Charles Agvent

IVANHOE

SCOTT, Sir Walter · 1940

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two octavo volumes (6-3/8" x 9-1/2") in silver pyroxylin cloth embossed to resemble chain mail and stamped in red. Designed and illustrated with linoleum cuts by Allen Lewis. Copy #573 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.. Al...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

DANA, Richard Henry, Jr · 161850

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

Boston. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on a 6-1/4" x 9" sheet SIGNED as "R. H. Dana Jr." to a law firm. In full: "We have made inquiries as to Mr. Carlton. He has a clerkship, with a limited salary, & a large family, his means are small. he has offered to pay fifty dollars, in full...

TEN SONGS OF WOODY GUTHRIE [First Printing of THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND]

GUTHRIE, Woody · 1945

$62,500.00 (€56,705.70 | £47,307.64 | ¥9,980,442)

New York. W. Guthrie. First Edition. Mimeographed illustrated pamphlet of 15 pages including the cover (8-1/2" x 10-3/4"), containing 10 of Guthrie's songs including this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." Using an original typed manuscript with d...

THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS

CONFUCIUS · 1933

$937.50 (€850.59 | £709.61 | ¥149,707)

Shanghai. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (8" x 11") bound in full silk brocade wrappers and housed in a Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand, as published. Copy #8 of 1500 translated with an introduction by Lionel Giles and printed on handmade Chinese paper. Four ...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

COOPER, James Fenimore · 1932

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in half buckskin leather, blindstamped, with marbled paper sides. Introduction by Edward Everett Hale. Designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with color drawings by Edward Wilson. Copy #514 of 1500 copies SIGNED by...

NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

WILKES, Charles · 1845

$5,625.00 (€5,103.51 | £4,257.69 | ¥898,240)

Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard. First Regularly Published Edition. Six 7" x 11" volumes bound in five in modern buckram retaining early marbled endpapers, complete with the Atlas volume bound with the last text volume. Illustrated with 64 engraved plates with tissue guards, 9 d...

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, & CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. With Letters and Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. With Three Hundred and Sixty Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings. In Two Volumes

CATLIN, George · 1866

$21,875.00 (€19,846.99 | £16,557.67 | ¥3,493,155)

London. Henry G. Bohn. Tenth Edition. First published in 1841, this is the Deluxe Issue of the Tenth Edition of this classic with illustrations colored by hand. Two volumes (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") bound in the publisher's half red morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ...

THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS in Original Boards with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) FRAGMENT

IRVING, Washington · 1828

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

New York. G. & C. Carvill. First American Edition. Three volumes (6" x 9-1/4") in original linen-backed boards with printed paper labels to spines, each housed in a folding case in later morocco-backed slipcase. Complete with folding map and half-titles. Laid in is an excellen...

AMERICAN FOLKSONG “To The Woman I Found And I Lost And Still Love And Always Will.…”

GUTHRIE, Woody · 0

$21,875.00 (€19,846.99 | £16,557.67 | ¥3,493,155)

[New York]. [DISC Co. of America]. First Edition. Stiff blue illustrated wrappers, staple-bound as issued (7-1/2" x 10"); 48 pages; housed in a blue morocco-backed cloth clamshell box with chemise. First edition of "the most extensive piece of Guthrie’s writing actually to see...

MANUSCRIPT NOTES FOR CAMPAIGN SPEECH

CARTER, Jimmy · 0

$18,750.00 (€17,011.71 | £14,192.29 | ¥2,994,133)

Four legal-sized (8-1/2" x 13") lined yellow sheets written on one side only comprising notes for a pivotal campaign speech given on 3 August 1976 with a focus on the American family. The notes are what Carter's main speechwriter, Patrick Anderson, used to craft Carter's first...

POLITICAL DEBATES BETWEEN HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, IN THE CELEBRATED CAMPAIGN OF 1858, IN ILLINOIS; Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, As Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party, and Published at the Times of Their Delivery

[LINCOLN, Abraham] · 1860

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

Columbus, OH. Follett, Foster and Company. First Edition. Early issue. Publisher's brown blindstamped cloth; [iv - ads], [iv], 268 pages. These public debates over slavery are perhaps the most consequential campaign debates in American history. The first speech in the volume i...

SELECTED POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE

RILKE, Rainer Maria · 1981

$106.30 (€96.45 | £80.46 | ¥16,975)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in half buckram and boards covered with blue Fabriano Roma paper handmade in Italy. Translated and annotated by C. F. MacIntyre. Copy #1396 of 2000 illustrated with 4 full-page and 6 half-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS...

THE TORRENTS OF SPRING

TURGENEV, Ivan · 1976

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

Westport, CT. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-3/8" x 9-5/8") bound with sides of marbled paper hand-made in France and a spine of green Buffalo calf leather stamped in gold. Translated by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Alec Waugh.Illustrated with 8 full-page color illustr...

THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD NIXON

NIXON, Richard · 0

$812.50 (€737.17 | £615.00 | ¥129,746)

New York. Grosset & Dunlap. First Edition. Beautifully bound in full blue leather with gilt decorations. Copy #223 of 2500 SIGNED in full by the former President. Laid in is the publisher's Certificate of Authenticity. The most desirable and scarcest issue of this book.. About...

TYPEE. A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS

MELVILLE, Herman (COVARRUBIAS, Miguel) · 1935

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,937)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full native tappa with an introduction by Raymond Weaver who was most responsible for resurrecting Melville's reputation in the twentieth century. Copy #601 of 1500 numbered copies with lovely color illustratio...

AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE Under the Brilliant Leadership of George Washington

[WASHINGTON, George] (CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel; EBY, Kerr; HASSAM, Childe; HORTER, Earl; LAWSON, Robert; LEWIS, Allen; WEST, Levon; WRIGHT, George; etc.) · 1932

$3,750.00 (€3,402.34 | £2,838.46 | ¥598,827)

[New York]. George Washington Memorial Association, Inc.. First Edition. Title from one of the two printed inserts included with the etchings. Variant titles we have seen include TWENTY MASTERPIECES IN ETCHING [SET OF ORIGINAL ETCHINGS CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON...

EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY, Made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Copper Plates

FRANKLIN, Benjamin · 1769

$31,250.00 (€28,352.85 | £23,653.82 | ¥4,990,221)

London. Printed for David Henry; and sold by Francis Newbery. First Complete Edition. Quarto (6-3/4" x 9") bound in new calf leather boards retaining the original gilt-decorated spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [iv], iv, 113, 112-472, 465-496 (with two diffe...

HAIL TO THE CHIEF

SANDERSON, James · 0

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

New York. Hewett. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards with leather corners, neatly rebacked at some point (10-1/4" x 13-1/2"). Bound with a number of other pieces, some with pictorial covers. An early appearance of what is known as "The President's Anthem," a song writt...

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER from NATIONAL SONGS OF AMERICA

KEY, Francis Scott · 1856

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

Boston. Oliver Ditson. Contemporary black morocco-backed boards with leather corners and a gilt-lettered black morocco label on the front cover with the owner's name: "Lottie B. Almy" (10-1/4" x 13-3/4"). Bound with a number of other pieces including a Longfellow poem set to m...

THE ANACREONTIC SONG As Sung at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand. The Words by Ralph Tomlinson Esq. Late President of that Society

[SMITH, John Stafford] TOMLINSON, Ralph · 0

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

[London]. Longman and Broderip. First Edition. Sheep-backed marbled boards with leather corners and a gilt-lettered black morocco label on the front cover with the owner's name: "Mrs. Davis" (9-1/4" x 12-1/2"). Bound with a number of other pieces including "God Save the King" ...