CHARLES AGVENT
RARE BOOKS
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Our Spring Catalogue contains 77 select items, ranging from exceptional Signed
Presidential books to beautiful Hand-colored Plate books to unique items such
as drawings done by Sylvia Plath when she was 8 and Casey Stengel's handwritten
notes for his Hall of Fame induction speech. There are also Inscribed copies of
SISTER CARRIE, ASK THE DUST, DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON, and THE JUNGLE, as well as
books signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., Samuel Morse, William Carlos Williams,
Virginia Woolf, and W. B. Yeats. A nice and scarce Second Edition of Adam Smith's
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is added for good measure. Future
monthly catalogues will feature strong collections of 19th Century American and
British Literature, and outstanding single author collections by Thomas Merton,
Carl Sandburg,
NEW!: : SPRING 2008: 77 Fine Items
125 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, MOST SIGNED
Our new
Catalogue includes 125 Modern First Editions, most signed and nearly all newly
catalogued items. The list includes runs of signed books by T.C. Boyle, A.E. Coppard, Aldous Huxley, Joyce
Carol Oates, T.F. Powys, T.S. Stribling,
and others. Next month we will post our annual
Our MOUNTAINS &
MOUNTAINEERING Catalogue includes 75 select volumes, including a number of
nineteenth century illustrated books, and consists primarily of newly
catalogued items. We also have a list of "Bargain" titles in the same
subject area consisting of 50 titles NOT listed on our website and priced at
$25 each with discounts on quantitites. If
interested, let us know and we will email it to you.
This is our special GIFT
Catalogue with 75 items priced from $10 to $30,000 and including both new
arrivals and selections from stock, mostly illustrated books, classics, fine bindings,
and limited editions.
Our FALL 2007 Catalogue contains
72 items: Signed Presidential Material, Hand-colored Plate books, Early Printed
books, Signed books, and more. Highlights include pamphlets signed by John
Adams and John Quincy Adams, Hemingway's scarce TWO CHRISTMAS TALES, Ince & Mayhew's illustrated UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE [1762], a signed Advance Copy of Norman Mailer's THE NAKED
AND THE DEAD, an illustrated 1621 account of Columbus's second voyage, James
Wright's first book inscribed to his wife, and much more.
LITERARY
MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, & PHOTOGRAPHS
Our Literary Manuscripts
Catalogue contains 90 superb Literary Manuscripts, Letters, and Photographs.
Highlights include wonderful handwritten manuscripts by W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Dos Passos,
and others; letters by Zane Grey, Robert Lowell, Wiliam
Carlos Williams, and others; and signed photographs of Pearl Buck, Theodore
Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and others.
Our Spring Catalogue contains 42 select
items in a variety of fields. Highlights include the plate volumes from the
quarto edition of Diderot's Encyclopedia 1779; Montanus on Japan 1669; scarce first books by Gerard Manley
Hopkins (an association copy), Donald Justice, and William Stafford; finely
bound sets; a collection of signed books and letters by Darwin contemporary
Herbert Spencer who coined the term "survival of the fittest"; books
signed by David Ben-Gurion, Albert Einstein, Billie Holiday, Gertrude Stein,
Kurt Vonnegut, Virginia Woolf, and others.
Our AVIATION & SPACE
Catalogue contains 57 items including the signed limited first edition of
Amelia Earhart's account of becoming the first woman
to cross the Atlantic by air complete with a small silk flag carried by her on
the voyage, a selection of books from the library of leading World War I Ace
Eddie Rickenbacker, as well as books signed by Neil
Armstrong, Charles Lindbergh, and Antoine Saint Exupery,
and some interesting 19th century aviation material.
Our latest SIGNED PRESIDENTIAL
BOOKS & PAMPHLETS Catalogue contains 39 Signed Presidential Books and
Pamphlets including items by John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Grover
Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, and more.
2007
LIMITED EDITIONS CATALOGUE
Our 2007 LIMITED EDITIONS
CATALOGUE contains 81 new acquisitions. We have perhaps the world's largest
inventory of Limited Editions Club books, from their beginning in 1929 to their
much more limited and often large-format recent offerings. In addition to what
is listed here, we have about 300 other LECs cataogued here on our website as well as half that number
yet to be catalogued. .
EUDORA WELTY
& TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
This comprehensive catalogue
contains 139 items by EUDORA WELTY & TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, including many
signed books and unusual pieces.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
MUSIC, HISTORY & LITERATURE
With 17 fine African-American
items including several books and letters signed by the most famous Jazz musician
of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong; a signed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin; John
Quincy Adams's Amistad argument, and more.
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lists, please then check to see if it is available using our SEARCH
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WHO WE ARE
We have been in business since 1987 and are members of the
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League
of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
TERMS & CONDITION
We judge condition conservatively. All books are octavo First American or British editions in original bindings offered subject
to prior sale unless otherwise noted. Dustwrappers present
when described. All autographs are unconditionally guaranteed for life to be
genuine. We attempt to note signatures and bookplates when present as well as any defect we see. In any case, any item may be returned, with prior notice,
within 7 days of receipt for any reason. All returns should be shipped fully
insured and prior notification should be given.
ORDERING and SHIPPING
We are always interested in assisting in
building collections in a variety of fields, as well as in purchasing duplicate
titles or titles no longer appropriate for current needs.
We always seek fine books in all fields,
and you should certainly notify us of your interests.
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