Search Results: Limited from Charles Agvent

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Quarto (9-1/4" x 12"), 65 (6) pages. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. One of 255 copies with numerous samples of paper made by hand from such substances as junk mail and wasp nests. With brass cathouse token in small pocket inside rear cover, as issued. Delightful book!

(Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1990. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a clamshell box, a beautiful book. Alan James Robinson. Folio (10-3/8" x 15-7/8"), the exact untrimmed size of the First Folio of 1623, bound by Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton in full gilt-lettered rust morocco, with marbled endsheets by Faith Harrison, in a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered large morocco spine label. Designed by illustrator Alan James Robinson and Arthur Kinney, who wrote the text. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings depicting the birds and beasts and one wood engraving as well as an etching of Shakespeare. This is copy #I of 5 special proof copies (of a total edition of only 131) printed by Harold Patrick McGrath on Cheloniidae rag made specially for the Press, the first paper to carry a Cheloniidae watermark, and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. With an extra suite of the engravings and etching, each SIGNED and numbered by Robinson, plus another suite, issued only with… Read More

London: The Cresset Press Ltd., 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh. Some spotting to covers with mild rubbing at extremities; some edge creasing to proofs (not affecting images) with a few hints of foxing. Near Fine. Blair Hughes-Stanton. Publisher's pigskin by Wood (8-1/2" x 13-1/2") gilt lettered on the spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 10 striking full-page wood engravings and two text engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. First published in 1923, this edition differs because of the addition of 10 wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton as well as new prose paragraphs by Lawrence at the head of each section. Copy XV of 30 copies with extra suite of 10 proofs from a total edition of 530. Lawrence's reflections on the world beyond humanity

West Chester: Aralia Press, 1989. First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. One of only 175 copies printed on dampened Frankfurt paper. Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED by Levine on the half-title page.

(Syracuse): Tamarack, (1981). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Barry Moser. Of an edition of 300 numbered copies in wrappers, this is one of only 50 SIGNED by the author. Another 36 copies were bound in cloth. Illustrated with 2 plates by Barry Moser.

n.p., 1902. First Edition. Covers soiled with unsightly dampstain at lower rear. Limited to 300 copies.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in gilt-decorated brown leather. A limited true First Edition preceding the trade edition SIGNED by the author and with an introduction by him not present in the trade edition.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. As new, still in shrinkwrap. Bound in gilt-decorated brown leather. A limited true First Edition preceding the trade edition SIGNED by the author and with an introduction by him not present in the trade edition.

Richmond, VA: Waves Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. Of 150 copies printed, this is one of 50 unnumbered copies bound in cloth and SIGNED by both the author and the binder.

(Berkeley): Hart Press, (1964). First Edition. Printed wraps. Near Fine. Victor Anderson. Chapbook in red printed wraps; illustrated by Victor Anderson. One of 155 copies (limitation not stated) printed as a Christmas greeting with slip from the Harts laid in.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine without slipcase, as issued. Handsome book. Cloth spine with red paste paper boards. First printing of Ford's address at the English-Speaking Union in London on 30 November 1983. Copy #74 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED in full by the former president. There were an additional 100 numbered copies with a vellum spine in a tray case.

New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Partly unopened. Light soiling, mostly to the rear; spine darkened. Near Fine. Small octavo (4-1/2" x 6-5/8") in publisher's cream-white boards, spine lettered in blue, front cover stamped in blue with floral ornaments. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus John. Copy #576 of 800 numbered copies. A Presentation copy with Joyce's engraved visiting-card INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso in green ink: "Avec mes meilleures/voeux pour Noël et/la Nouvelle Année. Paris '37 James Joyce." On the recto, Joyce has scored through his name in green ink, and there is a green ink blot in the upper left corner.

New York: Random House, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, largely unopened copy; browning to pastedowns and endpapers, as often the case, here more to the rear. Spine label with some rubbing and light chipping, also as almost always the case with this title. Very Good or better, as issued without dustwrapper or slipcase. Linen cloth with beveled edges and a brown leather spine label. Crane A14. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Copy #769 of 1000 beautifully printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and SIGNED by Frost on the half-title page.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1928). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to first few pages with a few spots on other pages. Still Near Fine in a Good or better soiled, complete dustwrapper. Parchment-backed boards. Copy #37 of 275 numbered copies SIGNED by the author.

New York: George Braziller, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by this much underrated writer on the front endpaper: "For my dear Friend Bill Byron, who loves/words + Rabelais says to/offer good words to others/is a form of love--/with deep affection/Edward/Nov 5, '70/N.Y.C." Signed trade editions of this book are much scarcer than the limited edition.

New York: George Braziller, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in slipcase, as issued. Copy #166 of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies. An important book by this much underrated writer.

New York: George Braziller, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in slipcase, as issued. Of a total of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies, this copy has a SIGNED page tipped in but with no printed limitation. An important book by this much underrated writer.

[Waltham Saint Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First Edition. hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Robert Gibbings. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Illustrated with four wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Copy #532 of 600 copies printed by Robert Gibbings.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper; hinges repaired. Edgewear; tears to top of spine, which is darkened, with no loss; lettering to cover rubbed. Good. Original vellum-backed and tipped boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red. Copy H of 20 Lettered copies (of a total edition of 370) SIGNED by the author. Obviously a scarce issue of this book, a novel that dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s and that was influenced by James Joyce's ULYSSES. DARK LAUGHTER was Anderson's only best-seller during his lifetime, though today he is better known for WINESBURG, OHIO. Ernest Hemingway parodied DARK LAUGHTER in his early short work THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. Hemingway's novella mocked the pretensions of Anderson's style and characters. Gertrude Stein, Hemingway's former mentor, objected to the young writer's parody of a writer who had helped him get published, resulting in a falling-out.

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.