W G Sebald, Signed (31 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Tess Jaray (illustrator). 1st Edition. A superb UK first edition, first printing paperback original - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY TESS JARAY - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine unread condition first edition signed by author on title page. Free of owner's marks and binding VERY tight. Dust jacket fine and in protective archival sleeve. Historical fiction translated from German by Anthea Bell. signed by author or artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, signed to the title page by W. G. Sebald (please note that this is the first printing of the trade hardcover issue, not the signed/numbered hardcover ARC). Fine: tight and square binding in sharp maroon cloth, and very bright, crisp and clean, presenting as unopened; pushed to the extreme heel of the spine. The unclipped (and unpriced) dustwrapper is Near Fine+: crisp and vibrant, Fine but for a few minor wrinkles at the spine tips; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A lovely copy. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a rare signed copy of W G Sebald's last book. Sebald signed it at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan sitting at a table beside Susan Sontag, with whom he had just read aloud to a full house in the large auditorium. Sebald, tragically, died just two months later in a car crash. He was just 57 years old.The condition of the book is very good; the condition of the jacket is only good, with some fading and some light scuffs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof. Number 69 of 100 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Very fine in illustrated boards; a beautiful signed copy of Sebald's masterpiece. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very fine/Very fine in all respects. Signed by author on title page. A pristine unread copy. Comes with archival-quality, acid-free mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. Signed--his name only, no other inscriptions or writing. Author died shortly after publication of this book. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. [2001]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Brown boards with a black, silver-stamped backstrip. Octavo. Fore-edge untrimmed. 298pps. Stated First Edition. There is mild bumping to the heel of the spine, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no apparenty reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED and dated by the author (in the year of publication), without further inscription, on the half-title page. An excellent, collector's-quality copy. "Over thirty years, in the course of conversations that take place across Europe, a man named Jacques Austerlitz tells a nameless companion of his ongoing struggle with the riddle of his identity. A small child when he immigrates alone to England in the summer of 1939, Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh couple who raise him, and he strains to orient himself in a world whose natural reference points have been obliterated. When he is a much older man, fleeting childhood memories return to him, and he obeys an instinct he only dimly understands and follows their trail back to the vanished world he left behind a half century before, the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. All books are supplied in archival plastic covers. Signed by Author.

1st U.K. edition of his last novel SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page Fine/fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Decorative Boards. No Jacket as Issued. Proof Copy, uncorrected. Signed by Author but not one of the official numbered copies. One indentation - something the size of a ball point pen, but too small to show in a photograph - on the back board, and a small ding to the lower spine, but both faults are slight compared to the rarity of this signed proof. A signed British First Edition hardback proof of this great writer's masterpiece. A great and unusual collectable. 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author.

Near Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. Signed Presentation copy inscribed on endpaper 'For Bruce Beatty best wishes W. Sebald'. Elusive in hardback, scarce signed and with a presentation most desirable. ISBN 1860463983.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated by Michael Hulse. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title in German using his nickname: "Mit guten wünschen, Max." The first of the author's works to appear in English, published in a small edition. The author died in a car crash just as he was attaining recognition. While Sebald did sign some copies of his books in English, they seem invariably to be signed in full as W.G. Sebald. Despite the recipient of this copy being unidentified, the use of "Max" does imply familiarity. In any event, an exceptionally scarce title to find signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce signed copy of Vertigo, W.G. Sebald's first book (although 3rd to be translated in English, following the other two of the trilogy). An attractive copy, with Sebald's signature to the title page. Light crease towards the top of the back panel of the DJ, otherwise not much wear beyond the normal expected shelf and handling wear to the DJ. Interior is bright, clean, and unmarked save for the signature. Signed by Author(s).

Frankfurt. Eichborn / Greno. 1990. 8°. 299 Seiten. Original Hardcover mit grünem Rückenschild + Goldprägung. Lesebändchen. Nahezu verlagsfrisch. Minimalste, Nadelkopfkleine Läsion am oberen Kapital . Von Selbald ausdrucksvoll signiert und datiert. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine +. First Edition. A SIGNED US first edition, first impression - with 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page and a number line that begins with 2 - as called for in US Random House first editions. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, unfaded, complete and unclipped. It shows barely visible bruising to the upper edges. Looks very sharp. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. It shows a trivial hint of bruising to the spine ends. The pages are clean and bright. The closed page edges are crisp and bright. No foxing. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. This copy has been SIGNED by W G Sebald to the title page. A very nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: mit Schutzumschlag. Erste Ausgabe. 13 x 22 cm. Erste Auflage, 354 [355] (2) S. Originalpappband mit Goldgeprägtem Rückenschild, Lesefaden im Originalschuber. Zahlreiche fotografische Abbildungen. Rücken aufgehellt, Minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Auf Vortitel von Sebald signiert: "Saarbrücken im März 93". Vermerk von Arnfrid Astel auf Seite 355, Gelesen, bzw. vorgelesen 23. 1. 12 und 13.8. 15. Signatur des Verfassers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated (1999) in London by the author on the title page. The last book published in English by the author before his untimely dealth in 2001. Published simultaneously with the softcover edition Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: In fine condition. First edition. Presentation copy. First edition. Presentation copy. In original cloth with dust cover. 199, (1) p. Sebald's (1944-2001) anthology of essays on literature, written between 1972 and 1985. Includes essays on Adalbert Stifter, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Ernst Herbeck, and Gerhard Roth. The essay on Hofmannsthal had been published in this book first. Inscribed to Armin Abmeier (1944-2012), German publisher and collector of first editions, illustrated books and comics. In original cloth with dust cover.

Condition: In fine condition. First edition. Presentation copy. First edition. Presentation copy. In original hard paper, with dust cover. 195, [1] p. Sebald's (1944-2001) anthology of essays on literature, written between 1976 and 1989. Includes essays on Charles Sealsfield, Karl Emil Franzos, Peter Altenberg, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Hermann Broch, Jean Améry, Gerhard Roth, and Peter Handke. The essay on Handke had been published in this book first. Inscribed to Armin Abmeier (1944-2012), German publisher and collector of first editions, illustrated books and comics. In original hard paper, with dust cover.

Condition: In very good condition. Illustrated mostly with photographic reproductions. (illustrator). Illustrated mostly with photographic reproductions. First edition. Printed in black and green. In original hard paper, bound by G. Lachenmaier, housed in tracing paper folder. Presentation copy. Sebald's (1944-2001) novel in four sections. First is the biography of Stendhal; second is two travelogue one by an unnamed narrator whose biography resembles Sebald's, the other is an epistle from the life of Casanova who is also featured; third is on Kafka; and the fourth is a nostalgic recounting of the narrator's visit to his hometown in Germany. "Vertigo" considerer as part of a trilogy together with "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". Inscribed to Armin Abmeier (1944-2012), German publisher and collector of first editions, illustrated books and comics. In original hard paper, bound by G. Lachenmaier, housed in tracing paper folder First edition. Printed in black and green.

417(2) Seiten, OPappband m. OU. Von Sebald signiert. Lesebändchen, mit vielen Abbildungen. 2. Auflage. Signierte Bücher von Sebald sind von äußerster Seltenheit. Sehr gutes Exemplar, wohl ungelesen. Hand signed by the author. Very Rare. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1999 first edition hardback with unclipped dustjacket. Signed by author to title page. First edition first printing with correct printing/number sequence 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Book is in excellent clean condition and appears hardly used. Dustjacket unclipped, clean and unscuffed. Synopsis : moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. Four stories interweave with each other to illustrate the moment that fact clashes with memory. Translated from German by Michael Hulse. Signed by Author(s).

8°, Leinen, gebundene Ausgabe. 98 S. Von W.G. Sebald auf dem Titelblatt mit blauem Kuli signiert. Schutzumschlag etwas berieben, am oberen Rand mit kleineren Läsuren, auf der Rückseite Kulispuren, eventuell von Sebald selbst. Der grüne Leinenband ist sauber und gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 378.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Hard cover edition - there was a simultaneous paperback edition. Very slight rubbing to the corners of the boards which are otherwise unmarked. The pages are clean and unmarked other than by the author's signature. The jacket has only very slight edge creasing and surface scratching. Both book and jacket are near Fine. First printing. Signed by Author(s).

New York: New Directions. 1998. 8vo. Original quarter brown blue cloth boards with blue lettering to spine; original illustrated dust jacket; pp. [10], 3-296; fine copy. First US edition, signed by the author on the title page. Sebald transforms a fictional walk through coastal East Anglia into a moving tangential novel which reads both as literary prose, autobiography and history simultaneously. He writes that his intention of embarking on this journey by foot was initiated, "in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work". Not only does Sebald digress physically but he embarks on long digressions into history and also the history of literature itself, triggered by the landscape around him. These explorations are as varied as the writings of Thomas Browne, silkworm cultivation and the battle of Sole Bay as he walks through Southwold but he is also committed to excavating the dark passages of human destruction such as exploitation in the Congo, as well as predictions of ecological descent: "Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers". Sebald is instead intent on getting lost; a purpose which mirrors the nature of writing a novel- continuing alone, not necessarily with a strict direction and as of yet without an audience. On a trip to Waterloo, he contemplates the history of place that we have disregarded in our modern pretension to 'reach' somewhere. Cole Swenson writes in the book On Walking On, "What is striking in Sebald is the way in which he used walking-or writing about walking- to release himself from the practice of time". This signed edition of a modern classic continues to prove itself as a masterpiece in seamless genre blending; a book as elusive as the rings of saturn themselves.

New York: New Directions Books. 1996. 8vo. Original blue cloth bound boards with silver lettering; original illustrated dust wrapper; pp. [12], 8-237, [9]; minimal scuffing to spine ends; otherwise fine copy; authorial inscription to title page. Extremely rare signed copy of the second printing, inscribed by the author on the title page. The Emigrants is a powerful series of narratives which explore the consequence of trauma and displacement as experienced by four Jewish emigres in the 20th century. Like the majority of Sebald's work, the use of stark black and white photographs throughout, which give the impression that one is reminiscing over a past life, are both complementary to the narrative and yet also disturbing interruptions to confessional recollection, marking many of the ways Sebald challeges conventional plot structure. "The Emigrants is about the power of memory", as writes the Amsterdam newspaper Volkskrant, "the way in whch German history has wrought havoc with the human capacity to remember has never before been remember has never before been recorded with such force". In his final interview in September 2001 that was later printed in The Guardian, Sebald is quoted saying: "Memory, even if you repress it, will come back at you and it will shape your life. Without memories there wouldn't be any writing: the specific weight an image or phrase needs to get across to the reader can only come from things rememberedâ"not from yesterday but from a long time ago". This edition of a novel described by Susan Sontag as being "perfect whilst being unlike any book one has ever read", is very scarcely found with a signature.

New York: New Directions Books. 1999. 8vo. Original quarter green over grey cloth boards; green endpapers; original illustrated dust jacket depicting a collage of images including a volcano with black and white lettering; pp. [4], 3-263, [3]; fine. First edition, signed by the author to title page. Vertigo is the first, and arguably most autobiographical, novel by the highly acclaimed German writer W.G. Sebald. Split into four parts, the novel follows the trajectory of an unnamed narrator as he journeys into a past that does not always belong to him. Merging together the stories of Stendhal's unrequited love, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation and Casonova's imprisonment in Venice alongside Sebald's complicated return to his Bavarian childhood village, this multifaceted masperpiece explores the unreliability of memory- a theme persistent throughout his unique work body. As Susan Sontag wrote, "Where has one heard in English a voice of such confidence and precision, so direct in its expression of feeling, yet so respectfully devoted to 'the real'?" W.G. Sebald died at the premature age of 57 due to heart complications whilst driving. As a memorial to the writer, in the town of Wertach there is an eleven-kilometre-long walkway called the "Sebaldweg". The route is that which is taken by the narrator of Vertigo. Six steles have been constructed along the route bearing texts from Vertigo and also reference to the victims of World War, two of Sebald's main themes: memory and destruction.

München. Schirmer & Mosel. 2008. gr. 8°. Verlagsfrisch. Tadellos. Noch in Original-Verpackung. Signiert von Isolde Ohlbaum. Numeriert. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

OLwd. m. montiertem goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. 8°, 298 S., einige Textabb. Kapitale u. Ecken min. berieben, Name auf fliegendem Vorsatzblatt, sonst tadellos. EA. (= Die Andere Bibliothek, Bd. 63). Von W. G. Sebald in schwarzer Tinte auf Titelblatt signiert und datiert («Zürich / 25. VI. [19]96 / W. Sebald»).

Kart. m. OU. 8°, 195 S. OU min. gebrauchsspurig, tadellos. EA. Von W. G. Sebald in blauem Kugelschreiber auf Titelblatt signiert und datiert («Öhningen / 15. IV. 2000 / W. Sebald»).