Charles Agvent

THE SEA AROUND US

CARSON, Rachel · 1951

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

New York. Oxford University Press. First Edition. Seventh Printing in pictorial boards. This copy SIGNED "Rachel L. Carson" on the title page. Illustrated By Katherine Howe.. Katherine Howe. Some rubbing to cover edges. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper

WÄLSUNGENBLUT

MANN, Thomas · 0

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

Munich. Phantasus. First Edition. Striking pictorial green boards (8" x 10-1/2") in red paper slipcase; text in German. One of 530 numbered copies, this copy not numbered, SIGNED by both author and artist in pencil on the colophon page. First edition of one of Thomas Mann's mo...

FOUR ASPECTS OF CIVIC DUTY

TAFT, William Howard · 1906

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Blue cloth. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "with best wishes of/Wm. H. Taft/Washington/Sept 28th 1922." An uncommon book to find signed by Taft, here as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.. Evidence of bookplat...

ONE SPECIAL SUMMER

[KENNEDY, Jacqueline (Jackie)] BOUVIER, Jacqueline and Lee · 0

$2,375.00 (€2,154.78 | £1,797.68 | ¥379,136)

New York. Delacorte Press. First Edition. Folio (10-1/4" x 13") bound in decorated blue textured boards in a slipcase made of similar material with a photograph of the two sisters pasted on the front, as issued. Introduction by Lee Bouvier Radziwill. One of 500 unnumbered copi...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano · 11931

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

Albany, NY. Two-page letter as governor of New York with the first page on State of New York Executive Chamber stationery to Mayor John J. Fogarty of Yonkers, NY, regarding the hardships of unemployed New Yorkers at the beginning of the Great Depression. In part: "The present ...

LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Written During Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39

CATLIN, George · 1842

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

London. Published for the Author by Tilt and Bogue. Third Edition. Two quarto volumes (6-1/2" x 10") bound in recent dark brown calf-backed marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels. "With four hundred illustrations, carefully engraved from his o...

CABINET FRUIT AND FLOWER PLATES. [bound with] DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE: FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, ETC

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$1,687.50 (€1,531.03 | £1,277.30 | ¥269,386)

Rochester, NY. Stecher Lithograph Co.. First Edition. Black pebbled cloth (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") with "No. 3" stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated with a color title page and 55 chromolithographs, printed on rectos only, mostly of fruit.. Plates clean with a few small cl...

FICCIONES

BORGES, Jorge Luis · 1985

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

New York. Limited Editions Club. Square octavo (8-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in full black cowhide leather stamped in blind. A beautiful, sumptuous rendition of Borges's first book printed at the Anthoensen Press. Sol LeWitt designed the book in addition to contributing 22 silkscree...

CHICAGO POEMS

SANDBURG, Carl · 1916

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

New York. Henry Holt. First Edition. First issue of Sandburg's first regularly published volume of poems. SIGNED TWICE by the poet on the verso of the front blank, one signature dated "Arlington August 6, 1925" and the other "greeting C. E. Van Norman//1959." A scarce book in ...

CORNHUSKERS

SANDBURG, Carl · 1918

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

New York. Henry Holt and Company. First Edition. Sandburg's second regularly published book after the impressive CHICAGO POEMS. This is the second state of the text with the folio "3" lacking. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "Luck always to/the Gilchrist house/Carl...

THE GREAT GATSBY

FITZGERALD, F. Scott · 0

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-3/4" x 8-5/8") bound by the Stinehour Press in full gray buckram stamped with a design by Deborah M. Evetts of a vintage automobile with silver headlights. Copy #1123 of 2000 illustrated with 14 color gouaches by Fred Meyer and SIGN...

THE KING'S HENCHMAN. A Play in Three Acts

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent · 1927

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Black cloth-backed blue boards in dustwrapper. This copy of Millay's play in verse is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For/James B and Lisa Mason/From/Edna St. Vincent Millay/February 26, 1927." While the Li...

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

[WHITTIER, John Greenleaf] PICKARD, Samuel · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Artists' Edition. Two-volume set in 3/4 green-brown morocco leather and gilt-ruled marbled boards, spines with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Each volume is #716 of 1000 co...

THE DIGRESSIONS OF V. Written for His Own Fun and That of His Friends

VEDDER, Elihu · 1910

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Decorated green cloth (7" x 9") profusely illustrated with photographs and reproductions of art works by the author.. Elihu Vedder. Very Good or better

EUGENIE GRANDET

BALZAC, Honore de · 1960

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

London. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Pre...

COLLECTED POEMS 1909 - 1962

ELIOT, T. S · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich. Centenary Edition. Later printing of this collection of Eliot's work.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

NATIVE LAND. Sagas of the Indian Americas

HIGHWATER, Jamake · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. First Edition. A wide ranging chronicle of the varied Indian civilizations of North, Central, and South America that flourished before the arrival of the Europeans. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates.. Handful of pages with un...

THE MONUMENT

STRAND, Mark · 0

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

New York. The Ecco Press. First Edition. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper incorporating an ORIGINAL DRAWING by the poet to actress and philanthropist Drue Heinz: "This monument is from/Mark Strand and it is for/Drue Heinz/November 26, 1981 SLC...

POEMS

FEARING, Kenneth · 1935

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Dynamo. First Edition. Copy #816 of 1000 with an introduction by Edward Dahlberg in the uncommon dustwrapper. Fearing eventually achieved some fame as a writer of mysteries.. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with closed tears

ON THE EDGE

LEVINE, Philip · 1964

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

[Iowa City]. Second Press. First Edition. Pictorial white wraps. First trade edition of Levine's scarce first book, published the previous year in an edition of 220 copies. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to a student: "with best regards/Philip Levine." Lai...