Charles Agvent

KNITTING-WORK: A WEB OF MANY TEXTURES, WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON

PARTINGTON, Ruth (SHILLABER, Benjamin P.) · 1859

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Boston. Brown, Taggard & Chase. First Edition. Original blue cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Walter Merriam Pratt on the front pastedown. . Min...

ELMER GANTRY

LEWIS, Sinclair · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Second state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirle...

DAGUERROETYPE MAGAZINE. Volume I, #2-12. 1847

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. First Edition. Original cloth. Spine chipped. Good

SOUTH STREET

BRADLEY, David · 1975

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Grossman Publishers. First Edition. Author's first book. . Mild sunning to edges of boards; foxing to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor wear to the bottom front edge

SOUTH STREET

BRADLEY, David · 1975

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Grossman Publishers. First Edition. Author's first book.. Mild sunning to edges of boards; foxing to bulked edges of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with typical sunning to spine

STEEL-ENGRAVED PORTRAIT

TENNYSON, Alfred

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

6-1/2" x 8-1/2" with wide margins & printed signature. A pensive portrait drawn by G. F. Watts & engraved by J. Stephenson.. Image size: 6-1/2" x 8-1/2" with wide margins & printed signature. A pensive portrait drawn by G. F. Watts & engraved by J. Stephenson.. Some soiling in...

MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FIRST ROMANCE

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)

New York. Sheldon & Company. First Edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt. BAL 3326: First State without ad. Twain's fictional history of his ancestry with anonymous illustrations satirizing Jay Gould and the Erie Railroad scandal. . Professional tissue repair to front hinge b...

ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Mutual Book Co.. First Edition. First American and First Separate Edition. Original gray printed wraps printed in red and black. BAL 3465: Second issue with corrected text on page 16. A collection of humorous observations reflecting the state of contemporary educatio...

A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1902

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Decorated red cloth. BAL 3471: State A of front & rear endpapers, state B of others. With seven illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's parody of Sherlock Holmes. Small leather bookplate with offsetting to front endpaper. Horizont...

INDEPENDENCE DAY

FORD, Richard · 1995

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Advance Review Copy in pictorial wraps of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. This copy SIGNED by author on the front endpaper. More uncommon than the trade printing which was fifty thousand copies.. Some ripp...

THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY [OF] THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1894

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

Hartford. American Publishing Company. First Edition. Publisher's decorated rust brown cloth. With all first printing points described in BAL 3442. Profusely illustrated in the margins. Notable of course for its very early use of fingerprints in fiction to solve a crime, but a...

THE WILD WEST

HARTE, Bret · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

(Paris). Harrison of Paris. First Edition. Textured cloth. BAL 7559. One of 840 numbered copies with stencil-colored illustrations by Pierre Falke. The second book of the press.. Pierre Falke. Spine darkened, as usual. Near Fine in a somewhat soiled slipcase

THE LECTURES OF BRET HARTE

HARTE, Bret · 1909

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

Brooklyn. Charles Meeker Kozlay. First Edition. BAL 7407 & 3510. Contains the first appearance of Mark Twain's "Letter on John Camden Hotten" about the English pirate. Copy #87 of only 100 numbered copies of the Limited Edition bound in flexible suede with gilt lettering on th...

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I THINK

WOIWODE, Larry · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Edition. His first book. Nicely inscribed in 1998: "Thank you for your gracious letter + your generosity in continuing to teach my work" and SIGNED by the author. Laid in is a 1970 letter from the publisher announcing this book as the w...

STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW

HARTE, Bret · 1898

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Brick cloth. BAL 7390: an early copy.. Owner label and signature of J. D. Cary dated Nov. '98 on the front pastedown. About Fine

THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND

WALKER, Alice · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. First Edition. Author's second book and first novel.. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a touch of foxing at the rear. Very nice copy

THIRST AND OTHER ONE ACT PLAYS

O'NEILL, Eugene · 0

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.23 | ¥169,614)

Boston. Gorham Press. First Edition. First book by this multiple Pulitzer Prize winner, perhaps the greatest playwright of the American theater. Atkinson AI-1-I: 1000 copies printed. This copy in the very scarce original white printed dustwrapper which has only minor soiling, ...

LINDEN HILLS

NAYLOR, Gloria · 1985

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

New York. Ticknor & Fields. First Edition. Author's second book. The dustwrapper was designed by Chris Van Allsburg.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a short tear at bottom front

PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

New York. Slote, Woodman & Co.. First Edition. Publisher's printed orange wraps. BAL 3378: First Printing with all points. Housed in a cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather label. Leather bookplate on verso of the front wrap.. Slight wear. Near Fine and scarce thus

MARK TWAIN'S JUMPING FROG AND OTHER HUMOROUS TALES

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Girard, KS. Haldeman-Julius Company. Reprint. Small light blue wraps, #291 in the Ten Cent Pocket Series.. Browning of cheap paper, still Very Good