Titles starting with V from Charles Agvent, ABAA

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition. F/F. Southern author's second book. ... more information

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 ri... more information

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1914. First Edition. Minor wear. Near Fine and uncommon in this advance state.. BAL 15046. An Advance Copy in the binding of gray paper boards with linen spine and printed paper spine label. Posthumously published from a manuscript thought lost in the great San Francisco earthquake. Small, faint red stain at foot of linen on the front board. ... 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. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with light wear at the top, mostly at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the author on the first blank, a tipped-in page, as issued by The First Edition Circle. Books genuinely signed by LBJ are quite scarce, and this title in this state signed in the book as opposed to having a signed bookplate is increasingly uncommon. ... more information

New York: Orange Judd & Company, (1868). First American. cloth. Remarkably Fine, clean set, inside and out. Two volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on the spines: [ii], iv, [iii]-iv, [v]-x, [11]-494 pages plus 6 pages of ads; viii, [9]-568, plus 8 pages of ads. The First American Edition, published in the same year as the First English Edition. Illustrated with wood engravings in the text. ... 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]: Limited Editions Club, 1945. About Fine in broken chemise & slipcase lacking part of top edge. 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

(Brooklyn): (Jordan Davies), (1979). First Edition. Wraps. Fine with erratum slip laid in. One of 200 numbered & SIGNED copies printed at the Oliphant Press. ... 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 thi... 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. 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

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

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. Near Fine copy housed in 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 XX printed on iridescent Japan vellum. The first book of the press here in one of its smallest limitations. Minor foxing to the outer margins of a few pages. Small piece of leathe... more information