Charles Agvent

PENGUIN ISLAND

FRANCE, Anatole · 1947

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in vellum-backed blue silk boards with a design incorporating small penguin figures. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Illustrated with drawings by Malcolm Cameron printed in gravure. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustr...

WESTWARD HO!

KINGSLEY, Charles · 1947

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson, and green paper sides bearing a two-color drawing. Introduction by John Winterich. Copy #751 of 1500 numbered copies ill...

CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH

TOLSTOY, Leo · 1972

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. 400 pages. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") bound in two-tone decorated buckram with gold stamping. In his introduction John Bayley states: "No writer in the world has written better and more understandingly of childhood and adolescence than Tolstoy." ...

MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE

TARKINGTON, Booth · 1961

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,978)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 8-1/4") bound in a full fine Schumacher damask, in two-tone beige, woven with an all-over clover-leaf pattern, to which is affixed a brown leather label bearing the title in gold; 122 pages. Illustrated with water-color reproductio...

TARTUFFE & THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN

MOLIERE, J. B. P · 1963

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in bright red fabric imprinted with an overall pattern of dark red roses; 216 pages. Translations by H. Baker and J. Miller with an introduction by Henri Peyre. With 27 illustrations by Serge Ivanoff hand-...

UP FROM SLAVERY

WASHINGTON, Booker T · 1970

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in brown-black buckram with a Swedish-made textured brown Tumba Ingres paper sides and a brown leather spine label; 236 pages. Introduction by Booker T. Washington III. Illustrated with twelve full-page and two d...

ORIGINAL ART BY JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDREN

1908

$3,125.00 (€2,835.24 | £2,365.37 | ¥498,864)

Tokyo. First Edition. Oblong (9" x 6-1/2") green floral silk cloth over boards with matching box containing handwritten explanations of the contents in English and Japanese as well as a typed statement in English, along with 101 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, most in watercolor, by Japane...

THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS

WISTER, Owen · 1951

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with ...

THE TALES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850-1893

MAUPASSANT, Guy de · 1963

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

London. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in blue linen buckram with inlaid panels of brown linen, 522 pages. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. The Translations by Lafcadio Hearn and Others Chosen & With an Introduction by Jus...

MARGUERITE DE VALOIS

DUMAS, Alexandre (Pere) · 1969

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

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...

THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE

DUMAS, Alexandre (Pere) · 1973

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

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

THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES A FOUNDLING

FIELDING, Henry · 1952

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto (7" x 10") volumes bound in rough blue linen; 800 pages. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Designed by Thomas Maitland Cleland who also illustrated the book with water-color paintings reproduced in Paris. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED b...

THE GOLDEN BOUGH. A STUDY IN MAGIC AND RELIGION

FRAZER, Sir James George · 1970

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two large quarto (7-3/4" x 11-1/4") volumes bound in black and gold buckram; 478 and 494 pages. Introduction by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Illustrated by James Lewicki with 24 full- color paintings in mixed media, including 8 double spreads, plus 26 ...

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

VERNE, Jules · 1962

$231.30 (€209.85 | £175.08 | ¥36,924)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a spine label lettered in gold leaf. Copy #751 of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Plantin Press with an introduction by Ra...

THE HISTORY OF EARLY ROME

LIVY · 1970

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in linen-backed boards covered with decorative Italian paste-paper designs hand-printed in brown ink. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. With sixtee...

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE TIME MACHINE

WELLS, H. G · 1964

$812.50 (€737.16 | £615.00 | ¥129,705)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes bound in full linen-weave blind-stamped cloth, one red and the other black, with contrasting spine labels. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Copy #751 of 1500 illustrated with line drawings and 16 full-page color lithographs by Joe M...

THE ROUGH RIDERS

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT) · 1899

$56,250.00 (€51,034.34 | £42,576.68 | ¥8,979,545)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Olive cloth with gilt lettering and medal in gilt on front cover, top edge gilt. Illustrated with photographs. Roosevelt's classic account of his experience as Colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders," du...

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. Episode One. Gilgamesh & Enkidu

[ARTIST'S BINDING] · 1992

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

(Shropshire, UK). The Tern Press. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in a spectacular artist's binding signed "MC" at the bottom of the rear pastedown and housed in a felt-lined black cloth clamshell box with a lettered red morocco spine label. Full red morocco leather with red a...

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK Extra Illustrated with Autographs, Photographs, and Original Art

DICKENS, Charles · 1840

$15,625.00 (€14,176.21 | £11,826.85 | ¥2,494,318)

London. Chapman and Hall. First Edition. Three volumes (7" x 10-1/2") bound by Riviere & Son in green crushed levant morocco leather, neatly rebacked retaining the original spines, with gilt-ruled covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, with...

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR STUDY

ROWLANDSON, Thomas · 1800

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

[London]. ORIGINAL ART composed of watercolor and ink (sight size 6-7/8" x 8-3/4" matted and framed to an overall size of 14" x 16") by Rowlandson depicting an interior genre scene with a young couple, the woman attending to the man's foot while he reaches for her with one han...