It is finally Spring in northern Michigan! When you get a chance stop by Omena Cut Flowers on M-22 just north of Suttons Bay and cut a few bouquets of daffodils for your favorite people - including yourself!
Daffodil bouquets are also available at Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay.
Visit the Omena Cut Flowers website and enjoy their photo gallery of the flower beds.
Some of the many unusual items on Charles Agvent’s website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
BUKOWSKI, Charles. CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND
New York: Lyle Stuart (1965). First Edition. Quarto.
Designed and quite elaborately printed on multi-colored, deckle-edge pages and bound in stiff pictorial wrappers by Loujon Press. Illustrated with etchings by Noel Rockmore. One of 3100 numbered copies SIGNED by the poet and dated 3-16-65 in an orange oil paint. In addition this copy has a rather uncharacteristic abstract ORIGINAL DRAWING by Buk in the same paint beneath the signature and as a result is an uncommon issue of a still relatively common book. Minor rubbing at edges. Near Fine, lacking the wrap-around band.
$650.00
CHARLES AGVENT
291 Linden Road
Mertztown, PA 19539-8750
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agvent@erols.com
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(ATWOOD, Margaret). SELECTED POEMS BY FEMALE POETS. CANADIAN CRYSTALS.
[Ontario, Canada]: Sheridan College Press (1984).
First Edition. Illustrated and designed by Joe Ibuki, this fifteen-page anthology contains poems by six Canadian women poets including an untitled poem by Margaret Atwood. According to the colophon, “this book has been printed in a limited edition of 10 copies and is not offered for sale.” Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and obviously quite scarce.
$250.00
CHARLES AGVENT
291 Linden Road
Mertztown, PA 19539-8750
Voice/Fax: 610-682-4750
agvent@erols.com
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy ROOSEVELT). THE ROUGH RIDERS.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1903.
Early Edition. Blue cloth with gilt rules. First published in 1899, this is an early printing of Roosevelt’s classic account of his experience as Colonel of the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, the “Rough Riders,” during the Spanish American War. This copy SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper:
“with regards of
Theodore Roosevelt
May 1st 1904.”
In addition, glued to the front pastedown is an envelope containing a TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) by Roosevelt dated 31 January 1912 on his OUTLOOK letterhead. In full:
“I do not think you yourself realize what a very nice letter you have written me. I appreciate it, and I thank you most warmly for it.
Faithfully yours,
T. Roosevelt.”
Rare to find a genuinely signed copy of this title, perhaps Roosevelt’s most sought after book, in any edition. Near Fine.
$6500.00
CHARLES AGVENT
291 Linden Road
Mertztown, PA 19539-8750
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agvent@erols.com
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1932.
Early but not first printing recently rebound in half red morocco and marbled boards with new endpapers. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the recto of the page listing other books by Hemingway: “For Colonel Roy Youmans/(Charles LeRoy)/with all best wishes/from his friend/Ernest Hemingway.” Charles Leroy Youmans was the author of DICCIONARIO DE APELLIDOS CASTELLANOS, ORIGEN Y SIGNIFICADO, published in Havana in 1955. A copy of this title was in Hemingway’s library in Finca Vigia, Cuba, Hemingway’s principal residence from 1939 to 1960. Loosely laid in is an original receipt from Goodspeed’s Book Shop from 1983 for the purchase of this book. Old dampstain to bulked fore-edge of text, barely affecting margins of some pages. Near Fine in a handsome binding.
$5000.00
CHARLES AGVENT
291 Linden Road
Mertztown, PA 19539-8750
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agvent@erols.com
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Strongheart Center
April 30, 2008 - 11am-6pm
The every other year
“Don’t Want to Miss” Leelanau Business event.
A. Rink Architects, Inc.
Anderson Aerial Photography
Arbonne International - Shirley Kulpa
Arts Tavern
At Home
Barrels and Barrels
Be Spa
Bellissimo Travel Service, LLC
Bill Marsh Auto
Buntings Cedar Market
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Busters Blinds
Camelot Construction
CenturyTel
Chase Bank
Cherry Republic
Cherryland Electric Cooperative
Crystal River Outfitters
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Diversified Carpet Services
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Empire Chamber of Commerce
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Seven faculty members have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, a coveted national honor recognizing distinguished achievement in many fields.
The University of Michigan fellows and their projects are:
Allen
• Geri Allen, associate professor of music, School of Music, Theatre & Dance: Music composition.
Allen’s project celebrates humanity and embraces the continuity of innovation as personified by three artists. She says her composition is inspired by the individual-yet-connected universes of the revolutionary elements of modern music’s most prolific pianist composers: Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor. “Refractions” celebrates what is most inspiring about humanity, she says.
“I am grateful to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for honoring me and my work with this prestigious award,” Allen says. “Every artist dreams of the chance to freely create unimpeded. As a working mother of three children, this honor encourages me, and will give me the freedom to create what I hope will be my best work.”
• Sheldon Danziger, H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy: Four decades of antipoverty policies.
Danziger will write a book that evaluates the changing views about the causes of poverty that led first to the expansion of social welfare policies and later to the Reagan retrenchment and the 1996 welfare reform that cut benefits to the poor.
“Americans have implicitly selected a set of social policies, labor market policies and tax policies that result in lower market earnings and lower government benefits for less-skilled workers and a higher poverty rate than that found in most other advanced industrialized countries,” Danziger says. He will point out that there are effective labor market, taxation and anti-poverty policies that could be put into place to significantly reduce poverty.
• Phoebe Gloeckner, assistant professor of art, School of Art & Design: A graphic narrative.
Gloeckner will use her fellowship to create a graphic narrative about a Mexican girl murdered at the turn of this century in Ciudad Juarez, a major U.S.-Mexico border crossing adjacent to El Paso, Texas. The project represents a radical change in her work, she says. Rather than draw images, Gloeckner developed a three-dimensional technique, teaching herself to use tools and to construct nearly everything she would normally draw.
“The fellowship will allow me to immerse myself in the final stages of this process, which will require several more trips to Juarez and long periods of focused work,” she says. “I’m so very happy and grateful to have received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and acknowledge that it wouldn’t have been possible without the support of family, friends and colleagues.”
• David Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Department of English: How to be Gay.
Halperin’s fellowship allows him to complete his book, “How to be Gay,” with “the leisure and detachment I need in order to look at the question from a multitude of different angles,” he says.
“It also affirms the judgment of the administrators and colleagues at the University of Michigan who supported my controversial class on the same topic despite strong opposition from many quarters,” Halperin says.
• Paul Christopher Johnson, associate professor of history, Afroamerican and African Studies, director of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History: “To Be Possessed: ‘Religion’ and the Purification of Spirits.”
Johnson says his project is an excavation of the category of “spirit possession,” which was created as an early project of civil religion.
The project also explores how the construct was implemented in colonial regulations of religion in the Americas, especially in the wake of the emancipation of slaves and the perceived dangers of their civil integration. And it evaluates the positive appropriation of the category by ethnographers and religious actors themselves in the last half-century.
• Richard Primus, law professor, Law School: Constitutional authority in the wake of civil war.
Primus will write a book about American constitutional decision-makers — in courts, in Congress and elsewhere, in the years after the Civil War, between 1870 and 1885.
American constitutional thought has never come to grips with the Civil War, he says. The system adopted at the end of the 18th century failed to cope with an entirely foreseen set of conflicts, with the result that peaceful means of coexistence broke down. One possible response is to discard the old constitution and begin again, but American decision-makers in the 1860s pursued a different course. They retained the old system with modifications.
“It’s an honor to be recognized as an inaugural fellow,” Primus says. “I hope to put the opportunity to work by writing a book that will improve our understanding of American constitutionalism.”
• Ashutosh Varshney, political science professor, Department of Political Science: Cities and ethnic conflict: a multi-country study.
Building on his work on Hindu-Muslim violence in India published in “Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life,” Varshney will analyze ethnic conflict in 15 cities from four countries: Indonesia, Nigeria, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. His work concentrates on three areas: cities that used to be violent but have become peaceful, cities that used to be peaceful but have become violent and peaceful cities that remained riot-free. The emphasis is on change, which should allow him to inquire into how enduring peace is established or broken.
“Apart from the fact that this award will allow me some free time to work further on my project, it is the confidence expressed by the Guggenheim selection committee in my ability to answer a very difficult question in a multi-country framework that gives me profound satisfaction,” Varshney says.
U-M’s total is the highest this year by any university in the United States or Canada. The 10 campuses comprising the University of California system had at least 18 fellows, with six at UC Berkeley.
“The Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded through rigorous national competition and receiving them is a great honor,” says Provost Teresa Sullivan. “We are pleased and proud to have seven faculty members among the recipients this year. To have faculty members recognized for their scholarly work in such an array of fields is a testament to the depth and breadth of the Michigan faculty.”
This year’s fellowship winners include 190 artists, scholars and scientists selected from nearly 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada for awards totaling $8.2 million.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offered for the first time two Fellowships in Constitutional Studies. The inaugural Fellows in this new field are Richard Primus of U-M Law School and Randy Barnett of the Georgetown University Law Center.
The full list of 2008 fellows is available at www.gf.org
Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee
9780446699853
$13.99 Paperback
Grand Central Publishing
Through the eyes of a recent Princeton graduate and daughter of Korean immigrants, readers get a compelling portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots.
Casey Han’s four years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend, and a magna cum laude degree in economics. Her parents are Korean immigrants desperately trying to hold onto their culture and identity, while Casey navigates New York’s world of haves and have-nots.
“Competence can be a curse.” So begins Min Jin Lee’s epic novel about class, society, and identity. Casey Han’s four years at Princeton have given her many things: “a refined diction, an enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend, an agnostic’s closeted passion for reading the Bible, and a magna cum laude degree in economics. But no job and a number of bad habits.”
Casey’s parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold onto their culture and identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into the upper echelon of rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation, Casey’s trust-fund friends see only opportunity and choices while Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As Casey navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives of those around her: her sheltered mother, scarred father, her friend Ella who’s always been the good Korean girl, Ella’s ambitious Korean husband and his Caucasian mistress, Casey’s white fiance, and then her Korean boyfriend, all culminating in a portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots.
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves. Inspired by 19th century novels such as Vanity Fair and Middlemarch, Min Jin Lee examines maintaining identity within changing communities. This is a remarkably assured debut from a writer to watch.
Dog Years is a moving and intimate work interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach about life, love, and loss.
Dog Years, A Memoir
Mark Doty
9780061171017
$13.95 Paperback
Harper Perennial
When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family, Beau bounds back into life. Before long, the two dogs become Doty’s intimate companions, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days.
“Dog Years” is a poignant, intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about living, love, and loss.
Reviews:
“Moving and intimate, this memoir is interwoven with profound reflections on feelings for animals and the lessons they teach about life, love, and loss. Elegantly written . . . Stunningly moving.”
“USA Today”
Set in 1936 upstate New York, The Gravedigger’s Daughter is a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative.
The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
9780061236839
$15.95 Paperback
Harper Perennial
In this “New York Times” bestseller, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual.
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