Charles Agvent

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DANA, Richard Henry, Jr · 161850

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Boston. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on a 7-3/4" x 9-3/4" sheet of blue paper SIGNED as "R. H. Dana Jr." to an unknown recipient on legal matters regarding Caleb Smith. Dana is best known as the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. . Faint stain on left side from previous mountin...

THE FEDERALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1788, BY MR. HAMILTON, MR. MADISON, AND MR. JAY WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE LETTERS OF PACIFICUS AND HELVIDIUS, ON THE PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY OF 1793; ALSO, THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE AMENDMENTS MADE THERETO

HAMILTON, Mr. [Alexander]; MADISON, Mr. [James]; JAY, Mr. [John] · 1818

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

Washington DC. Jacob Gideon. First Edition. Bound in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; 671 pages. The First Edition of this classic in which the authors of each essay were identified by name. Comprises 85 political essays, most written ...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

POUND, Ezra · 0

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

Rapallo. One-page letter on Pound's personal stationery (8-7/8" x 7") SIGNED with his initials. Apparently a letter to the editor of the TRIBUNE "to print if you like," as Pound has typed in the upper left margin. In full: "Now that the TRIBUNE has (editorial April 17) definit...

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RUSKIN, John · 181887

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

Landgate. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "John Ruskin" on a 4-1/2" x 6-7/8" sheet of light blue paper addressed to George Barnard, artist, writer, and from 1843 to 1880, the drawing master at Rugby School. Along with Ruskin, Barnard had been a pupil of the landscape artist, ...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke

WRIGHT, James · 241954

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

Seattle. Fine, single-spaced typed letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a former student of Ransom's at...

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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett · 1859

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

[Rome]. Handwritten letter SIGNED "Elizabeth B. Browning" on a 3-3/8" x 5-1/4" sheet of paper matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Browning has written "43 Bocca di Leone" as a return address. The letter is addressed to a Miss Shepard. In p...

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RUKEYSER, Muriel · 201936

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. Two-page handwritten letter on both sides of personal stationery (7" x 10-1/4") to Philip B. Rice of Kenyon College SIGNED "Muriel." In part: "I'm all over that stage, and would probably be quite unrecognizable to you now, although I'm a lot more recognizable to myse...

THE SECRET. A Fairytale for Lovers

MILNE, A. A · 0

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

(Minneapolis). Redpath Press. First Edition. Pictorial wraps (4" x 7-1/2"); 32 pages. Illustrated by Etienne Delessert. A story from his collection A BIRTHDAY PARTY. Part of the Pleasant Dreams series created as small, charming gifts.. Etienne Delessert. Slight darkening to sp...

MORE OF BRER RABBIT'S TRICKS

(GOREY, Edward) REES, Ennis · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Young Scott Books. First Edition. Pictorial green boards (10-1/2" x 9-1/4"); unpaginated; issued without a dust wrapper. Illustrated throughout by Gorey in black and white and SIGNED by him on the title page.. Edward Gorey. Endpapers darkened from glue. Minor wear. V...

THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES. An Illustrated History

[BASEBALL] HONIG, Donald · 0

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

New York. Simon & Schuster. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards (8-1/2" x 11"). Illustrated with b&w photographs of Phillies baseball legends complementing a narrative history of the club that dates back to the 1870s. This copy has been SIGNED by more than 20 former Phillies, i...

ALBUMS PHOTOGRAPHIES DE TERRE-SAINTE. ARRANGÉES AVEC SOIN PAR BOULOS MÉO, JÉRUSALEM

[PHOTOGRAPHY - JERUSALEM] ZANGAKI, Adelphoi · 0

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

First Edition. Oblong folio album (15" x 11") in morocco-backed olive wood panels with a carved Jerusalem cross and inlaid border containing a letterpress title and 48 large (@9" x 11") albumen photographs with caption and photographer's credit in the negative, mounted recto/v...

VENEREAL DISEASE POSTER Circa World War II: VD. A SORRY ENDING TO A FURLOUGH

[MEDICINE] · 0

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

First Edition. A 15" x 19-1/2" poster in color, apparently produced in 1946 when the U.S. military was trying to enforce a policy of non-fraternization in the occupation zones between the troops and European women. It depicts a sullen soldier sitting on his bunk in uniform abo...

ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING

THURBER, James · 1950

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

Large Original Pencil Drawing (36" x 24") of two couples dancing SIGNED by the artist, simply framed. This drawing was used on the cover of HARPER'S MAGAZINE Centennial Issue, October 1950, No.1205. Not in Bowden's bibliography of Thurber. A scarce and very large iconic drawin...

GOSPEL OF THE GOAT

KING, Alexander · 1928

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

Chicago. Pascal Covici. First Edition. Black boards (11" x 15-1/4") with printed paper label on the front cover and a black morocco spine. Complete with 30 striking full-page black-and-white lithographs. The story of the life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by a goat, which symbo...

THE TEMPERS

WILLIAMS, William Carlos · 1913

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

London. Elkin Mathews. First Edition. Original cream boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (3-3/4" x 5"). Williams's second volume of poetry, and the first by a commercial publisher, after POEMS, published privately in 1909 in a very small limitation. Pencil signature...

TEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT

EICHENBERG, Fritz · 0

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

[New York]. [Spiral Press]. Portfolio of 10 SIGNED wood engravings (9-1/4" x 16") by Fritz Eichenberg contained in 3 paper folders, all housed in a stiff board folder with title and list of contents pasted on the front. Not issued with a title page or text, this set contains a...

[THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD]

(EICHENBERG, Fritz) [DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor] · 0

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

[New York]. [Limited Editions Club]. Complete collection of 10 SIGNED wood engravings (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") by Fritz Eichenberg used to illustrate the Limited Editions Club edition of Dostoevsky's THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD, here presented as loose engravings individually SIGNED and n...

INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES OF THE GOLD PANIC. Report of the Majority of the Committee on Banking and Currency. March 1, 1870

GARFIELD, James A · 1870

$18,750.00 (€17,011.45 | £14,192.23 | ¥2,993,182)

Washington. Government Printing Office. First Edition. Publisher's plum cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in blind; housed in half burgundy morocco clamshell box with matching corners. SIGNED by the future President on the front free endpaper: "Respects of/J. A. Gar...

SECHZEHN RADIERUNGEN ZUR ERBSÜNDE. Eine Eotische Schöpfungsgeschichte

KLEMM, Walther · 0

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

Weimar. Bruno Wollbrück. First Edition. The title translates as "Sixteen Etchings on Original Sin. An Erotic Creation Story." Folio (12-1/2" x 15-3/4") consisting of title page, two pages of text, limitation page and 16 SIGNED erotic original etchings by Walther Klemm tipped-i...

1. LES ARTS AU MOYEN AGE ET A L’ÉPOQUE DE LA RENAISSANCE (1871, Third Edition); 2. MOEURS, USAGES ET COSTUMES AU MOYEN AGE ET A L’ÉPOQUE DE LA RENAISSANCE (1872, Second Edition); 3. XVIII SIÈCLE INSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES FRANCE, 1700 – 1789 (1875, First Edition); 4. VIE MILITAIRE ET RELIGIEUSE AU MOYEN AGE ET A L’ÉPOQUE DE LA RENAISSANCE (1877, Fourth Edition); 5. SCIENCES ET LETTRES AU MOYEN AGE ET A L’ÉPOQUE DE LA RENAISSANCE (1877, Second Edition); 6. XVIII SIÈCLE LETTRES SCIENCES ET ARTS XVII SIÈCLE FRANCE, 1700 – 1789 (1878, Second Edition); 7. INSTITUTIONS USAGES ET COSTUMES FRANCE, 1390 – 1700 (1880, First Edition); and 8. XVII SIÈCLE, LETTRES, SCIENCES ET ARTS FRANCE, 1390 – 1700 (1882, Second Edition)

LACROIX, Paul · 18711882

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

Paris. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. First Edition. Eight quarto (7-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in full green morocco leather by Bickers & Son with triple gilt-ruled covers with gilt fleur-de-lys corner decorations, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco spine labels...