Search Results: Titles starting with D from Charles Agvent

New York: Doubleday, (2003). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps for this blockbuster novel made into a popular film.

Boston: J. M. Whittemore, (1847). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name of Eastman Sanborn dated Andover, Mass. 1850 on the front endpaper. Minor foxing; chipping to spine tips and some loss along spine edges, covers tight. Good. Bound in publisher's brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. For some reason, the first issue is not included, which seems to be rather common with this publication. Despite the title, this has nothing to do with photography but is rather a compendium of articles from periodicals from England, France, and Germany, and translated into English for an American audience when necessary. Subjects include Cuba, China, Russia, Central America, the relations between Mexico and the United States, and the Art of Eating.

New York. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine chipped. Good. Original cloth

Iowa City: The Windhover Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowery Press) preceding the trade collection of the same title by four years.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1986). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Livingston's bookplate, designed by Antonio Frasconi, tipped to the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Poet's impressive first full-length book of which apparently only 750 copies were bound in hardcover. There was a Windhover Press publication with the same title published four years earlier. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "with best wishes/and excellent auguries" on the title page to poet and children's book author, Myra Cohn Livingston.

[Toronto]: [Coach House Press], (1967). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. His uncommon first book, copy #495 of only 500 numbered clothbound copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page in his later scrawl. This copy belonged to Canadian poet Dennis Lee who has SIGNED the front endpaper. Lee was the co-founder of House of Anansi Press in 1967 and editorial director there until 1972. At Anansi, he supervised the publication of one of Ondaatje's better books, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID, in 1970. Lee also wrote most of the song lyrics for the Jim Henson television show FRAGGLE ROCK.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Touch of wear to spine tips. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Gustave Nebel. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by Gustave Nebel. Copy #955 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some splitting along one edge. Gustave Nebel. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by Gustave Nebel. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Just a touch of sunning to the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Gustave Nebel. Small octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/8") bound in full red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Printed at the University Printing House in a format designed by Will Carter. Introduction by John Holloway and illustrated in color by Gustave Nebel. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Light, scattered foxing, mostly to the text, the plates clean with strong coloring; light wear to the binding. Very Good to Near Fine. Thomas Rowlandson. Quarto (6" x 9-1/2") bound in 19th century half polished green calf leather with matching corners and marbled boards; gilt rules; gilt-decorated spine with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label and five raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges; [iv], ii, ii, 285, (3) pages including the advertisement at the end. Illustrated with an additional hand-colored engraved title page, hand-colored frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name dated 1993 on front endpaper. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. wraps. Fine in a Fine paper slipcase, as issued. Pictorial wraps. Advance Reading Copy, SIGNED by the author as issued on the front free endpaper, of his last collection of stories.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The final collection of short stories from an author who has had several of his stories made into critically acclaimed films.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. wraps. Very light soiling. About Fine. The Uncorrected Proof in printed beige wraps of the final collection of short stories from an author who has had several of his stories made into critically acclaimed films. Not the more common advance reading copy in pictorial wrappers. Review sheet neatly stapled to inside front cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Prints Morrison's brief speech on the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), (1996). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Wraps. Advance Reading Copy of his last collection containing 3 stories, each separated by a titled cover in a different color: "All the Time in the World," "The Timing of Sin," and "Out of the Snow." With an introduction by Gary Fisketjon.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. wraps. Slightest of bumps to upper rear corner; slipcase with short tear at bottom edge. About Fine in a Near Fine paper slipcase, as issued. Pictorial wraps. Advance Reading Copy, SIGNED by the author as issued on the front free endpaper, of his last collection of stories.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Tiny closed tear at bottom of dustwrapper rear panel and two vertical creases to front flap. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. First book by this acclaimed author, a collection of stories, reportedly done in a print run of only 1500 copies.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Lower corners very lightly bumped. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Merwin's uncommon second book, this copy SIGNED by the poet.