Charles Agvent

JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION 1400 MILES UP THE ORINOCO AND 300 UP THE ARAUCA; with an Account of the Country, the Manners of the People, Military Operations, etc

ROBINSON, J. H. [ROBERTON, John] · 1822

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

London. Black, Young and Young. First Edition. Half calf leather and marbled boards (5-1/4" x 8-1/4"), rebacked with gilt-lettered spine label. Illustrated with 7 aquatint plates, one hand-colored. Published posthumously. John Roberton was a Scottish surgeon who enlisted in th...

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERED AT A JOINT SESSION OF THE HOUSES OF CONGRESS APRIL 2, 1917

WILSON, Woodrow · 1917

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

Garden City, NY. Doubleday, Page & Company. First Edition. Publisher's flexible green leather (5" x 7-1/2") with gilt title on the front cover, [4], 30 pages; housed in a cloth tray in slipcase. The text of Wilson's DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY, SIGNED by the President o...

THAT MAN HEINE: A BIOGRAPHY

[LEWIS, Sinclair] BROWNE, Lewis · 1927

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. With the collaboration of Elsa Weihl. This best-selling biography of the German poet, Heinrich Heine, is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Browne to his good friend Sinclair Lewis: “For my favourite evangelist,/Sinclair Lewis,/with rabbin...

SOPHOCLE. PHILOCTÈTE

[EMERSON, Ralph Waldo] · 1872

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

Paris. Librarie Hachette et Co.. First Edition thus. Contemporary 3/4 blue morocco leather and green marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (4-3/4" x 7-3/4"), printed in double columns in Greek and French. Issued as part of Hachette's Les Auteurs Grecs. INSC...

JOLLY TARS

JAMIESON, Jr., M. M · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London & New York. Ernest Nester and E. P. Dutton & Co.. First Edition. Charming little (4-1/4" x 5-1/4") children's book with a nautical theme in 3/4 navy blue polished calf leather and lovely decorated silk boards with blue marbled endpapers and the original pictorial front ...

L'ALLEGRO & IL PENSEROSO

MILTON, John · 1954

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (7" x 10-1/8") bound in dark green buckram with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers; 90 pages. Illustrated with twelve reproductions of watercolors by William Blake. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed dos-a-dos. Copy #1470, issued uns...

THE COOK NOT MAD, OR RATIONAL COOKERY; BEING A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL AND SELECTED RECEIPTS Embracing not only the art of curing various kinds of meat and vegetables for future use, but of Cooking, in its general acceptation, to the taste, habits, and degrees of luxury, Prevalent with the American Publick in Town and Country. To Which are Added, Directions for preparing comforts for the Sick Room; together with sundry Miscellaneous kinds of information, of importance to housekeepers in general, nearly all tested by experience

[COOKERY] · 1830

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

Watertown, NY. Knowlton & Rice. First Edition. Small octavo (3" x 5-1/2") bound in original sheep-backed paper-covered boards; 120 pages with copyright notice and errata leaf pasted to verso of title as usual. A delightful early American cookery and household management book d...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE

COOLIDGE, Calvin · 1929

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

New York. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. First Edition. Blue cloth-backed boards in original slipcase, as issued. Copy #614 of 1000 SIGNED by the author.. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Scarce in this condition

THE FIFTH STRING with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

SOUSA, John Philip · 0

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

Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. First published in 1902 when the publisher was called The Bowen-Merrill Company. Decorated green cloth, with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front endpaper: “To Geo. Arliss Esq/from/...

KENILWORTH

SCOTT, Sir Walter · 1966

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

[Burlington, VT]. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in full gold brocade cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Introduction by David Daiches, 568 pages. Illustrated with paintings and line drawings by Clarke Hutton. Copy #839 of 1500 SIGNED by the a...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 61885

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

Danvers, MA. Important two-page letter on two 4-1/2" x 6-3/8" sheets SIGNED "John G. Whittier" to the longest serving senator from the state of Ohio, John Sherman, declining "to attend the ceremonies of the dedication of the Washington Monument" due to ill health. In part: "In...

SELECTED POEMS with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "A War"

JARRELL, Randall · 1955

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

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and SIGNED by the poet "For Fred Millett/Randall Jarrell." Above the inscription Jarrell has written out the complete short but powerful poem, the penultimate poem of the book, "A War," first published i...

DE RERUM NATURA. OF THE NATURE OF THINGS

LUCRETIUS · 1957

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (5-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full dark blue morocco leather with a gilt-decorated spine. Translated by William Ellery Leonard. Illustrated with striking full- and partial-page wood engravings by Paul Landacre. Copy #706 of 1500 SIG...

THE CARIBBEAN POETRY OF DEREK WALCOTT [POEMS OF THE CARIBBEAN]

WALCOTT, Derek (Romare BEARDEN) · 0

$687.50 (€623.76 | £520.38 | ¥109,785)

(New York). (Limited Editions Club). First Edition. Quarto (9-1/2" x 12") bound in cotton cloth decorated with a design by artist Romare Bearden from fifteen separate hand-cut silk-screens printed by hand in Italy. Copy #353 of 2000 numbered copies with an introduction by Jose...

TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)

SULLIVAN, Frank

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

Saratoga Springs. A pair of one-page typed letters SIGNED in full, the earlier to a Professor Wells and the later to an unnamed editor. In the letter to Wells, Sullivan gives his permission to include his essay "Football is King" in an anthology: "In fact, I am including it my...

NO SIRREE! An Anonymous Entertainment Playbill, by the Vicious Circle of the Hotel Algonquin, 49th Street Theater, Sunday Evening April 30th, 1922, Theater courtesy of Messrs. Shubert

[ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE] · 1922

$11,875.00 (€10,774.08 | £8,988.45 | ¥1,896,284)

New York. Golden PTG Service. First Edition. A 5-1/2" x 23-1/4" broadside matted and framed to 10-1/4" x 28-1/2" serving as the original playbill for this famous one-night performance of what is considered the foundational document of the Algonquin Round Table. All of the memb...

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE

DODGSON, Charles L. (LEWIS CARROLL) · 1935

$2,250.00 (€2,041.41 | £1,703.07 | ¥359,296)

New York. Limited Editions Club. In original full blue morocco binding with heavy gilt decorations, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Copy #659 of 1500 copies with typography and binding by Frederick Warde and with the original John Tenniel illustrations. This is o...

COLLECTION OF OVER 200 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

(PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan) · 19201970

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

A collection of over 200 original photographs, nearly all black-and-white and ranging in size from 2" x 2" to 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" or so, along with some newspaper clippings and notes. Most are unidentified and require further research, but all come from the Pennsylvania home of P...

THREE ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

(PARKER, Dorothy) GOLDBERG, Maurice · 19301940

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

Three formal original photograph portraits (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") tipped to an 11" x 14" mat SIGNED in pencil by the photographer, Maurice Goldberg (1881–1949) of Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and both Parker and Campbell together.. The Parker photograph without the original thick...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan · 1933

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

Scarce original 8" x 10" photograph of Parker and her husband Alan Campbell INSCRIBED and SIGNED in the upper left corner by Campbell and SIGNED by Parker as "Dorothy.". Near Fine. Parker and Campbell produced over 20 scripts made into movies, most famously the script of the O...