Authors starting with A from Charles Agvent

New York: Dutton, (1977). First Edition. cloth. Fine in price-clipped Near Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated by Jim Stiles. SIGNED by the author in brown ink on the front free endpaper. Probably his best book of nonfiction after DESERT SOLITAIRE. ... more information

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Albuquerque: Sierra Club, May 1984. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Small coffee spot near fore-edge of front wrap. Near Fine. Beth Watkins-Arterburn. About 600 copies of this uncommon pamphlet were printed, and most were more than likely discarded since it was given away at the time of publication. SIGNED by the author making it even more uncommon. ... more information

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Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1989. First Edition. Fine. One of 250 copies, this unnumbered. Unopened and never bound, one of apparently only 5 copies thus. ... more information

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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975. First Edition. wraps. About Fine and quite uncommon in this condition. The increasingly uncommon Advance Reading Copy of Abbey's influential novel that helped launch the radical environmental movement with its descriptions of eco-terrorism. ... more information

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New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in bright, better than Very Good dustwrapper. His third book, increasingly scarce. Minor soiling to yellow boards. Dustwrapper has some soiling and wear to flap and spine folds and two short closed tears to the front panel. ... more information

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New York: Orion Press, (1959). NF/VG. Rene Ben Sussan. The first English translation of this medieval French satire is nicely illustrated with 15 color plates. ... more information

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New York: Putnam's, (1989). First Edition. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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New York: Coward-McCann, (1969). First Edition. Near Fine in lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper. Posthumous memoir dedicated to the subject of the author's best-known book, Tulip, his Alsatian companion for 15 years. ... more information

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Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1923. First Edition. boards. Very Good, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Ackerley's first book in original boards. Extra spine label tipped to rear pastedown. Slight foxing to endpapers and half title page. Mild sunning to board edges. ... more information

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London: methuen & Co., 1904. First Edition. Boards. Tasteful bookplate on each front pastedown; scattered, light foxing. Some wear to boards, mostly at corners; spines darkened with the paper labels chipped. Very Good. Three quarto (7-1/2" x 9-7/8") volumes bound in parchment-backed gray boards. An attractive reprint of the original 1808-09 edition, illustrated with104 color plates by Pugin and Rowlandson. To the person who knows and loves the literature of England, there are few more intere... more information

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New York: Putnam's, (1969). First Edition. F/VG. Plates. 509 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1968 by Adams to a close friend. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Large red stamp of another publisher on front free endpaper. F/V. ... more information

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Fine. 5" x 7". ... more information

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Fine. 5" x 7". ... more information

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Carmel, CA: Pacific Rim Galleries, 1986. First Edition. Fine in quarter leather clamshell box. Small Folio (11" x 11-1/2"). Commentary by Richard Dillon with 12 ORIGINAL SIGNED and numbered etchings by Jack Coughlin of 12 Big Sur area artists including Ansel Adams, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Gertrude Atherton, Jack London, Edward Weston, Mary Austin, Henry Miller, Lincoln Steffens, Sinclair Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George Sterling. An excerpt from the writing of each subject is ... more information

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Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1942. cloth. Near Fine in split and very worn slipcase. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full rust-colored buckram, gold-stamped. Introduction by H. S. Canby. Des-gned and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Copy #1107 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 12 etchings by Samuel Chamberlain printed from the artist's plates by Charles Furth. SIGNED by Chamberlain on the colophon. Corners slightly bumped. ... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Full gray buckram. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/8") bound in gray cloth with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France by Samuel Chamberlain. Copy #325 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Lovely edition of this classic. ... more information

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New York: Scribner, 1932 & 1933. First Edition. cloth. Very Good. Two volumes. The first volume is an early but not first printing. A well-illustrated history. ... more information

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Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1831. First Edition. Leather-backed boards. Near Fine and scarce, especially with such a fine association. Contemporary half burgundy morocco with marbled boards with the original front wrapper bound in; [ii], 100 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front wrapper in ink: "B. W. Crowninshield Esq/From his friend/J. Q. Adams." Books inscribed by Adams are quite uncommon. Typically when found one sees Adams's Oration on Lafayette signed on a separate presentation slip pas... more information

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Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. First Edition. leather. Near Fine and scarce. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco nicely and professionally rebacked. Original blue wrappers bound in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blue wrapper: "The Lawrenceville Lyceum/from/John Quincy Adams." Books inscribed by Adams are quite uncommon. This title is most often found signed on a presentation slip pasted in rather than in the actual book as it is here. The first child of a president to become ... more information

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