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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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Kaufman, Sue [Richard Benjamin]

Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel.

New York : Random House, 1967.

First edition of this classic, bestselling novel of Central Park West ennui — and a seminal piece of urban women’s fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, ‘To Kornby with love Sue Kaufman.” Additionally signed by actor Richard Benjamin, who starred in the film bearing the sameContinue reading "Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-124902

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Anglund, Joan Walsh

Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel.

New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.

First edition of Anglund’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an original drawing of two strawberries, “For Toby & For Johnny! Joan Walsh Anglund.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-123646

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Caldwell, Erskine

Tobacco Road.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.

First edition of Caldwell’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For with the best wishes of Erskine Caldwell July 13th 1935.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-124588

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Highsmith, Patricia

Deep Water.

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1957.

First edition of the author’s classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Very best wishes, Pat Highsmith.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Polly Cameron. Rare and desirable signed.

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-123562

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Early printing of this classic post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror

Butler, Octavia E

Parable of the Sower.

New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

First edition, early printing of this classic post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from the award-winning author which “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid’s Tale” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by StarkContinue reading "Parable of the Sower."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-123464

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Ware, Chris

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.

New York : Pantheon Books, 2000.

First edition of the author’s inventive first book, which Publishers Weekly called “graphically inventive, wonderfully realized.” Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed and dated by Chris Ware with a drawing of stars. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-123992

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Herder, Johann Gottfried

Herder’s Ausgewahlte Dichtungen.

Stuttgart : J. G. Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1874.

Rare 19th century printing of Herder’s selected poems. Small octavo, original cloth. Text in German. In good condition.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-128406

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Williamson, Henry

Love and the Loveless: A Soldier’s Tale.

London : Macdonald & Co., 1958.

First edition of the seventh novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-128063

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Braine, John

The Vodi.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959.

Publisher’s advance proof of the author’s second book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$50.00

Item Number: RRB-127835

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Kipling, Rudyard

Ford O’Kabul River. No 2. Of the Second Series of Barrack-Room Ballads. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Gerard F. Cobb.

London : Cas. Sheard & Co, 1895.

Rare sheet music printing of Rudyard Kipling’s Ford O’Kabul River, a song from Barrack-Room Ballads. Folio, bound in one quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good condition. Bound with several other pieces including Ciro Pinsuti’s Bedouin Love Song.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-126930

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Porter, Bruce. [Ted Demme]

Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All.

New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1993.

First St. Martin’s Griffin edition of Porter’s thrilling retelling of the story of George Jung, adapted into the 2001 film of the same name directed by Ted Demme and starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Edgar Best wishes Bruce Porter 3/30/01”Continue reading "Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All."

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-123485

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Canin, Ethan. [Jeff Bezos]

The Palace Thief.

New York : Random House, 1994.

Jeff Bezos’ special thank-you print run of his favorite book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author and by Jeff Bezos on the title page. Laid in is a letter from Bezos on amazon.com letterhead which reads, “Dear Friend of Amazon.com, What can I say? It’s been five years since we sold our first book,Continue reading "The Palace Thief."

$4,200.00

Item Number: RRB-123037

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Lee, Ang and James Schamus. [Sigourney Weaver]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film Including the Complete Screenplay.

New York : Newmarket Press, 2000.

First edition of the book companion to the epic Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by director Ang Lee on the front free endpaper, “To dear Sigourney & Jim With Love Ang Lee 李安.” The recipient, Golden Globe Award-winning American actress Sigourney Weaver, is best known for her pioneering action heroineContinue reading "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film Including the Complete Screenplay."

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-123591

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Dobree, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling.

London : Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.

First edition of Dobree’s work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.

$50.00

Item Number: RRB-126348

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Carrington, Charles. [Rudyard Kipling; Lafcadio Hearn]

Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work.

London : Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955.

First edition of Carrington’s famed biography of Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. With an autograph note signed by Lafcadio Hearn adhered to the front pastedown which reads, “Kipling is priceless – his single story of Purima Bayal is worth a Kingdom; I & his suggestive moral of human life is such a miracle! I can’t tellContinue reading "Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work."

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-123050

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Tolstoy, Leo

Sebastopol. [Sevastopol].

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1887.

First American edition of Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Sketches, which formed the basis of many of the episodes in his magnum opus, War and Peace. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Tolstoy. Translated from the French by Frank D. Millet. With an introduction by W. D. Howells. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-123564

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Tolstoy, Leo N

Stories & Dramas.

London and Toronto : J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1926.

First edition of this rare collection of thirteen of Tolstoy’s short stories including The Dream and The Nihilist; the publisher’s retained copy with their ‘File Copy’ label to front pastedown and perforated stamp to endpaper and title page. Translated form the Russian by Mrs. Lydia Turin, Mrs. H. M. Lucas and C. J. Hogarth. InContinue reading "Stories & Dramas."

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-123449

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Ian Fleming’s Moonraker; Signed by Him

Fleming, Ian

Moonraker.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1963.

Early printing of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. From the personal collection of a close female friend of Fleming’s who visited him in Jamaica frequently. Fine in a near fineContinue reading "Moonraker."

$18,000.00

Item Number: RRB-122972

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Lethem, Jonathan

Gun, with Occasional Music.

New York : Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1994.

First edition of the author’s first novel which won The Locus Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sin- Bookseller to Bookseller- “Artist?” to “Artist?” Jonathan.” The recipient, Sin Soracco is theContinue reading "Gun, with Occasional Music."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-123214

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Murakami, Haruki

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

First edition of Murakami’s heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Haruki Murakami in English and in Japanese and additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator ChipContinue reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-123311

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Mann, Thomas

Thomas Mann Signed Photograph.

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Rare silver gelatin print signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann. Inscribed by him on the lower portion of the photograph, “Mr. Satoru Yamano, with all my good wishes, Thomas Mann.” Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 10 inches.

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-123909

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul Sartre Signed Photograph.

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Rare silver gelatin print of French philosopher, novelist, and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. Inscribed by him in the upper left corner of the image, “A M. Satoru Yamano, sympatheque hommage, Jean-Paul Sartre.” In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11 inches.

$7,500.00

Item Number: RRB-123541

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Murakami, Haruki

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this “piercing and compact story about friendship and loneliness” (St. Louis Dispatch). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, on the front panel, half-title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Binding and jacket designContinue reading "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-123828

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Bly, Robert

The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir.

Boston : The Seventies Press, 1977.

First edition, review copy with the publisher’s review slips laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Regan, Robert Bly.” Bly has added a drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-123768

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