Search Results: Titles starting with H from Charles Agvent

(San Francisco): Book Club of California, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, with prospectus. Cloth-backed decorated boards Accounts of two midshipmen's experiences in early California, including Simpkinson's previously unpublished account.and Belcher's surveying voyage on the Sulphur to Russian America (Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), San Francisco California and to Central America, originally published in 1843. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Illustrated with plates.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light edgewear and a slightly faded spine and virtually none of the rubbing to the front typical of this title. Stone's first book, winner of the William Faulkner Award for best first novel of the year and basis for the film WUSA, starring Paul Newman. First state dustwrapper with correct price, blurb by Wallace Stegner, and photograph of the author on the rear holding a mug.

n.p.: Albondocani Press, (1982). First Edition. Softcover. Fine in envelope. Stiff card covers with drawing by Robert Dunn. One of 400 copies reserved for use as a holiday greeting. This copy without the Albondocani Press and Ampersand Books printed greeting and was likely intended for use by the author or artist.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Quite likely the Finest copy in existence, bright and clean in a similar dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Typical mixed issue, with the half-title page a cancel (an indication of early status), but with "it" on page191 and with the printing on the upper board resembling hand- lettering (the First Published Edition) of Dreiser's only full-length play; there was also a pre-publication copy which obviously was printed in a very small number. Twenty-five copies of this issue were signed on the title page by the author. This copy is SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page above the ads. Boni and Liveright printed this book early in 1918, but it was not actually published until September 1919 because it was being considered for production on the New York stage. Laid in is a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from publisher Horace Liveright dated 26 September 1919, the month of publication, forwarding the book to the noted collector Lafayette Butler.… Read More

New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented. INSCRIBED "For Darlene" and SIGNED by the author on the title page.

New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented.

Autograph. Fine. An envelope (6" x 3-1/4") with a lengthy printed statement by The Citizens' Suffrage Association. Although not signed by her, it is addressed in the hand of Susan B. Anthony to her younger sister: "Miss Mary S. Anthony/Rochester -- N. Y./U. S. America." On the side of the envelope is written "Zurich/Apr 23rd 83," likely in one of the sisters' hands. Mary Stafford Anthony was a suffrage activist in her own right. Her interest in women's rights, in fact, preceded that of her sister. On August 2, 1848, she attended the Adjourned Convention in Rochester of the First Woman's Rights Convention and, together with her father and mother, signed the Declaration of Sentiments. She was instrumental in establishing the Women's Political Club (later renamed the Political Equality Club) in the 1880s. In 1893, she was elected corresponding secretary for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, and in 1904 when the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was formed, Susan B. Anthony was declared… Read More

(New York): Gotham Book Mart, (1974). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Glen Baxter. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") stapled pictorial wraps with title page and 12 pages of captioned illustrations printed on rectos with versos blank. An early Baxter title based on exhibitions of his pen and ink drawings at the Gotham Book Mart. SIGNED on the title page by the author/artist. Acquired directly from the Gotham Book Mart inventory after the store closed.

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor wear. About Fine. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in full red crushed levant leather with gilt fillet borders and decorative spine and turn-ins with watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. BAL 12166: First Issue of page 37. SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated 1875 on a front blank and with a contemporary carte-de-visite portrait of him mounted to the following front blank. In 1874, Longfellow sold "The Hanging of the Crane" to the New York Ledger for $3,000, the highest price ever paid for a poem to that date.

(New York): New Directions, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the head of the spine. Crandell A13.I.c. The limited edition was issued five years previously. Dustwrapper designed by Elaine Lustig.

Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1973). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Softcover issue in pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to poet Charles Simic: "For Charlie/--If you are the/mote in the devil's/eye, don't blink/Charles/Sept. 73."

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Charles Raymond. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") bound in beige English buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper imported from Italy. Copy #887 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Sprial Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Charles Raymond. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") bound in beige English buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper imported from Italy. Copy #1087 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Sprial Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ years, the book is in brilliant condition. The scarce dustwrapper has minor edgewear, a chip at the spine head extending slightly to the rear panel. Fine bright copy in a scarce Very Good dustwrapper. The third issue of Stevens's first book, one of only 715 copies in blue cloth of a total edition of 1500. Perhaps the most important first book of poetry of the 20th century.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name of Alice Towler on the front endpaper. Small piece lacking at the bottom blank margin of the first page of the Contents from rough opening, a few minor tears elsewhere; text a bit darkened. Poem in pencil, likely by Towler, on a rear blank. Spine label tad darkened but readable; just mild rubbing and edgewear, mostly to corners. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. One of 500 copies in the first binding of checked cloth-backed boards of perhaps the most important first book of poetry of the 20th century. Edelstein A I.a.

Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; soiling and small stains to cover. Very Good. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cloth-backed blue boards with paper labels on the spine and front cover, extra labels tipped in at rear. One of 1000 copies printed on pure rag paper. Volume IV translated from the Greek by Stephen Mackenna. Part of the Library of Philosophical Translations. Copy #46 of 170 printed on hand-made paper.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of this first collection of stories by Baxter who had previously published two books of poetry. This book was the winner of the sixth annual AWP Award Series in Short Fiction. Uncommon in the first printing.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of his first collection of stories. Baxter had previously published two books of poetry.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2011). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "Angela--/Love--/Hal Holbrook."

London: Chapman & Hall, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a sunned spine. Nice copy. Stevie Smith. Poet's fourth book of poems, illustrated by the author.