Search Results: Authors starting with A from Charles Agvent

(Lowestoft): Scorpion Press, (1967). First Edition. Softcover. Some soiling to covers. Very Good. Pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'To Bill/Not open, still../warmly,/Dannie/July 67/(Hope to see you next year)."

London: Hutchinson, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with some wear to the spine. INSCRIBED "To William Meredith/Dannie/April '64."

New York: Criterion Books, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Early title by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, first published in England in 1957. Poet William Meredith's copy with his SIGNATURE at the top of the front endpaper, below which is INSCRIBED "With respect,/Dannie Abse," with the poet's last name crossed out by him. Laid in is a promotional photograph of Abse.

London: Vista Books, (1964). First Edition. Softcover. Small skim mark on rear, otherwise Fine. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith: "'We are most our own strange selves when we are hosts.'/For Bill,/whose Apollinaire translations/would have been in here had/I known them earlier/Dannie Abse/June '64."

(Swansea): Portland University Library, (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'Bill's -- this unaltered version/with affection."

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith and his partner and SIGNED twice on the title page

London: Vista Books, (1963). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. INSCRIBED "To Bill Meredith,/thank you./yours/sincerely,/warmly,/truly,/all that is good/Dannie."

London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust spotting to the top edge. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx For William and Richard/to be taken with a/pinch of salt!/affectionately, Dannie/Xmas 83."

London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight dust spotting to the top edge. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx To William + Richard/to be taken after meals/affectionately, Dannie."

London: Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. The map is detached and has a short closed tear with little effect on the image. Scattered staining and foxing but generally clean. Bindings rubbed but the covers are tight. Very Good. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 16 engravings and a large folding map. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer. His record of travels in Scandinavia describes the customs of the people and detailed observations on natural history. Much of the second volume concerns Lapland where he visited remote areas described here.

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean with minor toning; some rubbing to joints. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in contemporary calf rebacked with the original spine with a new gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, the original label loosely laid in; [xii], 464, [2, ads] pages. Complete with half title and the engraved folding map. GRAFF 10; HOWES A-38 ("Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them"); SABIN 155 James Adair was a frontiersman and fur trader who lived among the Catawba, Chickasaw, and Cherokee for forty years, gathering first-hand information about the customs of these Indian tribes. He was one of the first white settlers to explore the Alleghenies. Bookplates of Lucy Foster and Francis Bayard Rives on front pastedown and endpaper, respectively.

Chicago: Richard Adamiak, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Cloth. Quarto; xvi, 376 pages with index and bibliography. Page-by-page reproductions of various catalogs dated 1975 - 1982 from leading antiquarian booksellers specializing in the legal field. While the prices, of course, are dated, the detailed descriptions are quite valuable. The type is often very small but readable.

Los Angeles: Arthur Whipple, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Eizzil. One of 350 copies illustrated with woodcuts by Eizzil. SIGNED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Political and social commentary on the eve of America's entrance into the war. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribee's bookplate on front pastedown. Spine mildly sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. An examination of the evolution, intricacies, and absurdities of last names. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper.

Quincy [MA], 1 October 1874. Letter. Near Fine. Three-page letter on both sides of a 10" x 8" sheet to author and editor George W. Curtis responding about a series of lectures being organized by a man named Carpenter. Adams says he has an aversion "to all the system of lecturing which had been carried on so systematically of later years.... It would be a great inconvenience to me to break off from the prosecution of my present undertaking, which will be likely to absorb all my remaining days of usefulness.... He mentioned your name, that of Dr. Woolsey and Mr. Schurz as within the perview of the plan. What could I say but that if gentlemen of that mark were ready to advance, I could not fall back?" Curtis, editor of HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most influential American journalists of any day, also was known for his speeches, one of which was a tribute to Charles Sumner. Curtis also had the honor of helping Thoreau build his cabin on Walden Pond. Fine letter from one… Read More

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.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Samuel Chamberlain. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France following the Adams itinerary by Samuel Chamberlain and reproduced as gravures. Copy #958 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Lovely edition of this classic.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Samuel Chamberlain. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France following the Adams itinerary by Samuel Chamberlain and reproduced as gravures. Copy #982 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Lovely edition of this classic.

Washington DC: (J. H. Furst), 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. A close to Fine copy. Publisher's green cloth; vi, 214, [2] pages. SIGNED by the author at the end of the introductory letter, as with many copies. BAL 34. One of a series of late works by Adams in which he tried to incorporate new scientific knowledge, especially in physics, into the study of American history. Henry Adams (1838-1918, American historian and author, was a descendent of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. His posthumously published memoir, THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS, was awarded the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.