Charles Agvent

INDIAN CIVILIZATION: A LECTURE

[WHITTIER] PUMPHREY, Stanley · 1877

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

Philadelphia. Bible & Tract Dist. Society. First Edition. Original printed wraps; 52 pages. BAL 21950. Introduction by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Illustrated with a large color folding map. Written right after the Custer Massacre in an attempt to show how gentle and pea...

OLD PORTRAITS AND MODERN SKETCHES

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 1850

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. First Edition. Original brown cloth. BAL 21769: Binding A (no sequence determined). Only 1500 copies printed. Dec. 1849 Catalogue, earliest noted, inserted at front. Without "The End" on last page. Contents are 10 biographies including John Buny...

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, AND OTHER POEMS

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1858

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Boston. Ticknor & Fields. First Edition. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. First Printing with October ads and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. BAL 12122. Ad leaf not present in this copy but stub indicates it once was.. Small old Pennsylvania booksell...

PRUE AND I

CURTIS, George William · 1856

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Dix, Edwards & Co.. First Edition. Original blue cloth. BAL 4270: Binding A. Johnson High Spot. Dedicated to Mrs. Henry W. Longfellow. Curtis, editor of HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most influential American journalists of any day, also w...

THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY

HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.] · 1895

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Cambridge. Riverside Press. First Illustrated Edition. Copy #246 of 250 numbered copies on large paper bound in gilt-lettered and decorated vellum over boards with the uncommon original rust-colored cloth dustwrapper with gilt lettering on the spine. With close to 100 illustra...

THE MOUSE-TRAP AND OTHER FARCES

HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.] · 1889

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

New York. Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Original red cloth. BAL 9642. Illustrated with eight plates. A fine presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to "Joanna/from her brother,/W.D. Howells." We are not sure who the recipient is as Howells, one of eight chil...

THE SPECTATOR BIRD

STEGNER, Wallace · 1976

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Decorated brown leather. Illustrated by John Collier. Limited edition preceding the trade edition of his National Book Award winner with a one-page introduction by Stegner not in the trade edition.. Fine

THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL

NAST, Thomas · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Francis B. Felt & Co.. First Edition. Original terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. With 33 illustrations by Thomas Nast.. Thomas Nast. Spine tips worn, front endpaper detached. Good

CAPE COD

THOREAU, Henry David · 1865

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

Boston. Ticknor & Fields. First Edition. Original brown cloth. Binding C, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864. . Light to moderate foxing. Spine a touch rubbed but gilt still sharp. A br...

THE COUNTRY AHEAD OF US, THE COUNTRY BEHIND

GUTERSON, David · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Acclaimed writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Dustwrapper blurbs by Mary Robison and Charles Johnson.. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

UNCLE REMUS: HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS

HARRIS, Joel Chandler · 1881

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

New York. D. Appleton and Company. First Edition. Decorated green cloth. BAL 7100: First State; GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 83. Illustrated with 8 plates and text engravings by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Early owner signature dated 7 January 1881 on the front blank.. Fr...

CRESSY

HARTE, Bret · 1889

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

London. MacMillan and Co.. First Edition. Original red cloth. BAL 7345: First one-volume edition, published earlier in the year in two volumes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Harte to J. W. Wheeler "for his admirable services for the/Plaintiff in the case of `Common Sense vs The Good...

THROUGH THE SAFETY NET

BAXTER, Charles · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Viking. First Edition. Critically acclaimed author's second book, a collection of stories, SIGNED by him on the title page.. Remainder mark to bottom bulked edge of text, slight foxing to top edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

THE LEAFLESS AMERICAN

DAHLBERG, Edward · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

[Sausalito]. Roger Beacham. First Edition. Of the total edition of 760 copies, @24 are the first issue without cancellations. This copy is one of the regular second issue, called by Billings (A15b) the trade issue. SIGNED by Dahlberg on the front free endpaper. Essays about Sh...

BECAUSE I WAS FLESH

DAHLBERG, Edward · 1964

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. New Directions. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book by one of America's most eccentric genius scribes about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas. SIGNED on the title page by the author's widow who did extensive editing ...

BECAUSE I WAS FLESH

DAHLBERG, Edward · 1964

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. New Directions. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps. Wonderful book about growing up as the son of a lady barber in Kansas. SIGNED by the author's widow who did extensive editing for this book.. Wraps soiled. Very Good

ROOM TEMPERATURE

BAKER, Nicholson · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Grove Weidenfeld. First Edition. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

A RELATIVE STRANGER

BAXTER, Charles · 0

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

New York. W. W. Norton & Company. First Edition. His third collection of stories.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

THE INNOCENT

McEWAN, Ian · 0

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York. Doubleday. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps of this novel of espionage set in Berlin at the end of the Cold War. Made into a film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Anthony Hopkins and Isabella Rossellini.. Some foxing to top bulked edge of ...

THE KINGDOM OF THE WICKED

BURGESS, Anthony · 1985

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Bound in full gilt-decorated brown leather. Limited and true First Edition SIGNED by the author and with a special introduction by him not included in the trade edition. Burgess is best known, of course, for writing A CLOCK...