Search Results: National Book Award from Charles Agvent

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. Foxing to bulked text edges, mostly at the top; otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, crisp copy. Fine in Fine special dustwrapper. Pictorial cloth. National Book Award-winner SIGNED by the author on the front blank tipped-in by the publisher. A special presentation copy for booksellers issued with a wrap-around white cover secured by two stickers which are still unopened.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1998). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps of this National Book Award-winner SIGNED by the author on the title page. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED from the author to a collector.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, crisp copy. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award-winner SIGNED by the author on the front blank.

New York: Random House, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dustwrapper and slipcase, as issued. Copy #244 of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this winner of the National Book Award. Walter Shirley's copy with his bookplate tipped to a front blank.

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: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the spine. Still Fine in glassine and slipcase, as issued. Copy #5 of 500 numbered and SIGNED copies of this National Book Award winner. In addition to being signed on the limitation page, the author has INSCRIBED this copy on both the title page and the blank page facing it to composer Aaron Copland: "Presented to Aaron Copland on/the occasion of the tribute paid/to him on his 70th birthday by/the friends of the MacDowell/Colony/T.N.W." On the title page: "For Aaron/from/Thornton/with a long admiration and/indebtedness and affection./October 1970." Wilder has drawn a red box around "Aaron" and a blue box around "Thornton" with colored pencils. Copland, one of America's greatest composers and celebrators of the American spirit, had much in common with Wilder regarding themes and subjects. Copland composed the music for the 1940 film adaptation of OUR TOWN, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards. The film itself was… Read More

New York: Poseidon Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder stripe on the bottom edge. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1978). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped, as usual, with publisher's sticker indicating the new price. Issued the same year as the American edition. Winner of the National Book Award and one of the best books to come out of the Vietnam conflict. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with tape repairs at the spine tips and one chip at the top of the front panel. Winner of the National Book Award.

London: Faber & Faber, (1959). First British Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper with two small pieces lacking along the bottom of the spine and light chipping at the top edge. The American edition of this title, published after this English edition, won the National Book Award.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in orange printed wraps of this winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. National Book Award winner about a wounded Vietnam War veteran.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Decorated brown leather. Illustrated by John Collier. Limited edition preceding the trade edition of his National Book Award winner with a one-page introduction by Stegner not in the trade edition.

New York: Harper & Row, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a Fine first-state dustwrapper. Stafford's second trade publication, winner of the National Book Award, and a significant book of modern American poetry, uncommon in the true first printing.

New York: Random House, (1985). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Winner of the 1986 National Book Award and American Book Award. SIGNED on the front free endpaper by the author.