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All the Sad Young Men.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

First edition, first issue of Fitzgerald’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139276

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Malamud, Bernard

The Natural.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s first book, and one of the greatest baseball novels of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy with the slip laid in for a release date of August 21,...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-100076

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Gibran, Kahlil

Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

Signed limited edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards, number 33 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven drawings by the auth...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-131582

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Dante Alighieri; Translated by Henry Boyd

The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. [The Divine Comedy].

London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1802.

First edition of the first full translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy into English, translated with preliminary essays, notes, and illustrations by the Rev. Henry Boyd. Octavo, three volumes, bou...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150482

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Kipling, Rudyard

Many Inventions.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.

First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page in the year of p...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123441

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Coetzee, J.M

In the Heart of the Country.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1977.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, “Philippe- Love from John.”...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147975

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Baldwin, James

First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch a shelfwear. Jacket design by Seymour...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140400

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Herbert, Frank

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of Children of Dune, The Mind Bomb, Seed Stock, and Come to the Party].

New York: Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, 1969-1978.

First editions of seven issues of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact magazine containing the first appearance of Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune in four parts, later published as a novel, and his short...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150272

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McCarthy, Cormac

All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

London: Picador, 1992-1998.

First British editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. All three volumes are signed by Cormac McCarthy and additionally signed...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145942

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Ovid

Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.

London: Printed by William Stansby, 1626.

First edition of George Sandys’ famous verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved title page. Small folio, bound in contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved title by T. Cecil, and fu...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146369

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Fielding, Henry

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749.

First edition, first issue of one of the most influential English novels, one only 2,000 copies printed. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139551

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Carroll, Lewis [Alice Hargreaves]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932-1935.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full leather with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six co...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152054

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Brunt, Samuel

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country.

London: J. Watson, 1727.

First edition of this early 18th century satire published in imitation of Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, or, Gulliver’s Travels. Octavo, bou...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-36011

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Irving, Washington

The Works of Washington Irving: The Autograph Edition [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle].

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895–97.

The Works of Washington Irving: The Author’s Autograph edition. Octavo, 40 volumes, uniformly bound in full morocco by the Knickerbocker Press, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gil...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-86738

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

The Yearling.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, uniquely and lengthily inscribed by the author across three pages; on the front free endp...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147651

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Williams, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire.

New York: New Directions, 1947.

First edition of Williams’ classic play, which won Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the title page. Near fine in an v...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151080

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.

First edition in the original parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Complete set of the original parts, with all of the etched plates and most of the adve...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149546

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Kerr, Judith

The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

London: Collins, 1968.

First edition of this classic, one of the best selling children’s book of all-time. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional e...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142030

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Torrents of Spring.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the crown. An exceptional example.

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-112442

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Being and Nothingness.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1956.

First edition of Sartre’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150054

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha: Nueva Edicion, Corregida Por La Real Academia Española.

Madrid: Don Joaquin Ibarra, 1782.

The illustrated Ibarra edition of Cervantes’ masterpiece “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). Octavo, 4 volumes, written in spanish, bound in full...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148968

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Montgomery, L. M

Anne of the Island.

Boston: The Page Company, 1915.

First edition, first printing of the third title in Montgomery’s beloved Anne of Green Gables series with all first issue points including stated first impression on copyright page, 1915 date in...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135042

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1954.

Rare autograph letter signed by Jack Kerouac to close friend Ed White. Bifoliate leaf, one page covered; pencil. With envelope addressed in autograph, postmarked Jamaica, New York. The letter reads in...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145634

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

All the Sad Young Men.

The Natural.

Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.

The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. [The Divine Comedy].

Many Inventions.

In the Heart of the Country.

Giovanni’s Room.

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of Children of Dune, The Mind Bomb, Seed Stock, and Come to the Party].

All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country.

The Works of Washington Irving: The Autograph Edition [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle].

The Yearling.

A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

The Torrents of Spring.

Being and Nothingness.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha: Nueva Edicion, Corregida Por La Real Academia Española.

Anne of the Island.

Jack Kerouac Autograph Letter Signed.