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Browse rare first edition classics in American, English, world literature, poetry, and plays. View our entire collection of rare literature below, search our inventory with advanced search, or use our sorting tools to find exactly what you’re looking for. Please call with any questions you may have on a specific item or order online today.

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Tyler, Anne

The Accidental Tourist.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Kennedy on the title page, “For William Kennedy- with best wishes- Anne Tyler 7-5-86.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. An exceptional associationContinue reading "The Accidental Tourist."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-130894

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Percival Christopher Wren’s “Beau Geste”

Wren, Percival Christopher

Beau Geste.

New York : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926.

The screenplay edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with scenes from the 1926 Paramount Pictures film. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Advertisements to the verso of the dust jacket.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-148590

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Stone, Oliver

Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film.

New York : Hyperion, 1995.

First edition of the screenplay which was the basis for the work by the legendary director. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. In fine condition. Edited by Eric Hamburg. Screenplay by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, and Oliver Stone.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-133168

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Dillard, Annie

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek.

New York : Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.

First edition, early printing of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Annie Dillard on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Berger. Line drawing by Annie Dillard.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-134771

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Updike, John

Memories of the Ford Administration.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-133586

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Wilde, Oscar

The Works of Oscar Wilde.

London : Methuen, 1909-10.

The works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, 13 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130510

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Maugham, W.Somerset

The Maugham Reader.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, 1950.

First edition of this collection by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. With an introduction by Glenway Wescott. In fine condition.

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-134572

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Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1859.

First edition, first issue of one of Dickens’ most enduring works. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Sixteen plates after H.K. Browne including frontispiece and title vignette.

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130399

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Conrad, Joseph

Suspense.

London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925.

First English edition of Conrad’s final, unfinished novel. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by Richard Curle. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine. Jacket art by Thomas Derrick. Housed in a custom slipcase.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-130717

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Greene, Graham

The Power and the Glory.

London : William Heinemann, 1940.

First edition of Greene’s masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.

$27,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130369

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Chaucer, Geoffrey. Edited by Rev. Walter W. Skeat

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1920.

Finely bound example of Chaucer’s complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,Continue reading "The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-130504

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Tagore, Rabindranath

Gitanjali [Song Offerings].

London : Printed at The Chiswick Press for The India Society, 1912.

First edition of this collection of prose translated by Tagore from the original Bengali, largely for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Tagore with tissue guard present. One of 750 copies printed for the India Society onlyContinue reading "Gitanjali [Song Offerings]."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130449

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[Gozzi, Gasparo]

La Vittoria D’Amore Poema. Pubblicato In Occasione de Gloriosi Sponsali Dell’ Eccellenze Loro Il Signor Cavaliere Francesco Morosini P. e la Nobil Donna Loredana Grimani. [The Victory Of Love Poem].

Venezia : Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1772.

Rare 18th century Venetian printing of La Vittoria D’Amore. Quarto, bound in hand painted paper-covered wrappers, illustrated with engravings including frontispiece. In near fine condition. Small bookplate.

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130905

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Davidson, David

The Comprehensive Family Bible; Containing The Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorized Version. With Copious Critical, Explanatory, and Practical Notes, and Reflections; A General Introduction, Parallel Passages, Index of Subjects, and Chronological Tables.

Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London : Blackie and Son, 1858.

First edition of Davidson’s finely illustrated family Bible. Large quarto, bound in contemporary full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate decorative tooling to the front and rear panels stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Illustrated with numerous hand-colored maps and engraved platesContinue reading "The Comprehensive Family Bible; Containing The Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorized Version. With Copious Critical, Explanatory, and Practical Notes, and Reflections; A General Introduction, Parallel Passages, Index of Subjects, and Chronological Tables."

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-130348

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Byron, Lord George Gordon

Werner. A Tragedy.

London : John Murray, 1823.

First edition, first state of Byron’s retelling of Kruitzner, or the German’s Tale in Harriet Lee’s Canterbury Tales without “the end” and the imprint on page 188. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with five raised gilt bands to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles. Lacking the publisher’sContinue reading "Werner. A Tragedy."

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-130540

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Molière. [Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste]

Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition.

Paris : [Pierre Prault], 1734.

First edition, first issue of one of the greatest French illustrated books of the first half of the eighteenth century. First issue with “Comteese” in vol. VI, p. 360, line 12. Quarto, six volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labelsContinue reading "Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition."

$9,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130224

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Macmunn, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling’s Women.

London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..

First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society’s study of the women portrayed in Kipling’s song and story. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

$30.00

Item Number: RRB-135257

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Shakespeare, William

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare with Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice. [Fore-edge Painting].

Edinburgh and London : Gall & Inglis, n.d.

Finely bound example of Inglis’ compilation of the dramas of Shakespeare. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of Shakespeare, illustrated with four engravings on steel. In very good condition.

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-138237

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. IllustratedContinue reading "The Personal History of David Copperfield."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130508

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Butler, Samuel

The Way of All Flesh.

London : Grant Richards, 1903.

First edition of Butler’s classic semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional example.

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-130529

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Carroll, Lewis. [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

London : MacMillan and Co, 1872.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard present. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-130522

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Brockedon, W. [Lord George Gordon Noel Byron]

Finden’s Landscape & Portrait Illustrations, to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. [with] Finden’s Byron Beauties: or, the Principal Characters in Lord Byron’s Poems.

London : John Murray, 1833-1834; 1836.

First edition in book form of Finden’s celebrated illustrated edition of Byron’s works; uniformly bound with a first edition of Finden’s Byron Beauties. Octavo, four volumes bound in full pebbled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Finden’s Landscape & PortraitContinue reading "Finden’s Landscape & Portrait Illustrations, to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. [with] Finden’s Byron Beauties: or, the Principal Characters in Lord Byron’s Poems."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-130405

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Cohen, Morton

Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.

London : Hutchinson, 1965.

First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$30.00

Item Number: RRB-135911

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Lowell, Robert [Erica Jong]

Selected Poems.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

First edition of this collection of over two hundred poems, selected by Lowell himself. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Erica from Robert Lowell.” The recipient, Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal ofContinue reading "Selected Poems."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-142530

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