Charles Agvent

COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH AND TYPED MANUSCRIPTS

PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan · 19301949

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

A collection of original working MANUSCRIPTS and partial manuscripts, mostly unproduced screenplays but including unpublished short fiction, on 8-1/2" x 11" and legal-sized sheets, with many corrections and annotations. Includes an unproduced adaptation of Agatha Christie's N ...

COLLECTION OF 47 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, 16 ANNOTATED ON THE VERSOS BY PARKER

(PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan) · 0

$43,750.00 (€39,693.99 | £33,115.35 | ¥6,986,310)

A collection of 47 original photographs, nearly all by Jacob Lofman, of Fox House, the Bucks County home of Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, 33 approximately 8" x 10" with 14 smaller images. Sixteen of the 8" x 10" photographs, some featuring Parker and Cambell, are ANNOTATED...

COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

(PARKER, Dorothy and CAMPBELL, Alan) STEICHEN, Edward · 0

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

A collection of 30 mostly formal original photograph portraits of Dorothy Parker, all approximately 8" x 10" with 8 of them including her husband, screenwriter Alan Campbell, and 22 of them of Parker alone or with her dog. None of the photographs is signed by photographer or s...

HERE LIES. The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

PARKER, Dorothy · 1939

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

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. A major Algonquin Round Table Association Copy wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to another major figure of the Algonquin Club: "Alexander Woollcott, his book--/Dorothy Parker, her book--/Lake Bomose...

LAMENTS FOR THE LIVING

PARKER, Dorothy · 1930

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

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Collection of short stories. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a front blank: "To Zoila Conan--/with best wishes/and gratitude to her/for wanting this/extremely unimpressive/signature--/Dorothy Parker/Hollywood--." At the bottom o...

AFTER SUCH PLEASURES

PARKER, Dorothy · 1933

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

New York. Viking. First Edition. A collection of short stories. Copy #123 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.. Fine in a Very Good slipcase

DEATH AND TAXES

PARKER, Dorothy · 1931

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

New York. Viking. First Edition. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #203 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.. Typical but rather mild browning to the gutters, otherwise clean internally. Some professional ...

NOT SO DEEP AS A WELL

PARKER, Dorothy · 1936

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

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Original decorated salmon paper over boards with black cloth backstrip stamped in gilt. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #6 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the ...

NOT SO DEEP AS A WELL

PARKER, Dorothy · 1936

$750.00 (€680.47 | £567.69 | ¥119,765)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Original decorated salmon paper over boards with black cloth backstrip stamped in gilt. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #15 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the...

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES together with THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE FINAL ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

DOYLE, Arthur Conan · 19501952

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

New York. Limited Editions Club. Eight octavo volumes (6" x 9-1/8") bound in gilt-stamped quarter black linen and wall-paper sides with a cameo decoration reproducing the section of the wall over the mantel in Mrs. Hudson's chambers at 221B Baker Street showing two examples of...

THE PRINCE

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo · 1954

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full brown, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnifi...

THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN AND OTHER PLACES ADJOINING

FROISSART, Sir John · 1959

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in buckram with the side-strips bearing an all-over pattern of escutcheons, the center strip stamped in gold with a large escutcheon quartered in red and blue containing the title, and flanked by groups of lanc...

CAPE COD

THOREAU, Henry David · 1968

$106.30 (€96.45 | £80.46 | ¥16,975)

Portland, ME. Limited Editions Club. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in pictorial buckram. Printed at the Anthoensen Press. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Mo...

THE RIVALS. A COMEDY

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley · 1953

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in yellow linen buckram. Designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Rene ben Sussan hand-colored in Paris. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator o...

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 #751 of 1780 copi...

WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von · 1959

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full floral gilt-decorated buckram with gilt-stamped leather spine label. With a new introduction by Franz Schoenberner and illustrations by William Sharp, including 16 full-page lithographs drawn directly on ...

THE JUNGLE

SINCLAIR, Upton · 1965

$437.50 (€396.94 | £331.15 | ¥69,863)

Baltimore. Limited Editions Club. First Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo (7" x 10-7/8") bound appropriately in embossed quarter pigskin and butcher paper sides; 384 pages. The First Illustrated Edition of this modern classic with a new preface by the author. Copy #751 of 1500 ...

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON and AROUND THE MOON

VERNE, Jules · 1970

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto volumes (7" x 10-3/4") bound in ochre buckram-backed boards stamped in green and gold leaf and covered with a segment of a map of the lunar surface. This is copy #751 of 1500 with an introduction by the author's grandson and illustra...

THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS

CONRAD, Joseph · 1965

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in imported green morocco-backed boards decorated in black and gilt. Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Illustrated with six full-page watercolors and line drawings b...

THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM

HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.] · 1961

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

[Philadelphia]. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-5/8" bound in buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street painted by Mimi Korach; 384 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with 15 full-color full-page plates and 24 ...