Charles Agvent

THE BRITISH APOLLO, OR, CURIOUS AMUSEMENTS FOR THE INGENIOUS TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE MOST MATERIAL OCCURRENCES FOREIGN AND DOMESTICK. Performed by a Society of Gentlemen

1708

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

London. J. Mayo. First Edition. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in 19th century half brown leather with leather corners and marbled boards; [2], [516], 14 pages. The first volume of this scarce periodical containing a title page, 117 four-page issues, 12 supernumerary numbers, and ...

ENTERING TIME

GIBB, Robert · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

(Daleville, IN). (The Barnwood Press). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Poetry by this Pennsylvania native.. Minor wear. Near Fine

THE MARGINS

GIBB, Robert · 1979

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

[Occidental, CA]. White Bear Books. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Early title by this Pennsylvania poet.. Minor wear. Near Fine

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BARNUM OR THE OPENING OF THE OYSTER

BARNUM, P. T · 1889

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Danbury, CT. First Edition. Scarce miniature book (1-3/4" x 2-1/4") in printed and stapled light blue wraps with an illustration on the rear cover; 16 pages plus covers. Illustrated with several cartoonish vignettes. . About Fine

OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND THE MEANS OF MAKING IT A BENEFIT TO THE WORLD

PRICE, Richard · 1784

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

Boston. Powars and Willis. First American Edition. Published in London the same year. Early marbled wraps (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"); 87, [1] pages. The last page with addendum notes for pages 6 and 45. Price, an intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin, was along with Thomas Paine among t...

HOWL: 33 1/3 rpm Vinyl Record Album

GINSBERG, Allen · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

[San Francisco]. Fantasy. First Edition. Pictorial sleeve containing a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl "Long Playing Microgroove" record album of Ginsberg reading "Howl," as well as "The Sunflower Sutra"; "Footnote to Howl"; "A Supermarket in California"; "Transcription of Organ Music"; "Ame...

THE FIRST PART OF THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RENOWNEDDON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de · 1941

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Random House. Illustrated Edition. Green cloth (6-1/2" x 10"), spine lettering intact. Translated by Peter Motteux. Illustrated with wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller.. Hans Alexander Mueller. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase

THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR

THORBURN, A(rchibald) · 1916

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

London. Longmans, Green and Co.. Second Edition. Four volumes in later buckram (10-1/2" x 12-3/4") with gilt-lettered labels on the front cover and spine; vi, 143; vi, 72; vi, 87; vii, 107 pages. Illustrated with 80 fine color plates protected by tissue guards. . Slight occasi...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Nancy Sinatra, Senior

SINATRA, Nancy · 101969

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

[Los Angeles]. One-page letter SIGNED "Nancy" on 7-14" x 10-1/2" pink personal stationery to a friend and employee of her father's thanking him for helping her with her book on Frank Sinatra. Stapled to envelope. Also a handwritten letter to the same recipient SIGNED "Nancy Sr...

STUFF AND NONSENSE And So On

DE LA MARE, Walter · 1927

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

London. Constable and Co. Ltd.. First Edition. Linen-backed boards with a gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #69 of 278 SIGNED by the author. Illustrated with wood-engraved designs by Bold.. Bold. Browning to endpapers, text clean. Minor wear, spine label chipped affectin...

THE PURLOINED LETTER in THE GIFT: A CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR, AND BIRTHDAY PRESENT 1845

(POE, Edgar Allan) · 1845

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

Philadelphia. Carey and Hart. First Edition. Original highly gilt-decorated polished calf, a lovely publisher's gift binding. BAL 4024 & 16143. The first appearance in print of this classic Poe piece collected the same year in his TALES. Other first appearances include Longfel...

MR. AND MRS. BRIDGE

(CONNELL, Evan S., Jr.) JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer · 0

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

Los Angeles. Creative Artists Agency, Inc.. First Edition. Three-hole punched sheets (8-1/2" x 11") bound with brads in CAA printed white covers. SIGNED by Connell on the title page. First Draft screenplay based on Connell's novels MR. BRIDGE and MRS. BRIDGE. The 1990 Merchant...

MR. BRIDGE with MRS. BRIDGE

CONNELL, Evan S · 1981

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Berkeley. North Point Press. First Edition. Two "Advance Page-Proof" copies (11" x 8") of this re-issue as a boxed set of Connell's best-known novels.. Near Fine

AUTOGRAPH LETTER (AL)

GINSBERG, Allen · 141983

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

Boulder, CO. On both sides of a letter on 6" x 9" lined paper to Ginsberg asking if he were still involved with the Hare Krishnas, he responds: "Not since 1968-- No-- I like Bhaktivedanta Swami Dispite [sic] his hard-shell Baptist style orthodoxy-- but I don't follow their the...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

SWINBURNE, Algernon · 14

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

Holmwood. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "A. C. Swinburne" on two adjoining 4-1/2" x 7" sheets to composer Theo Marzials. In large part: "I am afraid I did not answer your note yesterday, & today it rises on my sight like an avenging ghost. As a rule I find it necessary to...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

JOYCE, James · 241920

$7,500.00 (€6,804.58 | £5,676.89 | ¥1,197,273)

Paris. Small (4-1/2" x 6-1/2") AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Joyce" to Madame Yasushi Tanaka (Louise Gebhard Cann) on blue paper integral with envelope which is addressed in Joyce's hand and postmarked on the verso. In full: "Dear Madam, In reply to your letter I shall call o...

TYPED MANUSCRIPT for the Introduction to HARD FACTS

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0

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

TYPED MANUSCRIPT (5 pages) of the Introduction to his book of poetry HARD FACTS. Baraka has made several alterations and additions in the text including about 50 words in his hand at the bottom of the fourth page: "The year the class struggle in Blk America became clear & open...

SIGNED ORIGINAL ETCHING

[FROST, Robert] HOOD, Richard Thomas · 0

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

A 6-1/4" x 7-1/2" ORIGINAL ETCHING of Frost by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by the artist and by the poet. Attractive image of the poet at a somewhat younger age than typically depicted. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood (1910-1993), Philadelphia artist and ...

GENESIS

McCURDY, Michael · 0

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

[Boston]. [Hillside Press]. First Edition. Chapters 2 & 3 of Genesis from the Old Testament. Folio (13- 1/8" x 16-1/8") bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards (without label on front cover). Designed, illustrated with ORIGINAL WOOD ENGR...

HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION WITH COOPERATION OF WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. ALASKA

BURROUGHS, John; MUIR, John; GRINNELL, George Bird · 1901

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

New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. First American Edition. Two volumes in publisher's decorated green cloth with the scarce gilt-lettered green cloth dustwrappers. The first volume covers Narrative Glaciers, and Natives; the second History, Geography, and Resources with cont...