The Inn at Little Washington - Washington, Virginia." "From the technically challenging and groundbreaking to classic and traditional, the recipes featured all encourage the use of the freshest ingredients, locally sourced wherever possible..."

Boston: Privately Printed by The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1915. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 7"), xvi & 410 pages, with frontis & 92 illustrations from photographs on 16 plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, with a photographic illustration applied to the front cover. Laid-in is a signed form letter on the author's letterhead with "My Esteemed Boy Scout" as salutation.
Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled, brief wear at corners, text toned in the margins, otherwise a very good or better copy.
An uncommon book in which the author presents in two sections the diaries of his hunting trips in Africa. The first excursion, in 1911, was to the Guaso Nyero region of British East Africa, the second, in 1913, to northwestern Rhodesia. An appendix following the text provides a "resume of game killed" which includes elephants, baboons, lions, etc. The laid-in letter, addressed to "My Esteemed Boy Scout," advocates "learning the principles of hard work, economy and Scotch… Read More

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. "This limited edition ... has been privately printed and individually signed by the author." Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), [17] & 6 - 714 pages (as issued), with numerous full page illustrations by Walt Spitzmiller. Publisher's full brown leather, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, ribbon marker sewn in, moire fabric endpapers.
A Fine & apparently unread copy.
A nice copy of Drury's stunning novel which was characterized by Jonathan Karl as a "compelling portrait of American social and political history." The book was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, this copy inscribed & initialed by Galbraith in the year of publication. Tall 8vo, 365 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise Fine in rubbed dust jacket with moderate edge wear including nicks & small losses, Good or better. Professor Galbraith's ambitous & exhaustive history of economics "from Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer, through Marx and Lenin, to Keynes ..." which was the basis for the BBC documentary series. This copy is inscribed almost certainly to Andrea Hill Williams who for 47 years was Galbraith's book editor and personal assistant: "For Andrea with love/ and thanks for making/ it publishable as well/ as good/ once more/ J.K.G. - 1977."

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2000). First U.K. edition, this copy boldly signed in ink by Ondaatje in his characteristic minimalist style on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 311 & [2] pages. Publisher's black cloth- patterned paper over boards lettered in bronze on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Ribbon marker sewn in.
Slight foxing mostly at the edges of the text block but occasionally evident internally, text a bit toned otherwise very good or better in fine dust jacket.
Ondaajte's fourth novel.
"From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka was in a crisis that involved three essential groups: the government, the antigovernment insurgents in the south and the separatist guerrillas in the north. Both the insurgents and the separatists had declared war on the government. Eventually, in response, legal and illegal government squads were known to have been sent out to hunt down the separatists and the insurgents.Anil's Ghost is a fictional work set during this political time and… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, (1977) First edition, this copy boldly signed in blue marker at the title page by Edward Bunker. 8vo, 202 pp. Publisher's tan paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Covers lightly soiled & sunned mostly in the margins, one corner bruised, brief offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, binding cracked at half-title page causing three leaves to partially detach, still good in very good dust jacket with brief wear at the spine extremities & tips. Edward Bunker's second novel and the basis for the neo-noir film of the same name. This title continues the gritty prison fiction based on Bunker's experiences during 18 years of incarceration Uncommon signed, Edward Bunker died in 2005

Tabasco, Mexico: Joaquin Mortiz, (1975). "Private Limited Edition," this number 277 of 2000 copies signed by Fernando Pereznieto Castro. Folio (13.75" x 11.5"), [94] pages, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Text in Spanish & English
Covers slightly spayed, modest tanning in the margins, otherwise very good in like dust jacket with traces of edgewear & a small stain on the spine. "The facade of the city has aspects which gives it a distict personality. This city, our city, is old - one thousand years old. European things here have an Indian air; three thousand years of intimate cultures. The best traces of the city's face entered into the eyes and hands of Fernando Pereznieto and reach the paper with the emotion of one who loves and caresses. He chooses angles full of beauty and his concept of light gives, sometimes, an idea of the color. For this young and noteworthy artist, drawing is his means of expression in which stone, as a flower of stone,… Read More

New York: Random House, 1980. First edition, this copy signed & dated in the year of publication, with sketch of a Berenstain Bear in ink at the first blank page. Quarto (11.25" x 8.25"), 64 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout in color. Publisher's glossy pictorial paper over boards. Without dust jacket as issued.
One corner lightly bruised, otherwise fine.
A special copy indeed, delightfully written & illustrated by the Berenstains who have now both passed away.
"During the Bears' search for a Christmas tree they are reminded of what Christmas is really about." ~Abstract courtesy OCLC.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. "This limited edition ... has been privately printed and individually signed by the author." Octavo (9.75" x 6.75"), [17] & 6 - 733 pages (as issued), with numerous full page illustrations by Charles Reid. Publisher's full brown/ brick leather, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, ribbon marker sewn in, moire fabric endpapers.
A Fine & apparently unread copy.
A nice copy of Stegner's semi autobiographical novel originally published in 1943.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). First edition, this copy boldly signed in ink on the title page by Barbara Neely. Octavo ((8.5" x 5.75"), 232 pages. Publisher's black paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket (art work by John Howard).
Light foxing at the top edge of the text block & very briefly on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
The second title featuring "black domestic worker extraordinaire" Blanche White. In this book, "Blanche gets an insider's view of the color and class divisions within the black community."
Barbara Ann Neely (1941 – 2020) was named Grand Master in 2020 by The Mystery Writers of America.

Wilmington, Delaware: Printed by the Star Publishing Company, (1947). First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x & 69 pages plus 6 illustrations on 4 plates. Publisher's blue cloth with an applied gilt label on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight edge wear, sporadic foxing, previous owner's name & date in pencil at the half-title page, otherwise very good in soiled dust jacket with edge wear including nicks & a couple of short tears without loss, a good or better example.
"This account presents a novel point of view and an arresting tale of this little known history of the first state in the union." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: Random House, (1997). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Salter on a tipped in leaf following the ffep. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x, [4], [1] - 365, & [4] pages. Publisher's black-lettered white paper over boards, in translucent, pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge wear & hint of creasing.
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz), who passed away in 2015, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1989 & the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in 2012. His "Recollection" includes substantial treatment of his "second life" as a writer.
"Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by… Read More

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Distributed by Crown, (1984). Later printing, this copy inscribed & signed in ink, with a sketch of a simmering pot, at the half-title page by Chef Jamie Shannon. Octavo (9.5" x 7.75"), xvii & 206 pages, illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine & in blind on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Presents over 175 recipes for Cocktails, Appetizers and Soups, Salads, Egg Dishes, Seafood, Chicken and Game, Beef and Veal, Desserts and Coffees, Lagniappe: Seasonings, Stocks, and Sauces.
Jamie Shannon, who signs, replaced Emeril Lagasse as Executive Chef at Commander's Palace in 1991. He passed away from cancer in 2001 at age 40.

New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, (1985). First edition, "Commemorative Copy for the Dear America Celebration, May 6, 1985." This copy signed in green ink by General William Childs Westmoreland on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), 316 pages including full page illustrations from photographs & endpaper maps. Publisher's gilt-lettered off white paper over boards backed in blue cloth lettered in red on the spine, in slipcase to which the program for the celebration is pasted (as issued) to the front panel (12 pages, stapled light card covers).
Binding soiled, spine lettering dull, corners bumped & rubbed, otherwise Good. The attached program has rusted staples, brief evidence of bio-predation, &minor foxing affecting the front cover, still Good or so. The slipcase is lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.
"The New York Veterans Memorial Commission is pleased to present you with this commemorative copy of "Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam" to mark this very special occasion." 
~Quoted… Read More

New York: Ballantine, "A One World Book," (2000). First edition, this copy boldy signed in ink at the title page by Kristen Lattany (nee Kristin Hunter). Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 265 pages. Publisher's orange paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick paper, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top edge of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
"The ever-widening gap between Africans and African-Americans - and the strong but precarious link that bridges it ... The unexpected peril of romanticizing our roots - and the foreigners who represent them...The importance of taking care of others - without sacrificing oneself...Kristin Lattany takes political correctness and Afrocentricity and turns them upside down." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

[Ausonia, Peru]: Daphne Zileri, printed by Ausonia S. A., no date [2000]. First edtion, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by Daphne Dougall de Zileri at the title page. Tall square octavo (9.75" x 9.5"), 121 pages, profusely illustrated in black & white from photographs. Original gray cloth lettered in silver at the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket & white light card box with "Duos" printed on the front panel. Text in Spanish.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Box lightly soiled, with moderate edge wear, otherwise very good.
The noted photographer's second & last book, preceded in 1996 by "Soliloquios." Ms. Zileri, who was the first female photographer for Caretas magazine, passed away in 2011.
As characterized by Mario Vargas Llosa, Ms. Zileri's photos "... express different cultures. However, there is in them an extraordinary unity. They seem to have been taken in a single place, among people from a single community. It seems that all the landscapes are a single landscape. In… Read More

Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press/ University Press of New England, (1990). First edition (softcover issue, simultaneous with the hardcover), this copy inscribed & signed by Dickey in ink at the half-title page. Octavo (9" x 7"), 66 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial card covers.
Brief wear & shallow creasing at corners, otherwise very good.
A title in the Wesleyan Poetry series & the last book by Dickey published in his lifetime. Features poignant poetry from the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate & author of Deliverance.
"- to Jules/ from Jim -/ at the beginning -/ from/ James Dickey/ (also!).
"Jules" is almost certainly Jules Bacon, a bodybuilder & Mr. America of 1943, who was nominally the subject of an unfinished poem by Dickey entitled "For Jules Bacon."

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages plus 13 plates. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in dark gray cloth, with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's prospectus dated 1907 laid-in. Edges uncut.
Binding soiled & moderately rubbed, text block beginning to crack in a couple of places (still secure), previous owner's bookplate at the front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise good or better. Prospectus soiled & folded.
An important association copy from author Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow, whose bookplate is applied to the front pastedown. Noted for portrait painting, Conrow's art can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, (1963) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by the author, who adds a small sketch of a mouse, at the first blank page. 8vo, 430 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Gunn/ Gay American Novels, 1870–1970: p 104 Upper margin & spine extremities sunned, edges lightly rubbed, text slightly toned & occasionally foxed, about Very Good in moderately rubbed dust jacket with short tears & small losses mostly at the top & bottom of the spine, Good or better. Partially autobiographical, the novel centers around young Jeff Ramsey & his "unsentimental education" in "the gay, tawdry, amoral, sometimes brutal world of a seedy summer stock company" Author Burwell was himself an actor & director as well as the founder of The Belfast Maskers in Belfast, Maine.

Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1975. First edition, this a presentation copy for Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, signed on a laid in sheet by author Hewes & Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr., Chief of Military History. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xvii & 452 pages, illustrated, plus [10] folded leaves of plates. Publisher's textured maroon fabricoid simulating crushed morocco lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in gilt with the Seal of the United States & the name of presentee Moore on the upper cover.
Spine gilt a bit rubbed, otherwise very good or better.
The first volume in the special studies series published by the Center of Military History, United States Army, this a unique copy which was presented to Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore. Moore was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor at the Battle of Drang during the Vietnam War. He wrote about that experience in We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young which was made into a movie starring Mel… Read More