Recent Catalogs from Charles Agvent

WINTER MISCELLANY: 50 Items Fine Bindings, Signed Books, and more. Highlights include SIGNED First Editions of THE LITTLE PRINCE and Theodore Roosevelt’s THE ROUGH RIDERS (one of 4 signed TR items); First Editions of THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE and THE SCARLET LETTER; Finely Bound First Editions by Winston Churchill; First Book by Charles Addams with an Original Drawing; and SIGNED Books by Neil Armstrong, Albert Einstein, and others.

FALL MISCELLANY: 40 Items Our new catalog contains 40 items in a variety of areas including Travel, Americana, Illustrated, Autographs, and more. Highlights include the first important history, well illustrated, of Amsterdam (1611); a 1736 history of New England; a guide to settling the West after the Civil War; and pieces SIGNED by Jane Goodall, D. H. Lawrence, Franklin Roosevelt, and others.

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS Part 6 Our new catalog contains 35 literary manuscripts, letters, signed photographs, documents, etc. Authors include Auden, Chandler, Emerson, Hawthorne, Perelman, Steinbeck, Wharton, and others.

SUMMER MISCELLANY 2024 40 items with many interesting Americana pieces and our usual assortment of signed books and letters.

SPRING: POETRY & FLOWERS Our new catalog contains 45 items: 30 of Poetry and 15 of Hand-Colored or Chromolithographed Floral Books with several on Orchids. Poets include Bishop, Byron, Cummings, Eliot, Sassoon, and Yeats with many unusual items. The Botanical items are quite lovely with several scarce pieces including the ONLY edition of the major colored nature-printed book of the 18th century.

AFRICAN-AMERICANA, MAGIC/CIRCUS, ETC. Our new catalog contains 25 select items, mostly African-Americana and Magic/Circus items. Highlights include the First Commercially Published Book Written by an African American in the United States; a Signed Limited George Gershwin PORGY & BESS; an Important Association Copy of Lyndon Johnson’s VANTAGE POINT; Original Teletype Pages from the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gaspar Schott’s Richly Illustrated PHYSICA CURIOSA, 1697; an Inscribed Copy of Booker T. Washington’s UP FROM SLAVERY; and much more.

2023 HOLIDAY MISCELLANY Our 2023 HOLIDAY MISCELLANY contains 50 select items in a variety of fields. Highlights include Robert Oppenheimer’s Copy of William Blake’s SONGS OF INNOCENCE; a true First Edition of Sigmund Freud’s INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS; an attractive SIGNED Musical Quotation from George Gershwin’s RHAPSODY IN BLUE; a First Edition of Samuel Johnson’s monumental DICTIONARY; Barry Moser’s First Book, one of only 35 copies; a Franklin Roosevelt Christmas book INSCRIBED to FDR Jr.; a SIGNED First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s ROUGH RIDERS; an Original Watercolor by Thomas Rowlandson; a SIGNED copy of Virginia Woolf’s KEW GARDENS; and much more.