Search Results: Association Copy from Charles Agvent

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Some mild foxing to the endpapers and the title page, not affecting the inscription. Very Good. VETO MESSAGE ON THE ADJUSTED COMPENSATION ACT, 1935. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and the Presidential Seal in gilt on the front cover; [2], 11 pages. Franklin Roosevelt's first Christmas book (there would be seven more), issued in an edition of only 50 copies. SIGNED by the author at the conclusion of the text. In addition, on the front endpaper is the following INSCRIPTION in Roosevelt's hand: "For Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr./with love from Father" and below that also in FDR's hand: "One of 50 copies." From the text: "A government, like an individual, must ultimately meet legitimate obligations out of the production of wealth by the labor of human beings applied to the resources of nature.... The herculean task of the United States Government today is to take care that its citizens have the necessities of life. We are… Read More

Washington: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine and exceptionally scarce item with a superb association. Small octavo (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in flexible blue morocco leather lettered in gilt (including Coolidge's name at the bottom right) and decorated in gilt with stars in the corners and the Presidential coat-of-arms in the center. With a printed title page but the 19 text pages mimeographed rather than printed on paper with three holes in the gutter margin. Obviously a very limited production likely printed for Coolidge's personal use, and quite possibly unique. OCLC does not record any printed copy of this speech though it lists about 70 others. Given the same day as the 1927 State of the Union address, this speech was given to a much smaller, more selective audience. In the audience was William Butler, a Massachusetts Senator who was Coolidge's campaign manager and the Republican Party Chairman. This is his copy and is INSCRIBED and SIGNED to him by the President… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the author in full and dated 1988 on the half title page and INSCRIBED for "Ilse and Howdy/with my love/M." Ilse-Margret Vogel was a writer of children's books who was married to noted artist Howard (Howdy) Knotts, who illustrated Sarton's PUNCH'S SECRET.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. First British Edition. Hardcover. Owner name of E. M. Vincent on the half-title page. Some bubbling to the cloth, light rubbing and wear to the spine tips. Very Good and a fine Association Copy. According to BAL 12164, "Apparently published simultaneously in Boston and London." Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2") bound in publisher's gilt-ruled and lettered green cloth with black stamping. State 1. A Presentation Copy from Longfellow INSCRIBED in the poet's distinct hand on the verso of the front endpaper: "Mrs. Theodore Parker/with kind regards/of the Author/June 11, 1874." Mrs. Theodore Parker (Lydia Cabot) was the wife of Theodore Parker (1810-1860) who was a leading abolitionist, American Transcendentalist, and, along with William Ellery Channing, the most important and influential Unitarian minister of the nineteenth century. Parker's sermons inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. Parker wrote in 1850: "A democracy -- that is a… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1933). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight fraying along the rear edge of the spine. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper, with a fine presentation. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper likely to director Rex Ingram: "For/Rex/from/Willie/W. Somerset Maugham." Ingram adapted Maugham's 1908 novel THE MAGICIAN into a film with the same title in 1926. The silent film was about a magician's efforts to acquire the blood of a maiden for his experiments to create life.

London: Constable, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to joints. Near Fine in a Fine chemise and slipcase. First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the taboo word "bloody" spoken by her character Eliza Doolittle. In 1938 the play was made into an excellent movie, for which Shaw's screenplay won an Oscar, starring Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. The play reached a much wider audience when it was transformed by Alan Jay Lerner into the musical MY FAIR LADY and later the film of the same title directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn who replaced an irate Julie Andrews the star of the Broadway musical. The Irish playwright, who wrote more plays than Shakespeare, won the Nobel Prize in 1925 and lived to the age of 94, dying from complications resulting from a broken… Read More

(New York): Scribner, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. The moving Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography by this Irish-born New York City teacher, made into a fine film. This is an exceptional Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page at the time of publication to R'lene Dahlberg who heads the list of Acknowledgments for the book as the one who "fanned the embers." Dahlberg, the sixth of seven wives of author Edward Dahlberg, was a fellow teacher of McCourt's at Stuyvesant High School as well as a friend and muse, as evidenced by this inscription dated 25 November 1996: "For R'lene - with love/and memories of a/friendship that reaches/back almost beyond/memory and will continue/well into the millenium/Love/Frank McCourt." Apparently, he was wrong as we have a note in our possession by R'Lene Dahlberg describing her relationship to McCourt which, by all accounts, seems to have cooled dramatically upon the publication of this… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Durant's ink stamp on the front free endpaper. Slightly cocked with a little foxing. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A prequel to her 1939 drama THE LITTLE FOXES. Patricia Neal, making her Broadway debut, won a Tony Award for her performance in this play. Made into a film in 1948 starring Fredric March. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to American pro-Soviet journalist Kenneth Durant and his wife, poet Genevieve "Jed" Taggard, who died at the age of 54 in 1948: "For Kenneth and Jed/Because it comes with/great affection, and because/they said the only things/I wanted to hear./Love/Lillian." A telling inscription and a fine association.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Glue stain to the top of the stationery as well as to the top of the endpaper and less so to the facing pastedown. Small dampstain to the heel of the spine which has "841 ER" written in ink as does the spine of the dustwrapper which is dampstained, wrinkled, and soiled. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper. Extraordinary copy. Early but not first printing. Introduction and comments by Poppy Cannon. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a piece of Toklas's 5, rue Christine stationery: "For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/En souvenir of a memorable meeting in 1934./With appreciation and cordially/Alice Toklas/November 1958." Below this is an inscription by Poppy Cannon in green ink: "and with the deepest and/warmest admiration/from/Poppy/Christmas 1958." The paper, now loose, was once tipped to the top of the front endpaper and has a corresponding glue stain. It is likely that Toklas wanted to present a copy to Roosevelt and signed the… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing to the bulked fore-edge and first few pages. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A novel by Sarton. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper "For Ilse and Howdy/with love from/May/Aug. 1973" and SIGNED again "May Sarton." Ilse-Margret Vogel was a writer of children's books who was married to noted artist Howard (Howdy) Knotts, who illustrated Sarton's PUNCH'S SECRET.

London: Faber & Faber Limted, (1933). Second Edition. Hardcover. Mild foxing to endpapers, minor occasional foxing to text. Toning to boards with light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A nondescript copy but for the fact that it is INSCRIBED by Eliot to his niece on the title-page: "Inscribed for/Theodora Eliot Smith/by T. S. Eliot." Theodora was one of two daughters of Eliot's sister Charlotte. A lovely family association copy.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain to slightly more than the lower half of nearly all of the pages but not affecting the inscription. Spine, as is usually the case, partly eroded. Still Very Good. One could not hope for a better association. BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of original glazed boards; 39 pages: 2500 copies printed of this poem delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W. Longfellow/With the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb presentation copy linking two giants of nineteenth century American Literature. With the bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard College Library on the front pastedown, deaccessioned.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the author in full above the half title and INSCRIBED below "For Pat/for herself and for/Gertrude Stein--/at last!/BRAVO/and love from/M/May 25, 1984." The book is inscribed to Pat Bond (1925-1990), openly lesbian American actress who played Gertrude Stein on stage in Mary Martin's play GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN GERTRUDE STEIN.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a soiled, edgeworn, near Good dustwrapper, the front flap detached but present. Fifth Printing. Complete in one volume, illustrated. Superbly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steffens, filling the front pastedown, to wealthy Boston surgeon and socialite, Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, and his wife, Mina "Margery" Crandon, perhaps the most famous psychic medium of her time who claimed that she channeled her dead brother, Walter Stinson. In addition, a typescript of a letter from Steffens is pasted on the front endpaper opposite the inscription which transcribes Steffens's somewhat difficult handwriting. The inscription reads in full: "To L. R. G. and Margery Crandon, & to/Walter, my old friends:/You, Crandon, you know all of this, you are/of some of it, as I am a part of your unwritten/Life, & of Margery's, & Walter's. That I may/say, may I not? And surely I may sat that/we, all four of us old friends -- we have looked/& looked… Read More

New York, 8 Dec. 1938. Letter. Normal creases from folding, about Fine. Superb and touching one-page letter in Kent's minuscule hand to his 25-year-old daughter Clara expressing his disappointment that she will not be spending Christmas with him. In full: "It was about 12 years ago when, out of consideration for your mother, I gave up claiming my family for Christmas Day and set New Years Day as our day for Christmas celebration. That this gave you children two Christmases we hoped was doubly nice for you; and that it gave us Christmas--though a week later--with my children was a happiness that we planned for and looked forward to. Only the absence far from home of Frances [his second wife whom he would divorce in 1939] or me or both of us has made a New Years' pass uncelebrated as the family Christmas. All this you know. And that, knowing it, you pass up your father's Christmas for a New Year at a friend's is something that I will not forget nor easily forgive. That Frances is deeply hurt at your… Read More

Washington, D.C., 9 April 1953. Letter. Normal creases from mailing. Fine. A gracious two-page handwritten letter SIGNED "Felix" on Supreme Court of the United States stationery (4-1/2" x 6-7/8") to historian Samuel Eliot Morison and his wife, Priscilla. In full: "The company was worthy of the Mouton Rothschild, and the magnum was worthy of the company. What a good time was had -- and, I could not escape the conviction, not merely by me. As for me, I stored up such delightful and permanent memories that I can draw upon them for those dispiriting moments to which all flesh is heir, and of which Washington provides its own special brands. I shall continue to savor the introductory period when we were only three, indeed the few seconds when Priscilla all by herself dominated the charming living-room -- and the party was also closed for me by her. My warmest appreciation."

Washington DC, 23 February 1835. Letter. Creases, small tape repair, chipping to edges, small hole at center above red wax seal with no loss of text. Very Good. Superb two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "John Tyler" to his son on one integral 15-3/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of stationery folded to make four 7-7/8" x 9-7/8" pages with one page serving as the Free Frank envelope SIGNED "J. Tyler." Addressed to "My Son" (Robert Tyler), he encourages Robert about making a public speech in order to graduate, discusses the recent assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson, and concludes with remarks about personal and professional success. In part: "I am sorry to learn through your last letter that you entertained difficulties about graduating in consequence of the necessity which it would impose on you to make a speech publickly.... The undivided honor is certainly calculated to render it the more distinguished-- It affords you also an opportunity for a more elaborate essay.... I hope therefore that you… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, (1963). First Edition. Hardcover. Light spotting to cloth. Lacking original acetate. Near Fine. Color frontispiece. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by Waugh. This copy additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Alec Waugh in 1963: "For Atalanta [Arlen]/As a Christmas card/with love/from the author's brother."

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. First published in 1944. Paul Blackburn's copy, SIGNED by the poet and dated August 1948 in New York on the front endpaper.

Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press, (1994). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover issue in glossy pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCIRBED to fellow poet Jorie Graham: "To Jorie--/'I do not understand, but I believe'/and all the way/to everlasting,/love always,/Don/January 9, 1995." Revell and Graham were co-editors at the COLORADO REVIEW. Graham has referred to Revell as “the poet of my generation I most admire” (HARVARD CRIMSON, 17 October 2003).