Charles Agvent

THE HOUSEBREAKER OF SHADY HILL and Other Stories

CHEEVER, John · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Cheever's fourth book, containing some of his greatest stories, including "The Country Husband" and "The Sorrows of Gin.". Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with minor rubbing and a few small nicks along the spine

LESLIE IN CALIFORNIA

DUBUS, Andre · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Otisville, NY. Birch Brook Press. First Edition. Printed wraps. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the author constituting the First Separate Edition of this story. A small (6" x 4-1/2"), attractive book by one of the modern masters of the short story. If you have not read h...

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

WILDER, Thornton (Jean CHARLOT) · 0

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

New York. The Heritage Press. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 10-3/4") bound in blue and gray cloth with a silhouette frieze of the Bridge's doomed pedestrians stamped in black on both covers. Introduction by Granville Hicks. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Jean Charlot. A lovely re...

SIGNED Lithograph in the NEW COLOPHON. Volume I, Part 4

[SPRUANCE, Benton] · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Duschnes Crawford Inc.. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in original pictorial boards and limited to 2500 copies. Contains articles on Kipling and Thoreau as well as a pencil-SIGNED LITHOGRAPH PROOF of a Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania farm and church by Benton Sp...

GALLANTRY. AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DIZAIN IN TEN COMEDIES, WITH AN AFTERPIECE

CABELL, James Branch · 1907

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Decorated light green cloth, the first state binding. Illustrated with 4 full-page color plates by Howard Pyle.. Howard Pyle. Spine a bit rubbed. Very Good

THE THREE-CORNERED HAT

ALARCON, Don Pedro Antonio de · 1959

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards covered in colorful Granada Tiles fabric. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Translated by Martin Armstrong, introduction by Gerald Brenan. Printed at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Co...

TWO PLAYS FOR PURITANS

SHAW, George Bernard · 1966

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall quarto (6-7/8" x 11-7/8") bound in red cloth decorated in black and gilt and printed at Sign of the Stone Book. The plays are "The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra" with a preface by George Bernard Shaw. Copy #1192 of 1500 with ...

THE AGE OF ANXIETY

AUDEN, W. H · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.. Owner name on front endpaper ...

WARHOL

BOURDON, David · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Abrams. Quarto. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates.. Andy Warhol. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

CONCURRING BEASTS

DOBYNS, Stephen · 1972

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Atheneum. First Edition. First book, a collection of poems that won the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1971, by a writer now known for his mysteries. Lamont Prize card and errata slip laid in.. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with very minor wear

SHIP ON THE BEACH

HOLMES, Theodore · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

London. Fortune Press. First Edition. Poet's first book.. Slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper clipped at the lower front with a new price sticker

WALL WRITING

AUSTER, Paul · 0

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

(Berkeley). The Figures. First Edition. Printed blue wraps. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work.. Fine

AFTER OUR WAR

BALABAN, John · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh. First Edition. Poet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. Balaban is best known now for his translations into English of Vietnamese poetry.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1858

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

Boston. Phillips, Sampson & Co.. First Edition. First Printing. With engraved title and eight plates. BAL 8781: Binding A, brown cloth with all first issue points. A Grolier American 100 book. Former owner inscription in pencil "Compliments of G. Y.(?) J." dated "Boston Nov. 1...

THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] · 1858

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Boston. Phillips, Sampson & Co.. First Edition. BAL 8781: Printing 2, Binding C of original brown cloth, no rings. The sheets measure 7-1/2 x 4-3/4, which falls between the paper size of the regular issue and the large paper issue. One of the Grolier 100 Influential American B...

WATERFALL (Signed Broadside)

BASS, Rick · 2003

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

(Salt Lake City). Ken Sanders Rare Books. First Edition. Issued on the occasion of the opening of the new Salt Lake City Public Library, this attractive 12" x 18" broadside was printed letterpress on heavy white paper and illustrated in color by R. P. Bissland. One of 100 copi...

HEUREUX QUL, COMME ULYSSE...

LUCIE-SMITH, Edward · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

n.p.. First Edition. A small (5-3/4"x7-3/4") broadside of this poem.. Near Fine

FIGHTING TERMS

GUNN, Thomm · 1958

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Hawk's Well Press. First American Edition. Second state of the wrappers of this, Gunn's first book published in America, limited to 1500 copies.. Review label removed with small piece of cover with it. Very Good or better

ETCHED IN MOONLIGHT

STEPHENS, James · 1928

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

London. Macmillan and Co., Ltd.. First Edition. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a large chip affecting the title

FIVE NEW POEMS

STEPHENS, James · 1913

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

London. Flying Fame. First Edition. First issue in magenta wrappers with the Lovat Fraser designs uncolored.. Lovat Fraser. Wrappers detached, internally fine