Party Great Parties, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xiv, 402 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. Fine DJ. "After the Ball is that rare true story that reads like an epic novel, a sweeping chronicle of an era, and an intimate account of the hope and betrayal of a son whose father gave him everything -- except the training to find his way in territory ruled by the rapacious. James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three in 1899 when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society. Only five years later, he fell from grace in a Wall Street scandal that obsessed the nation and commanded 115 front-page articles in the New York Times. Hyde was intelligent, cultured, and ambitious, but he was no match for an older generation that had mapped the backstreets of high finance. Vying to control the Equitable's vast investment pool, the most famous financiers and industrialists of the era -- among them E. H. Harriman, Henry Clay Frick, and J. P. Morgan -- put Hyde on forty-eight boards and included him in deals that shook Wall Street. And then, at the pinnacle of social success, he made a fatal miscalculation. On the last night of January 1905, James Hyde held a fabulously flamboyant, eighteenth-century, Versailles-themed costume ball. His enemies used the party as the hook to hang him on, claiming that he was too frivolous to run a company dedicated to protecting widows and orphans and spread the rumor that he had spent two hundred thousand dollars of Equitable money on a night's entertainment. By the time a government investigation established that Hyde had paid the bills himself, his reputation was ruined. The bitter campaign to wrest control of the Equitable and its vast investment capacity from Hyde followed on the heels of the ball. As the fight escalated, clandestine alliances between insurers and Wall Street burst to the surface, exposing techniques that are the stuff of twenty-first-century scandals: self-dealing, insider trading, accounting malpractice, and corporate funding of private pleasures. After the Ball tells a tale that riveted millions of Americans a century ago. Its themes are as fresh today as they were in 1905: greed and chicanery, the flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth -- all unfolding against a setting of magnificence, excess, and corrupting glamour." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover with DJ. Glossy green paper over boards with white lettering on front cover and spine. White pictorial DJ with green and orange lettering. No date on title page, copyright page dated 2007. 229 pages. In very good condition. Cover is bright and sharp. Binding is strong. Pages are free of marks or tears. Minimal shelf wear to edges of DJ, which fits snug to boards. Overall in great shape. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on half-title page. Color photographs of recipe dishes throughout. This is an oversized (and overweight) book. Extra shipping charges may be required for international or priority delivery. Signed by Author(s).

Third printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Forward by Chelsea Clinton. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. Sign By The Author On The Title Page. Includes Bibliographical References, Index And Chapter Notes. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With One Quarter Brown Over Light Tan Paper. Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has A Small Round Faint Stain On The Ffep. The Unclipped Jacket Has Moderate Wear. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 12mo. 358 pp. Signed by Davenport-Hines on title page. Cloth binding in unclipped dsutwrapper, very good condition. (96450).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. London. Faber and Fabler. 2006. First Edition. Second printing. Hard Cover. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Book and dust wrapper are both as new. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Signed copies of this title are scarce. Acclaimed historian and biographer Davenport-Hines takes the dinner at the Majestic as the leaping-off point for an examination of Proust's last days, and the enormous reaction his novel garnered from its first years of publication. Using accounts by Proust's contemporaries, including other modernist stars, Proust's dazzled readers, and wealthy patrons such as the Schiffs, Davenport-Hines illuminates the Paris of the author's last days. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 305 grams. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF, 1st edn, inscribed by White to eminent jazz musicologist and chemical executive Frank Nissel, oblong 4to, 230pps + index, author's proof edition stated on rear dj panel. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 366pp Extensive bibliography of all material published by the CPGB (local, national, YCL, DW, magazines, pamphlets) and of material about the CPGB (articles, pamphlets, books). Extensive Introduction includes studies of CP and Fiction (by Andy Croft); CP Films (by Bert Hogenkamp); CP Artists; Historiography of CP (by Kevin Morgan) etc. With 2 ribbon bookmarks. Signed by author. As issued - no dustwrapper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Inscribed in blind by the author; "Yours Sincerely, R. Pitcher Woodward, 'Frisco, Ma. 24, 97."The author sights four reasons for writing this book. The fourth reason, "to make myself immortal." A book of humorous stories with thirty-eight illustrations by Dan Beard, J. Carter Beard, Harry L.V. Parkhurst, and the artist of the party. Bound in original tan buckram lettered and illustrated in black with small red fleurs. Professionally rebacked with original spine pressed on. Interior hinges repaired. A better than good but not quite very good copy. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. /SIGNED BY CAROLIYN FRIED TO ARMY ARCHERD, LEGENDARY COLUMNIST/PRICE/ STERN/SLOAN PUBL/1969/HARDCOVER SHOWS SOME WEAR/LIKE NEW INSIDE/. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Brown cloth over boards. Silver lettering on cover and spine. Red flowers on cover and spine. Spine and edges tanned. Corners bumped with slight wear. Floral endpapers. Inscribed by author on FEP. Endpapers are age toned. B/W frontis. Illustrated throughout. Binding tight. Text clean. Published later under title Frozen Humor. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. SIGNED by the author. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Wear on the boards. Cracks along the binding of the boards and spine. Internal binding is exposed. Previous owner's name on the title page. Text and pictures are clear of markings and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.