Charles Agvent

THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS

FRANCE, Anatole · 1953

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full midnight-blue silk stamped with silver leaf. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Translation by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson and introduction by Desmond MacCarthy. Copy #751 of 1500 numbere...

THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND

THACKERAY, William M · 1956

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in luxurious full brocade with a fleur-de-lis pattern; 464 pages. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone colored by hand in the studio of Walter Fischer. Designed by Jo...

TWENTY YEARS AFTER

DUMAS, Alexandre (Pere) · 1958

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in red linen with an embossed gold fleur-de-lis design at the center of the front cover. Copy #751 of 1500 with illustrations by Edy Legrand that have been hand-colored through stencils in the studio of Walter Fis...

JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY & GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRIES VISITED DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. BEAGLE...

DARWIN, Charles (Robert GIBBINGS) · 1956

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Tall quarto (7-1/2" x 12") bound in full sailcloth stamped in brown with a native tapa design; 490 pages. Introduction by Sir Gavin de Beer. Illustrated with text wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on th...

THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

BIERCE, Ambrose · 1972

$281.30 (€255.22 | £212.92 | ¥44,906)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel includ...

KENILWORTH

SCOTT, Sir Walter · 1966

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

[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 #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the a...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

ADAMS, Franklin P[ierce] · 51945

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Westport, CT. One page on 7-1/4" x 10-1/4" personal stationery SIGNED "Frank" to Walter. In full: "Eugene Field died in 1895 or 1896 -- more than thirty years ago. But Taylor left, I'm sure, plenty dough, and I think Ring [Lardner] did, too. You're on about me, as I never made...

THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASUS THAT MEN'S ACTIONS MAY NOT IN TIME BE FORGOTTEN NOR THINGS GREAT AND WONDERFUL...

HERODOTUS (Edward BAWDEN) · 1958

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Haarlem. Limited Editions Club. Thick octavo (5-7/8" x 9-1/2") bound in dark brown buckram over beveled boards with a cameo portrait of Herodotus embossed in ivory linen on the front cover and an ivory linen label stamped in gold on the spine. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with...

THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON. TOGETHER WITH CURIOUS ANECDOTES EQUALLY HONOURABLE TO HIMSELF & EXEMPLARY TO HIS YOUNG COUNTRYMEN [THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON]

WEEMS, Rev. Mason L · 1974

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

[Mt. Vernon]. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in American cotton printed with an allover colonial pattern of eagles and stars in blue with a leather spine label stamped in pure gold leaf, 274 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis with an introduction by Henry...

THE DESCENT OF MAN & SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX

DARWIN, Charles · 1971

$168.80 (€153.15 | £127.77 | ¥26,947)

Adelaide. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8" x 10-3/4") bound in red oasis morocco-backed genuine wood veneer boards with a spine decorated and lettered in pure gold leaf; 384 pages. Edited with an introduction by Ashley Montagu. Type set, printed, and bound by the Griffin Pres...

ANNA KARENINA

TOLSTOY, Leo · 1951

$406.30 (€368.63 | £307.54 | ¥64,860)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Two octavo volumes (5-7/8" x 8-3/4") bound in cloth decorated with lithographic drawings by Barnett Freedman drawn on and printed from the stones. Illustrated with color autolithographs drawn on the stone (225 separate stones!) by Barnett Free...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

DICKENS, Charles · 1934

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Boston. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in cloth-backed boards covered in paste paper hand-made by Rosamond Loring in a Christmas tree design with each copy different from the next. This is copy #1434 of 1500 designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymoun...

THE WARDEN

TROLLOPE, Anthony · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. The Centenary Edition. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in quarter dark blue silk finished cloth, gold stamped, sides of blue paper printed in blue ink with a drawing by Fritz Kredel, 284 pages. Introduction by Angela Thirkell; designed by Richard El...

THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS

DEFOE, Daniel · 1954

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

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 #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the coloph...

POEMS OF HEINRICH HEINE

HEINE, Heinrich · 1957

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in half smooth green calfskin leather, with a gold-stamped label, and hand-decorated paper over boards; 354 pages. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. The text is set in Monotype Walbau...

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

HARDY, Thomas (PARKER, Agnes Miller) · 1964

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.08 | ¥21,950)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6" x 9-1/4") bound in quarter maroon Indian goatskin, gold-stamped, and imported hand-made paper sides, 336 pages. Illustrated with 16 full-page wood engravings and a number of smaller engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #751 o...

SALAMMBO

FLAUBERT, Gustave (Edward BAWDEN) · 1960

$118.80 (€107.78 | £89.92 | ¥18,965)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on th...

CANDIDE, OR OPTIMISM

VOLTAIRE · 1973

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in quarter white cowhide leather and scarlet linen with a gilt-lettered white linen diagonal strip on each cover. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with color plates by May Neama and SIGNED by the artist on the colop...

BILLY BUDD [and] BENITO CERENO

MELVILLE, Herman · 1965

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Small quarto (7-3/8" x 11") bound in full white sailcloth stamped in black on the spine. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with 10 double-page color plates by Robert Shore and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon pa...

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

DREISER, Theodore · 1954

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in boards covered with a heavy imported rose canvas and stamped in color ink and gold leaf. Introduction by Harry Hansen. Illustrated with ink sketches by Reginald Marsh, his final work. Copy #751 of 1500, issued uns...