Literature Archives

Wake-Robin.

New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.

First edition of the author’s first commercially published book in BAL’s binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-139475

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Maugham, W. Somerset

A Writer’s Notebook.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949.

Signed limited edition of Maugham’s semi-autobiographical confessional. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece. One of 1,000 numbered...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150519

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Raskin, Ellen

Figgs and Phantoms.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Norine – My...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-96261

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hardy, Thomas; Agnes Miller Parker [Illustrator]

Far From The Madding Crowd.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Thomas Hardy’s fourth published novel. Octavo, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments w...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148807

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Greene, Robert

The Laws of Human Nature.

New York: Penguin Books, 2019.

First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Robert Greene on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-149790

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Buchan, John

The House of the Four Winds.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1935.

First British edition, early printing of the last book in the Dickson McCunn trilogy. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151379

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Updike, John [Erica Jong]

The Afterlife.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Erica J. These stories are more...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142974

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Vidal, Gore

Myra Breckinridge.

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1968.

First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo, black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page....

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-98977

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Schulberg, Budd

The Harder They Fall.

New York: Random House, 1947.

First edition of Schulberg’s second book, basis for the 1956 film directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart’s final film role. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Budd Schulberg on...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120678

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Vidal, Gore

Screening History.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Valerie, love, Gore Vidal.” The recipient, V...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-126011

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

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,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146471

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Gordimer, Nadine

The Conservationist.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-84277

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Anglund, Joan Walsh

Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.

First edition of Anglund’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an orig...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-123646

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Orwell, George

Animal Farm.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

Early printing 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 jack...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146283

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909.

First edition, first printing of Twain’s work regarding the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, without the advertisement for the Greenwood book. BAL 3509. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with tw...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150455

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.

First edition of this novel by “one of the master storytellers of our time” (Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Greene, Graham

The Heart of the Matter.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948.

First edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146309

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Li, Yiyun

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

New York: Random House, 2005.

First edition of Li’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ou...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-102837

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Mamet, David

On Directing Film.

New York: Viking, 1991.

First edition of Mamet’s insightful guide to directing. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For Gl...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-119879

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Turner, Frederick. [Elaine Steinbeck]

Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1989.

First edition of the award-winning author’s work on the great American novelists; from the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-131433

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Shem, Samuel

Man’s 4th Best Hospital.

New York: Berkley Books, 2019.

First edition of the sequel to The House of God. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For James Best wishes, Shem.” Near fine in a near fi...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-141533

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Eden, Emily; Introduction by Anthony Eden

The Semi-Attached Couple.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.

First edition of the Honorable Emily Eden’s brilliant comedy of manners. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial cloth with central botanical flourish, illustrated by Suzanne Suba. Associat...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-145160

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Christie, Agatha

At Bertram’s Hotel.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1965.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-149978

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth

On Death and Dying.

New York: Collier Books, 1993.

First Collier Books edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, “Love Elisabeth K. Ross.” In fine condition. Uncommon signed.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-131359

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

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