Authors starting with V from Charles Agvent, ABAA

Athens, 1965. First Edition. Leather-backed boards. Near Fine, without dustwrapper as issued. Hand printed and bound by hand in brown leather-backed boards. Copy "R" of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 200 (174 were bound in wraps). This copy additionally INSCRIBED by the author on the limitation page and with a full-page ORIGINAL INK DRAWING in two colors by him on the front endpaper. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1990. First Edition. F/F. ... more information

Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1937. First Edition. Wraps. The upper top right corner of the title page has been clipped resulting in the loss of a few letters from the recipient's name in Valery's inscription. Some soiling and wear. Still Very Good to Near Fine. Printed wraps; a 25-page extract. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "au docteur Rodolphe Kling[?]/a propos bio-physic exthetico-logiques/d'un palais a/facade delabree/Paul Valery. ... more information

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. cloth. Scattered foxing including to signed page. Very Good. Two duodecimo (12mo) volumes (5-1/4" x 7-1/2") in original red cloth recently rebacked retaining the original spines. Published as part of Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading. The first volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Martin Van Buren on the verso of the front blank: "M. Van Buren/to/Miss Alida Van Buren/June 25th, 1852." Serving as the eighth president from 1837 to 1841, he wa... more information

New York: Holt, (1943). First Edition. Smudging to date from an attempted erasure. F/VG. SIGNED & dated 5/17/43 on the ffep by Van Doren. ... more information

Nov. 26, 1961. Very Good. 1 pages. 30 words at the bottom of a letter to Van Doren eloquently stating why he cannot give a blurb. ... more information

New York: H&W, 1959. First Edition. Fine. pc. dustwrapper spine faded.. ... more information

New York: Boni, (1931). First Edition. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper. Woodcuts by H.R. Bishop. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Mother and Dad/from Mark/March 13, 1931" on the front endpaper by Van Doren. Large horizontal chip at the very top of the front panel of the dustwrapper obliterating the word "Jonathan. ... more information

New York: Holt, (1939). First Edition. Very Good, lacking a slipcase with which it likely came. SIGNED limited edition of 200 numbered copies. Additionally SIGNED on the front endpaper by Van Doren, a brilliant teacher, accomplished poet, and father of the quiz show scandal kid. This book was the 1940 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Dampstain on the fore-edge of the front endpaper not affecting the signature. ... more information

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1936). Revised and Enlarged Edition. Leather_bound. Mild fading to the spine which has a few light scratches. Near Fine in a floral paper-covered slipcase. lxii, 1467 pages. Revised and Enlarged Edition of this popular anthology. Very attractive binding of full red morocco with top edge gilt, two raised bands, gilt dentelles, gilt-ruled borders, and beautifully gilt-lettered and decorated spine. ... more information

New York: Scribner, 1908. First Edition. Dec. cloth by M. Armstrong. Owner inscription. Fine. 12 color plates. Octavo, xvi, 325 pages. ... more information

New York: Scribner, 1922. First Edition. Dec. cloth by M. Armstrong. Owner inscription. Slight rubbing to spine. Near Fine. Plates. Chapters on Dickens, Stevenson, Keats, etc. ... more information

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1958]. First Edition. cloth. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Three volumes bound in black cloth with heavily gilt-decorated spines. With tipped-in plates in color and black and white throughout as well as reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence. Contains all of Vincent's letters known to date and the few surviving ones that Theo wrote to him. A monumental and beautiful work capturing Van Gogh's life and struggles in his own words, print... more information

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d. [1921]. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Close to Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Plates. Decorated cloth. Illustrated by the author. A lively and entertaining chronicle of world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times. Apparently the First British Edition of the FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWBERY AWARD. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on 7 November 1921, the year of original publication, with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of a ship sailing the seas. ... more information

New York, 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. No slipcase.. Portraits. Quarto, 375 pages. Limited to 750 copies. Biographies of illustrious figures from Cheops to Einstein. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Spine a little faded with some wear to the paper label. Very Good, lacking the glassine and slipcase. Copy #50 of 150 numbered copies on Borzoi All Rag paper SIGNED by the author, out of a total edition of 7660 copies. ... more information

Urbana: University of Illinois, (1981). First Edition. F/F. Author's second book & winner of the Lamont Prize. A wonderful collection. ... more information

New York: Harper & Row, (1968). First Edition. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Very nice copy.. Peruvian author's second book, quite scarce in this condition. Minor wear to spine head of dustwrapper with a faint sticker shadow and several light brown spots on the rear. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. His first volume of memoirs including his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. ... more information

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Wraps. Spine torn, reviewer's notes on rear endpaper. VG. Uncorrected Proof. ... more information