Charles Agvent

THE IMPENDING GLEAM

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial white wraps (7-1/2" x 10"). SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.. Glen Baxter. Light soiling to covers. Near Fine

DRAWINGS

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

(New York). (Adventures in Poetry). First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 32 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. Cover title is CRANIREONS OF BOTYA. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his p...

DRAWINGS

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

(New York). (Adventures in Poetry). First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 32 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. Cover title is CRANIREONS OF BOTYA. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his p...

THE HANDY GUIDE TO AMAZING PEOPLE

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

(New York). Gotham Book Mart. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 12 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mar...

FRUITS OF THE WORLD IN DANGER

BAXTER, Glen · 0

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

(New York). Gotham Book Mart. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 6 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mart...

AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE

SMITH, Patti · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

(New York). Ecco. First Edition. A collection of poems by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

STRANGE MESSENGER. THE WORK OF PATTI SMITH

SMITH, Patti · 0

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol Museum. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Essays by David Greenburg and John W. Smith. Text and color reproductions of paintings and drawings by Smith who has SIGNED the front endpaper.. Patti Smith. Fine

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: Puccini, Bach, Donizetti. Mob Hits. RCA, BMG Records

NORKIN, Sam · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

n.p.. Original pen and ink on paper, 12-1/2" x 13", SIGNED by the artist and titled at the bottom and on the verso in pencil. An image of the 3 composers as mobsters. Norkin's theater caricatures, similar in style to that of Hirschfeld, primarily appeared weekly in the NEW YOR...

SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF WELDON KEES

KEES, Weldon · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Lincoln (NE) and London. University of Nebraska Press. First Paperback Edition. Illustrated wraps. Edited with an introduction by Dana Gioia. Collection of 17 short stories plus a checklist of published short stories by Kees.. Fine

THE EVANGELICAL GUARDIAN AND REVIEW

AN ASSOCIATION OF CLERGYMEN IN NEW-YORK · 1817

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. J. Eastburn & Co.. First Edition. Two 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" volumes in original publisher's brown paper-backed gray boards with printed paper spine labels. Contains 24 issues, May 1817 - April 1819, apparently all published of this religious periodical. According to a stat...

NORTH & SOUTH

BISHOP, Elizabeth · 1946

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

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of Englis...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

ADAMS, Charles Francis · 11874

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Quincy [MA]. Three-page letter on both sides of a 10" x 8" sheet to author and editor George W. Curtis responding about a series of lectures being organized by a man named Carpenter. Adams says he has an aversion "to all the system of lecturing which had been carried on so sys...

A SHROPSHIRE LAD and LAST POEMS

HOUSMAN, A. E · 0

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

(Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire/London). (The Alcuin Press, published by The Richards Press Limited). First Edition. Publisher's pigskin leather (6-1/4" x 9-3/4") with gilt-lettered spine, printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper. One of a small number with both...

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST

HELLMAN, Lillian · 0

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

New York. Hart Stenographic Bureau. First Edition. Quarto (9" x 11-1/2") in rust-colored leatherette wraps bound with two brads, the title printed on the front cover and publisher's information in the upper left corner. A mimeographed typescript of the prequel to her 1939 dram...

DAILY HOROSCOPE

GIOIA, Dana · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Iowa City. The Windhover Press. First Edition. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowe...

MANUSCRIPTS and LETTERS in 5 Volumes from his Collected Works

BURROUGHS, John [Walt WHITMAN] · 18951913

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

Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. First Edition. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Several odd volumes from the Riverside Edition of THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS, limited to 1000 copies. Each volume has tipped or laid in MANUSCRIPT Material or Letters. Volume ...

LONGWORTH'S AMERICAN ALMANAC, NEW YORK REGISTER AND CITY DIRECTORY For the Fortieth Year of American Independence

BEERS, Andrew · 61815

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. David Longworth. First Edition. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7") in original calf-backed boards, the rear board printed; 458 pages. Illustrated with a full-page engraving of P. M. Stollenwerk's Mechanical Panorama and a small zodiac text engraving. Contains a wealth of inform...

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART

WILSON, Gahan · 0

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

n.p.. Original pen, ink, and wash on paper, 12" x 9", SIGNED by the artist at the lower right depicting two golfers on a driving range with a man shooting a machine gun between them, without a caption. The otherwise blank verso has a sticker stating "NEW YORKER Drawing A7892."...

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: Congratulations, Sir -- Your Child has Blossomed

WILSON, Gahan · 0

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

n.p.. Original pen and ink on paper, 9" x 12", SIGNED by the artist at the lower left depicting a father plant in a maternity ward. Published in GAHAN WILSON'S EVEN WEIRDER, New York: Macmillan, 1996, page 222. A yellow post-it on the blank verso gives printing instructions.. ...

A NEW UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER, OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES, PROVINCES, CITIES, TOWNS, SEAS, LAKES, RIVERS, MOUNTAINS, CAPES, &C. IN THE KNOWN WORLD. With an Appendix, containing an Account of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of Various Countries, with Tables Illustrating the Population, Commerce, and Resources of the United States

MORSE, Jedidiah and MORSE, Richard C · 1823

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New Haven, CT. S. Converse. Fourth Edition. Quarto (6" x 9-5/8") in original publisher's sheep leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; 856 pages; text in two columns. As usual, the Atlas is not present.. Moderate foxing and staining; early owner writing on endpaper...