Charles Agvent

FAMOUS CASTLES AND TEMPLES IN JAPAN

OGAWA, K[azumasa] · 0

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

Tokyo. (Ogawa Photoengraving Company}. First Edition. Oblong folio (14-7/8" x 10-1/2") in original pink and green floral silk cloth over thin boards, two purple cord ties, green and gilt speckled finish inside the covers and on the facing free pages, all edges gilt. Illustrate...

BEAUTIFUL SHIRT

REVELL, Donald · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Hanover & London. Wesleyan University Press. First Edition. Softcover issue in glossy pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCIRBED to fellow poet Jorie Graham: "To Jorie--/'I do not understand, but I believe'/and all the way/to everlasting...

THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF MOLL FLANDERS

DEFOE, Daniel · 1954

$206.30 (€187.17 | £156.15 | ¥32,943)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (5-5/8" x 8-7/8") bound in full blue padded silk stamped in copper. Introduction by John Winterich. Illustrated with pen drawings by Reginald Marsh hand-colored by Martha Berrien. Copy #434 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the coloph...

GASTRONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

LOWENSTEIN, Eleanor · 1972

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,994)

Worcester, MA & New York. American Antiquarian Society & Corner Books. Reprint. Green cloth; xii, 132 pages including index. Preface To The Third Edition by Mark McCorison.. Near Fine

BACK TO METHUSELAH

SHAW, George Bernard · 1939

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto, bound in lime green natural linen with a dark green morocco label on the front cover with gilt lettering and decoration. With a new, previously unpublished 49-page introduction by Shaw. Printed at the Marchbanks Press. Copy #65 of 1500 ...

THE LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

CELLINI, Benvenuto · 1937

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,959)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Small folio (9-1/2" x 13") bound in full cloth with the stamped gray pattern of the Florentine lily and the lion of Cellini's arms by Fortuny of Venice. Translated by John Addington Symonds with an introduction by Thomas Craven. Designed, printed...

LEAVES OF GRASS

WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON) · 1942

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book and made into exquisite...

IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor · 1933

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

New York. Frederick A. Stokes Company. First Edition. "A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Her first book.. Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in ...

EVERY NIGHT IS SATURDAY NIGHT. A Country Girl's Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

JACKSON, Wanda; BOMAR, Scott B · 0

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

BMG. First Edition. Foreword by Elvis Costello. Illustrated with photographs. A pioneering presence as a female artist, encouraged early on by Elvis Presley. SIGNED by Jackson on a label pasted to the front endpaper.. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

EDMONDS, Walter D · 41935

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Cambridge, MA. A 1-1/2-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on two sheets of 8-1/2" x 11" paper to a teacher, Carlton F. Wells, replying to his letter about a story he has written: "It is a comforting thing to know that someone has liked a story enough to go on reading it or using it in s...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 191891

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.85 | ¥59,883)

Boston. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" on one panel of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded into fours. In full: "My dear little Lady, Do you think I could refuse writing you that 'little letter' you ask for? No, indeed, you shall have it before ...

AN AMERICAN EPIC. Famine in Forty-Five Nations. The Battle on the Front Line 1914-1923

HOOVER, Herbert · 1961

$562.50 (€510.35 | £425.77 | ¥89,824)

Chicago. Henry Regnery Company. First Edition. The third volume of what would eventually become four volumes on America's role in the twentieth century. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Reese Taylor/The Good Wishes/of/Herbert Hoover....

CATHEDRAL

CARVER, Raymond · 1983

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,994)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining la...

MANY LOVES

GINSBERG, Allen · 0

$62.50 (€56.71 | £47.31 | ¥9,980)

(New York). Pequod Press. First Edition. Printed wraps. One of 500 numbered copies illustrated by Roberta Collier. A poem from a 1956 Journal about making love to Neal Cassady, apparently for the first time, beginning "Neal Cassady was my animal: he brought me to my knees.". A...

THE POEMS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 1945

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,994)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather and illustrated with pencil drawings by Raymond Holden. Edited with commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.. Raymond Hold...

THE DIAMOND ATLAS ... THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

COLBY, Charles · 1857

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

New York. Morse and Gaston. First Edition. Small square quarto (6-1/4" x 7-1/4") in original publisher's binding of full red morocco leather with heavy gilt decorations; 239 pages. Illustrated with 55 hand-colored maps and charts, mostly full page and including double-page map...

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1939

$625.00 (€567.06 | £473.08 | ¥99,804)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full blue denim with a paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. Designed by C. P. Rollins. Illustrated with 70 drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #1257 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the a...

CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS)

DUMAS, Alexandre · 1937

$312.50 (€283.53 | £236.54 | ¥49,902)

London. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-3/8" x 11") bound in full white linen with a gilt decoration on the front board and lettering on the spine. Designed, printed, and bound by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press. Translated, with an introduction, by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated...

THE HUNTED

LEONARD, Elmore · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,998)

New York. The Mysterious Press. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps of this reissue of a book first published in 1977.. Slight crease to lower front corner. About Fine

THE SPORTSWRITER

FORD, Richard · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,990)

New York. Vintage Contemporaries. First Edition. True First Printing of Ford's third book in pictorial wraps.. About Fine copy of this softcover original