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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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Gardener, Helen H. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?

Boston : Arena Publishing Company, 1892.

Later edition of this feminist novella; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Duodecimo, original wrappers. Signed by Gilman on the title page, “Charlotte Perkins Stetson,” with her Chicago address. Gilman was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, advocate, and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations ofContinue reading "Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?"

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-145598

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Merrill, James

James Merrill First Edition Collection: Scripts for the Pageant, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings: Poems, Recitative: Prose, and A Different Person: A Memoir

: Various Publishers, 1980-1986.

Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; from the library of American playwright Michael Feingold. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth and wrappers, the collection includes: Stated first edition of ‘Scripts for the Pageant’ [New York: Atheneum, 1980]; Stated first edition of ‘From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976’ [New York: Atheneum, 1982];Continue reading "James Merrill First Edition Collection: Scripts for the Pageant, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings: Poems, Recitative: Prose, and A Different Person: A Memoir"

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-145436

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First Edition of The Mansion; Signed by William Faulkner

Faulkner, William

The Mansion.

New York : Random House, 1959.

First edition of the final novel in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic The Snopes Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, “William Faulkner, Oxford Miss 22 Dec 1961.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box.

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146144

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Sonnets: 1889-1927

New York : Crosby Gaige, 1928.

First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-145427

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Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels.

New York : David Mckay, 1974.

First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in this condition.

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-146142

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Sondheim, Stephen

The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-146134

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Terry, Madame Sybil

Poems.

Tampa : Florida Grower Press, 1947.

First edition of this collection of sacred, romantic, and household poems. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Rare.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-145569

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Miller, Arthur

The Crucible.

New York : The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur Miller on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some expert restoration. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed.

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146122

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First Edition of Poems 1962-2012; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Louise Gluck

Gluck, Louise

Poems 1962-2012.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen Achilles.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-146120

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Conroy, Pat

The Great Santini.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.

First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Pat Conroy and his father Donald Conroy on the title and half-title pages respectively. Lengthily inscribed by Donald Conroy on the half-title page, “1/5/80 To Jimmy Barousse: If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the “79”Continue reading "The Great Santini."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-146097

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Buffett, Jimmy

A Salty Piece of Land.

New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.

$30.00

Item Number: RRB-145150

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Stoker, Bram

Under The Sunset.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.

Rare second edition of Bram Stoker’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Mrs. John Foord with grateful remembrance Bram Stoker New York 1884.” The frontispieceContinue reading "Under The Sunset."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146259

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White, Patrick

The Vivisector.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1970.

First edition of this work by “one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White’s scope is vast and his invention endless” (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Adams. An exceptional example.

$250.00

Item Number: RRB-146095

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Mark Twain; [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).

London : Chatto & Windus, 1884.

First English edition, preceding the first American edition, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius). Octavo, original decorative red cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated from 174 drawings by E. W. Kemble. Binding was originally in BAL’s state “B”, with the gatheringsContinue reading "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)."

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-146372

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Roth, Philip [Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw]

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the half-title page, who starred in the 1969 film bearing the same name. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sanford Roth.

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-146076

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Torrents of Spring.

New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine extremities and front panel.

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-119154

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Modiano, Patrick [Philip Roth]

Honeymoon.

Boston : Verba Mundi/ David A. Godine, 1995.

First American edition of this “haunting tale of quiet intensity” (Review of Contemporary Fiction). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Philip, avec toute mon amitie Patrick Modiano.” Roth first gained attention with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. TenContinue reading "Honeymoon."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146091

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Ford, Richard

The Sportswriter.

London : Collins Harvill, 1986.

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

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-146257

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Cain, James M

The Postman Always Rings Twice.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

First edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled innerContinue reading "The Postman Always Rings Twice."

$1,850.00

Item Number: RRB-146083

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Greene, Graham; Jack Higgins; Len Deighton; [Sir Michael Caine]

The Quiet American; The Eagle Has Landed; Funeral in Berlin.

London : Various Publishers, 1955-1975.

First editions of three novels that were adapted into films starring the distinguished Sir Michael Caine. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards by Scorpion Press with gilt titles in six compartments within raised bands, the set includes a first edition of Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ [London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955, all edgesContinue reading "The Quiet American; The Eagle Has Landed; Funeral in Berlin."

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-145475

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Baldwin, James

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.

New York : The Dial Press, 1961.

First edition of Baldwin’s second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “James Baldwin 9/15 – 74.” Near fine in a good dust jacket with rubbingContinue reading "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son."

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-145473

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Eliot, T.S

Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse.

London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1930.

Signed limited first edition of this famous poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger under the pseudonym St. J. Perse, translated from the original French by T. S. Eliot, which Eliot wrote is “of same importance as the later work of Mr. James Joyce;” from the library of poet and literary critic, William Everson. RoyalContinue reading "Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-145470

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Eliot, T.S

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1960.

Later printing of Eliot’s beloved collection of whimsical feline poems which served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 megamusical phenomenon Cats. Octavo, original yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated by T. S. Eliot. Association copy, inscribed by the author to portrait painter Sir Gerald Kelly on the front free endpaper, “For Gerald Kelly with theContinue reading "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."

$7,800.00

Item Number: RRB-145467

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Orwell, George

Animal Farm.

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

First American edition of Orwell’s timeless allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket art by Art Brenner.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-145465

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