Charles Agvent

HUMBOLDT'S GIFT

BELLOW, Saul · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Advance Reading copy in printed yellow wraps of this winner of the Pulitzer Prize and nominee for the National Book Award.. Some soiling and wear to wraps. Near Very Good

IRON JOHN: A BOOK ABOUT MEN

BLY, Robert · 1990

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Reading, MA. Addison-Wesley. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Scarce issue of this popular and important study of male initiation which rapidly went into later printings.. Fine

GENTLEMAN FROM CRACOW; THE MIRROR

SINGER, Isaac B · 1979

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Northampton. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound with a gray buckram spine and gray paper board sides. One of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by Raphael Soyer and SIGNED by both the artist and the Nobel Prize-winning ...

A CHANGE OF WORLD

RICH, Adrienne · 1951

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

New Haven. Yale University Press. First Edition. Foreword by W. H. Auden. Rich's first book as an adult (though barely: she was a 21-year-old college student), preceded by two rare juvenile publications. This first printing consisted of only 551 copies.. Beautiful copy in a si...

WITTER BYNNER. The Pamphlet Poets

BYNNER, Witter · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York. Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Wraps. Part of The Pamphlet Poets series.. Owner name in very small letters on cover. Very Good

THE NORTHERN LIGHTS

NORMAN, Howard · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Summit Books. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards Author's first novel, nominated for the National Book Award. Blurbs by Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez among others. . Light wear to the lower front corner. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

LETTER FROM A DISTANT LAND

BOOTH, Philip · 1957

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Author's first book, winner of the Lamont Prize. Prize card laid in.. Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper

THE RESCUED YEAR

STAFFORD, William · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Presumed first issue with $3.95 price, page listing previous publications at front, page containing printing information at rear, and untrimmed fore-edge. Stafford's third trade publication and first book after his National Book Award win...

TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK

STAFFORD, William · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Stafford's second trade publication, winner of the National Book Award, and a significant book of modern American poetry, uncommon in the true first printing.. Just about Fine in a Fine first-state dustwrapper

THE LIVES OF THE DEAD

SMITH, Charlie · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York. Linden Press. First Edition. Author's third novel, a story about a once successful filmmaker vainly seeking to fund a current project.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

ADAMS, Richard · 191973

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)

London. Wonderful AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED, 3-1/2 pages, to the creator of the cover art for the Puffin edition of WATERSHIP DOWN which was published in June 1973 becoming a bestseller and responsible for establishing the book in the public's eye. Adams praises the artist's w...

TALKING GOD

HILLERMAN, Tony · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. SIGNED on the first blank by Hillerman.. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

THE WAY THAT WATER ENTERS STONE

DUFRESNE, John · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. W. W. Norton & Company. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's insert laid in of his first book.. Minor bump to bottom of rear cover. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

SCHOOL FOR DARK THOUGHTS

SIMIC, Charles · 1978

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Pawlet, VT. Banyan Press. First Edition. Octavo, wraps, 15 pages. Printed by hand on Weimar papers and sewn into Roma coversheets in an edition limited to 235 SIGNED copies.. Fine

DAYS WITHOUT END

O'NEILL, Eugene · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper with small chip at the spine heel

WILDLIFE

FORD, Richard · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. The Atlantic Monthly Press. First Edition. Ford's fourth novel, SIGNED by the author on the title page. Made into a film more than 25 years after publication.. Slight foxing to bulked text edges, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

PHILO WHITE'S NARRATIVE OF A CRUIZE IN THE PACIFIC TO SOUTH AMERICA AND CALIFORNIA ON THE U. S. SLOOP-OF-WAR "DALE" 1841-1843

CAMP, Charles (editor) · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Denver. Old West Publishing Company. First Edition. Folio (9-1/2" x 13"), 84 pages. Illustrated with black-&-white gravures and color plates reproduced from the journal of William H. Myers, 1841-1842, in the Bancroft Library and a portrait of Philo White. Herman Melville's acc...

THE SPECTATOR

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; et. al · 1970

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

London. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the s...