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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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Wallace, Lew. Illustrated by Eric Pape

The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899.

First edition of Union General Lew Wallace’s first novel. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, rebacked, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, elaborately illustrated with both in-text and full page engravings within gilt frames and with lettered tissue-guards by Eric Pape, decorated initials. One of 250Continue reading "The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-109623

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Danielson, Richard E

Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories.

New York : The Derrydale Press, 1938.

First edition of Danielson’s collection of sporting memories. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Edwin Megargee. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 775. In near fine condition.

$30.00

Item Number: RRB-116031

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Cather, Willa

Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.

Finely bound collection of three of the author’s best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown of two volumes. InContinue reading "Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-105420

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James, Henry

The Real Thing.

New York and London : Macmillan & Co, 1893.

First edition of this fine collection of James’ tales. Octavo, original decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-101014

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Palgrave, Francis T

The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1889.

First trade edition of Palgrave’s treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-111084

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Moore, George

Memoirs Of My Dead Life.

London : William Heinemann, 1906.

First edition of the first great modern Irish novelist’s memoirs. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-109792

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Smith, Thorne

The Bishop’s Jaegers.

Garden City : Sun Dial Press, 1932.

First Sun Dial Press edition of Smith’s wildly hilarious comic romp, preceded by the first edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company in the same year. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrations by Roese. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-109968

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Heller, Joseph

Catch-22.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1961.

First edition of Heller’s classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Albert Raman, Best wishes to you. Joseph Heller 3/20/80 New York.” The recipient was a lawyer and well-known book collector. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. JacketContinue reading "Catch-22."

$8,500.00

Item Number: RRB-96004

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London : Curtis Guild, 1882.

First Curtis Guild extra-illustrated edition of one of Dickens’ greatest works. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full morocco by F.P. Hathaway with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, silk endpapers. With 53 illustrations by SeymourContinue reading "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-99841

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Langner, Lawrence [John Steinbeck]

The Importance of Wearing Clothes.

New York : Hastings House Publishers, 1959.

First edition of this entertaining history of clothing and its impact on the human condition. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John Steinbeck-whose interest in the book when half written encouraged me to complete it. And to Elaine Steinbeck with love to youContinue reading "The Importance of Wearing Clothes."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-111852

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London : The Egoist Ltd, 1916.

First English edition, second printing of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Beatrice Randegger. James Joyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste.” The recipient was a private student’s of Joyce in Italy. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed inContinue reading "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

$40,000.00

Item Number: RRB-109550

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Beckett, Samuel

En Attendant Godot. Pièce en Deux Actes.

Paris : Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952.

First edition, one of 2500 copies printed of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities.

$2,750.00

Item Number: RRB-109378

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Trollope, Anthony

Framley Parsonage, The Warden, and Doctor Thorne.

London : Smith, Elder & Co.; Longmans, Green and Co.; Chapman and Hall, 1872-1873.

Finely bound collection of a selection of Trollope’s works. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition.

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-110674

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Pickard, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier]

The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontipieces. In fine condition.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-109568

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Frost, Robert

North of Boston.

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1929.

Early printing of Frost’s second published book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an excerpt from his poem, The Wood Pile, “I thought that only Someone who lived in turning to fresh tasks Could so forget his handiwork on which He spent himself, the laborContinue reading "North of Boston."

$3,200.00

Item Number: RRB-109521

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Capote, Truman

One Christmas.

New York : Ladies' Home Journal, 1982.

First separate edition of this work by Capote, an offprint put out by the Ladies’ Home Journal in advance of the story’s appearance in the December 1982 issue. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Truman Capote on the front panel. In fine condition.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-109651

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Cobb, Humphrey [Kirk Douglas]

Paths of Glory.

New York : The Viking Press, 1935.

First edition of the author’s first and only book, the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Humphrey Cobb and actor Kirk Douglas. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-89922

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Dylan, Bob

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.

1963.

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records, boldly signed by Dylan. Whereas his self-titled debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two original songs, Freewheelin‘ represented the beginning of Dylan’s writing contemporary words to traditional melodies. Eleven of the thirteen songsContinue reading "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan."

$10,500.00

Item Number: RRB-109822

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Trollope, Anthony

Barchester Towers.

London : Robert Hayes, 1925.

Finely bound example of this classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with eight plates by F.C. Tilney. In very good condition, bookplate.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-108945

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Howe, Julia Ward

Passion-Flowers.

Boston : Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.

First edition of Julia Ward Howe’s first book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher’s advertisements at rear dated 1853. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper prior to publication, “Lizzie Agassiz from her Julia Howe Dec. 22nd 1853.” The recipient, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American author,Continue reading "Passion-Flowers."

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-109025

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Hemingway, Ernest

Death in the Afternoon.

Charles Scribner's Sons : New York, 1932.

Early printing of Hemingway’s work on bullfighting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the spine, front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece by Juan Gris, illustrated. In fine condition.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-108979

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The Fruit of the Tree

Wharton, Edith

The Fruit of the Tree.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.

First edition of Wharton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustration by Alonzo Kimball. In fine condition.

$150.00

Item Number: RRB-107431

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Loti, Pierre. Introduction by Henry James

Impressions.

Westminster : Archibald Constable and Co, 1898.

First edition of Pierre Loti’s Impressions. Octavo, original green pictorial buckram, woodcut pictorial title page, woodcut initials. In near fine condition.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-109487

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James, Henry

The Ivory Tower.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.

First British edition of James’ unfinished novel, published posthumously in 1917. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-109563

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