Fine Bindings and Sets Archives

The Morals of Confucius A Chinese Philosopher, Who flourished above Five hundred Years before the Coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Being one of the Choicest Pieces of Learning Remaining in the Nation.

London: Printed for F. Fayram at the South Entrance into the Royal Exchange, 1724.

Rare third edition in English of The Morals of Confucius, the first published work to introduce English readers to Confucianism. Small octavo, bound in full period or period-style speckled calf with e...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138719

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Williams, Tennessee

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

New York: New Directions, 1955.

First edition, first issue of one of Williams’s best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$2,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143560

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Morrell, ornate inlay to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, illustrated with 40 pla...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-109263

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Zorba The Greek.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.

First edition of Kazantzakis’ masterpiece, basis for the beloved Academy award-winning film. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143544

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

de Balzac, Honoré [Czar Alexander II]

La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin. [The Last Incarnation of Vautrin].

Paris: Chez Louis Chlendowski, 1848.

Finely bound edition of the final volume of ‘La Comédie Humaine’, from the library of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Octavo, three volumes bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards w...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145572

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130269

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

London: William Heinemann, 1939.

First English edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143492

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Beerbohm, Max

The Works of Max Beerbohm.

London: William Heinemann, 1922-1928.

The Harlequin edition of the collected works of Max Beerbohm. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd. with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145008

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Churchill, Winston S

Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]

Stockholm: Skoglunds Bokforlag, 1939.

First Swedish edition and Churchill’s own copy of the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, in the publisher’s rare full morocco presentation binding...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146028

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Tucker, George; [Thomas Jefferson]

The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States; With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of his Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law.

London: Charles Knight and Co, 1837.

First British edition of this classic biography of the United States’ third president, published simultaneously with the American edition in Philadelphia. Royal octavo, original publisher’...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147403

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle.

New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906.

First edition of this classic political work. 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 t...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150046

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in three full quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-121789

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Scott, Paul

The Raj Quartet. [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils; Staying On].

London: Heinemann, 1966-1975.

Complete first edition set of “one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction” (The Times). Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooli...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148004

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel, g...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149102

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham, Printer to the University, 1745.

Rare 18th century Book of Common Prayer, formerly used in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court. Folio, bound in full contemporary black morocco with gilt royal cyphers of King George II to the spine in s...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149785

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hemingway, Ernest. [Lauren Bacall]

To Have and Have Not.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

First edition of Ernest Hemingway’s fourth novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151967

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Goldoni, Carlo

Le Commedie Del Dottore Carlo Goldoni Avvocato Veneziano Fra Gli Arcadi Polisseno Fegejo Prima Edizione Fiorentina Dell’ Autore correta, riveduta, ed ampliata.

Firenze: Eredi Paperini, 1753-1755.

First corrected Florentine edition of Goldoni’s comedic works. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in full vellum, frontispiece portrait of Goldoni by Pitteri after Piazetta. In good condition. Armorial b...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-129344

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of Dickens’ final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the f...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130506

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Keats, Ezra Jack

The Snowy Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of The Snowy Day, which is considered “one of the most important American books of the 20th century” (Diefendorf, ed. The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151626

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Victor, Orville J

The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion, From its Incipient Stages to its Close.

New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, [1861].

Complete first edition set of one of the earliest histories of the American Civil War. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher’s full pebbled morocco decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all e...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133063

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt r...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150802

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Raleigh, Sir Walter. [Alexander Ross]

The History of the World, In Five Books. [with] The History of the World: The Second Part, In Six Books: Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight.

London: Printed for Robert White, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, G. Dawes and T. Sawbridge, 1677; London: Printed for John Saywell, 1652.

Rare 1677 printing of Sir Walter Raleigh’s renowned unfinished world history, written while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and first published in 1614; uniformly bound with a rare firs...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149130

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1902.

The Virginia edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison. Octavo, 17 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138956

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kirzner, Israel M

The Economic Point of View.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. 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...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146012

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Fine Bindings & Rare Book Collections or Sets for Sale Online