Titles starting with N from Charles Agvent

New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948). First Edition. boards. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Quite a decent copy of this literary titan's first book. Only mild rubbing to the spine tips and corners, much less than usually encountered. The first issue dustwrapper is complete with very light edgewear, mild chipping to the spine head, and a thin black streak (printer's ink?) to the rear panel. The red ink on the dustwrapper, often found faded and not noted as such, is very strong. Nice c... more information

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New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948). First Edition. wraps. An above average copy of this advanced state of this book. Advance Reading Copy in self-wrappers identical to the first issue dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Scarce state of this book. Significantly cocked with a vertical concave indent to the spine. Moderate edgewear. ... more information

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New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948). First Edition. boards. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Mailer's first book. Virtually no wear to the boards, the white spine lettering very sharp. The first issue dustwrapper is complete with very light wear to the spine tips light scratching to the rear panel. The red ink on the dustwrapper is a little faded, as usual but usually not noted as such by other sellers. Spine slightly sunned. Nice copy of this fragile, bulky book. ... more information

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New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948). First Edition. boards. A beautiful copy with virtually no wear to the boards, the white spine lettering very sharp. Early owner name dated 12 May 1948 on the front endpaper. The first issue dustwrapper is complete with an ink stroke through the price, light chipping to the spine tips, and mild sunning of the spine. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Mailer's first book. This bulky, rather fragile book is rarely seen in this condition, especially when SI... more information

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine in Very Good or better dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Mazeaud along with six of the finest French and Italian climbers of their generation met with tragic failure while tackling the Mont Blanc massif. Mazeaud and Walter Bonatti were the only survivors. Mazeaud also describes a number of other ascents from Iceland to the Sahara to the Himalayas. Faint stain to front cover. ... more information

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New York: Horizon, (1964). First Edition. NF/VG. Dw blurbs by Forster, Huxley, Mann, a.o. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. ... more information

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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First Edition. Leather-backed boards. Slightly cocked. About Fine in acetate, as issued.. Small folio. One of 250 numbered copies (of a total of 276) SIGNED by the illustrator Jess and by Duncan. ... more information

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New York: Doubleday, (1995). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Fine. Advance Reading Copy by the author of IMAGINING ARGENTINA. ... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Full silk. Still Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in raspberry watered-silk covers with a French blue linen gilt-stamped spine label. Translated by F. J. Vizelelly with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere and a preface by Henry James. Illustrated with drawings by Bernard Lamotte reproduced in collotype by George Duval in Paris. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Spine sunned with small spot at heel where... more information

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Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., (1968). First Edition. cloth. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A tribute to the founder of The Hours Press with a prologue by Langston Hughes and selections from Cunard's work as well as contributions by William Carlos Williams, Harold Acton, Henry Moore, and others. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of t... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, (1974). First Edition. NF/NF. ... more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1935). First Edition. cloth. Close to Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Quarto (7" x 9-1/8") in blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Introduction by Thornton Wilder. Copy #101 of only 120 SIGNED by Stein and Wilder on the limitation page. Slight fading to spine as usual. ... more information

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Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, 1959. Reprint. NF/NF. Facsimile plates & maps. Limited to 1500 copies, these 2 volumes in 1 are currently fetching more than $2000 in the original edition. Sabin states that the author's "statements respecting the Sioux and Chippeway tribes are among the most valuable we have." New Howes K-20. ... more information

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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Parchment-backed leather. Near Fine in darkened, intact, Good slipcase. Quarto (7- 1/2" x 11") bound in white parchment-backed black leather imported from England. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Designed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth Press. Illustrated by Rene Clarke with black designs on a dead white paper specially made for this book. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator. The fifth book of the press. Monthly Letter laid in. The white sp... more information

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Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. First Edition. Recent pebbled buckram. Generally a Good set in a durable if not attractive binding. Quarto. 3 volumes. With 22 maps (most folding), 2 folding color woodcuts, and 118 lithographs including 18 colored lithographs of birds, fish, and mollusks, and numerous wood engravings and charts. Volume I lacks the Court Interpreter and Bridge of Cut Stone plates. The Photographer's plate is present but the suppressed and scarce Nude Bathers plate is not. One-inch te... more information

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Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine, the nicest copy we have seen in many years. Original blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Douglass. xvi, 125 pages. Preface by William Lloyd Garrison and printing a letter by Wendell Phillips. Douglass's first book and the preeminent slave narrative of the 19th century. Early owner name on front endpaper; text very clean with virtually none of the foxing typical f... more information

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Hinges cracked but tight; rubbing to spine and rear. Very Good. 664 pages. Large octavo in original decorated green cloth. Illustrated with plates, woodcuts, and maps including the large folding map in the rear pocket. Hall made three trips to the North. His ship, the Polaris, reached the farthest northerly point then attained by any vessel. This, his second visit and most extended, was published posthumously--Hall never returne... more information

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London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1829. First Edition. 3/4 leather. A Very Good copy of a scarce title. INTERSPERSED WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE RELIGION, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CANNIBAL PRACTICES OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") volumes in modern 3/4 navy blue morocco. Complete with two folding frontispieces (one hand-colored), a folding map, and one plate. A scarce account of this journey to the Solomon Islands via Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tonga that successfully solved the m... more information

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Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1982. First Edition. cloth. Fine without dustwrapper or slipcase, as issued. Pictorial cloth illustrating a fan catching a ball in the stands. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 330 of this memoir centering around baseball. ... more information

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