Charles Agvent

PROMETHEUS BOUND and PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe · 1965

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Haarlem. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applie...

PROMETHEUS BOUND and PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe · 1965

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

Haarlem. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applie...

THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES: 37 volumes

SHAKESPEARE, William · 1939

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Thirty-seven folio (8-3/4" x 13") volumes bound in gold-stamped half natural buckram, top edges gilt, with the paper sides, printed in four colors. Edited by Herbert Farjeon, who created the Nonesuch edition text of Shakespeare, to restore the ...

THE LIVING TALMUD: THE WISDOM OF THE FATHERS

1960

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Small folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half natural-grain goatskin vellum and black cloth stamped in genuine gold, top edge gilt with pure gold leaf; 226 pages. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Judah Goldin. Designed by Joseph B...

THE BRIDGE

CRANE, Hart · 1981

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (9" x 12") bound in a silvery gray cloth imported from the Netherlands and stamped in blind and blue; 96 pages. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Copy #106 of 2000 illustrated with photographs by Richard Benson printed in a tritone 300-lin...

STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

STEVENSON, Robert Louis · 1952

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") bound in half black morocco and marbled paper sides. Illustrated with lithographs by Edward Wilson, pulled by George Miller. Introduction by John Mason Brown. Copy #154 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon pag...

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

DANA, Richard Henry · 1947

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #95 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with...

ONE WORLD

WILLKIE, Wendell · 1944

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

New York. Limited Editions Club. The Photographic Album Edition. "The Faces & The Places That Willkie Saw." Quarto, bound in 1/2 brown morocco leather and pictorial boards. Willkie's best-selling account of his travels and meetings with heads of state and ordinary citizens in ...

THE STORIES OF O. HENRY

HENRY, O · 1965

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full olive-striped buckram with a leather spine label; 384 pages. Copy #282 of 1500 numbered copies with line drawings in brown and full-page color illustrations by John Groth. SIGNED by the artist on the co...

THREE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES: MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS and THE BACCHAE

EURIPIDES · 1967

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,965)

London. Limited Editions Club. Small quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in natural canvas-backed boards covered with a terra-cotta hand-made Italian paper; 240 pages. Translated by Philip Vellacott with an introduction and notes by him. Designed by Will Carter and printed at the ...

THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE

RILKE, Rainer Maria · 0

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in white vellum with gilt lettering. In the definitive translation by Stephen Mitchell. Copy #204 of 800 copies set in monotype didot and printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy, and bound by Reca...

A RAW YOUTH

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor · 1974

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Two large quarto (8" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in fine-textured gray-green cloth with a silk finish. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Konstantin Mochuls...

LES FLEURS DU MAL and FLOWERS OF EVIL

BAUDELAIRE, Charles · 1971

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes, one in the original French (5-1/2" x 9") bound with a magenta buckram spine and marbled boards and the other with English translations by various hands (6-3/4" x 11- 1/2") bound in full magenta buckram. Printed at the Press of A. C...

THE STORIES OF O. HENRY

HENRY, O · 1965

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full olive-striped buckram with a leather spine label; 384 pages. Copy #107 of 1500 numbered copies with line drawings in brown and full-page color illustrations by John Groth. SIGNED by the artist on the co...

SARTOR RESARTUS. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrîckh

CARLYLE, Thomas · 1931

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London. Limited Editions Club. Small octavo (4- 5/8" x 7-1/2") bound in full blue buckram with goldstamping, 396 pages. Preface by Ralph W. Emerson. Decorations by Albert Rutherston. Copy #238 of 1500 designed, printed, bound, and SIGNED by Oliver Simon of the Curwen Press. Ge...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES

ADAMS, Henry · 1957

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France fol...

THE WAY OF THE WORLD. COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS

CONGREVE, William · 1959

$106.30 (€96.45 | £80.46 | ¥16,975)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound in maroon linen embossed with a design by T. M. Cleland to give the effect of eighteenth-century brocade; gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Designed and illustrated by Cleland with the plates colored by ha...

THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS

DEFOE, Daniel · 1954

$206.30 (€187.17 | £156.15 | ¥32,943)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (5-5/8" x 8-7/8") bound in full blue padded silk stamped in copper. Introduction by John Winterich. Illustrated with pen drawings by Reginald Marsh hand-colored by Martha Berrien. Copy #434 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the coloph...

BACK TO METHUSELAH

SHAW, George Bernard · 1939

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto, bound in lime green natural linen with a dark green morocco label on the front cover with gilt lettering and decoration. With a new, previously unpublished 49-page introduction by Shaw. Printed at the Marchbanks Press. Copy #65 of 1500 ...

LEAVES OF GRASS

WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON) · 1942

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book and made into exquisite...