First Edition, Signed, john calder (59 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers, book has light rub of spine and cover edges, light yellowing cover, Signed by author. Paperback.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Edited and with an introduction by Michael Hayes. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED IN 1978 BY THE EDITOR MICHAEL HAYES. Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Has INSCRIBED bookplates to front pastedown and ffep. One by the editor Christopher Redwood, and another by Eric Fenby who was amanuensis to Delius at the end of the composer's life. Good overall with small Foyles book sticker, previous owner bookplate and Fenby newspaper pieces to rear endpapers. No jacket. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. cloth.tall 8vo. Illustrated.280 pages.fine copy in fine dust jacket. Inscribed and Signed by Hotter under his printed name on title pages.very scarce. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 222pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Good plus/good plus. Gay Wilson Allen's copy, with his bookplate. First edition. Number One, with contributions from Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marshall McLuhan, Rebecca West, A. Alvarez and others. Literary historian Gay Wilson Allen's copy, bearing his signed bookplate on the front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A few pages with ink scoring in margins, topedge lightly foxed, corners slightly bumped, very good in a slightly sunned very good dust jacket with minor edgewear and modest age-toning. Signed by the author. A novel about an Irish man, told from his childhood to his marriage and then later days in London; the story interleaves with the author's previous novel, *Balcony of Europe*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Flat-signed by the author on the title page. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 0-7145-3650-4 Pages: 261 Fine in fine dust wrapper. Signedes.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Soft cover 1980. Signed by Simone Benmussa. No other inscriptions. Clean & tight & flat. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard, ref A32. Gambit International Theatre Review. Volume 9. Number 35. Simone Benmussa Issue **** Signed by Simone Benmussa. Signed by Simone Benmussa.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. h/b 240 pages, condition is very good. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp.93. ISBN:0714541788. Part of the 'Playscript' series. Play featuring the reunion of the friendship between No'l Coward and Esm Wynne: "more of a character study and conversation piece than a play with a strong dramatic scaffold." For a cast of ten; set in Las Vegas. Includes two songs:'Faith' & 'Tell Me.' Signed presentation from the author to a close friend:As the happy possessor of ol' Comer's wittiest passages, I want you to have what may be seen as the Best of Wynne-Tyson in that line. With all respect for that other Master. Jon 7.11.89 for 21.4.89" Original publisher's glossy card binding in blue with b/w photographs of No'l Coward & Esm Wynne on the front & back covers. JON LINDEN WYNNE-TYSON (1924Ð2020) was an English author, activist and pacifist, & publisher, founding Centaur Press in 1954. At one time Wynne-Tyson also held the title of "King of Redonda", a literary title referencing a small 'sovereign' island. Very good indeed. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Rubbing to upper edge, tape residue on ffep, grubby rfep. ; DJ not price-clipped. ; Black and white photographs; 8.43 X 5.51 X 0.79 inches; 240 pages; Inscription signed by author on ffep, includes 6 signed letters and cards from Wallace. DJ design by Christopher Cresey. ; Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. A VG or better copy in like D/W. Inscribed by the Author on the FFEP: For my dearest/ Sharon/ S Berkoff March/ 14th. 1981. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOLL, Heinrich, KESSON, Jessie, BROWN, Alan, etc. New Writing & New Writers 15. London: John Calder 1978. Signed and dated by Jessie Kesson in 1991 at her contribution. First publication of her short novel: 'Where the Apple Ripens'. Some light foxing on top and fore-edges and faded on jacket spine, otherwise a very good copy in dj. Signed by Author(s).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original rich burgundy covers, gilt lettering to the spine. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains 220 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. From the library of Kitty [Dorothy] Black [1914-2006], successful theatre administrator, internationally acclaimed and distinguished translator of continental plays who eventually became a leading play agent. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book. SIGNED dedication to the front free end paper 'For Kitty dear Kitty, A Happy Christmas and many lovely plays in 1958 from a Contributor A. S. [Alan Schneider] or H. S. [Henry Sherek]. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With the ownership signature of Richard Sylvester, who taught with Creeley at the University of Buffalo. Dated "June 72." From the collection of Douglas Calhoun, the editor of Anthanor journal, which devoted a special issue to Creeley. A novel dedicated to Charles Olson. Very good condition because of a slanted spine, in a very good dust jacket with general rubbing and some toning/soiling. Association copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. One of 100 copies ( copy 96 ) on handmade paper and SIGNED by the author. Printed in advance of the first edition. TEG. A UK limited edition. The original translucent wrapper that came with the book is still present. It is ragged at the edges and toned at the spine and flap creases. The book itself is square and very tight. The boards are clean and bright. The lower leading edge back board corner is bumped. There is trivial bruising at the base of the spine. The pages are clean - there is ghosting on the ffep. No foxing. The uncut closed page edges are clean. The binding is solid and without cracked hinges. There are no loose or dog-eared pages. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. This copy has been SIGNED to the limitation page by Samuel Beckett. A nice copy of an uncommon title. Paypal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 144/200 Signed by Samuel Beckett and Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 93. Paperback. Signed on title page. Presentation copy: 'For Becky Ð because she rashly said she liked it Ð with love and good memories Jon. Fontwell 12.xi.91.' Photocopy of pre-publication quotations by actors and literary names loosely inserted with a handwritten note in pencil saying that he hopes he included one of these in Frank's copy. A play based on an imaginary meeting in Las Vegas between Noel Coward and Esme Wynne (-Tyson), in reality Coward's closest female friend and the mother of the author. Wynne-Tyson later adapted it into a radio play which was broadcast on the BBC world service in May 1994 starring Stanley Baxter and Dorothy Tutin. Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924-2020), author, Quaker, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights campaigner and in 1954 founder of the independent publishing company Centaur Press which was based in Sussex. Very good. ISBN: 0714541789 Very good indeed. Signedes.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Written on Mallorca; dedicated to Charles Olson; and signed by the author. Owner signature. Top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Sixteen stories; signed by the author. Spots of foxing to extremities, offsetting from bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper, about very good in good dustwrapper. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 282. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper to the novelist, Bernice Rubens and her husband, "with much affection, David, April 1964." Contents: Where the difference begins - A climate of fear - The birth of a private man. Very good indeed in complete but slightly used, close very good dust jacket, with some edgewear and a few closed tears at spine head. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Slight toning on the pages, still fine in fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Inscribed by the playwright.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British Edition. A Fine copy in pale turquoise textured paper covered boards, in a Fine jacket (price-clipped). SIGNED by Creeley under his name on the title page. 158pp. Q06219.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Black and white plates throughout. Dustjacket shows some wear to outer extremities. There is an inscription on the first free endpage that reads: "To Our dearest Father, / a very happy Christmas - 1956 - / and our fondest love --" and it is signed "Corin Lynn xx / Vanessa -" The inscription appears to be in Vanessa's hand, with the other siblings signing their own name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A near fine copy of the First U.K. edition in VG Mylar protected jacket and signed by the author!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Translated from French by Maria Jolas. Fine in near fine dust jacket, clipped with a publisher's price sticker affixed, and a little rubbing. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Briefly Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Presentation copy of this early novel by a prolific French writer and Prix Goncourt winner noted for his sensitive explorations of the gay experience. Sweet Tooth concerns a young French man who flies to New York to visit a dying ex-lover, and is exposed to the various pleasures and depravities of the city's 1970s subculture. Inscribed by Navarre (in French) to New York-based French photographer Bernard Pierre Wolff, thanking him for his hospitality, his ear, and his heart. Wolff, who died as a result of AIDS in 1985, is perhaps best remembered for his photograph of the Appiani family tomb in Genoa, Italy, which was used on the cover of the 1980 Joy Division record Closer. Despite Navarre's large body of work, examples of his signature are quite scarce; we find no others in the trade at time of cataloging, let alone one with such an intimate association. First American edition. Translated from the French by Donald Watson. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); 220pp.; black textured paper boards; gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Navarre, with doodled envelope, on the half-title, and with Wolff's address stamped (twice) on the front free endpaper. Light bumping to head of spine, small sticker ghost on front pastedown. Else fine in a very good (+) jacket, unclipped, with moderate toning to edges and a short closed tear at head of spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo. First edition, signed by Burroughs on the title page. Very fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 222 pages. Published in 1959. The author's debut New Novel. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Nathalie Sarraute's "Portrait d'un Inconnu" in a felicitous English translation by Maria Jolas. She also translated the dazzling Preface Essay by Jean-Paul Sartre. Preceded by her ground-breaking vignette-portraits, "Tropismes" (1939), here is the very first New Novel, the only serious - and ambitious - attempt of the 20th century to advance and complete literary modernism. Another great thinker, Hannah Arendt, hailed it as a breakthrough in the way it subverts - and transcends - the novel form's seemingly inescapable "psychology", by depicting the unconscious as a "physiology" instead: An objective "portrait" (of an ultimately unknowable human subject) rather than a subjective, psychological depiction (of a knowable and empathetic literary character). "I believe that by allowing us to sense an intangible authenticity, she has achieved a technique which makes it possible to attain, over and beyond the psychological, human reality in its very existence" (Jean-Paul Sartre). Sartre deserves full credit for championing her work even though it actively rejects his own approach. It is surely because of the New Novel's anti-psychological ambition that it has remained an ambition, literary, NOT philosophical in either the Sartre-ian or Camus-ian mode, and an acquired taste, destined never to land on bestseller lists. And yet: Sarraute's radical emphasis on plotless narrative has actually had enormous literary influence, and has since become the norm of serious mainstream literature. The late great satirist/social realist novelist Martin Amis, of all people, declared that only thrillers (which he was also good at) require a plot; all other modern novels depend on and are about the inner life (of a particular character), which he described as the "voice novel", emanating organically - that is, "physiologically", per Arendt - from the innermost thoughts, feelings, and sensations of a human being. The "voice novel" is another, brilliant way to describe the New Novel, whose achievement as such demands every serious reader's worthwhile consideration. An absolute "must-have" title for Nathalie Sarraute collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Nathalie Sarraute. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Her signature is superb: Clean, flowing, and elegant. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: John Calder, the publisher itself, NOT any previous owner, clipped the original price printed on the DJ flap and then replaced it with its own sticker of the corrected price (5.95 British pounds). A rare signed copy thus. "Tropismes" and "Portrait of A Man Unknown" are regarded by a panel of European publishers, scholars, and literary critics as two of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NATHALIE SARRAUTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author.