BALZAC, Honore de

Droll Stories

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in cloth-backed boards decorated by W. A. Dwiggins who also designed and decorated the book. Copy #1246 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page. Ill.: W. A. Dwiggins. Light wear to the spine tips with some fraying to the rear spine edge of the first volume. About Very Good, lacking the slipcase .

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Book number: 021615

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Limited Editions Club, W. A. Dwiggins, Fine Press W. A. Dwiggins Signed French Literature 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BALZAC, Honore de

Eugenie Grandet

London, Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered but labeled "Office Copy" with a presentation blindstamp by the publisher. Ill.: Rene Ben Sussan. Slight sunning to spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 015664

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Hand-colored, Signed, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, Fine Press, 19th Century French Literature, Illustrated Books Rene Ben Sussan Signed French Literature 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BALZAC, Honore de

Eugenie Grandet

London, Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Rene Ben Sussan. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 019743

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Signed, Hand-colored, Signed, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, Fine Press, 19th Century French Literature, Illustrated Books Rene Ben Sussan Signed French Literature 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BALZAC, Honore de

Old Goriot

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #380 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Rene Ben Sussan. Light wear. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 014450

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored Plates, Signed, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century French Literature, Fine Press Rene Ben Sussan Signed Limited Editions Club 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BALZAC, Honore de

Old Goriot

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: Rene Ben Sussan. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to the spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 016819

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored Plates, Signed, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century French Literature, Fine Press Rene Ben Sussan Signed Limited Editions Club 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BALZAC, Honore de

Old Goriot

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #258 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Rene Ben Sussan. Fine in torn glassine in a Fine slipcase .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021585

Catalogue: Limited Editions Club

Keywords: Illustrated Books, Hand-Colored Plates, Signed, Curwen Press, Limited Editions Club, 19th Century French Literature, Fine Press Rene Ben Sussan Signed Limited Editions Club 19th Century French Literature Illustrated Books

BANGS, John Kendrick

Mr. Munchausen. Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures...

Boston, Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 753: Second (Third?) printing. Cloth with an attractive color design by Peter Newell. Charmingly illustrated with 15 full-page color plates by Newell, creator of the even more charming THE HOLE BOOK. Early owner name and date mostly erased from front endpaper; a little rubbing to the covers. Ill.: Peter Newell. Early inscription mostly erased on the front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 010500

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Peter Newell, Baron Munchausen Peter Newell Peter Newell Illustrated Books 19th Century Literature Color Plates

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Call & Response

[Newark, NJ ], Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #13 of 85. We also have copy #12 in similar condition. Minor soiling, light edgewear, a couple of ink strokes in the text. Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020173

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Poetry, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Signed Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Signed Typescript: Money. A Jazz Opera

Newark/Washington, DC, December 1978 - January 1979. Manuscript. A photocopied ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 135 loose pages, many of them with pencil or ink markings and annotations, housed in an orange paper folder with "MONEY/orig)" in Baraka's hand on the front cover. The manuscript is SIGNED in full by the author at the conclusion with the date and place in type. MONEY was first produced Off-Broadway in 1982 with music by George Gruntz, the director of the Zurich opera and orchestra, and later in part at George Wein's New York Jazz Festival in the early 1990s. According to Baraka, MONEY was even "banned in France by the United States" because it was considered anti-American. A few pages with coffee stains, expected general use. Complete and Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021014

Catalogue: Manuscript

Keywords: Manuscript, African-American Literature, Theater, Jazz, African-American Music, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Manuscript Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Typed Manuscript of Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974 - 1979

New York & London, Garland Publishing Inc. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Plain blue wraps with black binder tape spine lettered in white with the text printed on rectos only, 8-1/2" x 11". A collection of essays not officially published until 1984 by William Morrow. We are not sure why Garland never published the book or if there are any textual differences between this typed manuscript and the published book. There are some ink corrections and additions throughout. A preliminary page is headed "Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture" with Charles T. Davis and Henry-Louis Gates listed as advisory editors. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 019998

Catalogue: African-American Literature

Keywords: African-American Literature, Manuscript, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Modern First Editions Literature: American Beat Literature African-American Literature

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Typed Manuscript for the Introduction to Hard Facts

[1975]. Manuscript. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (5 pages) of the Introduction to his book of poetry HARD FACTS. Baraka has made several alterations and additions in the text including about 50 words in his hand at the bottom of the fourth page: "The year the class struggle in Blk America became clear & open Segregation [?] & the productive forces loosed in on oppressed [?] just enough to create a vicious verticality, an oppressive class, in collaboration w/ the big bourgeosie who now sat in the white house openly & picked their toes. Near Fine .

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Book number: 021429

Catalogue: Manuscript

Keywords: Manuscript, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Manuscript Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

(BASKERVILLE PRESS) BARCLAY, Robert

An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers

Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. The First Baskerville Edition and the Eighth overall. Quarto (9-7/8" x 12-1/2") bound in original blue paper-covered boards with light green paper backing, uncut and mostly unopened; [12], [ii]-xiii, [2], 504, [18] pages. Gaskell 30 describes that the errata leaf is frequently missing. This copy has two examples of the errata leaf, one with a Phillips & Fardon imprint as part of the preliminaries and the other at the end of the text without an imprint. DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY: "Barclay's great book, The Apology, is remarkable as the standard exposition of the principles of his sect, and is not only the first defense of those principles by a man of trained intelligence, but in many respects one of the most impressive theological writings of the century. Old bookseller description pasted to the top of the front pastedown which has evidence of a bookplate removal; ink number "5196" at the top corner of the verso of the front endpaper; mild spotting toward the beginning but mostly very clean. Light wear along spine edges and tips, no spine label present or evidence there was one; light wear to corners and top edge. Near Fine .

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Book number: 019815

Catalogue: Baskerville Press

Keywords: Baskerville Press, Fine Press, Religion, Theology, Quakers, 18th Century Baskerville Press 18th Century Quakers Religion

BARKER, George

Collected Poems 1930 - 1955

London, Faber and Faber, (1957). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the endpaper: "for Bill Meredith/Summer 1959/George Barker." . Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 018096

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Association Copy Literature: English Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Inscribed

BARKER, George

Sacred and Secular Elegies

Norfolk, CT, New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith/at Sugar Loaf -- no, Bread Loaf/August 1959 from/George Barker. Some rubbing along the spine with slight loss. Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 018079

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Association Copy Literature: English Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Inscribed

BARKER, Dudley

Writer by Trade. A Portrait of Arnold Bennett

New York, Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 015144

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett 20th Century British Literature Literary Criticism Literature: English