Search Results: Authors starting with P from Charles Agvent

London: Strange Faeces Press, 1971. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Dampstain to bottom, most severely to front cover. Very Good. Quarto (8" x 13") stapled pictorial wraps. One of 250 copies of this magazine of experimental poetry, fiction and art edited by Opal and Ellen Nations, this issue devoted to Ron Padgett. On the rear is the pencil name of John Ashbery with a phone number. While there are similarities to Ashbery's signature, we can't be sure it is by him.

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; some fading of cloth. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Copy #1403 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Albany, NY: Charles R. and George Webster, (1792). First Edition. Hardcover. The first half of the "Rights of Man" is more browned than the rest of the book's text, but generally clean overall in a nice original binding with some loss at the spine tips, mainly the head, and minor worming to the front cover. Very Good to Near Fine. Small quarto (5" x 7-3/4") bound in original sheep with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; xii, 60, [2], 186, 41, [3], vi-vii, [2], 10-70, [2], 24, [2], 124, [2] pages. Contains 1. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (Albany: Re-Printed, by Charles R. and George Webster, 1791); 2. The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (Albany: Printed & Sold, by Charles R. & George Webster, 1792); 3. Public Good: Being an Examination into the Claim of Virginia, to the Vacant Western Territory, and of the Right of the United States to the Same (Albany: Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, [n.d.]). 4. Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal,… Read More

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Spine a touch sunned. Fine in worn glassine and a Very Good slipcase with fading to the backstrip and chipping to the label. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Copy #562 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Touch of sunning to the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Copy #1110 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Lunenberg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Close to Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in red buckram with a vertical center strip of imported hand-made flame-marbled Cockrell paper that extends to the pastedowns; 292 pages. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 18 full-page two-color lithographs and 18 monochrome text drawings by Lynd Ward. Copy #120 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front pastedown; dustspotting to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's second collection of stories, nominated for the National Book Award.

New York: William Morrow and Company, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to topped bulk edge of text, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The third V. I. Warshawski mystery.

New York: Viking, 1933. First Edition. hardcover. Internally clean and bright; spine is heavily darkened, the lettering barely readable, with the foxing spreading a bit to the front cover. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. A collection of short stories. Copy #25 of only 250 SIGNED by the author.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Pencil signature on front endpaper. Some uneven fading to the covers with a small bump to the bottom corner of the back cover. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Purple boards with a gilt-lettered white cloth spine. Copy #10 of only 275 SIGNED by the poet of this collection of short poems, such as this: SUPERFLUOUS ADVICE Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and swear they lie.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. A bright, Fine copy, lacking the slipcase. Valenti Angelo. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Copy #36 of 485 copies SIGNED by the author of her Collected Poems containing all of her classic gems including the two-liner that helped to bring about the contact lens industry.

New York: Viking, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Typical browning to the gutters, otherwise clean internally. Two small nicks with loss on the spine but much less wear than usually found and with an intact leather spine label. Near Fine in remnants of the original tissue dustwrapper, lacking the uncommon slipcase. Patterned fabric over boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #27 of only 250 SIGNED by the poet of perhaps her best-known collection.

[Los Angeles]: Selznick International Pictures, Inc., 16 October 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Expected wear for working scripts but Very Good and stunning. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-7/8") in stiff yellow wraps with the left margins punch-holed with metal clasps. The archive includes two copies of the Final Shooting Script (one belonging to Director William A. Wellman and the other, a partial script, to screenwriters Dorothy Parker and her husband, Alan Campbell); a SIGNED 8" x 10" Photograph of Fredric March who starred as Norman Maine (INSCRIBED "To Zoila/all good wishes/always/Fredric March/1937"); a formal 8" x 10" photograph of Parker and Campbell; and a small photograph of Wellman's secretary, Zoila Conan, holding two Oscar statues and annotated on the verso in an unknown hand: "Zoila Conan at Paramount Studios with Bob Carson's Oscar + Wm. Wellman's Oscar awarded for A STAR IS BORN made at Selznick Studios with Janet Gaynor & Fredric March." The film was nominated for 7 awards, including Best… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps. First book by this African-American author who left a successful Wall Street career to pursue writing.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Light foxing to the endpapers, the text is clean and fresh; mild wear to the corners and the heel of the spine, the head of the spine with a fingernail-sized chip and the remaining leather slightly pulled away. Very Good, lacking the chemise and slipcase. Maynard Dixon. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in full tan saddle leather with title and decorations by Maynard Dixon burnt into the leather. Edited from the author's notebooks by Mason Wade with an introduction by him. Illustrated by Maynard Dixon with pen drawings and paintings in color. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the more fragile books of the press.

[Boston?], [1835]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Stitched wraps in light gray covers; (4), 16 pages. SABIN 86667. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page by Sarah Parkman's son, Francis Parkman, father of Francis Parkman, Jr., the noted historian and author of THE OREGON TRAIL.

Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear, small loss of cloth on rear cover. Very Good copy. Original brown cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Owner inscription dated September 25, two days after the Library of Congress copy was deposited. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER.

Boston: Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear to spine tips, rear cover with bruise in a horizontal strip. Still Near Fine. Original blue cloth. BAL 17556: Binding A. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates. Mrs. Partington was Mark Twain's model for Aunt Polly in TOM SAWYER. Bookplate of Lt. Col. Walter Merriam Pratt on the front pastedown.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to endpapers. Very Good in a soiled, Very Good dustwrapper. Cloth; xv, 397 pages. Letters to Scott from Byron, Goethe, and many others. Entertaining introductory letter by Hugh Walpole about acquiring the letters at auction and his experiences at book auctions. Illustrated. Small bookplate of Lafayette Butler on the front pastedown and the book ticket of Laurel Book Service on the rear.