First Editions from Charles Agvent
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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
by TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
- Condition
- Used - Two pages with professional repairs to tears; hinges unbroken and covers tight. Light edgewear with some rubbing and wear to the
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1876
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$15,625.00
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Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two pages with professional repairs to tears; hinges unbroken and covers tight. Light edgewear with some rubbing and wear to the spine. Easily Very Good. FIRST PRINTING on wove paper and with half-title and frontispiece with blank versos and with "THE" on the half-title page in 10-point… Read more about this item Item Price
$15,625.00
THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE AND OTHER STORIES
by TCHEKOFF, Anton [Anton Chekhov]
- Condition
- Used - Owner information in pencil from date of publication on the front endpaper. Some rubbing along spine and edges. Gilt is bright.
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- (1917)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$62.50
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1917). First American Edition. Hardcover. Owner information in pencil from date of publication on the front endpaper. Some rubbing along spine and edges. Gilt is bright. Verty Good to Near Fine, lacking a dustwrapper if it ever had one. Dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Translated from… Read more about this item Item Price
$62.50
HARD CANDY. A BOOK OF STORIES
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the head of the spine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1959)
- 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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(New York): New Directions, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the head of the spine. Crandell A13.I.c. The limited edition was issued five years previously. Dustwrapper designed by Elaine Lustig.
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$31.30
PARTISANS
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Dustwrapper with very light rubbing, small closed tear at middle of spine with customary sunning to the orange block. Fine in a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$312.50
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New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustwrapper with very light rubbing, small closed tear at middle of spine with customary sunning to the orange block. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. His second book, somewhat difficult to locate in this condition.
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$312.50
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED
by O'BRIEN, Tim
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1990
- 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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New York: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper. First Trade Edition after the Franklin Library edition of this superb book, perhaps the best evocation so far of the Vietnam conflict.
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$125.00
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
- Condition
- Used - Moderate foxing, later owner name on front endpaper. Despite the two missing plates, a Near Fine copy
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1858
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$62.50
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing, later owner name on front endpaper. Despite the two missing plates, a Near Fine copy. BAL 8781: Printing 2, Binding C of original brown cloth, no rings. The sheets measure 7-1/2 x 4-3/4, which falls between the paper size of the regular issue and the large paper… Read more about this item Item Price
$62.50
