Titles starting with V from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. Small indentation at rear. Information sheet taped to front.. Uncorr. Proof. Near Fine copy of this proof of his second book. ... more information

London: MacMillan & Co., 1895. First Edition. cloth. Near Fine. Original green cloth. Travels in America and Europe recounted in the form of letters by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS. ... more information

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884. First Edition. cloth. Mild rubbing; slight cracking of front hinge. Near Fine. Original smooth blue cloth stamped in gilt with black ruled borders. This copy without the second inverted comma on the title page and in the first binding with the forty-page catalogue per Babington 38. A collection of sonnets including a section titled "Among the Mountains. ... more information

Columbia [MO] & London: University of Missouri Press, 1978. First Edition. cloth. Very Good without dustwrapper, as issued. A "Breakthrough Books" from the press and the first book from this author who has garnered a fine reputation since. This copy with the promotional flyer laid in and INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For whomever/it might be--/in celebration of our/local history--/Bill Kittredge." A dampstain runs through the entire book at the lower right corner of the blank ... more information

Boston: Godine, (1979). First Edition. Fine in just about Fine dustwrapper. First book, a collection of stories. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1981. ... more information

New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1971). First Edition. cloth. Two pages have an ink streak from the printing process that slightly affects a few words. Near Fine in a close to Near Fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the dedication page: "To Bess W----/a fond friend of a dear friend of mine-/Lyndon B. Johnson." Typically this book is found with a signed bookplate added to the book. Less typically is found the issue with the first blank... more information

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, (1961). First Edition. cloth. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Folio (10" x 13") in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper. Text by Claude Roger-Marx. With 115 illustrations printed on various colored paper. Of a total of 1000 copies, this is copy #19 of only 100 with a lithograph SIGNED by the artist laid in loosely in a folder. ... more information

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1957. First Edition. buckram. Very mild sunning to the spine. Just about Fine, lacking the slipcase. Original two-color buckram with gilt lettering on the spine; 884 pages. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Copy #707 of 825 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf of this definitive collection of Yeats's poetry. ... more information

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1945. About Fine in broken chemise and slipcase lacking part of top edge. Valenti Angelo. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full orange morocco gilt-stamped with a design by Valenti Angelo. Each page of text features decorative borders by Angelo, and there are 16 full-page miniatures printed in colors and hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo as well. One of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

(Boston): (Barn Dream Press), (1971). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Fine. Pictorial wraps. Copy #76 of 100 (of a total edition of 500 copies) SIGNED by the poet. ... more information

London: John Baillie, 1905. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Very Good or better.. Decorated cloth.The second of only two issues of this annual to be printed. Includes "Two Songs" by James Joyce, preceding his first book CHAMBER MUSIC by two years. Other contributors to this annual include Arthur Symons, Alice Meynell, Oliver Gogarty, and illustrators J. McNeil Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Arthur Rackham, and J. S. Sargent. Two of the minor illustrations lacking in this copy. ... more information

London: John Baillie, 1903. First Edition. Decorated cloth. Slight cracking to rear hinge. Rubbing and soiling to covers. Very Good or better. Decorated cloth.The first of only two issues of this annual to be printed. Edited by Maugham and Laurence Housman. Contributors to this annual include Maugham, Thomas Hardy, G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, and Violet Hunt as well as illustrators Lucien Pissarro, E. Gordon Craig, T. Sturge Moore, Sydney Lee, and others. ... more information

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill, 1995. First Edition. cloth. Fine in slipcase, as issued. Of an edition of 274 numbered (stated limitation but actual number was only 148) and 26 lettered and SIGNED copies, this is one of 50 copies with the lettered issue limitation page but marked as a "proof" copy and bound differently, in grayish red cloth, than the regular edition. SIGNED on the limitation page by the author. ... more information

Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill, 1995. First Edition. Loose sheets. Fine. Proof copy of this limited edition consisting of 8-1/2" x 11" unbound photocopied sheets up to page 109 of the book. Probably not many more than a handful of these were produced for review purposes as the total edition consisted of only 274 numbered (stated limitation but actual number was only 148) and 26 lettered copies. ... more information

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Small near puncture. Near Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet. ... more information

Rochester: Leo Hart, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good still, in later slipcase. Bound in gilt-lettered leather-backed cloth. Copy #912 of 1250 numbered copies illustrated by Rockwell Kent and SIGNED by the artist. A few pages with minor tears or marginal chips. Endpapers foxed with a short split to front hinge. ... more information

[Paris]: Harrison of Paris, [1930]. 3/4 morocco. Minor foxing to the outer margins of a few pages. Small piece of leather chipped from the head of the spine and neatly reinserted. Near Fine copy housed in an apparently later board slipcase. Bound in original 3/4 black morocco with silver lettering on the spine and silver paper boards and endpapers. Designed by Monroe Wheeler and printed by Ducros and Colas. Of a total edition of 475 copies, this is copy XII of only XX printed on iridescent Japan vellum. T... more information

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Georgia native's second book, a wonderful collection of short stories. Read her, if you haven't. Blurbs by Pat Conroy, Olive Ann Burns, and others. ... more information

Zurich: Rascher & Cie., 1919. First Edition. wraps. Very Good or better for this fragile piece. Printed green wraps with pink errata slip tipped in. The First German Edition of Joyce's play EXILES. Translated by Hannah von Mettal and published in an edition of 600 copies at Joyce's expense. Typical browning to the cheap paper of the text, which is largely unopened, with the covers intact with very little edgewear. ... more information

(London): Privately Printed (Unwin), 1931. First Edition. full leather. Near Fine and obviously a very desirable copy of a scarce book. Bound in full polished greem calf by Bayntun Bath with gilt-ruled borders and spine and contrasting morocco spine labels with gilt lettering, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Of a total of only 62 copies printed, this is Copy #1 of only 12 printed on handmade paper and SIGNED by the author, a noted journalist turned writer of mysteries, including THE M... more information