Literature Archives

Cover Her Face.

London: Faber and Faber, 1962.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original green cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with the added words, “And when that happened the right wor...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146895

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Dahl, Roald

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the family of film director Fred Zinnemann on the front free endpaper, “THI...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147400

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Frank, Anne

Het Achterhuis: Dagboakbrieven van 12 Jun 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor. [The Diary of Anne Frank].

Amsterdam: Contact, 1947.

First edition of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch. Small octavo, original publisher’s white and red paper-covered boards, illustrated with 2 photographic reproductions of the interi...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96773

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Chopin, Kate

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in dark green and red. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare, especia...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131587

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Heaney, Seamus

Death of a Naturalist.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

First edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his aunt in a contemporary han...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3529

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Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

First edition, review copy with the original publisher’s slip laid in of Vonnegut’s masterpiece, named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Octavo,...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147938

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McCarthy, Cormac

Suttree.

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142301

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Gershwin, George

George Gershwin Signed Rhapsody in Blue Piano Score.

New York: Harms Incorporated, 1925.

Rare 1925 printing of the piano score for the orchestral composition that defined the jazz age, first published in 1924. Small folio, original illustrated wrappers, piano solo and second piano in scor...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145285

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Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows.

London: Methuen and Co, 1908.

First edition of the beloved children’s novel, which author A.A. Milne once referred to as a “household book,” “one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149647

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Kerouac, Jack

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of the Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dave Creviston To Scribner’s Wi...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131371

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Thomas, Dylan

In Country Sleep.

New York: New Directions, 1952.

First edition of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the yea...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106778

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Dumas, Alexandre. [Alexander]

The Works of Alexandre Dumas.

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1893-1896.

The Edition De Luxe of the works of Alexandre Dumas, limited to one thousand numbered copies. Octavo, 40 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149543

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Heller, Joseph [Richard Benjamin; Paula Prentiss]

Catch-22.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

First edition of Heller’s classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Joseph Heller and the actors of the film Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. The 1970 film adaptation of Ca...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151821

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The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Release Decade I-VI [Full Set].

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Through a behind the scenes exploration of the James Bond archives this release celebrates 007 and The Macallan as modern innovators linked by their Scottish heritage. The Macallan and James Bond are...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145007

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First edition, first issue of Twain’s masterpiece, one of approximately 500 copies bound in publisher’s three-quarters morocco binding. Octavo, original three-quarters brown morocco and ma...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-73064

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Coetzee, J.M

Dusklands.

Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the title page, “Philippa – love from J...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112981

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Zorba The Greek.

Athens: Plateia Syntagmatos, 1946.

First Greek edition, preceding all other editions of the author’s most popular novel and basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Anthony Quinn. Octavo, bound in contemporary cloth. Signed by N...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131303

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Faulkner, William

Requiem for a Nun.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1953.

First British edition of the sequel to Faulkner’s Sanctuary. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication on the title...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144084

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Fleming, Ian

Moonraker.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition, first issue with “shoo” for “shoot” on page 10 of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. ...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-107324

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Pileggi, Nicholas [Robert De Niro and Joseph Pistone, aka Donnie Brascoe]

Wiseguy: Life in the Mafia Family.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

First edition of the author’s first book, the basis for Martin Scorcese’s masterpiece Goodfellas, widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldl...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151879

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Beautiful and the Damned.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

First edition, first state of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original green cloth, titles to the spine in gilt. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some professional restoration. Jacke...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138104

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Dodge, Mary Mapes

Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.

New York: James O'Kane, 1866.

First edition of the author’s second and best known work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Presen...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-76002

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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one month of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original c...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106788

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

Cover Her Face.

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Het Achterhuis: Dagboakbrieven van 12 Jun 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf door Annie Romein-Verschoor. [The Diary of Anne Frank].

The Awakening.

Death of a Naturalist.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.

Suttree.

George Gershwin Signed Rhapsody in Blue Piano Score.

The Wind in the Willows.

The Town and the City.

In Country Sleep.

The Works of Alexandre Dumas.

Catch-22.

The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Release Decade I-VI [Full Set].

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].

Dusklands.

Zorba The Greek.

Requiem for a Nun.

Moonraker.

Wiseguy: Life in the Mafia Family.

The Beautiful and the Damned.

Hans Brinker Or, The Silver Skates. A Story of Life in Holland.

Brighton Rock.