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THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness
ADDAMS, Jane · 1930 · Charles Agvent
$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.23 | ¥169,614)
New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. Illustrated with drawings by Norah Hamilton and Morris Topchevsky. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'Compliments of the author'/Jane Addams/Hull-House/Chicago." Uncommon in dustwrapper.. Slight offsetting to endpapers f…
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) with Partial Manuscripts
LOWELL, James Russell · 1845 · Charles Agvent
$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)
On a 3-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper Lowell has written out his poem “A[n] Epigram on Certain Conservatives,” and SIGNED it below with his initials and a closing: "So, ending with a piece of/nonsense for a stopgap/I remain yours as always/J.R.L." On the verso is the first stanza of a…
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS)
TAYLOR, Bayard · 101868 · Charles Agvent
$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)
Sorrento. On a 5" x 7-1/2" piece of paper Taylor has written his complete poem "Proposal" and dated and SIGNED it below. The poem was first published in the November 1859 issue of HARPER'S MONTHLY and is one of the best known by the Quaker poet. …
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "The Love Of God"
BRYANT, William Cullen · 9 · Charles Agvent
$2,250.00 (€2,041.37 | £1,703.07 | ¥359,182)
New York. A handwritten poem on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated at the conclusion. Bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco leather and blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover containing the poem, an engraved portrait of Bryant, a hand-lettered…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
BRYANT, William Cullen · 101877 · Charles Agvent
$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)
The second stanza of Bryant's poem "The Battle-Field" in the poet's hand, SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated by him at the conclusion on a 5" x 8" sheet of paper. Bryant, who was a founder of the Republican Party and fervent supporter of Abraham Lincoln, commemorates the C…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
LOWELL, James Russell · 111886 · Charles Agvent
$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)
Deerfoot Farm. On a 4-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper Lowell has written out the last 8 lines of his long poem “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865,” written for and read at the Commemoration Day exercises at Harvard College on that day, an event especially hono…
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "Judgment Day"
HOWELLS, W[illiam] D[ean] · 1919 · Charles Agvent
$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)
n.p.. A handwritten poem on a 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" sheet of paper SIGNED "W. D. Howells" at the conclusion with the dates 1895 and 1919. The eight-line poem was first published in the book STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS in 1895. Before Him weltered like a shoreless sea The souls of them t…
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Song for New Year's Eve"
BRYANT, William Cullen · 311856 · Charles Agvent
$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)
n.p.. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x 8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second stanza here containing correctio…
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by the Author of FRANKENSTEIN
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft · 61843 · Charles Agvent
$10,625.00 (€9,639.82 | £8,042.26 | ¥1,696,136)
Rome. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Mary Shelley" written in Italian on one sheet of an 8" x 5" piece of paper folded to 4" x 5," dated 6 April [1843]. A rough translation: "Esteemed Sir. Thank you so much for your card -- and your kindness. I feel ashamed thinking abou…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) with a CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 61892 · Charles Agvent
$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)
On a small (4-1/8" x 2-7/8") piece of paper Holmes has written the third stanza of "Song. For A Temperance Dinner" and dated and SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" below. …
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
LOWELL, James Russell · 271881 · Charles Agvent
$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)
London. On a 7-3/4" x 10-3/4" sheet of paper Lowell has written out the penultimate six-line stanza of his poem "Masaccio" and SIGNED and dated it below. Thoughts, that great hearts once broke for, we Breathe cheaply in the common air; The dust we trample heedlessly Throbbed on…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 241878 · Charles Agvent
$812.50 (€737.16 | £615.00 | ¥129,705)
Beverly Farms, MA. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody": Sweet are the lips of all who sing When nature's music heather unsought But never yet could voice or string So truly shape our te…
THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Famous Poem "A Sick Child"
JARRELL, Randall · 0 · Charles Agvent
$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)
New York. Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper and pastedown and SIGNED by the poet to his friends and poets Meryl and Courtney Johnson. Jarrell has also written out the complete poem in the book, "A Sick Child": …
THE WESTERN APPROACHES. POEMS 1973-75
NEMEROV, Howard · 0 · Charles Agvent
$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)
Chicago & London. The University of Chicago Press. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith,/with affection & admiration/Howard Nemerov." . Slight dustspotting to the top edge. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
THE PRIPET MARSHES AND OTHER POEMS
FELDMAN, Irving · 0 · Charles Agvent
$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)
New York. The Viking Press. First Edition. Poet's second book, SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half-title page in 1971: "for Bill Meredith/with gratitude for/this most pleasant/meeting/Irving." Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Feldman to Meredith forwardi…
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WILSON AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD BROOKLYN, N. Y. MAY 11, 1914. Services in memory of those who lost their lives at Vera Cruz, Mexico
WILSON, Woodrow · 1914 · Charles Agvent
$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)
Washington. [Government Printing Office]. First Edition. Printed wraps, 8 pages, including the covers. SIGNED by the President at the end of the text. The United States occupation of Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for seven months, as a response to the Tam…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
WORDSWORTH, William · 51815 · Charles Agvent
$5,000.00 (€4,536.39 | £3,784.59 | ¥798,182)
A one-page (8" x 10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip Sidney. In full: "The chief use, then in Man of that he knows Is his painstaking for the good of all; Not fleshly weepi…
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) and AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 101888 · Charles Agvent
$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)
Boston. On a 6-7/8" x 9" piece of paper the author has written the following seven-line stanza from one of his best known poems "The Chambered Nautilus": Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, no…
ARCHIVE OF LETTERS: 21 pages
McCOURT, Frank · 19831990 · Charles Agvent
$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)
Superb archive of seven letters from the author of ANGELA'S ASHES to R'Lene Dahlberg, fellow teacher at Stuyvesant High School, friend, wife of author Edward Dahlberg, and muse. Mostly chatty correspondence, all but two pages handwritten by McCourt, complete with hand-addressed …
Vasistas, Woorden om de wereld te begrijpen
BREIJ, CLAUDIA DE. · 2022 · Antiquariaat FRANS MELK
€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)
Thomas Rap, 2022. Gebonden met stofomslag. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. 223 pag. Gesigneerd door de schrijver. - IN NIEUWSTAAT