Charles Agvent

THE HEADMASTER. FRANK L. BOYDEN, OF DEERFIELD

McPHEE, John · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Edition. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs. . Owner name and date on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

CATHER, Willa · 1929

$2,000.00 (€1,814.55 | £1,513.84 | ¥319,273)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Illustrated Edition. Bound in full vellum with a silver decoration on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with drawings and designs by Harold von Schmidt, published two years after the novel's first appearance. Copy #...

TOMCAT IN LOVE

O'BRIEN, Tim · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Broadway Books. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

THE MARK TWAIN CALENDAR

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1921

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. George Sully. Pictorial wraps (7" x 9-1/2") with a silk tie at the top holding the pages together. BAL 3685 lists a copy for 1920 by the same publisher. Each sheet covers a week's time period with a different quote from Clemens over the same river scene.. Very Good e...

COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER

ONDAATJE, Michael · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

London. Marion Boyars. First British Edition. Ondaatje's first novel, an account set in New Orleans of the life of Buddy Bolden, jazz trumpeter. Issued three years after the American and Canadian editions.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

A TRAMP ABROAD

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1880

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

Hartford. American Publishing Company. First Edition. Publisher's sheep with a black leather label. BAL 3386: State C of portrait frontispiece; state B of regular frontispiece; and state B of sheets. An account of Twain's tour of Europe, including an Alpine tour, the descripti...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Cleveland. World Syndicate. Reprint. Dustwrapper art by Irwin Weltman, dated 1933.. Fine in a bright and colorful Very Good dustwrapper with moderate edgewear

THE WASHOE GIANT IN SAN FRANCISCO BEING HERETOFORE UNCOLLECTED SKETCHES PUBLISHED IN THE GOLDEN ERA IN THE SIXTIES...

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1938

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

San Francisco. George Fields. First Edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. BAL 3559. Collected and edited, with an introduction, by Franklin Walker. Printed by Ward Ritchie and illustrated by Lloyd Hoff.. Lloyd Hoff. Small leather bookplate. Offsetting to endpapers. Near Fine...

A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1902

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Decorated red cloth. BAL 3471: State A of the front pastedown and the rear endpaper, State B of others. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Twain's wonderful satire on the mystery novel, with an appearance by Sherlock Holmes....

ADDRESS OF CARL SANDBURG BEFORE A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS FEBRUARY 12, 1959

SANDBURG, Carl · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Harcourt Brace. First Edition. One of 750 numbered copies on rag paper issued to celebrate the publishing house's 40th anniversary, with a printed note from the publisher to this effect laid in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet beneath the limitation: "Dick + Florenc...

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

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1885

$18,750.00 (€17,011.45 | £14,192.23 | ¥2,993,182)

New York. Charles L. Webster & Company. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's library binding of full sheep, the scarcest of the bindings for this title, here very skillfully rebacked retaining the original leather spine labels. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. BAL...

THE WASHOE GIANT IN SAN FRANCISCO BEING HERETOFORE UNCOLLECTED SKETCHES PUBLISHED IN THE GOLDEN ERA IN THE SIXTIES...

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1938

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

San Francisco. George Fields. First Edition. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. BAL 3559. Collected and edited, with an introduction, by Franklin Walker. Printed by Ward Ritchie and illustrated by Lloyd Hoff.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

THE LIFE & STRANGE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

DEFOE, Daniel · 1908

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. Two volumes in publisher's cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Thomas Stothard. Designed by Bruce Rogers. This edition (Haas 80) is a reprint of the Riverside Press Large-Paper Edition (Warde 89) in 4 volumes published the sam...

FROM THE SAVOY. AN ESSAY ON GOING TO CHURCH

SHAW, George Bernard · 1905

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Boston. John W. Luce & Co.. Second American Edition. Unauthorized, as was the 1896 Roycoft edition, of Shaw's first work published in America. Laurence A26c.. A little soiling to covers. Very Good

HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET

BERRYMAN, John · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

New York. Farrar Straus Cudahy. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Berryman's early volume of poems about Anne Bradstreet. Illustrated by Ben Shahn with the cover and dustwrapper designed by him.. Ben Shahn. Beautiful copy in like dustwrapper. As close to new as possible

THE CIRCUS AND OTHER ESSAYS

KILMER, Joyce · 1916

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Laurence J. Gomme. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards.. Near Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper

TOTAL IMMERSION

GOODMAN, Allegra · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. First book, a collection of stories, by this acclaimed writer.. Some foxing to the bulked text edges and pastedowns. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor scratches on the rear

THE BROOK KERITH. A SYRIAN STORY

MOORE, George · 1929

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Illustrated Edition. Parchment-backed boards. With twelve engravings by Stephen Gooden. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and the artist.. Stephen Gooden. Light foxing to spine. Near Fine, without slipcase

A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord · 1863

$2,187.50 (€1,984.67 | £1,655.76 | ¥349,205)

London. Edward Moxon & Co./Day & Son. First Edition. Included are a first issue copy (with the solid diamond and rule ornament on the title) of the 4-page leaflet (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") published by Edward Moxon & Co. and the version illuminated by Owen Jones (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") an...

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, AND OTHER POEMS

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1858

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.46 | ¥79,818)

Boston. Ticknor & Fields. First Edition. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. BAL 12122. First Printing with the October catalogue and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. One of the copies with the inserted ad for Ticknor & Field's edition of the Waverley No...