Charles Agvent

SPRING MISCELLANY 2018 Our new catalog--SPRING MISCELLANY 2018--contains 46 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields. Highlights include several limited signed art portfolios including a Lynd Ward woodcut portfolio of only 44 copies; a First Edition of Jane Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY; De Bruyn's VOYAGE AU LEVANT, 1725; Frederick Douglass's 1845 NARRATIVE; exceptional Association copies of ANGELA'S ASHES and John McPhee's First Book; a signed photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson; and signed books and letters by Henry Beston, Elizabeth Bishop, Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, Robert Kennedy, William Osler, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.

SUMMER MISCELLANY 2017 Our new catalog--SUMMER MISCELLANY 2017--contains 85 select items, all new arrivals, in a variety of fields, especially African-Americana, Botany, Japan, Ornithology, and Poetry. Highlights include THE FIRST COOKBOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN (1829); an 18th Century Illustrated Japanese Manuscript of Floral Arrangements; Latham's GENERAL HISTORY OF BIRDS with 193 hand-colored engravings; Ninagawa's study of Japanese pottery with 125 hand-colored plates; Randall Jarrell's THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a MANUSCRIPT VERSE; signed books and documents by Louis Armstrong, Charles Chesnutt, T. S. Eliot, Joel Chandler Harris, Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, etc.; a selection of fine bindings and illustrated books, and much more.