John Bishop Signed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. **Bundle Up and Save On Postage** Light, vertical crease back panel, otherwise without flaw, Signed: *Best Wishes John Bishop* on title page 8.5 X 11" 160 pages, published 2002. Bringing people together over wonderful food is John Bishop's great joy. It's true of Bishop's, his creation and Vancouver's premier fine restaurant, and it's true of his home. "Winner of Cuisine Canada's Bronze Award for Best English-Language Cookbook", these are quick, simple dishes: a spoonful of Sweet Corn Relish charms some Roasted Halibut, Rosemary Dumplings complement a Lamb Stew and for the less demanding palates, there are comfort foods from Bishop's homeland and beyond: Welsh Cakes, Creamed Spinach, Spring Rolls with Hoisin Sauce, Empanadas. Whether it's comforting or contemporary, everything is simply done right. John Sherlock & Others - Photography (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition thus. Rye House Plot bound with copies of the Informations and Original Papers Relating to Proof of the Horrid Conspiracy Against the Late King, His Present Majesty, and the Governmnt: as they were order'd to be published by His late Majesty.Signed by several principles including Robert Spencer 2nd Earl Sunderland, John Romzey, Nathan Toll [Towle], Thomas Brown Watson, M. Towlens[?], etc. Two parts bound as one. Folio 12" tall; 2 + 167 pages + 1 + 140 pages. There are many signatures scattered through this copy on pages relating to the principals involved, L. Jenkins, J. Ernle, R. Sawyer, H. Finch, as well as a one page handwritten genealogy of the Towle family beginning about 1745 with notes going to about 1834. The signatures are of the period, but cannot be authenticated.This is a later rebinding with gilt titles, decorations, and top edge, with the pages trimmed to a margin of about one inch all around, but the binding had begun to disintegrate. The hinges are broken with pieces of the backstrip missing. There is no title page for the first part, the text beginning with a dedication to James the Second. The second part includes the title page with date and publisher. The internal binding is secure. Paper quality ranges throughout from cream white to moderate yellowing with scattered foxing, with one page repaired long ago using a paper strip for reinforcing, but all could be rebound. This edition contains the repeated page numbers 63-64 (different text) and pages 105-06 omitted with no obvious textual loss. This is worthy of a fine rebinding and priced accordingly.…

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Part Letter Handwritten and Signed by Bishop of New Guinea Montagu John Stone-Wigg. Dated C1902. Montagu John Stone-Wigg 1861-1918 was an Anglican Colonial Bishop. From a autograph book kept by A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt & Son in 1875, the world's first literary agents. Size is 178m x 113mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18423. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 516pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $8.95 retail price on front flap, shelf wear, a few shallow chips to top edge, a near fine example. Signed by the Congressman and Civil Rights advocate John Lewis on the front free endpaper. John Lewis (1940-2020) served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987-2020, representing Georgia's 5th Congressional District. He was a lifelong civil rights activist, helping to organize the March on Washington in 1963, and he led the first of three marches from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Signed by Congressman John Lewis, the first edition of The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jim Bishop. (illustrator). Signed. …