Charles Agvent

THE ECLOGUES

VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO) · 1960

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. C...

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA

NIETZSCHE, Friedrich · 1964

$218.80 (€198.51 | £165.61 | ¥34,928)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11") bound in imported white English vellum-backed blue Fabriano paper boards stamped in pure gold leaf; 340 pages. Designed by Adrian Wilson and translated by Thomas Common. Illustrated with decorated chapter initials and...

POLITICS & POETICS

ARISTOTLE · 1964

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Lunenburg, VT. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure...

THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS

PETRONIUS · 1964

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient ...

FULL MOON

[ARMSTRONG, Neil] LIGHT, Michael · 1999

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

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Pictorial boards in dustwrapper (11-1/2" x 11-1/2") illustrated with photographs scanned and processed by Michael Light with an essay by Andrew Chaikin. A total of 129 full-page and oversize black-and-white and color reproductions of N...

THE COLLECTED WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

YEATS, W. B · 1908

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

Stratford-On-Avon. Shakespeare Head Press. First Edition. Eight 5-3/4" x 9" volumes in recent full reddish-brown morocco leather with gilt-decorated and lettered spines with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With 3 (of 4) portrait frontispieces, lacking the po...

ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS

HUDSON, W[illiam] H[enry] · 1913

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

London. Hutchinson & Co.. First Edition. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound by Bayntun-Riviere in 3/4 dark green morocco leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of Hudson, ornitholog...

NOTES OF A BOTANIST ON THE AMAZON & ANDES Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupes, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the Cataracts of the Orinoco, along the Eastern Side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the Shores of the Pacific, During the Years 1849-1864

SPRUCE, Richard & WALLACE, Alfred Russel (editor) · 1908

$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)

London. Macmillan and Co., Limited. First Edition. Two volumes (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound by Bayntun [Riviere] in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on the spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. With a frontispiece portrait of ...

WALKING WITH THE WIND. A Memoir of the Movement

LEWIS, John with Michael D'Orso · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

(New York). Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Sixth Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Lewis on the front page with the publisher's logo: "To Eunice Akin/Always keep your head up high!/Best Wishes,/John Lewis/4-18-99." Illustrated with photos.. Rather faint light blue stain to b...

SAMUEL PEPYS. THE MAN IN THE MAKING with SAMUEL PEPYS. THE SAVIOUR OF THE NAVY with SAMUEL PEPYS. THE YEARS OF PERIL

[PEPYS, Samuel] BRYANT, Arthur

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Cambridge. The University Press. Reprints. Three volumes (5-1/2" x 8-5/8") bound in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and cloth with gilt-decorated and lettered spines with 5 raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with plates.. Fine, attractively bound set

A FAREWELL TO ARMS

HEMINGWAY, Ernest · 1929

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

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. First state of text without disclaimer and earliest state of dustwrapper with "Katherine Barclay" reading. Hemingway's third novel, based on his experience as an ambulance driver in the war. Made into a film several times, the ...

A CHANGED MAN. THE WAITING SUPPER AND OTHER TALES Concluding with the Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid

HARDY, Thomas · 1913

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

London. Macmillan and Co. Limited. First Edition. Bound in attractive 1/2 green morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards, the spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a map of Wessex. Hardy...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT) · 1917

$11,875.00 (€10,773.92 | £8,988.41 | ¥1,895,682)

New York. Underwood & Underwood. Superb and large (image size 10" x 13" framed to an overall size of 16" x 20") photograph by Underwood & Underwood depicting Roosevelt with a serious stare directly into the camera INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him on the bottom margin: "May 3rd/191...

THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. AN ACCOUNT OF THE BIG GAME OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CHASE WITH HORSE HOUND, AND RIFLE

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT) · 0

$10,625.00 (€9,639.82 | £8,042.26 | ¥1,696,136)

New York & London. G. P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") in the original gilt-decorated cream cloth; xvi, 472 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate, drawings at the chapter heads and tails, and 23 full-page plates by A. B. Frost, Henry Sandham, J. Ca...

IN FAIRYLAND, A SERIES OF PICTURES FROM THE ELF-WORLD. With a Poem

DOYLE, Richard and ALLINGHAM, William · 1870

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

London. Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer. First Edition. Folio (11" x 15") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid-down; 31 pages. Illustrated with 16 charming engraved plates, printed in colors, by Richard Doyle.. Scattered foxing and soili...

THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS

PEPYS, Samuel · 1924

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

London & New York. G. Bell and Sons Ltd./Harcourt, Brace and Co.. India Paper Edition. Eight volumes bound in three (5" x 7-1/2") in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and cloth with gilt-decorated and lettered spines with 4 raised bands. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley....

AFRICAN GAME TRAILS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-NATURALIST

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT) · 1910

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Two large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") volumes of the First Limited Edition bound in recent 1/2 brown morocco leather, an almost exact match to the original, with the original boards and morocco corners, the spines lettered in gilt; n...

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES: The Birth of Britain. The New World. The Age of Revolution. The Great Democracies

CHURCHILL, Winston

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

New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. First American Edition. Four volumes bound by the Kingsport Press in full dark blue morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines and gilt-lettered red morocco onlays on the front covers. The first three volumes are first printings, ...

THE SINEWS OF PEACE. Post-War Speeches by Winston S. Churchill bound with MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS

CHURCHILL, Winston · 19481947

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

London. Cassell and Company, Ltd./Eyre and Spottiswoode. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one for Sotheran in 3/4 burgundy morocco leather with a gilt-lettered and decorated spine and matching gilt-lettered blue morocco spine labels. The first title, edited by Randolph S. C...

EUROPE UNITE

CHURCHILL, Winston · 0

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

London. Cassell and Company, Ltd.. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in 3/4 red morocco leather with a gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Includes 52 speeches by Churchill spanning January 1947 to December 1948, one of five volumes of Churchill's post-war speeches.. Fine