Search Results: Nonfiction from Charles Agvent

Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1939). Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Detmold. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates with tissue guards by Detmold.

Boston: David R. Godine, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a tiny puncture and very slight crease to the front spine edge. His first book of essays, with an introduction by Tobias Wolff.

New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Short tears to top of spine. About Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dostoyevsky. An account of a trip from Russia through Germany to Switzerland with her famous husband. Hannah French's copy with her signature on the front endpaper.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The second book by the author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, an examination of the benefits of home schooling.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Revised Edition. wraps. Promotional slip stapled to inside front cover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in printed red wraps of this classic by Hersey, here printed with the final chapter for the first time.

Boston: The Stratford Company, (1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth is still a bright red with minor fading to the spine. Owner name on the front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth, gilt lettered. With 37 illustrations from photographs. Apparently the only edition of this book, never reprinted.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to endpapers. About Fine in a price-clipped, close to Fine dustwrapper. Tom Wolfe. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") in cloth-backed boards, illustrated by the author and boldly SIGNED by him on the half-title page.

New York: The John Day Company, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner name on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Spontaneous conversations about the Bible by two great educators, edited and annotated by Edith Samuel.

New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Tiniest of nicks at head of spine. Fine. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.

New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Very slight wear at spine tips. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Scarce issue of this popular and important study of male initiation which rapidly went into later printings.

Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Bly's book on male initiation and the role of the mentor added to the drumbeats of the Men's Movement.

New York: Random House, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Collection of essays by this highly acclaimed writer.

New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine deep red dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the spine head. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Quarto in pictorial boards. Illustrated with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. A wonderful collaboration.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 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 their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Rather uncommon and certainly timely.

Jackson [MS]: University Press Mississippi, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney.