Literary Firsts from Charles Agvent
New Arrivals
A GOOD SCHOOL
by YATES, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Slight dust soiling to top bulked edge. Just about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1978)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$106.30
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New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. hardcover. Slight dust soiling to top bulked edge. Just about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. NOT the rather common Book Club edition which also states "First Printing."
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$106.30
THE EYE
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a few small holes on the spine and some tanning
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Wraps
- 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: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a few small holes on the spine and some tanning. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly… Read more about this item Item Price
$62.50
LEMON GROVE 3
by GRAY, Don
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1968)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$18.80
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[San Francisco]: (Twowindows Press), (1968). First Edition. Fine. A 10" x 13" broadside of a poem printed in two colors on heavy stock.
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$18.80
A SUITABLE BOY
by SETH, Vikram
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1993)
- Binding
- Softcover
- 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: Harper Collins, (1993). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps. The first trade printing consisted of 100,000 copies.
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$43.80
GERALD'S PARTY
by COOVER, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1986
- 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: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.
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$43.80
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
by UPDIKE, John
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1975
- 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.
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$43.80
AT THE END OF THE OPEN ROAD
by SIMPSON, Louis
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1963)
- Binding
- Pictorial wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$62.50
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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, (1963). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. Pictorial wraps. Poet's second book.
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$62.50
THE TORCHES
by TATE, James
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$93.80
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[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1968. First Edition. Fine. One of an unknown edition of this 10" x 16" handsome broadside with a print by Vanden Berg for the title poem of a collection by Tate.
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$93.80
THE VOICE OF ASIA
by MICHENER, James
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a price-clipped, Good dustwrapper with soiling and small tears
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1951)
- 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: Random House, (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Good dustwrapper with soiling and small tears. Collectable copy of this early title.
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$43.80
DUPLICATE KEYS
by SMILEY, Jane
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1984
- 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Smiley's third book.
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$43.80
BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME
by KENNEDY, William
- Condition
- Used - Foxing to bulked edges of the text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with two short closed tears and a crease on the front
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1978)
- 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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New York: The Viking Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked edges of the text. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with two short closed tears and a crease on the front. Author's third book and the second book in the Albany Cycle.
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$56.30
LIFE STUDIES
by LOWELL, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear, mostly at 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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$87.50
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New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some edgewear, mostly at the spine. Winner of the National Book Award.
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$87.50
THREE-QUARTER LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL ARLEN
by SITWELL, Osbert
- Condition
- Used - Minor wear to spine tips. Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- [1930]
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$106.30
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London: Heinemann, [1930]. First Edition. Minor wear to spine tips. Near Fine. One of 520 numbered copies SIGNED by Sitwell.
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$106.30
ON DISTANT GROUND
by BUTLER, Robert Olen
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
- 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Considered one of the better novels about the Vietnam conflict.
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$25.00
END ZONE
by DeLILLO, Don
- Condition
- Used - About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical light edgewear and rubbing and some staining internally
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1972
- 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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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with typical light edgewear and rubbing and some staining internally. Increasingly scarce second book.
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$125.00
SELECTED POEMS
by SITWELL, Edith
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a slightly darkened spine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1936
- 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: Duckworth, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a slightly darkened spine.
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$125.00
THE AGE OF GRIEF
by SMILEY, Jane
- Condition
- Used - Small nick to bottom edge of board; remainder mark top edge of bulked text. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1987
- 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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Small nick to bottom edge of board; remainder mark top edge of bulked text. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's fourth book and first collection of short fiction.
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$31.30
FROST: THE POET AND HIS POETRY
by [FROST, Robert] SOHN, D. & TYRE, R
- Condition
- Used - Fine with apparently unplayed record in bag in rear pocket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1967)
- Binding
- Wraps
- 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, (1967). First Edition. Wraps. Fine with apparently unplayed record in bag in rear pocket. Containing the first appearance of the poem "One Favored Acorn," this booklet was designed as a teaching device.
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$43.80
SELECTED POEMS
by FROST, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Spine tips of book slightly dull; 1930 owner inscription on front endpaper. Dustwrapper with a few small chips on the front and
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1928)
- 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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New York: Henry Holt, (1928). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine tips of book slightly dull; 1930 owner inscription on front endpaper. Dustwrapper with a few small chips on the front and rear panels, an inch chip at the head of the spine eliminating the title and about five inches of the bottom of the spine lacking. Bright, Near Fine copy… Read more about this item Item Price
$437.50
THE EYE
by NABOKOV, Vladimir
- Condition
- Used - Owner inscription on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a soiled and worn Good dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Wraps
- 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: Phaedra, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Owner inscription on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a soiled and worn Good dustwrapper. Advance Copy in wraps with dustwrapper with the publisher's address line on the copyright page and Trident Press noted on the rear dustwrapper flap. The dustwrapper is identical to the trade issue but slightly different in… Read more about this item Item Price
$31.30
