Charles Agvent

TALES OF THE GOLD RUSH

HARTE, Bret · 1944

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full brown linen, gold-stamped with an embossed design of a nugget impressed in gold on the front cover. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 1200 numbered copies illustrated with line drawings by Fletcher Mar...

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George · 1956

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in full light gray Italian linen with an overall Pompeii design in a darker gray, 538 pages. Introduction by Edgar Johnson. Printed on specially made Muslianco paper at the Officina Bodoni and illustrated with woodcuts...

THE FABLES OF JEAN De LA FONTAINE

LA FONTAINE, Jean De · 1930

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decoration...

ANTHONY ADVERSE

ALLEN, Hervey · 1937

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Mt. Vernon. Limited Editions Club. Three octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author...

L'ALLEGRO & IL PENSEROSO

MILTON, John · 1954

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

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. Issued unsigned in a t...

AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS

CONRAD, Joseph · 1975

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Avon. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in linen printed with an allover design adapted by John McCrillis from a batik pattern. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates after acrylic painti...

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 #970 of 1500 SIGNED by the a...

THE ROSE & THE RING

THACKERAY, William M · 1942

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in decorated buckram. With Thackeray's original illustrations enlarged and redrawn by Fritz Kredel, with the full-page plates colored by hand under Kredel's supervision by Charlize Brakeley. Copy #380 of 1500, is...

THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS FROM THE SPECTATOR, LONDON: 1711-1712

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace · 1945

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #325 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.. Gordon Ross. Fine in ...

THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL

NAST, Thomas · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Francis B. Felt & Co.. First Edition. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.. Thomas Nast. Neat owner signature dated April, 1871, on the front endpaper. Some fading and spotting to cloth. Quite Good

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT

FIELDING, Henry · 1943

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10") bound in half blue linen and paper sides decorated by Veronica Ruzicka. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Printed at the Marchbanks Press on all-rag Worthy special paper. Copy #710 of 1500 numbered copies designed ...

"A Correspondence," "Visions, " "Faust," and "The Antchar" in THE GALAXY. Oct. 1871; May, June, July 1872; March, April 1873

TURGENEFF, Ivan · 18711873

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Sheldon & Co.. First Edition. Five issues in Original wraps. Also includes "Romance of the Negro" by Pollard, "The Woman Movement in Wyoming" by Edward M. Lee, as well as other articles and excerpts from George Custer's MY LIFE ON THE PLAINS and Anthony Trollope's TH...

Issue Devoted to Howells. THE BOOK NEWS MONTHLY, June 1908

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

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

Philadelphia. John Wanamaker. Includes a number of photos of Howells as well as a poem by him.. Photos. Bottom of spine frayed o/w Near Fine

"The Esquimau Maiden's Romance" in THE COSMOPOLITAN, Vol. XVI, #1

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1893

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. First Edition. Original printed wraps. "Railroad Edition" stated at bottom of front wrap. Dan Beard illustrated Twain's interesting piece which contains the following quote about humility: "There's a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off." Other ...

THE ENQUIRER. REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION, MANNERS, AND LITERATURE. IN A SERIES OF ESSAYS

GODWIN, William · 1797

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

London. G. G. and J. Robinson. First Edition. Attractively bound with good margins in modern calf-backed boards; xii, 481 pages. An important work by this philosopher published the same year that his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter ...

TLS to actress Irene Worth on MARK TWAIN JOURNAL stationery

CLEMENS, Cyril · 261977

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Kirkwood, MO. 1 pages. In full: "In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the Modern Stage, you have been unanimously elected in succession to the late Katharine Cornell, Honorary Member/The Mark Twain Society.". Creases from folding o/w Near Fine in original envelope

A FAIR BARBARIAN

BURNETT, Frances H · 1881

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Boston. James Osgood. First Edition. 1st printing. BAL 2055. Early work by the author of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and THE SECRET GARDEN.. Slightly cocked, a little rubbed. VG

THE WHITE HOTEL

THOMAS, D. M. · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in yellow-orange printed wraps. Uncommon format for this moving novel.. Small stain to lower inner cover and front endpaper; crease to front cover. Very Good

DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS): A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

REAGAN, Ronald · 0

$1,562.50 (€1,417.62 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,432)

Washington. Copy of a White House Office of Public Affairs release consisting of two (8-1/2" x 11") loose sheets with a depiction of the White House at the top left front. SIGNED by Reagan at the top right of the first page underneath the title "The President's Column": "To Ba...

LIFE AND SAYINGS OF MRS. PARTINGTON AND OTHERS OF THE FAMILY

SHILLABER, Benjamin P · 1854

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York/Boston. J. C. Derby/Phillips, Sampson and Company. First Edition. Original brown cloth. BAL 17540: State 1, Imprint A. Wright II #2208. Illustrated with 8 plates & text engravings. A collection of comic pieces including a brief chapter on Daguerrotypes.. Head of spine...