Charles Agvent

POLITICAL ESSAYS

LOWELL, James Russell · 1888

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Boston & New York. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with printed paper spine label (5" x 8"). BAL 13198: "Reportedly but 75 copies were done in this untrimmed format but BAL has been unable to substantiate the statement." Essays include “The Elec...

THREE MEMORIAL POEMS

LOWELL, James Russell · 1877

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. First Edition. Gilt-decorated green cloth (5" x 7"), text edges stained red; 92 pages. BAL 13154. The three poems are "Ode Read at Concord, April 19th, 1875," "Under the Old Elm," and "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876.". Fine, bright copy

GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXII: January 1843-June 1843

(POE, Edgar Allan) · 1843

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

Philadelphia. George R. Graham. First Edition. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners and a gilt-lettered red morocco label with the owner's name on the front cover. Illustrated with 19 steel engravings, 2 of which are hand-colored. Illustrations inc...

THE PRINCE

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo · 1954

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnifi...

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

HARDY, Thomas (PARKER, Agnes Miller) · 1964

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (6" x 9-1/4") bound in quarter maroon Indian goatskin, gold-stamped, and imported hand-made paper sides, 336 pages. Illustrated with 16 full-page wood engravings and a number of smaller engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #1165 ...

THE TALES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1850-1893

MAUPASSANT, Guy de · 1963

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

London. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in blue linen buckram with inlaid panels of brown linen, 522 pages. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. The Translations by Lafcadio Hearn and Others Chosen & With an Introduction by Jus...

ROXANA, THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS

DEFOE, Daniel · 1976

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Avon. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/4") bound with scarlet linen covers with a design stamped in white leaf and a white vellum-finish linen spine stamped in scarlet and gold leaf. Illustrated with 12 full-page two-color woodcuts in three-color schemes and 14 sma...

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

BRECHT, Bertolt · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in black linen imported from Holland and stamped in gold. English version by Desmond Vesey with English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Illustrated by Jack Levine including an ORIGINAL THREE-C...

THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS

WISTER, Owen · 1951

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.08 | ¥21,950)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with ...

THE MEMOIRS OF LOUIS DE ROUVROY DUC DE SAINT-SIMON COVERING THE YEARS 1691 - 1723

SAINT-SIMON · 1959

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Two large octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in gilt-decorated red cloth. Selected, translated, and edited by Desmond Flower. Illustrated with drawings by Pierre Brissaud reproduced as gravures and hand-colored in the Walter Fischer Studio. ...

GILGAMESH

1974

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.08 | ¥21,950)

Avon, CT. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts ...

THE OLD WIVES' TALE

BENNETT, Arnold · 1941

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Oxford. Limited Editions Club. Two large quarto volumes bound in half green buckram and floral-decorated boards. Preface by the author with an introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Copy #837 of 1500 numbered copies with handsome color plates by John Austen and SIGNED by the illust...

GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XXIII: June 1843-January 1844

(POE, Edgar Allan) · 1843

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

Philadelphia. George R. Graham. First Edition. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners and a gilt-lettered red morocco label with the owner's name on the front cover. Illustrated with 20 steel engravings, 4 of which are hand-colored. Illustrations inc...

GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vol. XIX: June 1841 - December 1841

(POE, Edgar Allan) · 1841

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

Philadelphia. George R. Graham. First Edition. Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with steel engravings and 6 color plates. First appearance in print of several Poe works: “A Few Words on Secret Writing” (not in the index); “A Chapte...

ARROWS OF THE CHACE BEING A COLLECTION OF SCATTERED LETTERS PUBLISHED CHIEFLY IN THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS,-- 1840-1880 with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) tipped in

RUSKIN, John · 1880

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

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. George Allen. First Edition. Two volumes in original boards with paper spine labels. Essays on Art Education, Architecture, J. M. W. Turner, Women: Their Work and Dress, and other topics. With a two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with an ORIGINAL DRAW...

SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE

ELIOT, George · 1861

$812.50 (€737.16 | £615.00 | ¥129,705)

Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons. First Edition. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound at rear. Eliot's third and many think best novel.. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, earl...

AT SUNDOWN

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 1890

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

Cambridge. Privately Printed: The Riverside Press. First Edition. Publisher's olive cloth. BAL 22137: 277 copies printed. As with many copies this has the slip of paper tipped in at the front with Whittier's facsimile signature and presentation, but in addition this copy is IN...

POEMS: PATRIOTIC, RELIGIOUS, MISCELLANEOUS

RYAN, Abram J[oseph] · 1905

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. P. J. Kennedy. Twenty-Fourth Edition. Full red polished calf with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, pretty marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; xxxvi, 311 pages. The binding is not signed bu...

SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER Honoring Ernest Hemingway

CONDON, Richard · 171989

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Key West. Attractive First Day Cover with an image and stamp of Hemingway postmarked in Key West SIGNED by the American political novelist, author of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and many other novels.. Fine

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

COBB, Irvin · 231929

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. On 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" personal stationery Cobb forwards his autograph. Cobb was a humorist and columnist who at one time was the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.. Near Fine