[Rarebooks] FS: Miscellany: Signed Books, Poetry, Mozart, Presidential, Photography, Illustrated, all with prices greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

PRICES are NET plus postage.


Price reduced:     Was $200,      Now $100

1.  ANGELOU, Maya. SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTIN' MERRY LIKE 
CHRISTMAS. New York: Random House, (1976). First Edition. Angelou's 
fifth book and third volume of her autobiography. INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
on the front free endpaper: "Lydia + Bob ----/Thank you for your 
warmth,/and kindnesses./Joy!/Maya Angelou/Oct. 12 '76." Fine, early 
inscription. Slight foxing to bulked text edges. About Fine in a Fine 
dustwrapper. (#010332)        $100.00
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Price reduced:     Was $85,      Now $45

2.  AUSTER, Paul. MR. VERTIGO. [New York]: Viking, (1994). First 
Edition. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps, described as "Advance 
Uncorrected Proofs." SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Fine. 
(#009300)        $45.00
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Price reduced:     Was $200,      Now $75

3.  CARTER, Jimmy. THE BLOOD OF ABRAHAM. INSIGHTS INTO THE MIDDLE EAST. 
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED as "J. 
Carter" on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. 
(#012123)        $75.00
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Price reduced:     Was $300,      Now $200

4.  CREWS, Harry. CAR. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1972. First 
Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page "For 
John/Best/Harry Crews." Mild and typical fading of the blue boards. 
Dustwrapper has a 3/4" closed tear and resulting crease at the bottom 
front panel and a 3/4" closed tear at the rear. Near Fine in near Very 
Good dustwrapper. (#009962)        $200.00
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Price reduced:     Was $125,      Now $50

5.  KOCHEL, Dr Ludwig Ritter Von. CHRONOLGISCH-THEMATISCHES VERZEICHNIS 
SAMTLICHER TONWERKE WOLFGANG AMADE MOZARTS. Ann Arbor: J. W. Edwards, 
1947. Third Edition. Cloth; xlix, 1052 pages. With a supplement by 
Alfred Einstein. Text in German. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations 
of music. Small tear to bottom of one page. Very Good. (#010272)        
$50.00
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Price reduced:     Was $85,      Now $45

6.  LANG, Mrs. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 
1909. First Edition. Decorated red cloth. Edited by Andrew Lang. 
Illustrated with 8 color plates and a number of black-and-white 
illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. Bookplate on front free endpaper; 
small ink number to half-title and title pages. Some rubbing to the 
binding. Very Good. (#004096)        $45.00
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Price reduced:     Was $100,      Now $60

7.  LOGAN, John. THE BRIDGE OF CHANGE. POEMS 1974- 1980. Brockport, NY: 
BOA Editions, 1981. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Copy "Q" 
of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the poet on the colophon page (of a 
total edition of 1200, of which only 50 were signed). With prospectus 
broadside printing a poem laid in. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. 
(#012038)        $60.00
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Price reduced:     Was $250,      Now $150

8.  (SISKIND, Aaron) GARDNER, Isabella. THAT WAS THEN: NEW AND SELECTED 
POEMS. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. First Edition. Cloth-backed 
marbled boards. Letter "S" of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the poet on 
the colophon page and by Aaron Siskind beneath his photographic 
frontispiece (of a total edition of 1200, of which 450 were clothbound). 
About Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. (#012036)        $150.00
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Price reduced:     Was $250,      Now $150

9.  (SISKIND, Aaron) GARDNER, Isabella. THAT WAS THEN: NEW AND SELECTED 
POEMS. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. First Edition. Cloth-backed 
marbled boards. Copy "iv" of xiv copies retained by the publisher for 
presentation purposes SIGNED by the poet on the colophon page and by 
Aaron Siskind beneath his photographic frontispiece (of a total edition 
of 1200, of which 450 were clothbound). About Fine without dustwrapper, 
as issued. (#012037)     $150.00
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Price reduced:     Was $90,      Now $45

10.  (WILSON, Edmund) NOYES, Alfred (editor). BOOK OF PRINCETON VERSE 
1916. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916. First Edition. 
Contains 5 poems by Edmund Wilson and 7 by John Peale Bishop, predating 
their first book by 6 years. Some spots on cover, spine soiled. Owner's 
card affixed to front free endpaper. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#000453)        $45.00


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