20th Century British Literature from Charles Agvent
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THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Condition
- Used - Spine darkened but still readable. Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1899
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$75.00
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New York: Alex. Grosset & Co., 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Spine darkened but still readable. Near Fine. Decorated orange cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Kipling and two plates by Charles Farrand.
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$75.00
OF HUMAN BONDAGE WITH A DIGRESSION ON THE ART OF FICTION: AN ADDRESS BY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine with minor sunning and soiling
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$437.50
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(Washington): (Library of Congress), 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine with minor sunning and soiling. Gray boards printed in black; 16, [1] pages. Of a total of 800 copies printed, this is one of 500 SIGNED by the author.
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$437.50
CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS
by AUDEN, W. H
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1969)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$625.00
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New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.
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$625.00
THE DOUBLE MAN
by AUDEN, W. H
- Condition
- Used - Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1941)
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$500.00
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New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Softcover. Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
NOTHING
by GREEN, Henry
- Condition
- Used - Very Good in a lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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New York: The Viking Press, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper. A portrait of postwar society in London's Mayfair.
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$43.80
THE LOVE MAN
by THOMAS, Gwyn
- Condition
- Used - Very Good in a Good dustwrapper, soiled and worn but complete
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1958
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper, soiled and worn but complete. The novelist famous for his 'wit, bubbling poetry, wild tearing bawdy comedy' etcetera etcetera now deserts Meadow Prospect and turns to Toledo and Don Juan."
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$25.00
SEA & SUSSEX
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Condition
- Used - Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$31.30
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Donald Maxwell. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell.
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$31.30
LYTTON STRACHEY. A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Volume I: THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910 and Volume II: THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932
by HOLROYD, Michael
- Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with darkened spines in a Near Fine slipcase
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- (1968)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with darkened spines in a Near Fine slipcase. Two volumes. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Strachey's papers including previously unpublished correspondence from many who comprised the Bloomsbury group.
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$43.80
SEA & SUSSEX
by KIPLING, Rudyard
- Condition
- Used - Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Minor fraying to tips of spine which is sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Donald Maxwell. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") in publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 24 color plates by Donald Maxwell.
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$43.80
THE GOLDEN ECHO
by GARNETT, David
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a slightly browned, close to Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- (1954)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1954). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a slightly browned, close to Fine dustwrapper. AN INTIMATE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE PORTRAIT OF A LITERARY GENERATION. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
WRITER BY TRADE. A PORTRAIT OF ARNOLD BENNETT
by BARKER, Dudley
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. 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… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
by BOYT, Rose [FREUD, Lucien]
- Condition
- Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, essentially new
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1989)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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London: Jonathan Cape, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, essentially new. The dustwrapper for this first novel was designed by Lucien Freud.
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$43.80
TUNC
by DURRELL, Lawrence
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$93.80
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Durrell has written the name "Jeffrey Miller" and SIGNED his own name below it on the front blank. Durrell's first novel after THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET.
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$93.80
THE NEW PROVIDENCE
by MOTTRAM, R. H
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine, lacking the tissue dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$25.00
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the tissue dustwrapper. Copy #201 of 210 SIGNED by the author.
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$25.00
YEATS: AN ANNUAL OF CRITICAL AND TEXTUAL STUDIES: Volume XII, 1994
by [YEATS, W. B.]
- Condition
- Used - Fine as issued, without dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1999)
- Binding
- Cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$31.30
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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1999). First Edition. cloth. Fine as issued, without dustwrapper. Edited by Richard Finneran. Articles and reviews illustrated with several plates.
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$31.30
YULETIDE IN A YOUNGER WORLD
by (Albert RUTHERSTON) HARDY, Thomas
- Condition
- Used - Sunning to spine and outer edges of faded boards. Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- n.d [1927]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$56.30
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(London): (Faber & Gwyer), n.d [1927]. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to spine and outer edges of faded boards. Very Good. Decorated green boards, 4 pages. #1 of the Ariel Poems printed by the Curwen Press. With a full-page color and black-and-white cover drawing by Albert Rutherston. One of 350 copies, this not numbered, on handmade Zanders paper bound… Read more about this item Item Price
$56.30
DOOMSDAY (Suggested by parts of the O.E. Poem CHRIST)
by MASSINGHAM, Harold
- Condition
- Used - Slight crease to lower corner. Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1972
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$31.30
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London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Slight crease to lower corner. Near Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
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$31.30
ON THE FRONTIER. A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS
by AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Condition
- Used - Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Published
- (1938)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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London: Faber & Faber, (1938). First British Edition. Hardcover. Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition.
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$125.00
VENUS
by EWART, Gavin
- Condition
- Used - Small neat puncture. Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1972
- Binding
- Broadside
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Broadside. Small neat puncture. Near Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
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$50.00
WISH YOU WERE HERE
by SCANNELL, Vernon
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Broadside
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$37.50
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London: Poem of the Month Club, 1973. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
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$37.50
