Arnold Bennett, First Edition, Signed (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Presumed first edition with NAP, hardcover, formerly owned and signed on the first free end page by Western author William MacLeod Raine, the book has a slight lean to the binding, wear to the cover edges and corners, mild rubbing with a few spots to the covers, and Raine's book plate to the front paste down. Overall, a solid, Near Very Good copy.

Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, xiv, 396 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is brown with white and gold print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight edge wear. Price clipped. Boards in yellow cloth; slight wear to spine caps. Text block has purple tinted top edge; spotting to edges. Illustrated: b&w plates (photographs ). Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401545. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 999 of 1000 copies signed by Bennett on the limitation page. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, sturdy binding, clean unmarked interior. Wear around edges. Quarter Japanese vellum and boards. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by John Austen (illustrator). 1st Printing of this Edition. Signed by the artist on the colophon, one of 1500 numbered copies (this is No. 1290). Publisher's quarter green cloth, floral paper boards, gilt spine titles/rule. Both volumes with heavy rubbing, toning, corners bared, lean, small heel stain to vol. II. International shipping billed at cost.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Thus. Green cloth lettered in gold on spine (no decoration). Classified List of 939 volumes. Green "Poetry and Drama" DW has black and white "rosette" signed ER on front cover. Rear cover states "OVER NINE HUNDRED VOLUMES". Code Lj1403. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Size: Sm8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 1st edition. #127 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. 1302pp. Spine sunned. Covers bit discolored. Off-setting to end-papers. Interior very good. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten Postcard Signed by Writer Arnold Bennett. Dated 1912. A short note about a date change for a meeting. Arnold Bennett 1867-1931 was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.Size is 115mm x 90mm. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17349. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slightly faded blue boards and blue spine fading to brown. Some foxing to fore edge. Internally toning to end papers with name and date written on front free one. Clean contents. Includes interesting, rather irascible letter proposing a book about water mills and berating illustrators and such: 'the literary pundits are a hopelessly conceited lot. A practical man with real knowledge of his subject, would have no chance against them'. Signed by Author(s).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1926 Tipped in signed signature by the author to endpaper. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. Bookplate to endpaper. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed and with nicks. Minuscule loss to spine tips. Spine age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 11939 ###014134. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No. 113 of a limited edition of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies. Printed on India Paper. 1302pp. Publisher's blue cloth; stamped in gilt to front and spine. Top-edge gilt. Cloth faded and a little scuffed to spine ends. Off-setting to endpapers; stain to front paste-down (probably caused by removal of label). Name to ffe. A very good copy this omnibus edition of the Clayhanger trilogy comprising Clayhanger, Hisa Lessways and These Twain. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition, #40 of 75 copies on handmade paper. Half vellum with patterned paper boards. Boards rubbed with some darkening to spine. Non-authorial inscription to front free endpage, else unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A Limited Edition of 1000 copies, of which this is copy no.151. SIGNED by Arnold Bennett on limitation page. Paper label with spare label tipped into final leaf at rear. Near fine, top edge slight foxing, in a Near fine dust wrapper, uniformly a bit browned at spine. Privately Printed for Subscribers only and part of a uniform series by T. Werner Laurie Ltd. A quite handsome and unused copy. Size: 8vo Limited and Numbered, Signed 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Board with Cloth Spine. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. John Austen (illustrator). Limited / Numbered. Number 185 of an edition of 1500 copies . The books are bright and firm with a little foxing to the endpapers, the dj's have moderate wear with a little fraying. No slipcase. Pics available Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by the illustrator.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rickards, E.A. (illustrator). First Edition. Signed on the first blank to 'To Evelyn Forster from Arnold Bennett 1-5-22'. A Clean, tight copy in edge-worn covers with black lettering front and spine. Deckle edges. 384pp. 46 illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, signed by Bennett. Frontispiece portrait. 178 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter Japanese vellum and boards. Fine copy in dust jacket with spine label (split along spine fold, else very good) Frontispiece portrait. 178 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, signed by Bennett. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 132. Original publisher's beige cloth over red boards, lettered black on spine and cover labels. Limited edition of 210 copies, this being no. 101, signed by H.L. Mencken. A collection of abuse directed at H.L. Mencken by American newspapermen, members of the American Legion and others. Includes contributions by Arnold Bennett, Willian Stanley Braithwaite, Louis Bromfield, Hamlin Garland, Ben Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Morley and Gorham B. Munson. Some wear to covers with spine label darkened and thus illegible, overall sound, very good minus with clean text. Signedes.

With an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. 2 vols. Illustrated by John Austen. Folio, publisher's quarter cloth and decorated paper-covered boards, in dust jackets and publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 680 of 1500 copies signed by John Austen. A fine set in near fine dust jackets. There is some light use to the slipcase at the edges. Additional postage applicable for these two large, heavy volumes.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original blue cloth, top edges gilt, unopened. First collected edition, one of 200 copies on india paper numbered and signed by the author (this is no. 170). Combines 'Clayhanger', 'Hilda Lessways', and 'These Twain'. The Estelle Doheny copy, with bookplate. (BA). Spine faded, free endpapers with natural discoloration.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Numbered copy: # 90 of 100 copies; signed by the author. Original cloth with paper label. Journal entries from Arnold Bennett's personal writing; with introduction by George Sturt. Printed for Christmas. Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, England. He began his working career as a law clerk and later he left the legal field and became an editor for the magazine Woman. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films (during the First World War, Bennett became Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information). His first novel was A Man from the North. He wrote several novels set in Hanley, the town where he was born, these novels are commonly referred to as the Five Town novels. Other titles include The Babylon Hotel, The Truth about an Author, and How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. Bennett died in London of typhoid fever on March 27, 1931. Very Good. Some pages uncut. Hardcover, minor chips to paper label.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Limited. Thin 8vo, full vellum (very lightly soiled). London, 1924. Limited First Edition. One of 200 numbered copies, set by hand, printed in two colours at the Golden Cockerel Press, and signed by the author. The fifth of the Vine Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 132. Original publisher's red vellum boards lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Limited edition of 80 copies, this being no. 64 on Inomachi Japan Vellum, signed by H.L. Mencken. A collection of abuse directed at H.L. Mencken by American newspapermen, members of the American Legion and others. Includes contributions by Arnold Bennett, Willian Stanley Braithwaite, Louis Bromfield, Hamlin Garland, Ben Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Morley and Gorham B. Munson.it Slight darkening to covers at top edge, pages slightly tanned at edges; very good indeed. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-decorated blue cloth octavo. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1925. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Signed by Arnold Bennett. Limited Edition of 200 copies. Fading in spots on rear cover. Very good condition. 1302pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Signed by the author. This Edition on India Paper, published in 1925, is limited to 200 numbered and signed copies, of which this is No. 72. Blue cloth with gilt rules on cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Very good condition with some fading to boards, rubbing on front cover and toning on endpapers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Kauffer, E. McKnight (illustrator). large 12mo. grey cloth, glassine wrapper, slipcase. 110 pages. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. First Edition limited to 350 numbered copies printed in Foundry Walbaum on handmade paper and signed by the illustrator. Fine in chipped slipcase. 8 full-page and 3 smaller drawings by E.McKnight Kauffer stencillled in watercolours employing the pochoir technique. [Kauffer writing to Harold Curwen:] `Your part of the job has again been done with superb artistry. The colours are lovely, the texture of the wash is better than the originals. Personally, I feel indebted to you for having lifted these illustrations 80%.'. grey cloth, glassine wrapper, slipcase.

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. First edition of the first volume in Bennett's Clayhanger Family series, from the library of book collector and Rowfant Club member Paul Lemperly, with his bookplate signed by the author in the year of publication. 7.25'' x 5''. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. 574, [2] pages, followed by [32]-page publisher's catalogue. Bookplate of Paul Lemberly tipped in to front paste-down, signed by Bennett, with his list of "Five Town" stories handwritten on bookplate verso. Lemperly's own note below: "On reverse of above label, a list of Mr Bennett's 'Five Town' stories, in his writing. (Written in Dec. 1910.) PL." Light edgewear, slight spine lean, spine lightly sunned, minor marginal toning to textblock. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition. An Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to writer Arnold Bennett: "For Mr Arnold Bennett,/with gratitude &/affection from John/Rothenstein./November 1930." With Bennett's bookplate on the front pastedown. The publisher's slip has pencil notes on the verso, and there are several pencil annotations in the text, all likely by Bennett. Light foxing to first few pages, printed dedication page mostly detached; small nick to spine. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Yellow Buckram on Orange Boards, 132 pp. Letterpress on Laid Paper with Deckled Edges. Numbered 185 of 250 printed on Borzoi Rag, signed by H. L. Mencken. Uncut pages. Very Good with light wear and sun-fading to covers, else Near Fine. Expurgated Edition. First Edition.A collection of abuse directed at H.L. Mencken by American newspapermen, members of the American Legion and others. Includes contributions by Arnold Bennett, Willian Stanley Braithwaite, Louis Bromfield, Hamlin Garland, Ben Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Morley and Gorham B. Munson.Provenance: From the collection of the late Lloyd Dinkelspiel Sr (1889-1959) and his wife, Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel (1904-1954) , granddaughter of Isaias Wolf Hellman (1842 -1920), the founder of Wells Fargo Bank.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Number 246 of 350 copies printed in Foundry Walbaum on handmade paper and signed by the artist. 8 full-page and 3 smaller drawings by E.McKnight Kauffer stencillled in watercolours employing the pochoir technique. Printed grey cloth with slipcase. Slipcase a little distressed at the top edge, else a very good to fine copy. [Kauffer writing to Harold Curwen:] `Your part of the job has again been done with superb artistry. The colours are lovely, the texture of the wash is better than the originals. Personally, I feel indebted to you for having lifted these illustrations 80%.'. Signed by Author(s).

3 volumes. First Editions and a complete set of The Clayhanger Family. Vol. I is a publisher's presentation copy. 8vo, each volume in original gray or green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated on the spines and upper covers. vii, 574, (31 ads); vi, 408, (31); vi, 526, (31) pp. A handsome set in pleasing, lightly aged condition with some fading to the spine of the second volume, and light evidence of use. A FIRST EDITION COLLECTION COMPLETE OF THE CLAYHANGER FAMILY, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS BY ARNOLD BENNETT, BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT, CRITIC, ESSAYIST, AND NOVELIST. 'Bennett wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totaling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day. Many of Bennett's novels and short stories are set in a fictionalized version of the Staffordshire Potteries, which he called The Five Towns. He strongly believed that literature should be accessible to ordinary people, and he deplored literary cliques and élites. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. These "Five Towns" make their first appearance in Bennett's fiction in Anna of the Five Towns (1902) and are the setting for further novels including Leonora (1903), Whom God Hath Joined (1906), The Old Wives' Tale (1908) and the Clayhanger trilogy Clayhanger (1910), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916) as well as for dozens of short stories. Bennett's fiction portrays the Five Towns with what The Oxford Companion to English Literature calls "an ironic but affectionate detachment, describing provincial life and culture in documentary detail, and creating many memorable characters". Darius Clayhanger's early life is based on that of a family friend and Bennett himself is seen in Edwin in Clayhanger.[88] He has been criticised for making literary use in that novel of the distressing details of his father's decline into senility, but in Pound's view, in committing the details to paper Bennett was unburdening himself of painful memories.'These Twain is Bennett's "last extended study of Five Towns life". Wiki.

Signed limited edition of Bennett's masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rare original slipcase. The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of Staffordshire to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris, while the action moves from the subdued domestic routine of the Baines household to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest novels of the twentieth century,