Literature Archives

The Mudfog Papers, Etc.

London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1880.

First edition of Charles Dickens’ anthology about a parody of a fictional society. Octodecimo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, detailing stamped in black and gilt...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147623

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Lightman, Alan

Einstein’s Dreams.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

First edition of this fictional, philosophical novel where a young Albert Einstein imagines 35 different, fantastical worlds, each with a unique perception of time. Duodecimo, original publisher...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151488

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

London : Bloomsbury, 2003.

First edition of the fifth novel in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket with light toning to the text block. Jacket design by Jaso...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-152070

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Mayo, Winifred]

The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. 33. April 1908 to September 1908.

London: The Idler Magazine, 1908.

First edition of Vol. 33 of The Idler, containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo’s Prison Experiences of a Suffragette. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over pebbled boards, illustr...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-135904

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The General in His Labyrinth: A Novel.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2004.

First Everyman’s Library edition of this “fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-137055

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Gordimer, Nadine

The Conservationist.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. In very good condition.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-540

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Yezierska, Anzia

Bread Givers.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.

First edition of the author’s classic novel of Jewish immigrants. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-82178

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

London, Jack

The Sea-Wolf.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.

The Heritage Press edition of London’s famous and enduring fifth novel. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands,...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148725

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Browning, Robert

Dramatis Personae.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-124109

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Flagg, Fannie

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jerry Ann Fannie Flagg.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Ja...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-125782

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Vidal, Gore

1876: A Novel.

New York : Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Kit love Gore.” The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s secon...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131323

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Sackler, Howard. [Jack Johnson]

The Great White Hope: A Play.

New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1968.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play based on the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, basis for the 1970 film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, i...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-140735

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Lowell, Robert

History.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Housed in a custom half morocco slip...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-143031

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Sophocles. With a new translation by EF Walting [Raymond Chandler]

The Theban Plays.

Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1947.

First Penguin Classics edition of the thrilling trilogy about the fate of the royal family Thebes. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front fre...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149033

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Geisel, Theodor Seuss. [Dr. Seuss]

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.

New York: Random House, 1958.

First edition, first printing of this collection of three of Seuss’s most memorable tales with the 1950, 1951 and 1958 copyright dates. In a first issue dust jacket with thumbnails of fourteen p...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149502

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hardy, Thomas

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964.

The Heritage Press edition of Thomas Hardy’s tenth published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartment...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-151173

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Lerner, Ben

Leaving the Atocha Station.

London: Granta, 2012.

First hardcover edition of the Lerner’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ben Lerner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-63022

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Buechner, Frederick

The Seasons’ Difference.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

First edition of Frederick Buechner’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, with a full page inscription by the author on the front free endpaper, “This was the most ins...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-92504

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Greene, Graham

The Heart of the Matter.

New York: The Viking Press, 1948.

Limited edition, one of 750 examples given to friends of the publisher of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-132711

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Thigpen, Corbett H.; Hervey M. Cleckley

The Three Faces of Eve.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.

Special edition of this classic work, basis for the 1957 Academy Award-winning film starring Joanne Woodward. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and inscribed by both authors on the front free endpap...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-150283

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hazlitt, W. Carew. [William Hazlitt]

Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of His Correspondence.

London: Richard Bentley, 1867.

First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt’s authoritative biography of his grandfather, great English critic and philosopher William Hazlitt. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-124128

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket ph...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-146299

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

James, Henry

The Other House.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896.

First American edition of this terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences....

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-80007

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Malamud, Bernard

A New Life.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.

First edition of Malamud’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul, Old friends, Everything good Bern...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-100098

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online