Charles Agvent

THE LOST PILOT

TATE, James · 1967

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

New Haven & London. Yale University Press. First Edition. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and S...

I: SIX NONLECTURES

CUMMINGS, E. E · 1953

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

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. First Edition. Copy #31 of 350 of these lectures containing much poetry SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page. In addition this copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "inscribed (on behalf of/Burton L. Stratton)...

POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: INCLUDING LYRICAL BALLADS, AND THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY

WORDSWORTH, William · 1815

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

London. Longman, Hurst et. al. First Edition. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's p...

POMOLOGIA, DAT IS BESCHRYVINGEN EN AFBEELDINGEN VAN DE BESTE ZOORTEN VAN APPELS EN PEEREN, Welke In Neder- en Hoog-Duitschland, Frankryk, Engleland en Elders Geagt Zyn, en Tot Dien Einde Gecultiveert Worden [with] FRUCTOLOGIA, OF BESCHRYVING DER VRUGTBOMEN EN VRUGTEN.... [with] DENDROLOGIA, OF BESCHRYVING DER PLANTAGIE-GEWASSEN...

KNOOP, Johann Hermann · 0

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

Leeuwarden. A Ferwerda and G. Tresling. First Edition. Folio (8-1/4" x 13") bound in contemporary half calf leather gilt, spine with raised bands with gilt borders and gilt decorations, red morocco spine label. With 3 printed title pages and illustrated with 39 folding engrave...

THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

DOYLE, Arthur Conan · 1952

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Three octavo volumes (6" x 9-1/8") bound in gilt-stamped quarter black linen and wall-paper sides with a cameo decoration reproducing the section of the wall over the mantel in Mrs. Hudson's chambers at 221B Baker Street showing two examples of...

THE SPECIMEN BOOK OF FRUITS, FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. Carefully Drawn and Colored from Nature, for the Use of Nurserymen

DEWEY, D. M · 0

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

Rochester, NY. D. M. Dewey. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in publisher's gilt-decorated blue pebbled cloth, rebacked with the original black leather spine, previous owner's name in gilt on front cover with later name in gilt toward bottom; new endpapers. Illustrat...

LES ORCHIDÉES. HISTOIRE ICONOGRAPHIQUE. Organographie – Classification – Géographie – Collections – Commerce – Emploi -- Culture avec une Revue Descriptive des Espèces Cultivées en Europe

DE PUYDT, E[mile] · 1880

$1,125.00 (€1,020.69 | £851.53 | ¥179,591)

Paris. J. Rothschild. First Edition. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled boards with gilt rules and lettering, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 50 fine chromolithographed plates, finished by hand, with tissue guards, and 244 figures in...

LEAVES OF GRASS Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2

WHITMAN, Walt · 1930

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

New York. Random House, Inc.. Folio (9-3/4" x 14-1/2") in original red half-morocco and bevel-edged Philippine mahogany boards with the publisher's device engraved on the front board, five raised bands on the spine where the title is stamped in black. Illustrated with 37 woodc...

A BEGINNING

[AUDEN, W. H.] HORAN, Robert · 1948

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

New Haven. Yale University Press. First Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and quite uncommon thus.. Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a ...

BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS Poems

LAWRENCE, D. H. (HUGHES-STANTON, Blair) · 1930

$2,187.50 (€1,984.67 | £1,655.76 | ¥349,205)

London. The Cresset Press Ltd.. Limited Edition. Publisher's pigskin by Wood (8-1/2" x 13-1/2") gilt lettered on the spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 10 striking full-page wood engravings and two text engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. First published in 1923, this edit...

[TIMBUCTOO, A POEM]. Prolusiones Academiæ Præmiis Annuis Dignatæ et in Curia Cantabrigiensi Recitatae Comitiis Maximis

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord · 1829

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

Cambridge. John Smith for the University Press. First Edition. String-tied pamphlet in publisher's blue wraps (5-3/8" x 8-1/2"); 41, [3] pages. Tennyson's second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor's prize-winners of the year, and the first to appear...

HESPERIDES OR THE WORKS BOTH HUMANE AND DIVINE OF ROBERT HERRICK ESQ Annotated by James Russell Lowell

[LOWELL, James Russell] HERRICK, Robert · 1846

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

London. William Pickering. First Edition. Two 4-1/4" x 6-7/8" volumes in later half mottled calf and marbled boards with matching calf corners, gilt-decorated spines with gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine labels, top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of H...

THE BUCK IN THE SNOW & Other Poems

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent · 1928

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

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Parchment-backed boards in original patterned tissue dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy #27 of only 36 copies on Japan Vellum (of a total edition of 515) SIGNED by Millay. Scarce issue of this title.. Fine in lightly worn tissue...

HARMONIUM

STEVENS, Wallace · 1923

$5,000.00 (€4,536.39 | £3,784.59 | ¥798,182)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. The third issue of Stevens's first book, one of only 715 copies in blue cloth of a total edition of 1500. Perhaps the most important first book of poetry of the 20th century.. Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ ye...

POEMS OF PLACES. SCOTLAND. Volume 1 (of 2)

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (editor) · 1876

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

Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. First Edition. Gilt and black-stamped green cloth with all edges stained red (4" x 6"); x, 246 pages. The first volume, of two, of poems about Scotland edited by Longfellow and including contributions by Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, and others...

ONE - A - PENNY. One Hundred Poems

PINCH, Esther · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

(Madison, CT). (The Tyndall Press). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards (4-3/4" x 6-1/4") printed on various color papers with the endpapers designed by the author. Copy #785 of 950 printed on a hand-press operated by the author's nephew.. Very Good

THE BUCK IN THE SNOW & Other Poems

MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent · 1928

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards.. Bookplate on front pastedown; short closed split to bottom front joint of dustwrapper, not visible under mylar. About Fine in a bright, close to Fine dustwrapper

VUES DE SAUVE

CRUMB, Robert · 1991

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

[Galérie Vidourle Prix]. First Edition. Portfolio of 8 prints (8-1/2" x 12") of Crumb drawings, all picturing his home and its locale in the South of France, housed in a paper portfolio with a title print pasted on the center. The portfolio is SIGNED by Crumb on the front cove...

THE DEAD AND THE LIVING

OLDS, Sharon · 1984

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Second book by this acclaimed poet and a Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. A fine Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet to fellow poet Margaret Randall "in great gratitude and/appreciation./With all best wishes/Sharon Olds/...

HOWL For Carl Solomon

GINSBERG, Allen · 0

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

(San Francisco). (Grabhorn-Hoyem). First Edition. Folio (11" x 14") in pictorial tan linen decorated with a wrap-around skyline with fireworks accomplished in 9 colors and designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies printed on handmade paper and SIGNED on the title page by ...