Charles Agvent

SALUTE, WALT WHITMAN

(WHITMAN, Walt) MICHALS, Duane · 1996

$562.50 (€510.34 | £425.77 | ¥89,795)

(Santa Fe). win Palms Publishers. First Edition. Green cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. Text consists mostly of extracts from Whitman's writings illustrated with photographs by Michals. Copy #60 of only 100 SIGNED by the photographer.. Duane Michals. Fine i...

THE CLOUD OF WITNESS. A Daily Sequence of Great Thoughts from Many Minds Following the Christian Seasons

[FINE BINDING] GELL, Hon. Mrs. Lyttelton · 1891

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

London. Oxford University Press for Henry Frowde. Full contemporary crushed olive morocco leather (3-3/4" x 5-3/4") by John Bumpus with a large gilt fleur–de–lis on the front cover within gilt frames, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartme...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to the First African American to Serve as a Policy-making Aide in the White House

KENNEDY, Robert F · 61964

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

Washington DC. To Frederic Morrow on 7" x 9" Attorney General stationery in simple frame thanking him for his letter and an address that "I have read with interest. The next time you are in Washington please feel free to call my office. We will be glad to arrange a tour of the...

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. MEMORIAL ADDRESS Delivered Before the Joint Meeting of the Two Houses of Congress as a Tribute of Respect to the Late President of the United States. Hall of the House of Representatives July 1, 1946 79th Congress, 2nd Session, House Document No. 770

[ROOSEVELT, Eleanor] WINANT, John Gilbert · 0

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

(Washington DC). (Government Printing Office). Newly Revised Edition. Specially bound black hard-grained morocco (6" x 9-1/4") with photographic frontispiece portrait of FDR. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S COPY of the official Congressional Memorial Service for FDR with both Roosevelt's...

DECAMERON

DALI, Salvador and BOCCACCIO, Giovanni · 0

$12,500.00 (€11,340.96 | £9,461.48 | ¥1,995,454)

(New York and Fribourg). (Pamela Verlag) and (Transworld Art). First Edition. Portfolio with loose sheets (12-1/4" x 17-1/2") laid in a paper cover and cloth portfolio lettered in silver on the backstrip, as issued. Copy #26 of 150 with English text and 10 ORIGINAL DRYPOINT EN...

VILLAS ON THE HUDSON. A Collection of Photo-Lithographs of Thirty-One Country Residences

TURNER, A[uston] A[ugustus] · 1860

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

New York. D. Appleton and Company. First Edition. Large folio (19" x 13-1/2") in original gilt-lettered cloth. Three preliminary leaves, 31 photo-lithographic plates (most with two tints applied by stencil, with gold-printed frames and captions), and 21 floor plans. A visual r...

A PICTORIAL DESCRIPTION OF BROADWAY BY THE MAIL & EXPRESS

[NEW YORK CITY] · 1899

$8,125.00 (€7,371.63 | £6,149.96 | ¥1,297,045)

New York. The Mail & Express. First Edition. Oblong narrow folio (17" x 6") in original pictorial wraps rebacked with linen in an old, folding blue cloth slipcase lettered in gilt with ribbon tie; 91 pages. Illustrated with 37 chromo-lithographed sheets, printed on both sides ...

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA'S NIGHTMARE

RUSSELL, Bertrand and ERNI, Hans · 0

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

(Zurich). (Ernst Scheidegger). First Edition. Folio (11-1/4" x 17") consisting of loose sheets in original white parchment wrappers, the upper wrapper embossed with a design from an original bronze by the artist, housed in a parchment-backed woodgrain clamshell box. A fable (f...

HEDGE SCHOOL

HEANEY, Seamus · 1979

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

Newark, VT. The Janus Press. First Edition. Brown wrap (7" x 11") with text printed on Barcham Green DeWint paper at the Janus Press. Copy #277 of 285 numbered copies SIGNED in pencil by Heaney and Claire Van Vliet who has illustrated the 10 sonnets with 7 color woodcuts. In a...

VOICES OF THE REVOLUTION

KAPLAN, Edith Jaffy · 0

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

(Philadelphia). (Cypher Press). First Edition. Portfolio of 15 woodcuts (19" x 15") printed in 13 colors from original woodcuts and zinc plates made from the original woodprints by Edith Kaplan along with text pages, all loosely laid in a gray cloth folder with a printed label...

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

O'BRIEN, Tim · 1990

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition...

A BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

DIDION, Joan · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Norwalk, CT. The Easton Press. First Easton Press Edition. Gilt-decorated brown leather. Illustrated by Oscar Liebman. Limited and SIGNED by the author. Author's Note and Authenticity Certificate laid in.. Fine

THE CONNAUGHT SUITE II

GIBBONS, Virginia · 0

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

[Ireland]. First Edition. Portfolio with loose etchings (17-1/2" x 15"; image size: 11-1/2" x 8-3/4") laid in, each SIGNED by the artist with her initials and dated "Ireland 93" at the lower right and numbered at the left below the image. Includes a complete suite of 16 ORIGIN...

PICTURE BOOK

CHARLOT, Jean · 1933

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

New York. John Becker. First Edition. Quarto (8-3/4" x 11") in printed wrappers with dustwrapper. Inscriptions by Paul Claudel translated onto English by Elise Cavanna. Illustrated with 32 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS drawn directly onto the plates by Jean Charlot and printed un...

PICTURE BOOK II. Original Lithographs and Captions

CHARLOT, Jean · 1973

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

Los Angeles. Zeitlin & Ver Brugge. First Edition. Quarto (8-3/4" x 11") in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 32 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. Copy #240 of 1000 copies SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist and the printer, Lynton R. Kistler.. Jean Charlot. Mostly unopene...

COLLECTED POEMS OF H. D

D., H. [Hilda DOOLITTLE] · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Liveright Publishing Company. First Edition. First published in 1925, this is the Sixth Printing, though the uncommon dustwrapper states "Sixth Edition" on the spine.. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a darkened spine and a few small tears

L'ORNEMENT HEBREU. [Ornamentation des Anciens Manuscrits Hebreux de la Bibliotheque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg]

STASSOF, Vladimir and GUNZBURG, David · 0

$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)

[Berlin]. First Edition. Large folio (17-1/2" x 22-1/3") in old 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards, all edges gilt. Text booklet (printed in Leipzig, 1919) with information on authors and plates tipped to blank sheet at front. Complete with 27 gold-enhanced chromolitho...

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST

FROST, Robert · 1950

$2,812.50 (€2,551.72 | £2,128.83 | ¥448,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. First Edition. Two large octavo (7-3/4" x 11") volumes bound in full blue denim with new black leather labels stamped in gold. Copy #1244 of 1500 copies illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps Frost's most sympathetic illustra...

POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK. Seven SIGNED Color Lithographs Based Upon Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac

ROCKWELL, Norman (FRANKLIN, Benjamin) · 1973

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

Philadelphia. Raymond and Raymond, in association with Circle Gallery. First Edition. Portfolio with loose sheets of handmade Velin d'Arches paper (approximately 19-1/2" x 25-1/2") laid in, as issued. Sheets include title page, limitation page, 7 print title pages, and 7 ORIGI...

THE GHETTO and Other Poems

RIDGE, Lola · 1918

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. B. W. Huebsch, Inc.. First Edition. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book. Ridge was an Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist public...