Search Results: Titles starting with S from Charles Agvent

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing along the spine with slight loss. Very Good. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith/at Sugar Loaf -- no, Bread Loaf/August 1959 from/George Barker."

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A few spots of foxing to the bulked fore-edge of the text. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. This collection of essays and fables is INSCRIBED on the front pastedown and SIGNED by the poet "For David Posner/from/Randall Jarrell/with all best wishes." On the facing page, the front endpaper, Jarrell has also written out the complete short poem, "The Sign," with one word and a punctuation change from the published version in his 1969 COMPLETE POEMS. It was first published in 1966 as a broadside in about 100 copies for Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In full: "Having eaten their mackerel,/drunk their milk,/They lie like two strands of/embroidery silk/Asleep in the glider; The child/repeats, 'It's such a pity!'/And paints on a piece of/beaverboard, FREE KITTY."

Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, n.d. [1950s]. Softcover. Light soiling. Very Good. Pictorial wraps; 8 pages including covers. Stand-up sailors and punch-outs of sailors and soldiers.

Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") in slate-gray pyroxylin-impregnated vellum cloth stamped in black pigment leaf with a checkerboard pattern of multiple crosses; 132 pages. Book designed by Will Carter. The translation of Father Thomas Gilby, selected and arranged by Dr. George N. Shuster who has also written the introduction. Copy #887 of 1500 copies illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine deep red dustwrapper with a bit of edgewear. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the front endpaper.

New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine deep red dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the spine head. One of the first books to highlight the struggle by California farmworkers to organize a union.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened with a little soiling to the covers, otherwise Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Edward Bawden. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine slightly darkened, otherwise Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Edward Bawden. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine slipcase. Edward Bawden. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #834 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in worn glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Bawden. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in cream buckram with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated by Edward Bawden with eight double-page spreads in six colors and fifty smaller black-and-white drawings. Copy #120 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1909]. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Publisher's slim plain dark green cloth (4-7/8" x 7-1/2") consisting of sample text pages and illustrations. A sample volume used to sell the 25-volume set and includes the facsimile page: "This is the authorized Uniform Edition of all my books. Mark Twain."

Boston: Little Brown, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper with closed tears. An interesting copy in that it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author's mother, also the mother of Nemerov's sister, the photographer Diane Arbus: "February 1955/'A thing of beauty is a/joy forever'--/To Pearl:-/with love/Gertrude Nemerov."

(Santa Fe): win Palms Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Duane Michals. Green cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. Text consists mostly of extracts from Whitman's writings illustrated with photographs by Michals. Copy #60 of only 100 SIGNED by the photographer.

(Kasterlee, Belgium): The Heron Press, 1977. First Edition. Original Art. Fine in cloth folder and clamshell box as issued. Bruce Chandler and Steve Davis. Twelve 7-3/8" x 10" individual sheets consisting of the title and colophon pages as well as 10 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS. Each artist is represented by 5 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS titled and initialed by the artist and printed at the Frans Masereel Centrum. This is copy #6 of only 20 copies produced and is SIGNED by both artists at the limitation leaf. A rare example of the early work of these two artists and the prime title among the early works of the Heron Press which, operating out of Boston in the 1970s, produced in its first eight years 14 books, numerous catalogues, two broadsides, and two books for the Limited Editions Club. Chandler, who operated the press, apprenticed with George Lockwood and Leonard Baskin.

1822 - 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining; "withdrawn" stamps on front and rear pastedowns where there are minor remnants of a pocket. Paper library labels on the spines, rubbing to joints, slight edgewear. Overall Near Fine. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/2" volumes identically bound in half calf and marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. All the pamphlets are complete except for the original wrappers which were not bound in. Both volumes with Edward Everett's bookplate on the front pastedown along with a presentation bookplate of Frederick W. Putnam to Hamilton College, both stamped "Withdrawn." In addition to Emerson and Story, other contributors include James Kent, Charles Sumner, Alexander Everett, Theopholis Parson, James Percifal, William J. Spooner, Denison Olmstead, Thomas S. Grimke, Benjamin Toslin, Theron Metcalf, Asher Robbins, Seth Hawley, Virgil Maxcy, and Asher Ware. Story's DISCOURSE (SABIN 92300) is INSCRIBED "The Honorable/Edward Everett/from… Read More

Riverside, CT: Hillacre, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Very Good original and fragile slipcase with some loss. In a specially made Fine cloth clamshell box. Small quarto (6-1/2" x 9-3/4"); dark brown paper boards stamped in gilt on front and spine; publisher's cardboard slipcase. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Lincoln Steffens with tissue guard. One of only 500 copies of Reed's first book, a poem subtitled "The mad recreant knight of the west." This is the dedication copy, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Reed as well as by each of the publishers, Frederick C. and Anne D. Bursch, in ink on the dark grey front endpaper. Reed writes: "To Stef --/who might not have done it/if he had known that this/was to be the result./He aimed at peace and accomplished literature./From the author/Jack Reed." John Reed was perhaps the best known left-wing American journalist of the twentieth century; he was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the film REDS, nominated for twelve Academy Awards and… Read More

London: The New Age Press, 1908. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine in a wax paper dustwrapper with the title, author, and date printed on the backstrip, likely not original to the book. Lawrence A86a. Secondary binding of printed brown wrappers with four colons on the front cover.

Albuquerque, NM: Jack D. Rittenhouse, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Light green wraps; [viii], 271 pages with errata sheet laid in. The Second printing, consisting of 500 copies, after the 1971 hardbound edition of 1500 copies. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Advance Copy with the page stating such tipped in as the front endpaper.

Providence: Burning Deck, (1973). First Edition. Printed wraps. Contents Fine. Covers soiled including a few drink rings. Hence Good. Printed wraps. Copy #349 of only 400 numbered copies, one of Strand's scarcest publications.