Charles Agvent

OLD GORIOT

BALZAC, Honore de · 1948

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben...

A WOMAN'S LIFE (UNE VIE)

MAUPASSANT, Guy de · 1968

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound with a white sheepskin leather spine with a burgundy leather spine label lettered in gilt and French marbled paper sides; 280 pages. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed at the Marchbanks Press. Introduc...

RAMONA

JACKSON, Helen H · 1959

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in colorful full woven fabric with a printed paper spine label, 446 pages. An historical novel championing the rights of Native Americans, first published in 1884 and here printed by the Plantin Press with an in...

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

HARDY, Thomas · 1958

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 9") bound with a natural sheepskin spine and sides covered with paper printed in England bearing a design by the illustrator; 424 pages. Introduction by Robert Cantwell; book designed by John Dreyfus. Copy #258 of 1500 copies illu...

SIGNED ORIGINAL DRAWING: BETTY BRINGING WATER

NAST, Thomas · 0

$1,187.50 (€1,077.39 | £898.84 | ¥189,568)

Mercer, PA. ORIGINAL PEN & INK DRAWING (3-3/4" x 6-1/2" matted and attractively framed with UV protective glass to an overall size of 12-1/2" x 14-1/2") of an African-American woman carrying a bucket titled at the top "Mercer PA June 16th/Betty bringing water" and SIGNED by Na...

LETTERS AND ADDRESSES BY GEORGE THOMPSON DURING HIS MISSION IN THE UNITED STATES From Oct. 1st, 1834, to Nov. 27, 1835

THOMPSON, George · 1837

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

Boston. Isaac Knapp. First Edition. Original cloth-backed printed boards (4" x 5-3/4"); xii, 126 pages. Complete with a printed note from William Lloyd Garrison. George Thompson was well-known to anti-slavery activists on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a powerful orator an...

QUARTO-MILLENARY. AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY ... OF THE FIRST 250 PUBLICATIONS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB

1959

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. First Edition. Folio (9" x 12") bound in half black morocco leather and red cloth with a black morocco inset on the front cover of the LEC logo. Illustrated with 200 examples of title pages, text pages, and illustrations reproduced by the same ...

NEGRO SLAVERY IN WISCONSIN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

DAVIDSON, John Nelson · 141897

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

Milwaukee, WI. Parkman Club Publications. First Edition. Stapled printed green wraps (6-5/8" x 9-1/2"); 211-244 pages plus blank and covers. The Ordinance of 1787 forbade the practice of slavery or involuntary servitude in any form in the Northwest Territory, making it a crime...

UP FROM SLAVERY

WASHINGTON, Booker T · 1913

$10,625.00 (€9,639.82 | £8,042.26 | ¥1,696,136)

New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. Early Edition. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Washington. Classic turn-of-the-century autobiography, a testament to the virtues of hard work and unrelenting effort, by the successor to Frederick Douglass as the f...

PROVISION FOR PASSING OVER JORDAN

[ROOSEVELT, Franklin] SCUDDER, Rev. John · 0

$1,687.50 (€1,531.03 | £1,277.30 | ¥269,386)

New York. American Tract Society. First Edition. Miniature book (2-1/4" x 3") in original cloth; 214 pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's copy SIGNED by him on the front endpaper "Franklin D. Roosevelt/Hyde Park/1934." On the front pastedown is the paper label used in Franklin R...

THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD

(SHAW, George Bernard) · 0

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

London. Constable & Company Limited. First Edition. Pictorial boards and twenty woodblock illustrations within by John Farleigh. Laurence A210a. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED to “Catherine Inge/from/Bernard Shaw” and dated “30/11/32” on the half-title page. Pasted to the faci...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

BARNUM, P. T · 301877

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

Bridgeport, CT. A two-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet with a blue ink stamp of Barnum addressed to an unknown recipient regarding employment and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." In part: "You are declining the American tour…. My respected father-in-law is I ...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on the Rumor that a "Colored Boy" Wrote His Songs

BERLIN, Irving · 141948

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

On a sheet of his personal stationery (7" x 10") addressed to Michael de Lisio of MGM Pictures, Berlin answers an inquiry about a rumor, prevalent since the 1920s, that his songs had been written for him by an anonymous black boy. In full: "The little colored boy story that M...

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS)

CARTER, Jimmy [James Earl CARTER] · 0

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

[Plains, GA]. On a letter to Carter, in which the writers, a couple, ask for marital advice, Carter responds in this handwritten note: "To Erica & Jonathan: We give each other plenty of space, but try to find things to do together--" and SIGNED "Best Wishes, Jimmy C." With the...

PHANTASMAGORIA. OR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF MAGICAL DECEPTION

ANONYMOUS · 0

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

London. Tegg and Castleman. First Edition. Modern calf-backed orange paper boards (4-1/8" x 7"); 72 pages. Frontispiece engraving by I. Taylor after a design by W. M. Craig. Scarce Gothic fiction employing Phantasmagoria, developed in the late eighteenth century from the earli...

FRIER BACON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART, NATURE, AND MAGICK Faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own Copy, by T. M

[BACON, Roger] · 1659

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

London. Simon Miller. First Edition. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of Roger Bacon's letter to William of...

THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; PARTICULARLY THOSE NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA: Containing an Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, Their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and Other Particulars, Sufficient to Render It a Complete Indian System. With Observations on Former Historians, the Conduct of Our Colony Governors, Superintendents, Missionaries, Etc Also an Appendix Containing a Description of the Floridas and the Mississippi Lands, with Their Productions; the Benefits of Colonizing Georgiana and Civilizing the Indians; and the Way to Make All the Colonies More Valuable to the Mother Country. With a New Map of the Country Referred to in the History

ADAIR, James · 1775

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

London. Edward and Charles Dilly. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in contemporary calf rebacked with the original spine with a new gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, the original label loosely laid in; [xii], 464, [2, ads] pages. Complete with half titl...

THE TERRIBLE CHILDREN

HACKER, Marilyn · 0

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

n.p.. (Samuel R. Delany). First Edition. Twenty-six mimeographed 8-1/2" x 11" pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE, which won the ...

THE MAP OF LIFE. CONDUCT AND CHARACTER

LECKY, William Edward Hartpole · 1900

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

London. Longmans, Green and Co.. New Impression. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco for G. P. Putnam's with gilt rules and gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt; xv, 328 pages. Philosophical ruminations about happiness, the law, politics, religion, money, marriage, time, success, and de...

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1942

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

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in full butternut cloth with paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard De Voto who restores the chapter Clemens ripped out of the manuscript and inserted into LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Designed by C. P....