Charles Agvent

LEAVES OF GRASS: "America's Second Declaration of Independence"

WHITMAN, Walt · 1876

$10,625.00 (€9,639.97 | £8,042.30 | ¥1,696,675)

Camden, NJ. Author's Edition. Original marbled boards rebacked and recornered with brown morocco leather reproducing the original spine with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Author's Edition, with two portraits from life. BAL 21412: 600 copies printed with most copies ...

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. DECEMBER 2, 1823 with DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BOTH HOUSES

MONROE, James · 1823

$7,500.00 (€6,804.68 | £5,676.92 | ¥1,197,653)

Washington DC. Gales & Seaton. First Edition. Two parts bound in one, modern calf-backed marbled boards (6-1/8" x 9"); 15, [1], 206 pages with 26 folding tables. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THE “MONROE DOCTRINE.” Senate issue. The Congressional printing of the Monroe Doctrin...

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (10-3/4" x 14-1/4") hand bound in full homespun dark blue fabric with the same fabric covering the felt-lined clamshell box housing the book. Gilt-lettered black morocco title label inset on the front cover of the book and the spine of th...

LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL

KING, Martin Luther, Jr · 0

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

New York. Limited Editions Club. First Illustrated Edition. Folio (12-1/4" x 14-1/2") hand bound in full red linen with the same fabric covering the felt-lined clamshell box housing the book. Gilt-lettered black morocco title label inset on the front cover of the book with a b...

THE AMBASSADORS

JAMES, Henry · 1963

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8") bound in buckram with a white spine and red boards with a small oval decorative device in gilt on a white background at the center of the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 color tipped-in plates by ...

SIGNED ORIGINAL ETCHING

[NEWTON, A. Edward] HOOD, Richard Thomas · 0

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

An 8" x 11" ORIGINAL ETCHING (image size of 6" x 8") of the great book collector by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by the artist and by Newton. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood (1910-1993), Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project (WPA...

HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. 1870. Volume XIV

[HOMER, Winslow and NAST, Thomas] · 1870

$1,562.50 (€1,417.64 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,511)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Folio (11-5/8" x 16-3/16") bound in contemporary half brown leather with leather corners and gilt lettering on the spine. Includes the complete year of 1870 with issues beginning January 1 and ending with December 31; 872 pages plus ...

PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume II, Nos. 1 - 26

[BASEBALL] PORTER, William T · 1857

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

New York. [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes]. First Edition. Folio (11-1/4" x 16") in early leather-backed cloth-covered boards with leather corners and marbled endpapers. Includes 26 issues (7 March 1857 - 29 August 1857) of this important sports newspaper containing accounts of ho...

PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume III, Nos. 1 - 26

[BASEBALL] PORTER, William T · 1857

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

New York. [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes]. First Edition. Folio (11-1/4" x 16-1/4") in modern leather-backed marbled boards with leather corners. Includes 26 issues (5 September 1857 - 27 February 1858) of this important sports newspaper containing accounts of horse races, billia...

A GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS

LATHAM, John · 1821

$10,625.00 (€9,639.97 | £8,042.30 | ¥1,696,675)

Winchester. Jacob and Johnson for the Author. First Edition. Eleven quarto (8-1/2" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in 10 in modern half sheep leather and marbled boards. A comprehensive and systematic study "of every new discovery in ornithology," illustrated with 193 hand-colored co...

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY

WILSON, Alexander & BONAPARTE, Charles · 1832

$4,375.00 (€3,969.40 | £3,311.53 | ¥698,631)

London. Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. First Edition. Three octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes bound in dark green half morocco leather and cloth with matching morocco corners, very slightly trimmed down from the original size when rebound about 75 years ago. The first and best o...

Atlas Volumes of Plates for AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES

WILSON, Alexander and BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian · 0

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

Philadelphia. Porter & Coates. Two large folio (14" x 18") volumes bound in contemporary half brown morocco leather with leather corners and marbled boards. The desirable large atlas volumes to the 1871 edition of the combined AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY by Wilson and Bonaparte, with...

"The Mask of the Red Death," "Life in Death," and three other pieces in GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XX: January 1842-June 1842

(POE, Edgar Allan) · 1842

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

Philadelphia. George R. Graham. First Edition. Full gilt-decorated red morocco leather, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings and 6 color plates (4 fashion plates). First appearance in print of these five Poe works: “T...

REPORT ON THE BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FOOD-HABITS, BASEDON OVER FOUR THOUSAND STOMACH EXAMINATIONS

WARREN, B. H · 1890

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.85 | ¥59,883)

Harrisburg, PA. E. K. Meyers. Second Edition. Large octavo (6" x 9-1/4") in later red cloth. Illustrated with 99 color plates and one B&W plate. The preferred edition because of the additional color plates after Audubon not in the First Edition.. Owner name and possible signat...

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D. C. L

WORDSWORTH, William · 1847

$7,500.00 (€6,804.68 | £5,676.92 | ¥1,197,653)

London. Edward Moxon. New Edition. Full gilt-decorated green morocco leather recently and neatly rebacked (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"); xxiv, 619, [1] pages. Frontispiece portrait of the poet by W. Finden after Chantrey's bust and an engraved title page with vignette of Rydal Mount. SIGN...

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers

[RACKHAM, Arthur] WALTON, Izaak · 0

$1,250.00 (€1,134.11 | £946.15 | ¥199,609)

London. George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. First Limited Edition. Full gilt-lettered vellum (8" x 10-1/2") in original slipcase. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and a number of B&W drawings in the text by Arthur Rackham. The First Limited Edition consisting of 775 copies ...

DE WITT'S BASE-BALL GUIDE. FOR 1874. Containing the New Rules of the Game, as Revised at the Professional Convention of 1874. With an Explanatory Appendix for Umpires...

[BASEBALL] CHADWICK, Henry · 0

$4,375.00 (€3,969.40 | £3,311.53 | ¥698,631)

New York. Robert M. De Witt. First Edition. Original pictorial yellow wraps (4" x 6-1/4"); 99, (1) pages; with pages 63/64 misbound after page 42. Illustrated with frontispiece, as well as charts and tables. A very scarce and early guide to baseball, by the “Father of Baseball...

BESTIARY/BESTIARIO

NERUDA, Pablo and FRASCONI, Antonio · 0

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

New York. Harcourt, Brace & World. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11-1/2") bound in orange cloth-backed decorated boards and printed at the Spiral Press in the original slipcase with a title label on one panel. Illustrated with an original SIGNED frontispiece woodcut by Frasconi ...

SIGNED ORIGINAL ETCHING

[MORLEY, Christopher] HOOD, Richard Thomas · 0

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

An 8" x 11" ORIGINAL ETCHING (image size of 5-3/4" x 7") of Morley by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by Morley. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood (1910-1993), Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project (WPA).. Richard Thomas Hood. Fine

LOOKING FORWARD

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano · 0

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

New York. The John Day Company. First Edition. Fifth printing, just a few months after the first. Attractively SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "To George F. Carter, with a/Merry Christmas from/Franklin D. Roosevelt/1933." The first printing of this book coinci...