Charles Agvent

SIGNED QUOTATION FROM RHAPSODY IN BLUE

GERSHWIN, George · 1924

$11,875.00 (€10,773.92 | £8,988.41 | ¥1,895,682)

On a 6" x 6-1/2" piece of paper Gershwin has written three measures of the lyrical theme in E major from the "Andantino moderato" section of his composition RHAPSODY IN BLUE and INSCRIBED it "To Channing Way" and SIGNED "with all good wishes/from,/George Gershwin." Matted and...

LEGENDE VOM INDISCHEN KÖNIG

HESSE, Herman · 1948

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

[Montagnola]. Privatdruck. First Edition. String-tied printed wraps (4-1/2" x 6-1/4"); 13 pages plus covers. INSCRIBED in German and SIGNED with his initials in ink by the Nobel Prize winner on the colophon page.. Fine. From the estate of George Goetz, a Danish Jew living in S...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

[CIVIL WAR]

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Four-page letter on a 10-1/2" x 8-1/4" sheet folded in fours. It appears that this is the last four pages of a longer letter of unknown length, SIGNED by “Lieut. J. Glendinning” to an unknown recipient. Much content including discussion about the 12th Army Corps under Union Ge...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

[CIVIL WAR] · 241863

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Stevenson, AL. One-page letter on a 7-3/4" x 12-1/4" sheet addressed to a Capt. Goodwin and SIGNED "J. W. Able"[?], "Army Mail Contractor & News Dealer." The writer seems to be proposing a way of "simplifying the army with news matter." The verso is docketed "Hdqrs. Department...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

SHERMAN, General William Tecumseh · 241879

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

Washington DC. A six-page letter on both sides of three lined Headquarters Army of the United States letterhead (5" x 8") to Colonel L. B. Church. Sherman expresses his well wishes as Col. Church recovers from an illness, noting that "I know that in conveying to you this note ...

MOBY DICK

MELVILLE, Herman · 1943

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

[Brattleboro, VT]. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound in full dark sheepskin with gilt lettering on the spines. Copy #378 of 1000 with color and black-and-white plates after paintings by Boardman Robinson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon pa...

TYPEE. A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS

MELVILLE, Herman (COVARRUBIAS, Miguel) · 1935

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full native tappa with an introduction by Raymond Weaver who was most responsible for resurrecting Melville's reputation in the twentieth century. Copy #196 of 1500 numbered copies with lovely color illustratio...

DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG

FREUD, Sigmund · 19001899

$31,250.00 (€28,352.41 | £23,653.71 | ¥4,988,636)

Leipzig and Vienna. Franz Deuticke. First Edition. Bound in modern full blue morocco, not retaining the original wraps (6" x 8-1/2"); [iv], 371, [5] pages including table of contents and bibliography. With the motto after Virgil on the title page: “Flectere si nequeo superos, ...

THE ECONOMIC LIBRARY OF JACOB H. HOLLANDER, PH.D

[ECONOMICS] MARSH, Elsie A. G. (Compiler) · 1937

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Baltimore. Privately Printed. First Edition. Green cloth-backed boards (7-1/2" x 10-3/4"); xi, [iii], 324 pages. Copy #499 of 500 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the subject and with a foreword by him as well. Covers books printed from 1574 to 1935.. Three ...

AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE; FIRST EDITION IN OCTAVO, Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the Quarto, with Corrections, Improvements and Several Thousand Additional Words: To which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History and Connection of the Languages of Western Asia and Europe, with an Explanation of the Principles on which Languages are Formed

WEBSTER, Noah · 1841

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

New Haven, CT. Published by the author. First Octavo Edition. Two royal octavo (7" x 10-1/2") volumes in contemporary calf leather with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Webster's groundbreaking dic...

SIGNED INDUCTION DAY POSTER PHOTOGRAPH

[BASEBALL] CARLTON, Steve · 1995

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Yonkers. Photo File Inc.. First Edition. Photograph (10" x 8") with statistics commemorating Carlton's induction into the Hall of Fame on 31 July 1994. SIGNED by the left-handed legend.. Small rubbed spot, about the size of a dime, in the right blank margin with some paper los...

OBAMA. FROM PROMISE TO POWER

[OBAMA, Barack] MENDELL, David · 0

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

(New York). Amistad. First Edition. Obama's meteoric rise from Hawaii high schooler to exemplary Harvard Law School student to well-groomed politico to history-making presidential candidate is the stuff of legend. Veteran CHICAGO TRIBUNE journalist David Mendell has covered Ob...

LITTLE SUNNY STORIES

GRUELLE, Johnny · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Chicago. P. F. Volland Company. First Edition. Charming little (6" x 7-1/4") children's book written and illustrated by the creator of the Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls. Bound in 3/4 dark green morocco leather and patterned boards with gilt-rules and a gilt-decorated and ...

“THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF LIFE.” Or, The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. By one who has been “almost Worried to Death”

(CRUIKSHANK, George) [MAYHEW, Augustus and Henry] · 0

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

(London). David Bogue. First Edition. Scarce first edition in the original 6 parts, each bound in decorated beige 5" x 7-1/4" wrappers. The Mayhew brothers were journalists and authors who wrote several books in collaboration with one another, including this humorous work abou...

THE DEATH OF THE NARCISSUS. Eleven Botanico-Erotic Etchings

MOSER, Barry · 1970

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

(Easthampton, MA). [Castalia Press]. First Edition. Folio consisting of 14-1/2" x 11" sheets including 4 text leaves and 11 pencil-SIGNED and numbered circular etchings. Copy #35 of only 35 of Moser's first illustrated book, SIGNED additionally on the colophon page. Housed in ...

FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY. Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

STEVENSON, Robert Louis · 1895

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. Reprint. Attractively bound in modern half green morocco leather and marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine with five raised bands; top edge gilt. Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 where he built a house at Vailima. This...

WHY NOT THE BEST?

CARTER, Jimmy · 0

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

Nashville, TN. Broadman Press. The Presidential Edition, issued without dustwrapper in a gold box with a plastic cover and bound in full gilt-decorated green cloth made to resemble leather. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. A limited edition of Carter's first autobiog...

THE ILLITERATE DIGEST

ROGERS, Will · 1924

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

New York. Albert & Charles Boni. First Edition. Somewhat larger than the trade edition, this copy has an attractive modern 3/4 brown morocco leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt rules on the covers and a gilt-decorated and lettered spine with five raised bands, t...

PHOTOGRAPHIC SCENERY OF SOUTH AFRICA

1880

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

n.p.. Sam Alexander. Second Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in publisher's gilt-decorated morocco leather, with modern rebacking retaining most of the original spine and tinted lithographic title page with onlaid collotype photographic portrait of Sir Bartle Frere, the book's p...

A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TOWARDS THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD: But Chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, From the Year 1772, to 1776

SPARRMAN, Andrew · 1786

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

London. G. G. J. and J. Robinson. Second Edition. Two quarto (8" x 10") volumes bound in later half calf leather and boards with morocco spine labels: xxviii, 368; viii, 356 pages. Translated from the Swedish. Illustrated with a large folding map and 10 plates depicting South ...