Charles Agvent

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

AIKEN, Conrad · 251917

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

An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A SYMPHONY...

"Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY, December 1866 - May 1867, Volume XXXIV

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1866

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners. Notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his first book. Published anonymously in the individual issues,...

SALESMAN'S SAMPLE FOR THE AUTHOR'S NATIONAL EDITION OF THE WORKS

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

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

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Publisher's slim plain dark green cloth (4-7/8" x 7-1/2") consisting of sample text pages and illustrations. A sample volume used to sell the 25-volume set and includes the facsimile page: "This is the authorized Uniform Edi...

THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH

(TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]) CAROLINO, Pedro · 1883

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

Boston. James R. Osgood & Company. First Edition. BAL 3412. Contains Clemens's 5-page Introduction. Issued in both wraps and cloth, this is a scarce set of unbound sheets consisting of 13 signatures (the preface sheet and front endpaper are loose), a result of the publisher's...

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1889

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. Charles L. Webster & Co.. First Edition. Publisher's decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3429: Fly-title unprinted; second state of page 59 with broken type on page 72. A satire using the vehicle of time travel.. Owner name dated 1892 o...

ROUGHING IT

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1872

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

Hartford et. al.. American Publishing Company. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth. BAL 3337: State A of page 242, with final ad leaf. Publisher's imprint is as listed by Blanck. Also includes all of the other First State points. Illustrated with two frontispieces, six full...

THE GILDED AGE. A TALE OF TODAY

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] and WARNER, Charles Dudley · 1874

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

Hartford. American Publishing Company. Original gilt-decorated black cloth. Early but not first printing of Mark Twain's first novel, its title giving name to the peculiarly American era it describes. Illustrated with plates and engravings. BAL 3357. Issue without ads at rear....

THREE ACES. Jim Todd's Episode in Social Euchre. A Poem and A Denial

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

(Westport, CT). (Robin and Marian MacVicars). First Edition. Stiff rust-colored stapled wraps printed in black; [8] pages including covers, the rear cover blank. Stated limitation of only 50 copies printed as a Christmas greeting for this poem by Mark Twain, "now for the first...

"My Garden Acquaintance" in THE ATLANTIC ALMANAC 1869 with an excerpt "Three Unpublished Letters" in THE CENTURY February 1896 along with the ACTUAL Three Unpublished Letters bound in

LOWELL, James Russell · 18691896

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

Boston & New York. Ticknor & Fields and The Century Co.. First Edition. Small quarto (6" x 8-1/4") in full triple gilt-ruled black morocco leather with five raised bands and gilt-lettered spine, gilt dentelles. Illustrated with chromolithograph title page and 4 chromolithograp...

MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX. THE BIGELOW PAPERS together with MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX. THE BIGELOW PAPERS. Second Series

LOWELL, James Russell · 18481867

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

Cambridge and Boston. George Nichols and Ticknor and Fields. First Edition. The first volume in publisher's dark brown cloth (BAL 13068: Binding A) with the preferred Cambridge imprint only on the title page; the second volume in publisher's green cloth (BAL 13126: 1st Printin...

[IN MEMORIAM JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD] DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. Meeting of Americans in London at Exeter Hall 24 September 1881 To which is added by permission The Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury Delivered at the Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields 26 September 1881

LOWELL, James Russell · 1881

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

London. Benjamin Franklin Stevens. First Edition. Quarto (68" x 11") in full gilt black morocco leather by Bedford; original albumen photograph of Garfield as frontispiece; 60 pages printed entirely on vellum. Includes the memorial address by Lowell, who at the time was minist...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

LOWELL, James Russell · 1876

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

Boston. James R. Osgood & Company. Household Edition. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth in red cloth dustwrapper with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Presentation copy INSCRIBED on the front blank from the author to John Owen, the publisher of Lowell's CONVERSATIO...

AMONG MY BOOKS

LOWELL, James Russell · 1876

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Boston. James R. Osgood & Co.. Early Edition. Publisher's gilt-lettered brick cloth. First published in 1870, this copy has pasted to the first blank an early oval-shaped photograph of the poet on a 2-1/4" x 3-3/4" paper mount that is SIGNED "J. R. Lowell/13th June 1861." Lowe...

UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS

LOWELL, James Russell · 1869

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Boston. Fields, Osgood, & Co.. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth; BAL 13129: State C, Binding C. An interesting copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the popular 19th Century author Benjamin Shillaber to his daughter on the front blank: "To my daughter Lydia/with a/...

DUBLINERS

JOYCE, James · 0

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

[New York]. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in quarter dark green Oasis goat leather and Irish handkerchief linen turned over the boards. Illustrated with 6 photogravures by Robert Ballagh printed on handmade paper. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Copy #887...

FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES

CARVER, Raymond · 1983

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

Santa Barbara. Capra Press. First Edition. Copy #179 of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," whi...

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR SELF-PORTRAIT

FLAGG, James Montgomery · 1939

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

Fine ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR Self-Portrait depicting Flagg wearing a trenchcoat and a fancy women's Easter hat while holding a flower with the pencil caption by Flagg in the right margin: "Ap. 9, 1939. I JOIN THE EASTER PARADE ON 5th." Visual image size is 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" matted ...

STRANGE FAECES. Issue #3

PADGETT, Ron · 1971

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

London. Strange Faeces Press. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 13") stapled pictorial wraps. One of 250 copies of this magazine of experimental poetry, fiction and art edited by Opal and Ellen Nations, this issue devoted to Ron Padgett. On the rear is the pencil name of John Ashber...

THE KHAKI

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

(New York). Adventures in Poetry. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with text and drawings by Baxter. SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Apparently only about 200 copies were produced. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory...

ROCKY LEDGE. Issue #1

BAXTER, Glen; GINSBURG, Allen, et. al · 1979

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Nederland, CO. Rocky Ledge. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with cover drawing by Glen Baxter. Edited by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye with a poem by Allen Ginsburg and poems and prose by several other contributors.. Fine