Recent Catalogs from Charles Agvent

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.

FALL MISCELLANY 2023 containing 50 select items 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.

LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS: Part 5 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.

NEW YORK BOOK FAIR 2023 50 select items including scarce Baseball, Signed Art (Cadmus, Charlot, Dali, Eichenberg, Rockwell, etc.), Judaica, Literature, New York City, and more.

SPRING MISCELLANY 2023 35 select items including scarce African-American Literature & History, Poetry, Americana, and more.