Charles Agvent

THE PEACOCK'S TAIL

HOAGLAND, Edward · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. McGraw-Hill Book Company. First Edition. Hoagland's third book, this copy INSCRIBED "To Larry, with best regards" and SIGNED by the author. Uncommon to find this title signed. Saul Bellow described Hoagland as "one of the very best writers of his generation." His lat...

MARK TWAIN'S SKETCHES, NEW AND OLD

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1875

$406.30 (€368.63 | £307.54 | ¥64,860)

Hartford & Chicago. American Publishing. First Edition. Original decorated blue cloth. Second State of the text. An early collection of 63 sketches by Twain, illustrated throughout. BAL 3364.. Occasional internal soiling; some staining to rear cover but mostly faint. Gilt brig...

ST. CLAIR: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY COAL TOWN'S EXPERIENCE WITH A DISASTER-PRONE INDUSTRY

WALLACE, E. C · 1987

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

EASY IN THE ISLANDS

SHACOCHIS, Bob · 0

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York. Crown Publishers, Inc.. First Edition. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone. . Remainder strip...

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BY RUPERT BROOKE, EDWARD MARSH & CHRISTOPHER HASSALL

SCHRODER, John (editor) · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Cambridge. Rampant Lions. First Edition. Folio (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in green cloth; 134 pages. Frontispiece of Brooke by Joan Hassall. Limited to 450 numbered copies designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter, this being copy #269 of 400 on Wookey Hole rag paper bou...

TRIPLE THINKERS

WILSON, Edmund · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

London. John Lehmann. New Edition. Originally published in England in 1938 in a very small edition, this new edition was extensively revised and added to by Wilson. With errata slip.. Very Good in an edgeworn and foxed Very Good dustwrapper

BOOK OF PRINCETON VERSE 1916

(WILSON, Edmund) NOYES, Alfred (editor) · 1916

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Princeton. Princeton University Press. First Edition. Contains 5 poems by Edmund Wilson and 7 by John Peale Bishop, predating their first book by 6 years.. Some spots on cover, spine soiled. Owner's card affixed to front free endpaper. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper

THE BEST OF OFF OFF BROADWAY

(SHEPARD, Sam) SMITH, M. (ed.) · 1969

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Dutton. First Edition. Paperback original containing Shepard's "Forensic and the Navigators.". Covers a bit soiled and worn. Very Good

PITTSBURGH MEMORANDA

LONG, Haniel · 1935

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Santa Fe. Rydal Press. First Edition. Copy #484 of 1000 numbered and SIGNED copies. Additionally INSCRIBED in the year of publication to author Andre Siegfried, whom Long goes on to call "one of my best teachers.". Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper

GRIST MILL

LONG, Haniel · 1946

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

Santa Fe. Rydal Press. Second Revised Edition. Octavo, 79 pages. Warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED to a headmistress of a girls' school with an additional two-line quote from one of the poems: "Thought can be the life of God/In each man, and God is love." Two or three corrections in...

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS

RAINES, C. W · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

(Staten Island). M. Martino. Reprint. Cloth, octavo; xvi, 268 pages. Limited to only 150 copies, this first bibliography of Texas is a descriptive list of books, pamphlets, and documents in print and manuscript since 1536 and up to the 1890s. Streeter's more famous bibliograph...

RUINING THE NEW ROAD

MATTHEWS, William · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Poet's first book, especially uncommon in this hardcover issue.. Mild sunning to the top edge of the cloth; slightly cocked. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with two small closed tears

RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

FITZGERALD, Edward (translator) · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. The Heritage Club. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in pictorial boards. An original publication of the Heritage Press. Illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Arthur Szyk. Arthur Szyk. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN

MANN, Thomas · 1962

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,927)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto volumes (7" x 10-7/8") bound in linen shelfback with the title stamped in gold on a gray-green label of Italian Roma paper and boards covered with a smoke-brown, mould-made French paper impressed with a design by Max Caflisch. Illust...

THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL

WOUK, Herman · 1954

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Doubleday & Company, Inc.. First Edition. The play based on Wouk's Pulitzer Prize novel.. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical rubbing and edgewear

RADITZER

MATTHIESSEN, Peter · 1961

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. His third novel, fourth book. INSCRIBED for------ "with best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper in 1963. An uncommon early inscription. . Two tiny stains to fore-edge of text block. Near Fine in a Near Fine du...

DO THESE BONES LIVE

DAHLBERG, Edward · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Dahlberg's unique takes on Thoreau, Melville, etc. . Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear and a couple of closed tears

THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAHLBERG

DAHLBERG, Edward · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. George Braziller. First Edition. Of a total of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies, this copy has a SIGNED page tipped in but with no printed limitation. An important book by this much underrated writer.. Fine in slipcase, as issued

LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS

STYRON, William · 0

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.. First Edition. Author's first book.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light wear at the tips and two short tears

FAMILY DANCING

LEAVITT, David · 1984

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Author's first book, a collection of stories.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with very slight darkening of edges