Search Results: Biography from Charles Agvent

New York: Pequod Press, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. IIllustrated by Leni Fuhrman with a print tipped-in opposite the title page. One of 100 numbered copies with handset type SIGNED by the author and the artist on the colophon page.

Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one. Quarto; blue cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 7 plates and a folding map. Graff 4724; Howes W-598; New Howes W-597: "Largely devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860"; Nevins I-181; Wheat Gold Rush 234: "Significant and engaging narrative by a man of great native attainments."

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked, small stains on the spine. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #148 of 1000 SIGNED by the author. Owner inscription on the front endpaper dated 1929 mentioning a "letter of sympathy when the President's son Calvin Coolidge died," which was once glued to the gutter of the half title page but which now only has a remnant present.

University of Chicago, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Folio (9-3/4" x 13") in gilt-lettered cloth. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn and a catalogue raisonee. Illustrated with numerous plates, mostly black-and-white.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt on spine a little dull, slight rubbing to front cover. Early owner inscription on front free endpaper well below Edison's signature. Near Fine. Publisher's sage green pebble-grain cloth with front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt with oval photographic portrait of Edison pasted to center; "Published November, 1911" on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates including a frontispiece portrait of Edison. SIGNED by Thomas Edison with his umbrella signature on the front endpaper.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. An early illustrated biography of the eccentric artist, uncommon in dustwrapper.

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: The Macaulay Company , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner presentation on half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minimal wear. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name and date on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs.

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

Philadelphia: Jacob Maas, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Light, sporadic foxing; plates quite clean thanks, in part, to the presence of the tissue guards; the map in beautiful shape with bright coloring. A lovely, close to Fine example of a book usually found missing the map or quite worn. Near Fine. Original gilt-decorated red morocco-backed marbled boards with matching morocco corners; 88 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Jackson, an engraved title page, 4 plates (the Golden Wreath printed on white clay-coated stock, The Battle of New Orleans, The Hermitage, and The Capitol), 3 engraved leaves of music (Jackson Grand March and Quick Step), and a large hand-colored folding map of the U.S. (with portions of the Oregon Territory and Mexico, including Texas) measuring approx. 17" x 19" and tipped in at the rear. HOWES W-68; SABIN101164. Published in commemoration of Jackson's inauguration, the campaign biography by Walsh, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON (Hudson,… Read More

London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings, with label on the third volume darkened. Near Fine in a complete but broken slipcase. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies, one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell, each annotated by Thrale, were used to create this edition. Copy #65 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned.

London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Spines mildly sunned as almost always the case due to the sensitive linen bindings, with some faint stains to the covers of one volume; slight mark and darkening to spine label of third volume. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to contain marginalia by Hester Thrale Piozzi. Two different copies, one belonging to Colonel Ralph Isham and the other to Harvard bequeathed by Amy Lowell, each annotated by Thrale, were used to create this edition. Copy #834 of 1500 copies illustrated with three frontispieces. Issued unsigned.

Cambridge: University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Owner signature, bookplate. Very Good. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with darkened spines in a Near Fine slipcase. Two volumes. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Strachey's papers including previously unpublished correspondence from many who comprised the Bloomsbury group.

(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine a bit sunned. About Fine, without glassine, in a Near Fine slipcase. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. Copy #929 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. It is likely that less than the stated 1000 were published as we have personally seen close to 200 examples of the unbound limitation sheet that were signed. In any case an increasingly scarce issue of this book.

(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. Copy #881 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. It is likely that less than the stated 1000 were published as we have personally seen close to 200 examples of the unbound limitation sheet that were signed.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of sunning to the spine.

New York: American Foundation for the Blind, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Cover pasted down to binder cover. Ex public library with all the markings; text mostly clean. Good. Pamphlet in a hardcover pamphlet binder; 65 pages.