Charles Agvent

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT

ROTH, Philip · 0

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.23 | ¥169,614)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Copy #321 of 600 SIGNED by the author of the book that gained him a wide readership and that was made into a funny film starring Richard Benjamin as the neurotic young man obsessed with sex. Additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Roth on th...

[CUTCH, OR, RANDOM SKETCHES, Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern Provinces of Western India; Interspersed with Legends and Traditions]

[INDIA] POSTANS, Marianne · 0

$1,500.00 (€1,360.92 | £1,135.38 | ¥239,455)

[London]. [Smith, Elder and Co.]. First Edition. Modern half polished calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners (5-1/2" x 9"); xvii, (3), 283, (1) pages, housed in a red buckram clamshell box. Lacking the printed title page but with the lithographed additional pictori...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

CARVER, George Washington · 41931

$1,500.00 (€1,360.92 | £1,135.38 | ¥239,455)

Tuskegee, AL. Lengthy 4-page handwritten letter on both sides of two sheets of 8-1/2" x 11-1/8" Tuskegee Institute letterhead to a young friend and aspiring poet, Ralph Douberly. Throughout the letter, Carver reiterates his enjoyment in being in Douberly and Douberly's friend ...

RURAL RESIDENCES, Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and other Ornamental Buildings, Accompanied by Hints on Situation, Construction, Arrangement and Decoration, in the Theory & Practice of Rural Architecture; Interspersed with some Observations on Landscape Gardening

PAPWORTH, John B[uonarotti] · 1818

$2,500.00 (€2,268.19 | £1,892.30 | ¥399,091)

London. R. Ackerman. First Edition. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in contemporary polished calf, recently and sympathetically rebacked with a gilt decorated spine and gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 106, (4) pages. Complete with half-title p...

NUNQUAM

DURRELL, Lawrence · 1970

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. First American Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper

CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN. MAY 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams

[WALT WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace (editor) · 1889

$7,500.00 (€6,804.58 | £5,676.89 | ¥1,197,273)

Philadelphia. David McKay. First Edition. Decorated maroon cloth, frontispiece portrait of Whitman after a sculpture by Sidney H. Morse. BAL 21436. SIGNED by the great poet on the front endpaper and dated "Dec: 16 '89." The earliest inscribed copy noted by Blanck was in Novemb...

JUST FRIENDS AND BRAVE ENEMIES

KENNEDY, Robert · 0

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Kennedy's second book, INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper to Assistant Attorney General and future D. C. Court of Appeals Judge, J. Walter Yeagley: "For Walter/With Warmest Regards/Robert F. Kennedy." Books authentically signed by...

TOWNSHIP MAP OF THE STATE OF IOWA Compiled from the United States Surveys & Other Authentic Sources

COLTON, George W · 18541855

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

New York. J. H. Colton. First Edition. Folding pocket map dated 1854 with full period hand-coloring and ornamental border (24" x 29") in gilt-lettered cloth, as issued.. Map quite nice with only very minor separations at a few fold junctions; cloth cover partially detached. Ve...

THE PUBLIC PAPERS OF GROVER CLEVELAND, TWENTY-SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889

CLEVELAND, Grover · 1889

$7,500.00 (€6,804.58 | £5,676.89 | ¥1,197,273)

Washington. Government Printing Office. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in publisher's 3/4 brown cloth. Illustrated with a full-page color portrait of Cleveland. This copy is SIGNED by Cleveland on the front endpaper between his two presidential terms: "Matt H. Ellis Es...

THE CONJURE WOMAN

CHESNUTT, Charles W · 1899

$1,562.50 (€1,417.62 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,432)

Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. First Edition. Pictorial light brown cloth with gilt lettering. Author's first book, a collection of 7 stories set in North Carolina. Chesnutt sheds light on the complexities of race relations in the post-Civil War South, chall...

RIVER ROAD BUCKS COUNTY, PA

WILLETT, Christopher · 0

$1,187.50 (€1,077.39 | £898.84 | ¥189,568)

[Lansford PA]. Small (6" x 5") oil on board of a snowy winter landscape overlooking a river SIGNED by the artist at the bottom right of the image and titled and SIGNED again on the verso. Attractively framed to an overall size of 6-3/4" x 5-3/4".. Christopher Willett. Fine

THE DREAM OF THE UNIFIED FIELD. SELECTED POEMS 1974-1994

GRAHAM, Jorie · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

(Hopewell, NJ). The Ecco Press. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper in the earliest state without the sticker on the dustwrapper stating such

RAGGED LADY. A Novel

HOWELLS, William Dean [HOWELLS, W. D.] · 1899

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York & London. Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Original red cloth. Illustrated with ten plates by A. I. Keller. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "W. D. Howells/Chicago, Oct. 25, 1899.". A. I. Keller. Two early bookplates on front pastedown with one mostly sc...

THE PROBLEM OF MEIGHEN ISLAND. Intended as the Third Chapter but Suppressed in the publication of Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic

STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur · 1939

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

New York. Privately Printed for Mr. Joseph Robinson. First Edition. Unbound consisting of loose signatures (5-3/4" x 8-5/8"); [iv], 257-328 pages; housed in a morocco-backed clamshell box. Illustrated with two maps. Copy #112 of 300, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansso...

ADDRESSES UPON THE AMERICAN ROAD 1933 to 1938

HOOVER, Herbert · 1938

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Hoover on the front free endpaper: "To Thomas B. Catron III/the good wishes/of/Herbert Hoover." Catron was a prominent citizen of Santa Fe and a descendent of one of its first senators.. Slight bump to b...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

GRAINGER, Percy · 1923

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Postcard-sized photograph of the composer by Prof. Alfred Krauth of Frankfurt taken in the Spring of 1923 INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the subject in white ink: "Best New Year/wishes to Miss/Pearl Seiler/from/Percy Grainger/Dec. 1923." L. Pearl Seiler was a 1910 graduate of the New...

GROUPS OF FLOWERS, DRAWN AND ACCURATELY COLOURED AFTER NATURE, WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR THE YOUNG ARTIST; Designed as a Companion to the Treatise on Flower Painting [bound with] GROUPS OF FRUIT [bound with] SIX BIRDS

BROOKSHAW, George · 1819

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

London. Thomas McLean, printed by Turner and Hadley, Minerva Press. Second Edition. Three parts in one folio (10-1/2" x 14-3/4") volume in original boards rebacked with black leather which also surrounds the entire covers with a matching gilt-lettered label on the center of th...

TOMBLESON'S VIEWS OF THE RHINE and VIEWS OF THE UPPER RHINE

TOMBLESON, W[illiam] & FEARNSIDE, W[illiam] G[ray] (editor) · 1832

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

London. W. Tombleson and Company. First Edition. Two small quarto (6" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in polished black calf with gilt-decorated and lettered spines. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 137 fine steel-engraved views as well as a long (45"!) folding panoramic ma...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) as President-Elect

CARTER, Jimmy · 121977

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

On personal stationery (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") SIGNED by the president-elect as "Jimmy" to Congressman Harold Johnson of California asking him for his "cooperation in increasing the effectiveness of the executive branch of government.... My request is that I be given the same reorg...

A PERSIAN PEARL

DARROW, Clarence · 1899

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

East Aurora, NY. The Roycroft Shop. First Edition. Reverse calf-backed boards, gilt title on cover, spine label lettered in gilt; #646 of 980 copies finely printed in black and red with decorative initials and typographic ornaments. Legendary defense attorney's first book, thi...