Titles starting with S from Charles Agvent

New York: Putnam's, (1982). First Edition. Near Fine in very good slipcase. One of 750 specially bound, numbered, and SIGNED copies. ... more information

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London: Dent, 1940. First Edition. Owner's initials. F/F. Denis Tegetmeier. ... more information

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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, (1920). First Edition. cloth. Offsetting to endpapers; tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; scattered pencil notes. Slight fading of spine. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Gallup A5. The first state with the publisher's name 3mm in height on the spine and no ads at the rear. ... more information

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(London): Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Pres, 1975. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Near Fine. ... more information

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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1972). First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper with mild wear to spine tips. ... more information

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Boston: Gray E. Bowen, 1832. First Edition. cloth. Very Good or better copy of this early Longfellow title. BAL 12049: all errors noted except page 80; neither page numbering error present. Original rose muslin; paper spine label lacking. Old signature of J[ohn] T. Stoddard on half title. Front endpaper lacking as is bottom portion only of the rear. Light to moderate foxing. Covers tight, clean. ... more information

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1980. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. F/F. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Connell. ... more information

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Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1886. First Edition. Goldstamped vellum wraps. Paper a little aged. Covers darkened, soiled. Very Good. BAL 22072: 1558 copies. Tipped to the ffep is a small card SIGNED by Whittier in 1869 at Amesbury. On another blank is a note by an unidentified person stating how the book came from Dr. D. Neale, "an old friend and admirer of Whittier. ... more information

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London: The Fleuron Ltd., n.d [1927]. First Edition. cloth/boards. Minor crimping to spine tips. Near Fine. Quarto in cloth-backed decorated boards. Illustrated with two full-page and three text drawings by Paul Nash hand-colored through the pochoir process. Copy #95 of 310 printed on Zanders' hand-made paper by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press. ... more information

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London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1924. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine in chipped and torn dustwrapper. First Published Edition. Laurence A170a. Partly unopened. ... more information

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Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Patterned cloth. Fine in glassine and Fine slipcase. 130 pages. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 12") in gray boards embossed with a multiple cross design. Book designed by Will Carter. Copy #970 of 1500 copies illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

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Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1855. First Edition. Later 3/4 dark blue morocco. Light rubbing to joints and corners. Near Fine. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in later 3/4 dark blue morocco. Translated from the Sanskrit by Monier Williams. Each page has a color-printed decorative border, and there are a number of other color decorations in the text including full-page plates. Handsome book that McLean (VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN, pp. 172-73) describes as "the most lavish of the Oriental illumi... more information

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New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Near Fine in dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear. One of his less common titles. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the first blank. Small bookstore ink stamp on front endpaper. ... more information

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New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Fine in deep red dustwrapper with a tiny tear at spine head. One of his less common titles, especially in this condition. ... more information

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Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Ivory buckram. Fine in lightly soiled Near Fine slipcase. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with 8 double-page spreads in six colors and 50 smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

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New York: Brown House, 1930. leather. Very Good in Very Good slipcase with some sunning on outer edge. Folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in full brown calf, all edges silver. Illustrated by Alexander King with 18 color plates and numerous marginal drawings. Translation by J. S. Matthews. Copy #513 of 800 copies designed by George Macy, who had recently initiated the Limited Editions Club, and printed by Fred Anthoensen at The Southworth Press. Typical discoloration and rubbing to the spine which is... more information

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London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Fine in solid slipcase with rubbed edges and sunned spine. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #544 of 1500 numbered copies. The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. The other volume in gilt-decorated cloth is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations from the first edition by ... more information

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London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. cloth and wraps. Fine in solid slipcase with short split at upper rear edge. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #722 of 1500 numbered copies. The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The other volume, in gilt-decorated cloth, is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations... more information

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London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Still Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"). The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The other volume in gilt-decorated cloth is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations from the first edition by Aubrey Beardsley including four omitted from the or... more information

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Boston: Little Brown, (1955). First Edition. boards. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper with closed tears. An interesting copy in that it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author's mother, also the mother of Nemerov's sister, the photographer Diane Arbus: "February 1955/'A thing of beauty is a/joy forever'--/To Pearl:-/with love/Gertrude Nemerov. ... more information

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