Charles Agvent

ONE WORLD

WILLKIE, Wendell · 1944

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

New York. Limited Editions Club. The Photographic Album Edition. "The Faces & The Places That Willkie Saw." Quarto, bound in 1/2 brown morocco leather and pictorial boards. Willkie's best-selling account of his travels and meetings with heads of state and ordinary citizens in ...

THE STORIES OF O. HENRY

HENRY, O · 1965

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full olive-striped buckram with a leather spine label; 384 pages. Copy #282 of 1500 numbered copies with line drawings in brown and full-page color illustrations by John Groth. SIGNED by the artist on the co...

THREE PLAYS OF EURIPIDES: MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS and THE BACCHAE

EURIPIDES · 1967

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,965)

London. Limited Editions Club. Small quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in natural canvas-backed boards covered with a terra-cotta hand-made Italian paper; 240 pages. Translated by Philip Vellacott with an introduction and notes by him. Designed by Will Carter and printed at the ...

THE NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE

RILKE, Rainer Maria · 0

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in white vellum with gilt lettering. In the definitive translation by Stephen Mitchell. Copy #204 of 800 copies set in monotype didot and printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy, and bound by Reca...

A RAW YOUTH

DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor · 1974

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Two large quarto (8" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in fine-textured gray-green cloth with a silk finish. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Konstantin Mochuls...

LES FLEURS DU MAL and FLOWERS OF EVIL

BAUDELAIRE, Charles · 1971

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes, one in the original French (5-1/2" x 9") bound with a magenta buckram spine and marbled boards and the other with English translations by various hands (6-3/4" x 11- 1/2") bound in full magenta buckram. Printed at the Press of A. C...

THE STORIES OF O. HENRY

HENRY, O · 1965

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,979)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full olive-striped buckram with a leather spine label; 384 pages. Copy #107 of 1500 numbered copies with line drawings in brown and full-page color illustrations by John Groth. SIGNED by the artist on the co...

SARTOR RESARTUS. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrîckh

CARLYLE, Thomas · 1931

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London. Limited Editions Club. Small octavo (4- 5/8" x 7-1/2") bound in full blue buckram with goldstamping, 396 pages. Preface by Ralph W. Emerson. Decorations by Albert Rutherston. Copy #238 of 1500 designed, printed, bound, and SIGNED by Oliver Simon of the Curwen Press. Ge...

[ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES ]

[ANDERSEN, Hans Christian] · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

[Akron, OH]. [Saalfield Publishing Co.]. Pictorial boards (7-1/2" x 9-3/4") printed on cheap paper, illustrated, housed in cloth chemise and 1/2 brown morocco leather slipcase which is signed "A. B. M." for the childhood owner, Alastair Bradley Martin, whose small leather book...

SELECTED STORIES

DUBUS, Andre · 0

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,988)

Boston. David R. Godine. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. His finest stories, grouped together in one volume, including "Killings," the basis for the critically acclaimed film IN THE BEDROOM, "Voices From the Moon," and "A Father's Story.". Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

BROKEN VESSELS

DUBUS, Andre · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,998)

Boston. David R. Godine. First Edition. His first book of essays, with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

EIGHT PLAYS FROM OFF-OFF BROADWAY

(O'HARA, Frank; SHEPARD, Sam; et al.) ORZEL, Nick and SMITH, Michael (editors) · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,990)

Indianapolis. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.. First Edition. Contains Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shephard's first play in book format, CHICAGO, which won an Obie award the same year for Best Distinguished Play. Other playwrights included are Frank O'Hara (THE GENERAL RETURNS F...

MOUNT VERNON AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS, Historical, Biographical and Pictorial

LOSSING, Benson J · 1859

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

New York. W. A. Townsend & Company. First Edition. Blindstamped and gilt-decorated and lettered blue cloth; 376 pages. Illustrated throughout with engravings.. Owner name dated the year of publication on the front endpaper; several library ink stamps and blindstamps, mostly on...

TIGER AT THE GATES

GIRAUDOUX, Jean · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

New York. Oxford University Press. First Edition. Translated into English by Christopher Fry. This play by Giraudoux, written in 1935, is a criticism of the national leaders and intellectuals who brought about World War I and the lead-up to World War II. SIGNED by actor Michae...

SPEECH ACCEPTING THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. STOCKHOLM, DECEMBER 10, 1962

STEINBECK, John · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Printed wraps; 11 pages. One of 3,200 copies printed for presentation by the publisher.. Fine

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Lengthy and Important Letter Defending Jenny Lind

BARNUM, P. T · 281850

$5,625.00 (€5,103.51 | £4,257.69 | ¥898,240)

Charleston, SC. A four-page letter on all panels of a 15" x 9-3/4" sheet folded in half to General Morris SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum" with a postscript SIGNED "B" and marked "Confidential" by Barnum at the top front. Barnum writes Morris to clarify that a statement he is sending...

ARCHIVE OF 17 LETTERS AND EPHEMERA by the Author of "America the Beautiful"

BATES, Katharine Lee · 1898

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

A collection of correspondence and ephemera comprised of 14 SIGNED handwritten letters, 3 SIGNED typed letters, and a SIGNED printed Christmas poem, along with two hand-addressed envelopes by Bates and a copy of “In Memoriam” from Bates's memorial at Wellesley, dated June 1929...

BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: PROOF of Canby's Review of Dorothy Parker's DEATH AND TAXES

(PARKER, Dorothy) CANBY, Henry Seidel · 131931

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

The Saturday Review of Literature. A single sheet (14" x 19") printed on one side and folded into fours of Canby's important review of Parker's book that helped establish her as a serious poet. This is a proof copy of that review in which Canby states, "I attempt no real criti...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES

ADAMS, Henry · 1957

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France fol...

THE WAY OF THE WORLD. COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS

CONGREVE, William · 1959

$106.30 (€96.45 | £80.46 | ¥16,975)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound in maroon linen embossed with a design by T. M. Cleland to give the effect of eighteenth-century brocade; gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Designed and illustrated by Cleland with the plates colored by ha...