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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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Lewis Carroll [Charles. L. Dodgson]; Illustrated by Salvador Dali

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

New York : Maecenas Press & Random House, 1969.

Limited illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic, signed by and with twelve illustrations by Salvador Dali. Folio, loose portfolio as issued in original brown silk chemise decorated in gilt, illustrated with an original three-color etching as a frontispiece and 12 striking full-page color photogravures (heliogravures) after Dalí’s original gouache paintings. One of 2500 numberedContinue reading "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland."

$9,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147228

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Zagajewski, Adam

Another Beauty.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc J. Cohen. Translated by Clare Cavanagh.

$150.00

Item Number: RRB-147467

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Warhol, Andy

a: A novel by Andy Warhol.

New York : Grove Press, Inc, 1968.

First edition of Warhol’s first novel, an experimental collection of four word-for-word transcriptions of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine between 1965 and 1967. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist in purple ink on the front endpapers, “To Tony Janak Andy Warhol 70,” with a drawing of a lowercase ‘a’. Additionally initialedContinue reading "a: A novel by Andy Warhol."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147206

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Goldman, William

Hype & Glory.

New York : Villard Books, 1990.

First edition of this classic memoir by the author of The Princess Bride. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the title page, “21 Aug 90 Kathy From one writer to another We shall, rest assured with thanks God bless Bill.” Near fine in a nearContinue reading "Hype & Glory."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-147475

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Pacino, Al

Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel.

New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2006.

First edition of this collection of interviews on the Academy Award-winning actor. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Al Pacino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Nagin.

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-147476

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Wouk, Herman

The Caine Mutiny.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.

First edition of Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by HermanContinue reading "The Caine Mutiny."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147484

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Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women and Little Women, Part the Second.

Boston : Robert Brothers, 1868-69.

First editions of both volumes of Alcott’s most coveted work. Octavo, two volumes in the original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and front panel, each volume illustrated with four plates including frontispiece; those in the first part created by the author’s sister, May. Little Women is first issue with allContinue reading "Little Women and Little Women, Part the Second."

$25,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147420

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander [Soltzhenitzyn]

The First Circle.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-147488

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Allende, Isabel

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of each work in the author’s classic House of Spirits trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To ____ ____ ‘You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.’ Isabel Allende.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by MichelContinue reading "The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147493

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Johnson, Adam

The Orphan Master’s Son.

New York : Random House, 2012.

First edition of this emotionally rousing novel, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Johanna, It’s a pleasure to inscribe a book to such an ambassador of literature. You’re welcome in my posse anyday. Yours, Adam Johnson.” Fine inContinue reading "The Orphan Master’s Son."

$250.00

Item Number: RRB-147177

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Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte. Edited by Temple Scott

Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights].

Edinburgh : John Grant, 1905.

The Thornton edition of the novels of the Sisters Bronte. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait to each volume. Edited by Temple Scott. A veryContinue reading "Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights]."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147601

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Pinter, Harold

Monologue.

London : Covent Garden Press, 1973.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$40.00

Item Number: RRB-147315

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Defoe, Daniel

The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe.

Oxford : Printed by D.A. Talboys, for Thomas Tegg, 1840-41.

The Talboys edition of the complete works of Daniel Defoe. Octodecimo, twenty volumes bound in red half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, information slip tipped in to Vol. I, engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. II. In fine condition.

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147162

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Burns, Robert; Introduction by John Buchan

The Complete Writings of Robert Burns.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

The Large-Paper edition of the complete works of Robert Burns. Royal octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter contemporary dark blue crushed morocco by the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings, some in color,Continue reading "The Complete Writings of Robert Burns."

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147505

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King, Stephen

Carrie.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the novel that launched King’s career, with ‘First Edition’ stated on the copyright page and ‘P6’ in the gutter of page 199. Octavo, original maroon cloth, compliments stamp to the front pastedown, “With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.” Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For BobbyContinue reading "Carrie."

$9,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147126

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Coetzee, J.M

Life & Times of Michael K.

South Africa : Ravan Press, 1983.

First edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his first wife on the title page, “Philippa love from John.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered theContinue reading "Life & Times of Michael K."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-146865

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Nabokov, Vladimir

The Eye.

New York : Phaedra, 1965.

First edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-144481

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Ginsberg, Allen

White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page, “for Lorraine & Gene Levy from cousin (first) Allen Ginsberg February 4, 1989 Pittsburgh.” Additionally inscribed on the opposite with a large hand-drawn illustration of aContinue reading "White Shroud Poems 1980-1985."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-146471

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Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this iconic novel, basis for the post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Emily St. John Mandel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-147032

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Thomas, Keith

Religion and the Decline of Magic.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Diane Large.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-144493

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Yates, Richard

Revolutionary Road.

Boston : Little, Brown, 1961.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino.

$950.00

Item Number: RRB-147181

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Wolfe, Tom

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.

First edition of this “hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel” (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Laid in is the original program for the book signing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-147194

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Rendell, Ruth

A Judgement in Stone.

London : Hutchinson, 1977.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannah Shaviv. Author’s photograph by Jerry Bauer.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-131487

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Courtenay, Bryce

The Power of One.

London : William Heinemann, 1989.

First British edition of the Courtenay’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Bryce Courtenay 22/3/89.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-147199

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