Search Results: Titles starting with E from Charles Agvent

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front inside cover. Tears to front cover. Good. Printed wrappers; x, 240 pages.

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1986. First Edition. Wraps. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Of a total edition of 136, this is one of 100 numbered copies in white wraps and a printed green dustwrapper of this collection of 10 poems, none of which had previously appeared in book form, SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front blank. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with mild soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Copy #214 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [2000]. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth; large octavo; [iv], 351 pages. Reprint of the 1931 Chicago edition. This is a comprehensive bibliography of all the issues of the Michigan Press from 1796-1850. In pratically every case, the original imprint was examined and described by McMurtrie or by his staff. The beginnings of printing in Michigan date from the printing of Congressional Acts in Detroit in 1796. In all 600 issues of the press are meticulously described. Apart from the thorough bibliography, McMurtrie also provides a hundred-page narrative history describing the spread of printing in Michigan and the controversies that arose in relation to printing there. Illlustrated with facsimiles of title pages and portraits, this book is notoriously difficult to find and has not been available in reprint previously. Besterman 5210.

New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.

New York: Viking, (1990). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Boyle on the title page to ---- "Greetings from Tarrytown," and dated 5/1/90 by the author.

n.p., n.d [1931]. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with minor wear and splits. Green marbled boards lettered in red backed with green cloth. A lithographic reproduction of four leaves of the original manuscript of this poem, with the fifth and last page, consisting of four lines, in the author's HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. SIGNED and dated Oct. 1931 by the author at the conclusion with the limitation notice in his hand, in this case: "No. J. Presentation. (20a)." Apparently the total limitation was 145 copies and this is one of 35 presentation copies, though this is not stated anywhere. Additionally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "For Earl E. Fisk/from AEC." With Fisk's bookplate on the front pastedown.

New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Title in ink on spine. Light creasing and soiling to margins of a few pages. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in tall (10-3/4") red wraps.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder stripe at top edge with slight foxing. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Adhesive remnant from price sticker on front pastedown; dustspotting to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor wear at the heel of the spine. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust soiling to bulked top edge of text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book, a novel encompassing sex, dolphin communication, and the end of the world.

Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First Edition. wraps. Near Fine and scarce when signed. Original tan wraps with front cover lettered in black. One of only 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and one of Beckett's retained copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Richard Seaver, chief editor of Grove Press, and his wife Jeannette: "For/Dick & Jeannette/with love from Sam/Sept. 88." Seaver was one of three young publishers who created Merlin Press in the early 1950s as a vehicle to publish and promote Beckett. Outstanding Association copy.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Copy #120 of 1500 designed by George Salter with 25 color illustrations by Marcel Vertes and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Copy #1087 of 1500 designed by George Salter with 25 color illustrations by Marcel Vertes and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Three small red ink library stamps--half-title page, title page, and rear endpaper with a few pencil notes. Near Fine. Green cloth-backed boards (7-1/2" x 10-3/4"); xi, [iii], 324 pages. Copy #499 of 500 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the subject and with a foreword by him as well. Covers books printed from 1574 to 1935.

Halle: Johann Gottfried Trampe for Johann Christoph Breitkopf in Leipzig, 1760 [-1764]. First Edition. Hardcover. Some mild offsetting from the strength of the colors, a few plates with light spotting to fore-margin. Near Fine and quite scarce. Folio (8-3/4" x 14-3/4") bound in twentieth century brown half-morocco leather. Illustrated with 200 hand-colored, nature-printed plates with letterpress legends in Latin and German and with additional legends neatly added in ink in a contemporary hand. The ONLY edition of THE MAJOR COLORED NATURE-PRINTED BOOK OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Published over four years in eight parts with a series of 25 plates in each, the plant took the place of the woodblock or engraved plate in the process of reproduction. With the specimens arranged and covered with a dark dust, the outlines formed on the paper were then colored either by hand or a combined color-printing and hand-coloring process. The specimens were delicate and could sustain only the smallest of print runs.… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in printed tan wraps of this first and highly acclaimed book, nominated for an American Book Award and cited as one of Time Magazine's five best books of fiction for the year. Donald Barthelme said this coming-of-age novel is "a startling book, full of new sights, sounds, and ways of feeling. It is subtle, daring, and brilliant." The action takes place in the South Carolina low country. Review sheet stapled to inside of front cover; ink number on spine.

New York: Random House, (1958). First Edition. Spiral_bound. A little creasing and soiling. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof in light green wraps spiralbound with a white plastic spine of the Pulitzer prize-winning poet's first novel.

Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Hardcover. Touch of sunning to the spine. Fine, lacking the slipcase. Samuel Chamberlain. Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full rust-colored buckram, gold-stamped. Introduction by H. S. Canby. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Copy #360 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 12 etchings by Samuel Chamberlain printed from the artist's plates by Charles Furth. SIGNED by artist on the colophon page.