Charles Agvent

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN THE KING JAMES VERSION

[BIBLE] · 1979

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

(New York). Limited Editions Club. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") bound with a natural-color sheepskin spine with a smooth finish, stamped in genuine gold, and dark brown linen boards imported from the Netherlands. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Introduction by Franklin H. L...

THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES

[BIBLE] · 1968

$143.80 (€130.47 | £108.84 | ¥22,956)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in full embossed lambskin. Text in both Hebrew and English, printed in red and black, from the Revised King James Version. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Illustrated by Edgar Miller with color tempera pai...

CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH

TOLSTOY, Leo · 1972

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

New York. Limited Editions Club. 400 pages. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") bound in two-tone decorated buckram with gold stamping. In his introduction John Bayley states: "No writer in the world has written better and more understandingly of childhood and adolescence than Tolstoy." ...

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

JOYCE, James · 1968

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 9-3/4") bound in green boards with a black leather spine stamped in gold. Copy #1085 of 1500 illustrated with full-page color plates and part-page line drawings by Brian Keogh and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. Month...

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

ELIOT, George · 1963

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in a rugged woven fabric with a leather spine label stamped in gold. Introduction by David Daiches. Copy #1085 of 1500 illustrated with 24 full-page color plates after oil paintings by Wray Manning and SIGNED by the ...

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION: BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING FOR THE PERUSAL OF ANGLERS

WALTON, Izaak · 1948

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Beautifully designed and illustrated small folio (9" x 13") bound with a white vellum spine stamped in gilt and decorated boards. With instructions on "How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream" by Charles Cotton and with an introd...

CARMEN

MERIMEE, Prosper · 1941

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-3/8" x 11") bound in bright and colorful hand-blocked gypsy silk cloth. Illustrated with 37 beautiful ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS in color drawn on the plates by Jean Charlot. Copy #1058 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Per...

THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V

SHAKESPEARE, William · 1951

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full "blond" English buckram lavishly stamped in bright gold leaf, with beveled edges. The Arden text, edited and introduced by Herbert Arthur Evans with a prefatory note by Mark Van Doren. Copy #1085 of 1500 numbe...

ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE

HORACE · 1961

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes...

ARCHIVE OF 17 LETTERS

PERELMAN, S. J · 19741978

$15,625.00 (€14,176.21 | £11,826.85 | ¥2,494,318)

Superb collection of letters by the great humorist late in life (He died in 1979) all addressed to "Diane" [Diane Daniels, whom Perelman dated after the death in 1970 of his wife, Laura, sister of Nathaniel West, from 1974 until the beginning of 1979 when she became engaged to...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

STEIN, Gertrude · 0

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

Bilignin, France. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full on both sides of an 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" sheet framed under glass to an overall size of 12" x 15" so the entire letter can be viewed. In full: "My dear [?], Thanks for the Cahier Bleu which I suppose is [?] with hope and I...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

WELLS, H. G · 101907

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

One page addressed to "My dear Sir" on his personal 4-3/8" x 7" Spade House, Sandgate stationery SIGNED "H. G. Wells." In full: "Very many thanks indeed for the Annals of the West Kent Club, which I am returning herewith. I read it with very great interest & pleasure." Among h...

THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

BIERCE, Ambrose · 1972

$231.30 (€209.85 | £175.08 | ¥36,924)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel includ...

THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

BIERCE, Ambrose · 1972

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel includ...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

STRAND, Mark · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8-1/2” x 11" sheet to an unidentified writer named Flavio. In part: "I have your book and have read around in it some more and think it should be translated. I´m taking it to Ronald Christ at the Center for Inter American Relati...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): SOUVENIRS DE PAQUES

COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle · 0

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

[Paris]. A 5-1/4-page handwritten MANUSCRIPT in French, with numerous corrections, SIGNED "Colette" at the conclusion on the rectos of six 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" sheets of blue paper with the imprint "Immeuble Marignan titled "Souvenirs de Paques," which translates as Easter Memorie...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle · 0

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

n.p.. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, unusually, as "Colette Willy," written in French in purple ink to an unknown recipient on black-bordered mourning stationery (4-1/2" x 7"). "Willy" was the pen name of Colette's first husband, Henry Gauthier-Villars, an author of whom ...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

TOKLAS, Alice B · 9

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

Paris. Fine closely written 2-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED composed within a year after Gertrude Stein's death on an 8" x 10-1/2" sheet folded into fours to friend Tony Scott SIGNED "Alice Toklas." With the original envelope addressed in Toklas's hand and SIGNED by her. Fi...

AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED (ANS)

LEWIS, Sinclair · 1925

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

A brief handwritten SIGNED note on 5-3/4" x 6-3/4" Manger Hotels - New York City stationery. In full: "To W. Leslie Barnette with the greetings of Sinclair Lewis. New York June 8, 1925.". Creasing from mailing. Near Fine

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

RUSKIN, John · 51853

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

Edinburgh. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "J Ruskin" on both sides of a 4-1/4" x 7-1/8" sheet addressed to a Mr. Dennistoun (probably James Dennistoun, 1803-1855, an antiquary and art collector in Edinburgh) declining a dinner invitation due to "a very tiresome operation in...