Charles Agvent

Review of THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE [Extracted from THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW, OR EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, No. XVIII] bound with THE REMEDY bound with THE REMEDY

[BUXTON, Thomas Fowell] · 1839

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

London. Richard and John E. Taylor/W. Clowes & Sons. First Edition. Later polished calf-backed boards with matching calf corners; [2], 467-507, [1]; 152; [2], 152 pages. A fascinating compilation of these three works. The first, an extract from a periodical, is a review of thr...

THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD, Containing the Rational System of Society, Founded on Demonstrable Facts, Developing the Constitution and Laws of Human Nature and of Society [bound with] A DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PLANS ON WHICH TO ESTABLISH SELF-SUPPORTING HOME COLONIES; As a Most Secure and Profitable Investment for Capital, and an Effectual Means Permanently to Remove the Causes of Ignorance, Poverty, and Crime; and most Materially to Benefit all Classes of Society; By Giving a Right Application to the Now Greatly Misdirected Powers of the Human Faculties, and of Physical and Moral Science with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

OWEN, Robert · 1845

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

New York/London. G. Vale/The Home Colonization Society. First American Edition/Second Edition. Two volumes bound in one in full brown leather with the original wraps of the first title bound in; viii, 264; xii, 160, [2] pages. Inserted in the text of the first part between pag...

DOCUMENTARY #1 STRUGGLE with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

GUTHRIE, Woody · 0

$25,000.00 (€22,681.93 | £18,922.97 | ¥3,990,909)

[New York]. Asch Records. First Edition. Album of three 78 rpm discs housed in the original half blue cloth with illustrated front board containing the records in three paper sleeves (10-1/4" x 12"). With a superb five-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in dark pencil by Guthrie on ...

HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Volumes I - III, Each INSCRIBED to Noted African-American Educator John Smallwood

ANTHONY, Susan B. & HARPER, Ida Husted · 1887

$31,250.00 (€28,352.41 | £23,653.71 | ¥4,988,636)

Rochester [NY]/London/Paris. Susan B. Anthony. First Edition. The first three volumes of what eventually would be complete in six volumes, in publisher's sheep, neatly and professionally rebacked with new sympathetic spines retaining four of the six original contrasting black ...

STORYTELLER

SILKO, Leslie Marmon · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Seaver Books. First Edition. Collection of poetry and prose by this Native American author, her third book, a re-creation of ancient Native American stories intermingled with tales of her own family. Illustrated with photographs.. Slight soiling to endpapers. Near Fi...

STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM

KING, Martin Luther, Jr · 0

$21,875.00 (€19,846.69 | £16,557.60 | ¥3,492,045)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Early but not first printing of Martin Luther King's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Boldly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown: "To:/Ruth/With Best Wishes/and Warm Personal Regards/Martin L. King Jr./...

REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN, Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., U. S. of America, March 25 to April 1, 1888

SEYMOUR, Mary F. (editor) · 1888

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

Washington, DC. Rufus H. Darby. First Edition. Original dark burgundy cloth; 471 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Lucretia Mott. Includes reports and speeches by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Anna H. Shaw, Lucy Stone, and others on a...

MODERN REVOLUTIONS. A Collection of Documents

LEITH, James A. and DOTSON, Craig W. D. (Compilers and Editors) · 1974

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

[Kingston, Ontario]. Queen's University. Abridged Edition. Pictorial wraps (8-1/2" x 10-3/4"); iv, 207 pages. Covers the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Communist Revolution in China. Uncommon.. Crease to corner of back cover. Near Fine

INSURGENT MEXICO

REED, John · 1914

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

New York & London. D. Appleton and Company. First Edition. Gilt-decorated and lettered orange-red cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. From the dustwrapper: "A true story of the real Mexico. By a series of vivid pictures of the Mexican peons in war and peace, the author has tried t...

DRAWN AND QUARTERED

ADDAMS, Charles · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. A haunting collection of cartoons, including the first 4 of what would become "The Addams Family," is the cartoonist's first book.. Charles Addams. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper

THE SEA-WOLF

LONDON, Jack · 1961

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Hartford. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11") bound in full imported flexible Irish linen with a silkscreen design by the illustrator on the cover; 400 pages. Illustrated with 12 full-page, full-color paintings plus 2 double-spreads in full color, and 16 line drawings...

AN APPEAL IN FAVOR OF THAT CLASS OF AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS

CHILD, Mrs. [Lydia Maria] · 1833

$8,125.00 (€7,371.63 | £6,149.96 | ¥1,297,045)

Boston. Allen and Ticknor. First Edition. Original blue-green cloth (4-3/4" x 7-3/4") rebacked with original spine and spine label; [vi], 232 pages with tipped-in errata slip. Housed in a handsome gilt-lettered blue morocco-backed blue cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with 3 s...

A PROMISED LAND

OBAMA, Barack · 0

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

New York. Crown Publishers. First Edition. Publisher's deluxe limited edition in gray cloth housed in a slipcase with a photographic portrait affixed to the front cover. SIGNED by the former president on the publisher's tipped-in page. This memoir, named one of the "Ten Best ...

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI

DANTE, Alighieri · 1932

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (8" x 12-3/4") bound in full cloth specially woven in rose and buff by Fortuny of Venice with a gold- stamped linen spine label. Translated and annotated by Melville Best Anderson with an introduction by Arthur Livingston. Designed, print...

ORIGINAL ART: RENATA ADLER AS ELOISE, MAGAZINE ARTICLE

KNIGHT, Hilary

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

Original pen-and-ink illustration (5" x 6" visible framed to an overall size of 7-1/2" x 10") featuring a depiction of author Renata Adler as Knight's famous creation Eloise from the series of books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Knight.. Hilary Knight. Fine

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

STEINBECK, John · 1940

$2,187.50 (€1,984.67 | £1,655.76 | ¥349,205)

New York. Limited Editions Club. First Illustrated Edition. Two quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") volumes bound in decorated grass cloth boards with rawhide spines. Designed by George Macy with introductions by Joseph Henry Jackson and Thomas Craven. The First Illustrated Edition of t...

KIM

KIPLING, Rudyard · 1901

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

London. Macmillan and Co.. First British Edition. Published in the U.S. 16 days prior to the British publication. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf leather with gilt rules on the covers, gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marble...

TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA

DOUGHTY, Charles M · 0

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

London. Jonathan Cape Ltd. & The Medici Society Limited. Second English Edition. Two 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" volumes beautifully bound by Brian Frost & Company in full red calf leather with gilt floral border on the covers, gilt-decorated spines with gilt-lettered green morocco spine ...

OF HUMAN BONDAGE

MAUGHAM, W. Somerset · 1938

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.46 | ¥79,818)

New Haven. Limited Editions Club. Two octavo volumes (6" x 9") bound in the original imported speckled linen with leather labels. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated with 16 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by John Sloan. Copy #716 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colopho...

THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS

HERVEY, Thomas K · 1836

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

London. William Spooner. First Edition. Small octavo (4" x 6-3/8") beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full red morocco with triple gilt rules, spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and lettering, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; original cloth spine and covers ...