Goodbye Mr Chips by James Hilton, First Edition, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bip Pares (illustrator). First Edition. Hilton, James. GOODBYE MR. CHIPS. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket still sporting the original publisher's wraparound band. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JAMES HILTON TO ETHEL "BIP" PARES (1904-1977), FAMED ILLUSTRATOR OF GOODBYE MR CHIPS and one of the leading British Art Deco dust jacket designers of the 1930s: "To Bip Pares, who saw her Chips as I did -- With all good wishes from James Hilton, October 1934." [With:] A framed and glazed ORIGINAL PEN & INK ILLUSTRATION ON ART BOARD for GOODBYE MR. CHIPS, a discarded variant of the first (of four) illustrations in the novel -- this one featuring Chips meeting his wife while climbing the Lake District's Great Gable (image size measures 4 ½" by 3 ½"). Along with the book and the illustration is an archive of other materials including an Autograph Letter, Signed, in which Bip Pares gives the history of her involvement with the novel; this includes the surprising revelation that after she illustrated the initial periodical appearance of GOODBYE MR. CHIPS -- it was she who suggested to Osgood & McIlvaine that GOODBYE MR. CHIPS deserved book publication and she agreed (for five guineas) to provide virtually every design element of the first edition's physical appearance. Further, the archive contains newspaper clippings retained by the illustrator pertaining to the novel's success as well as a later newspaper account of James Hilton's death in 1954. Finally, added to this collection, is a fine first edition copy in fine dust jacket (signed) of the sequel TO YOU, MR CHIPS (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938) with another round of beautiful illustrations by Bip Pares. The 1939 film adaptation starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson was nominated for ten Oscars (winning three) and remains one of the best loved and most enduring British films of all time. Housed in a custom slipcase. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Goodbye Mr. Chips, early reprint, signed by author, very faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed, slight chipping and tiny loss to spine head and top edge. Signed by Author.

First Illustrated Edition; 'Birthday Edition;' one of 600 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. About a fine copy in the publisher's slipcase, which is very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

A first edition, first printing published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1934. A very good book with some handling marks to the boards. One small name and date to the front endpaper. SIGNED by the Author without dedication to the second front free endpaper. Small stain to the top edge, encroaching a little to the top of the prelims. In a very good unclipped Bip Pares-designed wrapper with a little darkening to the bottom half of the spine. Some nicking to the edges and wear to the corners and the spine tips. Complete with the rare Evening Standard Book of the Month wrap-around band. Some browning and small internal repair. Rare signed and with the band.

First Illustrated Edition; 'Birthday Edition;' one of 600 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. A near fine copy in a very good publisher's slipcase. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.M. Brock to his brother and fellow illustrator Charles E. Brock. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.