Search Results: Russian Literature from Charles Agvent

[Westerham, Kent]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with wear and staining along the backstrip. Charles Mozley. Tall quarto (8-3/8" x 12-1/2") bound in green buckram and linen. Designed by Charles Mozley and printed by the Westerham Press in Kent.Introduction by Kathryn Feuer. Illustrated with lithographs in color and monochrome by Charles Mozley. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Charles Mozley. Large quarto (8-3/8" x 12-1/2") bound in two tones of green cloth with pure gold-leaf stamping. Printed at the Westerham Press in England on superb handmade paper and illustrated with 14 full-page color lithographs and 57 monochrome drawings, 19 of which are full-page, by Charles Mozley. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Sheldon & Co., 1871 - 1873. First Edition. Wraps. Light soiling, minor wear. Near Fine. Five issues in Original wraps. Also includes "Romance of the Negro" by Pollard, "The Woman Movement in Wyoming" by Edward M. Lee, as well as other articles and excerpts from George Custer's MY LIFE ON THE PLAINS and Anthony Trollope's THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS.

New York: Limited Editions Club, [1950]. Hardcover. Less than usual tarnishing to the brass on the front cover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Near Fine in a Near Fine chemise and slipcase. Edmund Dulac. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in full Russian-red paper with a striking large brass cockerel mounted on the front cover and housed in a matching chemise with a printed gold cockerel design. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies retold, introduced, and illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, [1950]. Hardcover. With hardly any of the usual tarnishing or pitting to the brass on the front cover. Fine in a Near Fine chemise and slipcase. Edmund Dulac. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in full Russian-red paper with a striking large brass cockerel mounted on the front cover and housed in a matching chemise with a printed gold cockerel design. Copy #380 of 1500 numbered copies retold, introduced, and illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, [1950]. Hardcover. Only slight tarnishing to the brass on the front cover. Fine in glassine and a Fine chemise and slipcase. Edmund Dulac. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in full Russian-red paper with a striking large brass cockerel mounted on the front cover and housed in a matching chemise with a printed gold cockerel design. Copy #1076 of 1500 numbered copies retold, introduced, and illustrated with color plates by Edmund Dulac. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1917). First American Edition. Hardcover. Owner information in pencil from date of publication on the front endpaper. Some rubbing along spine and edges. Gilt is bright. Verty Good to Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan. Seven stories by the master: "The House with the Mezzanine;" "Typhus;" "Gooseberries;" "In Exile;" "The Lady with the Toy Dog;" "Goussiev;" and "My Life."

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Two tiny nicks on rear panel of dustwrapper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper. Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest," writes Vladimir Nabokov in his Foreword to this revised and first English-language edition of a classic story.

(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with slightly darkened spine and a small tear along the front spine edge. The preferred variant A binding with green endpapers.

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Two large quarto (8" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in fine-textured gray-green cloth with a silk finish. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Konstantin Mochulsky. Illustrated with 18 full-page wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Of a total edition of 2000 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon page where instead of a number the initials "G.C." are handwritten. Acquired directly from the publisher's files, this copy belonged to Gordon Carroll who was in charge of the club's operations in the 1970s when it operated out of Avon, CT. Monthly Letter laid in.

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Two large quarto (8" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in fine-textured gray-green cloth with a silk finish. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Konstantin Mochulsky. Illustrated with 18 full-page wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is out-of-series and not numbered. Monthly Letter laid in.

(New York): Phaedra Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a slightly sunned spine. The preferred variant A binding with green endpapers.