Simon Schama, Signed (76 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback (bump to lower boards) - in a near fine unclipped dustjacket (some fading to spine) fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY SIMON SCHAMA - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Title page signed by the author with a personal dedication - first edition, first impression - slight surface wear to dust jacket and a 1cm closed tear to the upper rear edge of the DJ, otherwise no marks or damage - VG+/VG. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. Summary:In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 448pp, two sections of mainly black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Signed by author on title page. Faint sun-fading to page margins. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket Mylar wrapped, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Startling, impassioned book by Britain's most original historian.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by author - no inscriptions. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First American edition. Signed without inscription by the author on the title page. A good copy but previous reader opened it widely at the photo insert - binding intact but shaken and with a crease to the spine corresponding to the photo section. Remainder stripe to the bottom of the text-block edge, and light bumping and wear to the corners and spine tips. Pages are clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is more just a 1/3 height wrap around price intact and a bit of discoloration on the inside of the spine panel. 475 pp., indexed. A history of the slaves who fled their plantations to fight in the revolutionary war.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Fine in near fine, slightly faded, dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Book vg. Large stain to inside D/J with some wrinkling and light rubbing. Signed and inscribed on title page by the author. Signed.

hardcover in jacket: SIGNED 337 p.

hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed by the author (Signed by the author) ‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph   ‘Superb’ Observer   ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian   ‘This is history of the best sort – humanly engaged but never sentimental’ Mail on Sunday Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.    Characteristically, with Schama the message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: smallpox strikes London; cholera hits Paris; plague comes to India. Threading through the scenes of terror, suffering and hope – in hospitals and prisons, palaces and slums – are an unforgettable cast of characters: a philosopher-playwright burning up with smallpox in a country chateau; a vaccinating doctor paying house calls in Halifax; a woman doctor in south India driving her inoculator-carriage through the stricken streets as dead monkeys drop from the trees. But we are also in the labs when great, life-saving breakthroughs happen, in Paris, Hong Kong and Mumbai.   At the heart of it all, an unsung hero: Waldemar Haffkine. A gun-toting Jewish student in Odesa turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, hailed in England as ‘the saviour of mankind’ for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India while being cold-shouldered by the medical establishment of the Raj. Creator of the world’s first mass production line of vaccines in Mumbai, he is tragically brought down in an act of shocking injustice.  Foreign Bodies crosses borders between east and west, Asia and Europe, the worlds of rich and poor, politics and science. Its thrilling story carries with it the credo of its author on the interconnectedness of humanity and nature; of the powerful and the people. Ultimately, Schama says, as we face the challenges of our times together, ‘there are no foreigners, only familiars’.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. - First Edition, First impression - Signed by the Author - Waterstones band torn and chipped - Bottom edge of boards a little dented - Dustwrapper slightly rubbed - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright - xi/748 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first impression and signed by Simon Schama directly to the title page without inscription. Book has straight corners and edges and appears unread. Text block edges good and clean. Dustjacket has very slight creasing to top and bottom of spine otherwise as new. Waterstone's Signed by Author sticker to lower front cover. Priced at £20.00 Very nice collectable signed first edition in excellent condition. Thanks for looking and please check out my other books and signed books on Abe. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. 7¾ x 10" pp. xii + 750. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has a touch of edgewear; DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, creases, rubbing, and a touch of toning. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this dramatic history of American slaves in the era of the American Revolution who pursued a British offer of freedom if they fought for the crown. Inscribed by Simon Schama to a previous owner on the front endpaper. 475 pages, illustrated. Minimal sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine slightly rubbed dustjacket (not price-clipped) fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Sm8vo. Fine, unread book in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Internally clean, no marks or tears. Tight text block. Not price clipped. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. Signed by Author.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. NrF/NrF. First Edition, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, SIMON SCHAMA, on title-page without dedication or inscription. Includes meditations on Holocaust writing, reflections on Shakespeare and Tolstoy, Rabelaisian romps from the author's London childhood, exactingly vivid art criticism, and riffs on the music of Tom Waits, Debbie Harry and Leonard Cohen. With Credits. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. A near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY AUTHOR, SIMON SCHAMA. Signed by Author, Simon Schama.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Not price clipped and without insciptions. First Printing SIGNEDn by Author without dedication. Signed by Author(s).

SIGNED. Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. Unread gift condition and SIGNED and launch Day DATED October 10th '08 by this acclaimed historian to the title page. Scarce to find with these super attributes, especially dated. BOXED DESPATCH: OVERSEAS AIR ONLY: PLEASE DO NOT SELECT SURFACE! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 405pp. Pages tanned, else a very good hardback in a foxed jacket. Signed by Schama on the title page.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Schama's magisterial survey. pp652. endpaper maps. Illus. Signed on title page; looks like a bookstore signing. DW brodarted. Small 4to. Heavy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tie-in with the British historian's television series on the BBC. Excellent condition - upper corners bumped, minor pushing to spine tips (it's a large, very heavy book) but in super, clean condition otherwise. Dustjacket is unclipped, minor creasing in a couple of places. Laid into the book is a plain white card (pencil annotations to verso) which has been boldly signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. An early title by the acclaimed British historian. Pushed a little at the spine tips but tight & square and entirely free from owner names etc. The dustjacket is unclipped but a trifle shelf-worn along the edges. Near Fine and SIGNED by Simon Schama (for the seller in person) at the title-page. Uncommon thus. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. F/F in mylar. A 1st edition/1st printing in fine condition with full number line. Signed by author on title page. There is no wear to jacket. The jacket is not price clipped, the covers are clean and bright and the edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark, NOT ex-lib. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. In an unread As New condition an d signed by the author. The book looks at tghe stories behind some of Britains stunning portraits - written in conjunction with the National Gallery. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover - Fine first edition. Signed by author. Jacket is protected in a mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).