Charles Agvent

PICTURESQUE EUROPE: A DELINEATION BY PEN AND PENCIL ... OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT...

TAYLOR, Bayard (editor) · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Appleton & Company. First Edition. Two (of 3) folio (9-3/4" x 12-1/2") volumes bound in publisher's full gilt-decorated black morocco leather. Volumes 2 and 3 only. Illustrated with 2 steel- engraved title pages and 39 (of 60) fine steel-engraved views.. Minor foxing...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to His Mother

CRANE, Hart · 161924

$25,000.00 (€22,681.93 | £18,922.97 | ¥3,990,909)

Columbia Hts [New York]. Very scarce, closely written two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with superb content two years before the publication of his first book, WHITE BUILDINGS, to his mother, addressed as "Dear Grace." In part: "Another very active week. Luncheon with someone d...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Describing his First Book

AUDEN, W. H · 211947

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

New York. Scarce AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the poet to a Mr. Roberts about his first book. In part: "Thank you for your letter. Unfortunately, I can help you very little myself. There was a little privately printed (on a hand-press by Stephen Spender) book of my poems in 1928...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

VERLAINE, Paul · 11895

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

Paris. One-page SIGNED handwritten letter in French on 4-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheet to an unnamed politician regarding placement of an article about his book in REVUE ENCYCLOPÉDIQUE. Roughly translated: "I received your check for 4 guineas today and I thank you. The article on your b...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

KENNEDY, Jacqueline (Jackie) · 1963

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

Fine image (8" x 10") matted and framed to an overall size of 13-1/2" x 16" of a smiling President Kennedy in profile, with the smiling First Lady just behind him. Wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Jackie on the blank margin beneath the image: "For Sandy Fox -- who worked wi...

SIGNATURE Matted and Framed with a Photograph

HOLIDAY, Billie

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

A 5-1/2" x 3" index card SIGNED "Billie Holiday," attractively matted and framed with a 7-1/2" x 10" original photograph to an overall size of 13" x 20-1/4." One of the largest Holiday signatures we have seen at 4" x 2.". Fine and attractively presented

SIGNATURE Matted and Framed with a Photograph

LEE, Peggy · 1942

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

A 5" x 3" index card SIGNED "Love! Peggy Lee," attractively matted and framed with a 7" x 9" original photograph to an overall size of 13" x 20-1/2." Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress with a career spanning seven decades...

SIGNED CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARD

ELIOT, T. S. (Barnett FREEDMAN) · 0

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

(London). (Faber and Faber). First Edition. One sheet folded into fours (6-3/4" x 9-1/2") drawn and lithographed by Barnett Freedman "for directors and members of Messrs Faber & Faber to send to their friends," printed by the Curwen Press. SIGNED by T. S. Eliot beneath the gre...

GOING AFTER CACCIATO

O'BRIEN, Tim · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

London. Jonathan Cape. First British Edition. Issued the same year as the American edition. Winner of the National Book Award and one of the best books to come out of the Vietnam conflict. SIGNED by the author on the title page.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped, as u...

AT NIGHT THE SALMON MOVE

CARVER, Raymond · 1976

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. Early collection of poems, one of 1000 copies of the softcover issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1100. Increasingly uncommon to find without any defects.. Fine

IN THE GARDEN OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MARTYRS

WOLFF, Tobias · 0

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. The Ecco Press. First Edition. Wolff's first collection of short stories in the scarce first state dustwrapper with the price of $14.95 printed on the front inside flap.. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a soiled spine with the letters of the publisher faded

ULTRAMARINE

CARVER, Raymond (William Heyen) · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Random House. First Edition. A fine collection of poems by this writer of powerful short stories. A Review Copy with photocopy of the publisher's slip laid in. Poet William Heyen's copy SIGNED and dated 1987 on the front pastedown underneath the dustwrapper flap.. Fi...

NO HEROICS, PLEASE. UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS

CARVER, Raymond · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Vintage Contemporaries. First Edition. Illustrated wraps. Edited by William Stull with a foreword by Tess Gallagher.. Fine

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE

CARVER, Raymond (William HEYEN) · 1981

$231.30 (€209.85 | £175.08 | ¥36,924)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. First Printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with ...

THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU [WORKS]

THOREAU, Henry David · 0

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

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. Walden Edition. Ten 5" x 7-3/4" volumes bound in publisher's 3/4 green morocco leather and marbled boards with heavy gilt spine decoration and lettering, top edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits of Thoreau and photogravures by Her...

ARCHIVE for Radio Performance of DODSWORTH

LEWIS, Sinclair · 1946

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

Collection of SIGNED contracts along with a copy of the original script for the 6 October 1946 radio performance presented by The Theatre Guild on the Air. Included are a 15 July 1946 two-page contract SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis, Theatre Guild co-administrator Armina Marshall, a...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Charming Missive to a Young Boy Named Charlie

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1867

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

Cambridge. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you begin to think that I am not ...

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS)

VAN DYKE, Henry · 241897

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

One-page handwritten note SIGNED on a 5" x7" sheet to author Robert Bridges. In full: "Dear Bridges, You have a 'lovely' collection of poets in your den. Is it asking too much to request to make room for this vellum?" Based on the content, this is likely an endpaper removed fr...

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS)

GALE, Zona · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. One-page handwritten note SIGNED on a 7-1/4" x 8" sheet of Hotel Gotham stationery to poet Isabel Conant. In full: "This will present Baroness [?], of whom I have told you." Gale, an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was the first woman to win th...

SHILOH

FOOTE, Shelby · 1952

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. The Dial Press. First Edition. An important and scarce Civil War novel, uncommon in the first printing.. Spotting to blue cloth spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear