Charles Agvent

JOHN GALSWORTHY: AN APPRECIATION TOGETHER WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY

[GALSWORTHY, John] · 1929

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

London. William Heinemann. First Edition. Printed wraps; 22 pages.. Very Good

BECH IS BACK

UPDIKE, John · 1982

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Copy #307 of 500 numbered and SIGNED copies.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and slipcase

PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF PICTURESQUE VIEWS

PUGIN & HEATH · 1829

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

London. Jennings & Chaplin. First Edition. Two small folio (8-3/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound in one in publisher's embossed morocco leather, all edges gilt. Topographical and historical descriptions by L. T. Ventouillac. Illustrated with 202 steel-engraved views on 101 sheets a...

WHERE THE CHILL CAME FROM: CREE WINDIGO TALES AND JOURNEYS

NORMAN, Howard (editor & translator) · 1982

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

San Francisco. North Point. First Edition. The issue in wraps, also published in hardcover. Author's second collection, a translation of Cree tales, SIGNED by him.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

BEARING-RATIO EFFECT ON STRENGTH OF RIVETED JOINTS

JONES, Jonathan · 1958

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York. ASCE. Offprint. Printed wraps, 8 pages. Illustrated with charts.. Very Good

ERECTION OF MAIN RIVER SPAN, PASSAIC RIVER BRIDGE

JONES, Jonathan · 1955

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. American Society of Civil Engineers. Offprint. Printed wraps; 16 pages. Illustrated with photographs and charts. An offprint reprinted from TRANSACTIONS, Vol. 120, 1955, page 208.. Very Good

TWO FOREWORDS

KIPLING, Rudyard · 1935

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Garden City. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. First Edition. Limited to 950 copies bound in cloth-backed marbled boards.. Near Fine in a worn Very Good slipcase

THE LIEUTENANT

DUBUS, Andre · 1967

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. The Dial Press. First Edition. Acclaimed short story writer's first book and only novel, a tale of a Marine detachment on an aircraft carrier. Dubus's stories have been made into the films IN THE BEDROOM and WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. SIGNED by the author on the tit...

FROM SEA TO SEA

KIPLING, Rudyard · 1899

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Doubleday & McClure Co.. First American Edition. Two volumes in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Kipling in India, the Orient, and elsewhere. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 227. With the error on page 90 of the second volume.. Bottom of spines a littl...

SEA & SUSSEX

KIPLING, Rudyard · 1926

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell.. Donald Maxwell. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the d...

INDIAN COUNTRY

MATTHIESSEN, Peter · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Matthiessen explores ten important instances where the white man's encroachments upon the sacred grounds of Indian tribes show the tragic effects of a confrontation bound to harm both sides.. Foxing to bulked top edge of text. Near Fi...

ADVICE TO A PROPHET AND OTHER POEMS

WILBUR, Richard · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Harcourt, Brace & World. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Only 2000 copies printed. An increasingly uncommon book to find in this condition.. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with some rubbing to the black

THE TALENTED MOUNT BROTHERS

OVERTON, Jacqueline · 1942

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Bay Shore. Long Island Forum. Offprint. Octavo. A 16-page pamphlet in printed wraps with several illustrations. Long Island in the early 1800s as seen through the eyes of these fraternal artists. Limited to 500 numbered copies.. Very Good

FROST: THE POET AND HIS POETRY

[FROST, Robert] SOHN, D. & TYRE, R · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Holt Rinehart Winston. First Edition. Containing the first appearance of the poem "One Favored Acorn," this booklet was designed as a teaching device.. Fine with apparently unplayed record in bag in rear pocket

WALKING THE DEAD DIAMOND RIVER

HOAGLAND, Edward · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Random House. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Nineteen essays about the New England wilderness (including walks in the Green and White mountains and a canoe trip in Maine), assassinations, dogs, the circus, etc.. Spotting to top bulked edge...

KILLING ORDERS

PARETSKY, Sara · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. William Morrow and Company. First Edition. The third V. I. Warshawski mystery.. Slight foxing to topped bulk edge of text, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

INDEPENDENCE DAY

FORD, Richard · 1995

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Advance Copy in pictorial wraps in slipcase of Ford's breakthrough work. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper, one of apparently only 250 copies issued in this manner. The first book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PE...

POEMS OF DEDICATION

SPENDER, Stephen · 0

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

New York. Random House. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED to Bill and Frankie on 16 February 1948, on the half-title page. Although there is no other indication, the Bill in this inscription is American composer William Schuman.. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with som...

UNEARTH

AUSTER, Paul · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

(Weston, CT). Living Hand. First Edition. Printed blue wraps. One of 1000 copies printed of this volume of poetry, the third volume of the publisher's series and Auster's first original work after two translations. Not published in hardcover.. Slight sunning to spine extending...

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER

KINCAID, Jamaica · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Edition. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper