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CHARLES AGVENT has been buying and selling rare books, manuscripts, and autographs in a variety of fields since 1987.  We have books from the 15th to the 21st century and feature a stock strong in Signed Books & Autographs, Literary First Editions, Presidential material, African-American Literature & History, and Fine Press & Illustrated Books.  In addition, we carry the largest inventory of Limited Edition Club books and ephemera in the world.  We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and adhere to their high ethical standards.

Please search or browse our inventory of approximately 6000 items.  Use the links to the left to browse our many specific categories and to see descriptions of new arrivals. If you can't find what you want, let us know and we'll be happy to search our extensive private inventory for you.

You can also click on the Catalogs link to see our pdf catalogs, including our latest catalog:

SPRING MISCELLANY 2012: 70 Select Items

Our new catalog--SPRING MISCELLANY 2012--contains 70 select items, all new arrivals. Highlights include a SIGNED copy of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by Katherine Lee Bates; Superb letters by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, and Woody Guthrie; First Edition of Cooper's THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, 1826; Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald First Editions in dustwrappers; SIGNED First Edition of Woody Guthrie's BOUND FOR GLORY; Several SIGNED books from the library of Henry James; Robert Kennedy's THE ENEMY WITHIN with a fine INSCRIPTION to Barry Goldwater; Several INSCRIBED First Editions by Eugene O'Neill; and  SIGNED Books, Letters, & Photographs by Robert Browning, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rutherford Hayes, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, & others.


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