Charles Agvent

SAVROLA. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania

CHURCHILL, Winston · 1900

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

London. Longmans, Green and Co.. First British Edition. Second Printing. Bound for Sotheran in 3/4 tan morocco leather and cloth with gilt-lettered red and green morocco spine labels. Churchill's only novel, first published in America.. Rubbing to spine tips and edges as well ...

COSMIC RELIGION With Other Opinions and Aphorisms

EINSTEIN, Albert · 1931

$18,750.00 (€17,011.45 | £14,192.23 | ¥2,993,182)

New York. Covici Friede. First Edition. With a long biographical note and an appreciation by George Bernard Shaw. Subjects include Disarmament, Pacifism, the Jewish Homeland, and more. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author with his scarcer full signature on the front en...

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. A PURE WOMAN

HARDY, Thomas · 1926

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

London. Macmillan and Co. Limited. First Edition. The First Limited Edition, royal octavo (7-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in vellum-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with 41 wood-engravings, including the frontispiece, by Vivien Gribble and a folding map at the end. One of 325 copie...

FORREST GUMP

GROOM, Winston · 2014

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

[New York]. Doubleday. Commemorative Edition. Cloth in slipcase. Copy #305 of 500 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. A reissue of this title made, of course, into the very popular film starring Tom Hanks. Includes a new introduction by Groom.. Fine in a Fine slipcase

COFFEE SHOP

AMEN, Irving

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

Limited edition color lithograph (image size 19-1/2" x 14" matted and framed to an overall size of 27" x 23"). Of an edition of 300 SIGNED in pencil by the illustrator in the bottom right margin, this copy is marked "Artist's Proof" in pencil at the bottom middle margin and ti...

SILENT SPRING

CARSON, Rachel · 1962

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. This book on the effects of pesticides is a landmark in environmental writing inspiring the movement that led to the banning of DDT and raising awareness of the important connection between humans and their environment which hit...

MARCHING MEN

ANDERSON, Sherwood · 1917

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

New York. John Lane Company. First Edition. Anderson's second book with a fine SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the author on the front endpaper: "Another novel written/while I was still in man-/ufacturing, living at/Elyria, Ohio. It perhaps/should have been cast/in the form of a long/po...

AN ODD BESTIARY OR, A COMPENDIUM OF INSTRUCTIVE & ENTERTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF ANIMALS ... ARRANGED AS AN ABECEDARY

(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) ROBINSON, Alan James · 1982

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

(Easthampton, MA). Cheloniidae Press. First Edition. Folio (9-3/4" x 13-1/2") bound in quarter leather by Gray Parrot in custom morocco-backed cloth clamshell box. The text of this wonderful ABC book was compiled by Laurie Block. The illustrations consist of 26 wood engravings...

A FOWL ALPHABET

(CHELONIIDAE PRESS) ROBINSON, Alan James · 1986

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

(Easthampton, MA). Cheloniidae Press. First Edition. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound by Gray Parrot in quarter vellum and marbled paper, laid in a custom cloth clamshell box. The text was culled from ANIMATE CREATION by Rev. J. G. Wood, 1885. The illustrations consist of 26 woo...

ONE LIFE. An Autobiography

LEAKEY, Richard · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

London. Michael Joseph. First Edition. Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician whose fossil discoveries at Koobi Fora in a fifteen-year period beginning in the late 1960s included a nearly complete 1.6-million-year-old skeleton of a young male ...

THE INVISIBLE MAN

WELLS, H. G · 1967

$168.80 (€153.15 | £127.77 | ¥26,947)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in full maroon buckram, with spine stamped in burgundy and lettered in gilt, top edge stained red; 212 pages. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell. Introduction by Bernard Bergonzi. Illustrated with full-page bla...

NANA

ZOLA, Emile · 1948

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in raspberry watered-silk covers with a French blue linen gilt-stamped spine label. Translated by F. J. Vizelelly with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere and a preface by Henry James. Illustrated with drawings by Be...

THE RIVALS. A COMEDY

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley · 1953

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

London. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in yellow linen buckram. Designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Rene ben Sussan hand-colored in Paris. Copy #1085 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator ...

MADAME BOVARY

FLAUBERT, Gustave · 1950

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full gold French damask with a white leather spine label stamped in gold. The translation of J. Lewis May revised by A.S.B. Clover. Designed by Francis Meynell. The illustrations were drawn as water colors by Pier...

PEER GYNT

IBSEN, Henrik · 1955

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Oslo. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. Copy #1085 of 1500 numbered copi...

TALES OF THE GOLD RUSH

HARTE, Bret · 1944

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full brown linen, gold-stamped with an embossed design of a nugget impressed in gold on the front cover. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Copy #1085 of 1200 numbered copies illustrated with line drawings by Fletc...

AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS

1968

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Nearly square octavo (8-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in natural wood veneer over boards with an undyed fawnskin leather spine. Selected, edited, and with an introduction by Allan A. MacFarlan. With 37 illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson, 27 of them...

THE ALHAMBRA

IRVING, Washington · 1969

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") beautifully bound in full Toledo damask, woven in a Hispano-Morrish pattern of henna and gold, with a spine label oval of dark henna-brown leather stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Illustrated...

THE LIGHT OF ASIA BEING THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF GAUTAMA, PRINCE OF INDIA AND FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM

ARNOLD, Sir Edwin · 1976

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

Avon, CT. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-1/2") bound in cotton with an all-over Indian pattern and a gilt-stamped green leather label; 220 pages. Introduction by Melford E. Spiro .Illustrated by Ayers Houghtelling with 8 full-page color plates, 8 two-color line dra...

THREE MEN IN A BOAT

JEROME, Jerome K · 1975

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,978)

Ipswich. Limited Editions Club. Horizontal quarto (10-7/8" x 9") in a three-piece binding of linen sides printed in a pattern of scarlet, slate, and yellow vertical stripes with a shelfback of ochre buckram stamped in gold leaf; 224 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Desi...