Charles Agvent

ALL-AMERICAN XVII. GLORY BE

WEBER, Bruce · 0

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Little Bear Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps (9-1/2" x 12") with black cloth tape spine. Many black-and-white and color photograph reproductions.. Fine

ALL-AMERICAN. VOLUME XVIII. FACING THE WORLD

WEBER, Bruce · 0

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(Little Bear Press). First Edition. Pictorial wraps (9-1/2" x 12") with black cloth tape spine. Many black-and-white and color photograph reproductions.. Fine

ALL-AMERICAN Volume Twenty. COMING HOME

WEBER, Bruce · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Little Bear Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps (9-1/2" x 12") with black cloth tape spine. Many black-and-white and color photograph reproductions.. Small tear to rear cover. Near Fine

ALL-AMERICAN IX. A NEAR-PERFECT WORLD

WEBER, Bruce · 2009

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Little Bear Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps (9-1/2" x 12") with black cloth tape spine. Contributions by Weber, Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg, and Walter Cronkite, among others. Many black-and-white and color photograph reproductions.. Fine

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COWARD, Noel · 181960

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Montreux. One page on 5-3/4" x 8' Les Avants sur Montreux letterhead to columnist Leonard Lyons SIGNED "Noel." In full: "Please tell Sylvia from me that she is a very clever girl, and thank you for sending me her piece which I thoroughly enjoyed. At last I am beginning to get ...

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CHANDLER, Raymond · 271947

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

La Jolla, CA. Two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED as "Ray" on Chandler's personal 8-1/2" x 11" 6005 de la Costa letterhead to "Swanie," his literary agent H. N. Swanson about a contract with Paramount and a possible plagiarism suit in England. In part: "The question I raised with Bar...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A

WHARTON, Edith · 1857

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

Four-page letter on both sides of one 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" sheet of Curtis Hotel, Lenox Massachusetts stationery folded in half and addressed to Mrs. Bell and SIGNED as "E. Wharton." Wharton states that she has received a letter from her husband following his talk with Mrs. Bell "&...

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WHITE, E. B · 201963

$812.50 (€737.16 | £615.00 | ¥129,705)

New York. Letter to a Mr. Poland written in Florida on 7" x 10-1/4" THE NEW YORKER stationery. In part: "I am envious of anybody who is in Maine today, where chill blustery weather blends with the scenery. Down here on Fiddler Bayou it just seems out of place and uncomfortable...

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WHITE, E. B · 181964

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.23 | ¥169,614)

New York. Fine letter to Jon Carroll of 189 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry on 7" x 10-1/4" THE NEW YORKER stationery. In full: "There are all kinds of stories. Sometimes a writer, when he creates a character, draws on people he knows. Sometimes it is pure invention. Usually, if a rea...

OUR DAY AND GENERATION. The Words of Edward Kennedy

KENNEDY, (Ted) Edward · 0

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Cloth (8-1/2" x 11") in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page by the author "To Alfred/My Best/Ted Kennedy." Edited by Henry Steele Commager with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Illustrated with photographs.. Near Fine...

WASHINGTON SQUARE

JAMES, Henry · 1971

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in imported black hand-boarded natural-grain morocco stamped in gold leaf with sides covered with striated smokey-beige satin; 242 pages. Copy #457 of 1500 copies illustrated with 10 full-page and 10 part-pa...

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BETTELHEIM, Bruno · 91950

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Chicago. TYPED LETTER SIGNED in full on The University of Chicago stationery to Philip Rice of the Psychology Department of Kenyon College. In part: "I regret very much that I cannot send you a copy of my article, 'Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations,' because I...

STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS; OR, FORTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS OF P. T. BARNUM. Written by Himself

BARNUM, P. T · 1874

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

Buffalo, NY. Warren, Johnson & Co. Author's Edition. One of several editions of one of the most famous American autobiographies by one of the world's most sensational entrepreneurs. This copy bound in contemporary half leather with matching corners and marbled boards with a gi...

THE ILLITERATE DIGEST

ROGERS, Will · 1924

$1,562.50 (€1,417.62 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,432)

New York. Albert & Charles Boni. First Edition. Blue cloth. Illustrated with drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper nearly filling the page: "To/J.C. Calhoun/a Friend/from/Will Rogers/(almost an author)/New York. Nov 15, 24." Rogers was born in Indi...

THE TRANSPOSED HEADS. A Legend of India

MANN, Thomas · 1941

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

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First American Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the Nobel Prize-winning author on the front endpaper: "Mrs. Marcus Cashland/in remembrance of our visits/in her hospitable house, where/we spent so happy hours/Pacif. Palisades, Jan. 23 - 1942/Thomas Ma...

THE RACE - JEROME PARK N.Y

1869

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

New York. Thomas Kelly. First Edition. Scarce hand-colored lithograph (28” x 22” matted and framed to an overall size of 34" x 27"), one of a series of four prints published by Kelly and printed by Wm. C. Robertson of Jerome Park, site of the inaugural Belmont Stakes in 1867. ...

A MIRROUR OR LOOKING-GLASSE BOTH FOR SAINTS, AND SINNERS, HELD FORTH IN SOME THOUSANDS OF EXAMPLES WHEREIN IS PRESENTED, AS GODS WOUNDERFUL MERCIES TO THE ONE, SO HIS SEVERE JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE OTHER. Collected out of the most Classique Authors, both Ancient, and Modern with some late Examples observed by my self, and others Whereunto are added a Geographical description of all the Countries in the known World: as also the Wonders of God in Nature; and the Rare, Stupendious, and Costly Works made by the Art, and Industry of Man. As the most famous Cities, Temples, Structures, Statues, Cabinets of Rarities, &c. which have been, or are now in the WORLD

CLARK(E), Sa · 1657

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

London. T[homas]. R[atcliffe]. and E[dward]. M[ottershed]. for Tho. Newberry. Third Edition. Large quarto (7-1/2" x 11") bound in full early paneled calf leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [xvi], 702, [10], [4], I-[225], [9] pages. Complete but for the addit...

LES OBSERVATIONS DE PLUSIEURS SINGULARITEZ ET CHOSES MEMORABLES, TROUVEES EN GRECE, ASIE, IUDÉE, EGYPTE, ARABIE, & AUTRES PAYS ESTRANGES

BELON, Pierre · 1588

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

Paris. H. de Marnef & la veufue Guillaume Cavellat. Third French Edition. Quarto (5-3/4" x 8-5/8") bound in 18th-century calf leather with a gilt-decorated spine and a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [24], 4680 [i.e.470], [2] pages + 1 folding plate. Complete with the foldi...

3 BY IRVING: SETTING FREE THE BEARS, THE WATER-METHOD MAN, THE 158-POUND MARRIAGE

IRVING, John · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. Random House. First Edition. SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author "John Irving" without an inscription.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

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PARTRIDGE, William Ordway · 141927

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Washington DC. A two-page SIGNED letter on Cosmos Club stationery to Greeley excusing his absence at a dinner and explaining his stomach troubles. Partridge was an American sculptor, teacher, and author. Among his best-known works are the Shakespeare Monument in Chicago, the e...