Search Results: Titles starting with T from Charles Agvent

New York: The Readers' Subscription, 1953. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Fine. An 8-page pamphlet in blue stapled wraps including a 3-page essay by Auden on Eliot's COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS. Bloomfield & Mendelson C413.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Wonderfully INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "for Irene Bradford/from Jack--/The four-year-old in/your canoe, who is as devoted to/you now as he was then--/and also, chimerically, with/warm regards from/John McPhee/12-85."

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A Review Copy with inserts, including a 4-page tabloid paper, of this short story collection by a Pulitzer Prize winner.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1996). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in cream printed wraps of this short story collection by a Pulitzer Prize winner.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine and bright, inside and out. Publisher's light brown cloth; xx, 340 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Taft on the front endpaper: “For Aage B. Nilson/with best wishes/WmH Taft." The recipient--a military man, diplomat, and avid collector of signed books--was in the habit of placing postage stamps next to the autograph and getting the page postmarked, as he has done here, in Washington, DC in 1928.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. The thoughts of Churchill's personal physician who became a close friend. Illustrated with photographs.

(Gottingen): Steidl, (2010). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Robert Frank. Textured wraps, 8" x 9-7/8". Mostly photographs with some text.

Bay Shore: Long Island Forum, 1942. Offprint. Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. A 16-page pamphlet in printed wraps with several illustrations. Long Island in the early 1800s as seen through the eyes of these fraternal artists. Limited to 500 numbered copies.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Ink name on front free endpaper. Slipcase with several archival tape repairs. About Fine in Good chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #665 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper and very scarce as such. Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with the typical browning to the paper though not as bad as usually found. The endpapers and pastedowns at front and rear have some foxing that does not enter the text. The dustwrapper has the $3.00 price horizontally at the bottom of the front flap and is quite bright with just a little edgewear at the corners and spine tips and no tears, chips, or creases of any significance. Difficult to find a better copy.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. About Fine in glassine and a broken chemise, housed in a Fine slipcase with one short split. Uncommon in this condition. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #46 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate of James Earl Beall, designed by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.

Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover. Rubbing to silver on spine, as is often the case, but still readable. Foxing to endpapers. Still Very Good, lacking the slipcase. William Sharp. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in black cloth with silver lettering and decoration. Printed at the Garamond Press. Preface by Vincent Starrett. Copy #323 of 1500 illustrated with sixteen aquatints by William Sharp and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Hugo Steiner-Prag. Large octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full black natural linen decorated with a design in gold by the illustrator and a leather spine label. Translated by various hands; introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated with 43 original lithographs drawn on the stone by Hugo Steiner-Prag, pulled by George C. Miller at the Printing House of William Edward Rudge. Copy #917 of 1500 SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist who also designed the book and wrote a prologue.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Light wear to corners. Backstrip of chemise darkened with split along one edge; splits to bottom and top edges of slipcase. Near Fine in a close to Very Good chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #90 of 1500 illustrated with ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Small adhesive remnant on the front pastedown where a bookplate was tipped in. Still Fine in glassine and a close to Fine gold clamshell box with only light rubbing. Fletcher Martin. Tall octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full brown linen, gold-stamped with an embossed design of a nugget impressed in gold on the front cover. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Copy #355 of 1200 numbered copies illustrated with line drawings by Fletcher Martin, one of the smaller limitations of the press. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1937). Reprint. Hardcover. Aging to cheap paper; light wear to head of spine. Very Good. Paul Strayer . Pictorial cloth. Illustrated with 5 full-page color plates and black-and-white text illustrations by Paul Strayer.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Very Good gold clamshell box with rubbing and some wear. Fletcher Martin. Tall octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full brown linen, gold-stamped with an embossed design of a nugget impressed in gold on the front cover. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Copy #904 of 1200 numbered copies illustrated with line drawings by Fletcher Martin, one of the smaller limitations of the press. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Some light spotting to the cloth. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper, with a great inscription. Tenth printing of Michener's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the actor who created the role of Capt. George Brackett in the original Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical: "To Martin Wolfson,/In a character that does/not appear in this book, you/catch the precise & wonderful/spirit of what I was trying to/do. I have been deeply impressed/by your art & your sympathetic/understanding. It's been great/fun knowing you & watching your/performances./Your admirer, /James A. Michener." Michener's inscription takes up most of the front endpaper, but just above it is another inscription to Wolfson that we surmise is by the actor William Tabbert who played Lieutenant Joe Cable in the original production and who shared several scenes with Wolfson: "To Martin/In appreciation of his/splendid performance… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the spine; owner blindstamp on the front free endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good slipcase. Hugo Steiner-Prag. Large octavo (6-3/8" x 10") bound in full black natural linen decorated with a design in gold by the illustrator and a leather spine label. Translated by various hands; introductory essay by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated with 43 original lithographs drawn on the stone by Hugo Steiner-Prag, pulled by George C. Miller at the Printing House of William Edward Rudge. Copy #845 of 1500 SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist who also designed the book and wrote a prologue.

London: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Gunter Bohmer. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in blue linen buckram with inlaid panels of brown linen, 522 pages. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. The Translations by Lafcadio Hearn and Others Chosen & With an Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Illustrated with 32 color plates including 17 full-page by Gunter Bohmer. Copy #958 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.