First Edition Archives

Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil]; Bruno Bramanti [Illustrator]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Georgics.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Virgil’s classic didactic poem. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148543

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Marx, Groucho

Groucho and Me. The Autobiography of Groucho Marx by (of all people!) Groucho Marx.

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1959.

First edition of the autobiography of Groucho Marx. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Glenn from Grouch...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138618

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Oliphant, Margaret

The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.

Finely bound example of the Scottish historian’s classic work on the foundation of Venice. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138708

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Brown, Joe David [Ryan O'Neal]

Addie Pray.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1973 film Paper Moon starring Ryan and Tatum O’Neal. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actor Ryan O’Neal on the front free endpaper...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-141312

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145919

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Byron, Lord George Gordon

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy. In Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem.

London: John Murray, 1821.

First edition, first issue of Byron’s posthumously published tragedy with the Doge’s speech on p. 151 that begins “What crimes ?” Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120688

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

le Carre, John

The Looking-Glass War.

London: Heinemann, 1965.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in the original price-clipped dust jacket with some light fading to the spine.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-121349

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Nabokov, Vladimir

Pale Fire.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133621

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Williams, Ted; Carl Yastrzemski

Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski Signed Photograph.

:, .

Color photograph of Boston Red Sox legends Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. Boldly signed in silver felt tip by both Williams and Yastrzemski. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 in...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148076

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Cummings, E. E

[No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930.

First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming’s cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 cop...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136284

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rothschild, Nathan Mayer

Nathan Mayer Rothschild Russian Imperial Bond Signed.

St. Petersburg, Russia: Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund, 1822.

Rare Russian Imperial bond signed by banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Quarto, two pages partially printed in three languages, the document is dated March 1, 1822 and certifies the b...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148501

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Cleaver, Eldridge

Soul On Fire.

Waco, Texas: Word Books Publishers, 1978.

First edition of Cleaver’s autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Towards Freedom for all God’s Children Eldridge Cleaver 2/...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-63456

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Plato; Hans Erni [Illustrator] Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Trial and Death of Socrates.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this collection of four dialogues written by Plato recounting the death of Socrates. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutclif...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148539

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Les Quatre Claudine.

Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1972-73.

Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette’s four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos, 4 volumes, bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-94691

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Alberg, Albert

Gustavus Vasa and His Stirring Times.

London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co, c. 1885.

Finely bound example of Alberg’s biography of Gustav I of Sweden. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Relfe Brothers of London with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label le...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139738

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

McGuffey, William

The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, From the Best American and English Writers. With Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors.

Cincinnati: Published by Truman and Smith, 1838.

Finely bound sixth edition of the fourth McGuffey Reader. Octavo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt ruling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140352

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wilson, Edward O. and William H. Bossert

A Primer of Population Biology.

Stamford, CT: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page with a drawing of an ant. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Un...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140992

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Sassoon, Siegfried

The Heart’s Journey.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927.

First signed limited edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, bound in full tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149133

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Eliot, T.S

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939.

First American edition 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 cloth....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143002

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Tramp Abroad.

Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.

First edition of Twain’s classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, early issue with the portrait in BAL state B (no priority), frontispiece in the first s...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144227

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Auchincloss, Louis; Beeson, Jack; Calisher, Hortense; Huxtable, Ada Louise; Kahn, Wolf; Lewis, R.W.B.; Lippold, Richard; Mailer, Norman; Ozick, Cynthia; Schlensinger, Arthur, Jr.; Edited by John Updike

A Century of Arts and Letters.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

First edition of this work celebrating the history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters on its centenary. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed on the the title page by a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145842

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hillary, Edmund

Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.

Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.

Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146008

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Curiosities of Biography, or Memoirs of Remarkable Men. Illustrated by One Hundred Characteristic Portraits.

Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Company, 1845.

First edition of this classic collection of biographies. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ban...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-125012

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Warren, Robert Penn

Blackberry Winter: A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams.

Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, July 1946.

Signed limited edition of the author’s highly acclaimed short story. Octavo, original publisher’s quarter leather over paper-covered boards, illustrated by Wightman Williams. One of three...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144817

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

First Edition Books for Sale Online