Charles Agvent
Specializing in Signed Books & Autographs, Modern & 19th Century First Editions, Limited Editions Club, Presidential Books & Autographs, Hand-Colored Plate Books, Early Printing
About
We carry a diverse stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books, Presidential Autographs, Illustrated Books, and the world's largest inventory of Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).Terms of Sale
All books subject to prior sale. Cash with order; institutions may be billed. Postage additional: $11.00 for the first book, $6.00 each thereafter. Overseas postage billed at approximate cost. Pennsylvania residents must add 6% sales tax. Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Discover accepted. Books may be returned within 10 days of receipt for any reason provided they are in the same condition as sent and prior notice is given. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Recently Added Books
A KIND OF RAPTURE
by [MORRISON, Toni] BERGMAN, Robert
THOSE WHO PERISH
by DAHLBERG, Edward
THE WEB AND THE ROCK
by WOLFE, Thomas
SIGNED ORIGINAL ETCHING: Going Home
by COSTIGAN, John
THE MEMOIRS OF HERBERT HOOVER. Three Volume Set, Each Book SIGNED
by HOOVER, Herbert
PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS
by STEIN, Gertrude
ON BECOMING A NOVELIST
by (CARVER, Raymond) GARDNER, John
STATECRAFT
by THATCHER, Margaret
Recently added catalogues
Our new catalog contains 25 items related to various struggles for rights and freedoms, including the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and others with many Signed and Rare pieces. Figures include Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and more.
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.
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.
Our new catalog contains 35 literary manuscripts, letters, signed photographs, documents, etc. Authors include Auden, Chandler, Emerson, Hawthorne, Perelman, Steinbeck, Wharton, and others.
40 items with many interesting Americana pieces and our usual assortment of signed books and letters.
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.
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.
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.
Our FALL MISCELLANY 2023 contains 50 select items with several early titles on Africa, mostly Morocco, important Americana, some Ornithology, and our usual assortment of Signed Books and Autographs.
50 select items, all new arrivals, including letters and manuscripts by Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Hart Crane (to his mother!), Dashiell Hammett, James Joyce, Henry Miller, A. A. Milne, John Steinbeck, Paul Verlaine, and others.
35 select items including scarce African-American Literature & History, Poetry, Americana, and more.
Fine Bindings, Autographs, Illustrated Books, and more. Highlights include the signed limited editions of THE LITTLE PRINCE and ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, signed books by Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, and much more.