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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.

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First state of text without disclaimer and earliest state of dustwrapper with "Katherine Barclay" reading. Labels are fine and bright; light offsetting to endpapers from the dustwrapper which is intact with just minor chipping at the head of the spine and general darkening and soiling, mostly to the rear, and with absolutely no tinkering.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
New York: Scribner, 1929. First state of text without disclaimer and earliest state of dustwrapper with "Katherine Barclay" reading. Labels are fine and bright;.. more
Price: $4,500.00

First issue in salmon cloth with paragraph containing printing information and dustwrapper with Fourth Avenue address. Owner inscription from April 1943 on the front pastedown. A bright, clean copy of this modern classic, the only real defect being a quarter-sized chip at the top outside corner of the rear panel of the lightly soiled dustwrapper affecting the first letter in "Antoine."

THE LITTLE PRINCE
SAINT EXUPERY, Antoine de
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943). First issue in salmon cloth with paragraph containing printing information and dustwrapper with Fourth Avenue address. Owner inscription from April.. more
Price: $3,500.00

Three tall quarto (7-3/4" x 12-3/4") volumes bound in half blue linen and armorial-decorated boards. Illustrated with handsome wood engravings by master engraver Robert Gibbings who also designed the book. Preface of William Caxton. Edited, with spelling and punctuation modernised, by A. W. Pollard. Copy #380 of 1500 printed at the Golden Cockerel Press and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the finest productions of the press.

LE MORTE D'ARTHUR
MALORY, Sir Thomas
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Three tall quarto (7-3/4" x 12-3/4") volumes bound in half blue linen and armorial-decorated boards. Illustrated with handsome wood engravings.. more
Price: $400.00

Decorated cloth. Illustrated with eight color plates and text drawings by Charles Livingston Bull. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to J. W. Speare "with compliments" and dated Glen Ellen, Calif. 29 December 1909. A small (2-1/8" x 1-5/8") original photograph of London is pasted to the front pastedown opposite the inscription on the front endpaper. Ink in inscription a little light, likely right from the time of its creation as London has gone over a few letters in his last name. The rear endpaper and the last leaf of ads (of three) lacking. Cloth somewhat dingy but decorations and lettering on cover very strong and spine somewhat less so. In a fairly old specially made cloth slipcase.

BEFORE ADAM
LONDON, JACK
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1907. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with eight color plates and text drawings by Charles Livingston Bull. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author.. more
Price: $1,500.00

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