Charles Agvent

NINE NEW POEMS

EWART, Gavin · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Cleveland. Bits Press. First Edition. Printed wraps. One of 300 SIGNED copies.. Fine

EAST IS EAST

BOYLE, T. C · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York. Viking. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.. Fine

LIFE STUDIES

LOWELL, Robert · 0

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

New York. Farrar Straus Cudahy. First Edition. Winner of the National Book Award.. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear, mostly at the spine

BOARDMAN ROBINSON

CHRIST-JANER, Albert · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

University of Chicago. First Edition. Folio (9-3/4" x 13") in gilt-lettered cloth. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn and a catalogue raisonee. Illustrated with numerous plates, mostly black-and-white.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME

MILLS, Weymer Jay · 1910

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in publisher's cloth and decorated boards with the original tissue dustwrapper and the box. Illustrated with 11 color plates by John Rae.. John Rae. Offsetting to text pages opposite plates and some f...

THE WOMAN OF ANDROS

WILDER, Thornton · 1930

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Albert & Charles Boni. First Edition. Small bookseller ticket of The Seven Arts in Carmel on the rear pastedown. . Close to Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a small chip to the bottom front panel and mild wear to the spine tips

MORNING IN ANTIBES

KNOWLES, John · 1962

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. Second book by the author of A SEPERATE PEACE.. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper with light edgewear

THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD

MUKHERJEE, Bharati · 1993

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Knopf. First Edition. Advance Copy in decorated wraps with the same design repeated on the paper slipcase. SIGNED by the author, as issued.. Fine in a Fine paper slipcase

THE BLOOD OF ABRAHAM

CARTER, Jimmy · 1985

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

EASY IN THE ISLANDS

SHACOCHIS, Bob · 0

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

New York. Crown Publishers, Inc.. First Edition. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone. . Slight foxing t...

MICHIGAN BROADSIDES

BAXTER, Charles; DELBANCO, Nicholas; DUNNING, Stephen; KAUFFMAN, Janet; WAKOSKI, Diane; et. al · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Ann Arbor. OtherWind Press. First Edition. Includes 22 broadsides, each by a different Michigan poet, ranging in size from 4-1/2" x 6" to 9" x 12", all with rudimentary illustrations. One of only 25 numbered copies SIGNED by the editors and the designer and with each broadside...

CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY: BOSTON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH, 1630-1880

WHEILDON, William · 1880

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Boston. Lee & Shepard. First Edition. Green cloth, lettered in gilt; 143 pages. Illustrated with a map of Dorchester and a folding facsimile of the first issue of Boston's first newspaper.. Light wear to spine tips; front free endpaper detached. Near Fine

A SURVEY

BEERBOHM, Max · 1921

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with 51 tipped-in caricature plates.. Dustwrapper soiled with stain and scorch mark on spine. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper

NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION MADE BY CHARLES F. HALL: HIS VOYAGE TO REPULSE BAY, SLEDGE JOURNEYS TO THE STRAITS OF FURY AND HECLA AND TO KING WILLIAM'S LAND, AND RESIDENCE AMONG THE ESKIMOS DURING THE YEARS 1864-'69

NOURSE, Prof. J. E · 1879

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Washington DC. Government Printing Office. First Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in the original decorated green cloth; 664 pages. Illustrated with 2 steel-engraved portraits, over 70 wood engravings, photo engravings, and heliotypes, 8 sketches of regional coas...

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1885

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

New York. Charles L. Webster & Company. First Edition. Original decorated green cloth. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. BAL 3415: With first issue points of pages 13, 57, and 143; second issue of title page, frontispiece, and page 155; and fourth issue of page 283. Also...

RAMONA

JACKSON, Helen H · 1959

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in colorful full woven fabric with a printed paper spine label, 446 pages. An historical novel championing the rights of Native Americans, first published in 1884 and here printed by the Plantin Press with an in...

THE ESSAYES [ESSAYS] OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN

BACON, Francis · 1944

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers w...

THE ADVENTURES OF SIMPLICISSIMUS

GRIMMELSHAUSEN, Johann von · 1981

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in natural-color, blind-stamped coarse-weave linen imported from the Netherlands; 386 pages. Translated and introduced by John Spielman. Illustrated with 18 dramatic full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-eng...

THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON

WYSS, Johann David · 1963

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Ipswich. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in orange imported handmade grasscloth prepared by the primitive natives of a Pacific isle from the inner bark of honeysuckle stems, with a buckram shelfback stamped in gold leaf. Designed by Will Carter and illustrat...

MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE

TARKINGTON, Booth · 1961

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

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...