Charles Agvent

AIRPLANE DREAMS: COMPOSITIONS FROM JOURNALS Inscribed to Poet Robert Duncan

GINSBERG, Allen · 1968

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

(Toronto). Anansi. First Edition. Pictorial wraps; (viii), 38 pages. Fine Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ginsberg to poet Robert Duncan: “For Robert Duncan at home--/San Francisco 1968/August 11,/Allen Ginsberg.” Additionally Ginsberg has writte...

PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN

PATCHEN, Kenneth · 1946

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

(Berkeley, CA). Bern Porter. First Edition. Covers painted in color by Kenneth Patchen with interior illustrations from paintings by the author with the limitation statement at the rear written in Patchen's hand: "this Edition is Limited to one Hundred and Fifty Numbered & SIG...

EARLY POEMS AND STORIES

YEATS, W. B · 1925

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

New York. The MacMillan Company. First Edition. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Copy #214 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the li...

THE LYRICS OF FRANCOIS VILLON

VILLON, Francois · 1933

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Croton Falls, NY. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in brown buckram, 136 pages. Done into English verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, John Payne and Leonie Adams. With an Introduction by Leonie Adams. Hand-s...

THE HISTORY OF EARLY ROME

LIVY · 1970

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in linen-backed boards covered with decorative Italian paste-paper designs hand-printed in brown ink. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. With sixtee...

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

HOPE, Anthony · 0

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in quarter red morocco leather with heavy gilt stamping and white linen stamped with the gilt coat of arms of Ruritania. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and line drawings by Donald Spencer. Copy #1104 of 1...

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 #904 of 1200 numbered copies illustrated with line drawings by Fletch...

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER OR THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT

GOLDSMITH, Oliver · 1964

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (8" x 11") bound in yellow buckram over beveled boards with a pattern embossed in blind on the front cover and a gilt-stamped black leather spine label; 140 pages. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Designed and illustrated in col...

THE BANGLE (Slight Return)

MULDOON, Paul · 1998

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

Princeton. The Typography Studio. First Edition. Brown cloth-backed marbled boards with printed paper label on spine; 7-1/2" x 9-1/2". Of 110 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet, this is copy "B" and has the added ink notation "OUT OF SERIES." This copy is also INSCRIBED and SI...

THE VANTAGE POINT: PERSPECTIVES OF THE PRESIDENCY 1963-1969 Inscribed to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach

JOHNSON, Lyndon B · 0

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

New York. Holt Rinehart Winston. First Edition. Bound in publisher's flimsy and impractical padded red leather housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box backed with a gilt-lettered red morocco leather spine. Illustrated with photographs. Copy #99 of 300 SIGNED by the author ...

THE CIVIL AND NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA...

BROWNE, Patrick · 1756

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

London. T. Osborne and J. Shipton. First Edition. Folio (9" x 14-1/4") in modern calf-backed marbled boards with gilt decorations on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; [vi], viii, 503 pages. Complete with half-title page and list of subscribers. Illustrated...

PEER GYNT

IBSEN, Henrik · 1955

$87.50 (€79.39 | £66.23 | ¥13,968)

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 #355 of 1500 numbered copie...

THE BEGGAR'S OPERA

GAY, John · 1937

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Paris. Limited Editions Club. Small folio (9-1/2" x 13-1/2") bound in gilt-decorated full blue buckram. Preface by A. P. Herbert. Illustrated with 15 full-page ORIGINAL MONOCHROME LITHOGRAPHS drawn on the stone by Mariette Lydis and pulled in Paris by F. Mourlot. Copy #473 of ...

MORIAE ENCOMIUM; OR, THE PRAISE OF FOLLY

ERASMUS, Desiderius · 1943

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheep leather with an ivory medallion inset on the front cover. Translated from The Latin text by Harry Carter, with an introduction by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Illustrated with 10 original mezzotin...

SHOW BOAT

FERBER, Edna · 1926

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

Garden City. Doubleday, Page & Co.. First Edition. Copy #64 of only 201 numbered and SIGNED copies of perhaps Ferber's best-known book, published a year after her Pulitzer-Prize winning SO BIG. Source for the musical and film starring Paul Robeson.. Spine a bit darkened with a...

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ASSASSINATION ORIGINAL TELETYPE PAGES

[KING, Martin Luther, Jr.] [Martin Luther King, Jr.] · 51968

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

Group of original teletype dispatches dated 5 April 1968 covering the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comprised of three pieces. 1. Third World News Roundup (8-1/2" x 28-1/2"). "A stunned nation reacts to the death of Martin Luther King ... President Johnson react...

BASEBALL IN BLACKVILLE from HARPER'S WEEKLY

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA/BASEBALL] EYTINGE, Jr., Sol · 271878

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Harper & Brothers. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.. Some edgewear but an at least Very Good example of this fragile item

THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS DE ROUVROY DUC DE SAINT-SIMON COVERING THE YEARS 1691 - 1723

SAINT-SIMON · 1959

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Two large octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in gilt-decorated red cloth. Selected, translated, and edited by Desmond Flower. Illustrated with drawings by Pierre Brissaud reproduced as gravures and hand-colored in the Walter Fischer Studio. ...

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

DREISER, Theodore · 1954

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in boards covered with a heavy imported rose canvas and stamped in color ink and gold leaf. Introduction by Harry Hansen. Illustrated with ink sketches by Reginald Marsh, his final work. Copy #432 of 1500, issued uns...

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

HOFFMANN, E. T. A · 1943

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full black natural linen decorated with a design in gold by the illustrator and a leather spine label. Translated by various hands; introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated with 43 original lithogra...