Titles starting with O from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Viking, (1983). First Edition. Near Fine in price-clipped Very Good dustwrapper. Photos & drawings. Only 5000 copies were printed. SIGNED by Kennedy on the title page in 1996. Slight foxing to book spine and bulked edges as well as to the interior of the dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Viking, (1983). First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Photos & drawings. Only 5000 copies printed. Rough erasure to front endpaper. ... more information

New York: Viking, 1956. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Attractive copy of her uncommon third book, a novel about the French & Indian War. Slight bumping to upper corners. ... more information

New York: Viking, 1959. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine in close to Fine dustwrapper. With a long SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the author dated the day of publication: "Anticipated, Mr. Haverlin!/Any largesse should come from/the producer -- I should have/hurried. Am the more grateful/that you did not trust a promise./Carl Haverlin's copy/of O TO BE A DRAGON/Please pretend it is from/Marianne Moore/September 17 1959." In addition Moore has added the date of publication to the copyright page. Also l... more information

London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Near Fine, and a superb association copy. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") in the original gilt-decorated brick cloth depicting a camera and climbing tools on the front cover. Illustrated with 28 original albumen photographs by noted Alpine photographer Ernest Edwards as well as a two-page map of the Oberland. Photographs range in size from 17 small images inserted within the text, including a circular vignette on the title page, to 11 fu... more information

London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866. First Edition. Decorated cloth. A Good or better copy, the images sharp and clear. Quarto (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") in the original gilt-decorated cloth depicting a camera and climbing tools on the front cover. Illustrated with 28 original albumen photographs by noted Alpine photographer Ernest Edwards as well as a two-page map of the Oberland. Photographs range in size from 17 small images inserted within the text, including a circular vignette on the title page, to 11... more information

[Philadelphia]: [E .L. Carey & A. Hart], [1838]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Rubbed, soiled; light foxing. Quite scarce and important. Cloth-backed boards.;viii, 134 pages. Graff 3869; Howes S-721 "b"; New Howes S-728 "c": "Based on personal investigation; aside from Lea's NOTES, earliest extensive description of Wisconsin. The ten pages on 'Iowa Territory' is the first account of it under that designation"; Sabin 84865. Most of what is now Minnesota i... more information

Quill & Brush, 1994. First Edition. As New. Lou Stovall. One of 200 numbered hardbound copies SIGNED by the 15 contributors who also include David Bradley, Ernest Gaines, & Barry Hannah. Inserted is an original silk screen SIGNED by Stovall. ... more information

[Chicago]: Henry Regnery, 1964. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustwrapper with very light rubbing along the edge. A collection of articles, protests, and affirmations that show the gradual development of the author's opinions and notions about America. Fountain Lawn Library bookplate on front pastedown and bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In the apparent first issue dustwrapper designed by Barry Geller. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1976. First Edition. F/F. Winner of the National Book Award. ... more information

(Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1982. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in clamshell box. A luxuriously delightful book.. Folio (9-3/4" x 13-1/2") bound by David Bourbeau at Thistle Bindery in full blindstamped deep red morocco in custom morocco-backed cloth clamshell box. The text of this wonderful ABC book was compiled by Laurie Block. The illustrations consist of 26 wood engravings and 26 smaller linecuts by Alan James Robinson printed from original blocks cut by the artist. Hand calligrap... more information

New York: Columbia University, n.d. Facsimile Edition. NF in worn glassine. Part of the English Replicas series. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Buckram/hand-marbled paper. Fine in glassine and dual slipcase. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer. The larger volume consists of facsimile pages in the same s... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. buckram. Fine in Fine slipcase. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in black buckram stamped in gold leaf with a bold calligraphy by Mijnheer Van Krimpen and a dramatic design by the illustrator in terra-cotta leaf and white leaf. Translated into English verse by Francis Storr with an introduction by Thornton Wilder. Printed with the original Greek facing the English translation by Joh. Enschede en Zonen in Haarlem, Holland. Designed by Jan van Krimpen and illustr... more information

Paris: Quillau, Esprit, 1773. New Edition. calf. Joints partly split but tight; minor edgewear and foxing. First Collected Edition in French of Franklin's EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY. Quarto, contemporary calf with gilt-decorated spine. Ford 315. Translated from the English of the Fourth Edition by M. Barbeu Dubourg with new additions in the form of letters by Dubourg and replies by Franklin on subjects such as the cause of the common cold and the relationship between magnetism and ele... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition. cloth. Gilt lettering on spine dulled; dustwrapper with some chipping at the head of the spine and jagged closed tear with no loss on the front panel. Very Good in a near Very Good dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Harry Elmer Barnes/with best wishes from/Charles A. Lindbergh/August 1948." Harry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian who in the late 1930s emerged as a leading isolation... more information

Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1982. First Edition. Diana covers in folder. Small collection stamp inked out on 1/2 title page. Near Fine. Relief print. One of 220 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist, Claire Van Vliet, and the author. Printed by Susan Johanknecht on Barcham Green Dover paper. ... more information

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938. linen. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with minor wear. Two octavo volumes (6" x 9") bound in the original imported speckled linen with leather labels. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Illustrated with 16 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by John Sloan. Copy #1208 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more desirable books of the press. Monthly Letter laid in. Spines a little sunned, as usual; small adhesive stain on the front pastedowns from boo... more information

New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Full linen. Spines slightly sunned, as usual. Near Fine in slipcase remnant.. Two octavo volumes (6" x 9") bound in full imported speckled linen with leather labels. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser. Copy #131 of 1500 copies illustrated by John Sloan and SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist who contributes 16 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS. One of the more desirable books of the press. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Spine sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.. The First Trade Edition of the First Illustrated Edition of this famous book. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "For James W. Poling/to whose labours I owe many happy hours/W. Somerset Maugham." Poling was an author of several books, including THE FINAL FACE OF EVE with Evelyn Lancaster, and an editor at Doubleday, Doran, one it appears who worked on Maugham&... more information