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Browse rare first edition classics in American, English, world literature, poetry, and plays. View our entire collection of rare literature below, search our inventory with advanced search, or use our sorting tools to find exactly what you’re looking for. Please call with any questions you may have on a specific item or order online today.

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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.

Mahfouz, Naguib

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.

New York : Doubleday, 1990-1992.

Uncorrected proofs of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950’s and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades later in 1988. Octavo, 3 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. Each volume is signed by Naguib Mahfouz and the translator William M. Hutchins on the title page. EachContinue reading "The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-1754

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Fleming, Ian. [Sean Connery]

From Russia, With Love.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1957.

First edition, first state of the fifth James Bond novel and what Fleming considered one of his best books and listed in Life magazine as one of US President John F. Kennedy’s top ten favorite books. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt rose and gun emblem to the front panel. BoldlyContinue reading "From Russia, With Love."

$17,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150986

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Sun Also Rises.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

First edition, first issue of the first printing, with the misprint (“stoppped”) on page 181 line 26, in the first issue dust jacket with the misprint on the front panel (“In Our Times” vs. “In Our Time”). Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year ofContinue reading "The Sun Also Rises."

$750,000.00

Item Number: RRB-124010

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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 hand on the front free endpaper, “For Aunt Annie: who is content only with the right word. Love, Seamus.” Additionally signed by Heaney inContinue reading "Death of a Naturalist."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-3529

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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

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Fleming, Ian

Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1965.

First edition of the fourteenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by legendary director of the film John Glen on the title page. During the 1960s and 1970s, Glen served as a film editor and second unit director, working on such films as Superman (1978) and The Wild Geese (1978); he also contributed to three JamesContinue reading "Octopussy and the Living Daylights."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150983

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Fleming, Ian; Angus Wilson; Edith Sitwell; Cyril Connolly; Patrick Leigh Fermor; Evelyn Waugh; Christopher Sykes; W.H. Auden [Larry Hughes]

The Seven Deadly Sins.

New York : William Morrow and Company, 1962.

First edition of this anthology introduced by Ian Fleming. Octavo, bound in three quarters green morocco over green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title page vignette, illustrated decorations forContinue reading "The Seven Deadly Sins."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-149775

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Faulkner, William

Knight’s Gambit.

New York : Random House, 1949.

First edition of this short story collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. A very nice example.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147393

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Didion, Joan

Democracy: A Novel.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1984.

First edition of this gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, embossed stamp, remainder mark. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Author photograph by Quintana Roo Dunne.

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-150984

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

Dr. Seuss’s ABC.

New York : Random House, 1963.

First edition, early printing of this classic children’s book. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “With Best Wishes to Chuck Meeks Dr. Seuss.” In very good condition, signature opposite the title page. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149460

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Baum, L. Frank

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.

Indianapolis : The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902.

First edition of this Christmas classic, inscribed by Baum to the W.W. Denslow, who illustrated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Octavo, original publisher’s bright red pictorial cloth decorated in in green, white and tan, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark with 20 plates, 6 in full color including frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by theContinue reading "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus."

$30,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149800

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Feiffer, Jules

Feiffer on Nixon: The Cartoon Presidency.

New York : Random House, 1974.

First edition of this collection of Watergate-era cartoons. Oblong duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with cartoons throughout. In near fine condition.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-149778

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Juster, Norton and Jules Feiffer

The Phantom Tollbooth.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Fiftieth Anniversary edition, later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Boldly signed Norton Juster on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With an appreciation by Maurice Sendak.

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-149786

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Feast of the Goat.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Advanced reader’s copy of the first edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Eric Fuentecilla. Translated by Edith Grossman.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-150982

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Kerouac, Jack [John]

The Town and the City.

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, and Kennett Love on the front free endpaper, and by Helen Weaver on the title page. Lucien Carr, fictionalized in the novel as Kenneth Wood, played a central role in shaping the early Beat circle by introducing JackContinue reading "The Town and the City."

$2,600.00

Item Number: RRB-149677

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Silverstein, Shel; [Paulette Breen]

The Giving Tree.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown with a large original drawing of a tree which has been carved to read the name ‘Paulette’ and inscribed on the half-title page at the bottom left corner, “With Love ~ Shel Silverstein.” TheContinue reading "The Giving Tree."

$18,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149402

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London : Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.

First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece, title page vignettes. The set contains: First edition, second issue of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old YearContinue reading "The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain."

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149771

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Philadelphia & New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First edition, the finest association copy of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century which had an initial first printing of 5,000 copies and went on to earn Harper Lee the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaperContinue reading "To Kill A Mockingbird."

$250,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149590

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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

London : William Heinemann LTD, 1938.

First British edition of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, bound in half goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. In near fine condition.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149699

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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York : E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of the author’s fourth breakthrough novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Hilary John Irving.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-149614

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de Balzac, Honoré [Czar Alexander II]

La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin. [The Last Incarnation of Vautrin].

Paris : Chez Louis Chlendowski, 1848.

Finely bound edition of the final volume of ‘La Comédie Humaine’, from the library of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Octavo, three volumes bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spines in five compartments. In very condition with some rubbing to the spines and bookplates to theContinue reading "La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin. [The Last Incarnation of Vautrin]."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-145572

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Greene, Graham

England Made Me.

London : William Heinemann LTD, 1935.

First British edition of this early novel by Greene, which would later be republished as The Shipwrecked in 1953. Octavo, bound by Brian Hall in three quarters morocco over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments with raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. In fine condition.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-149698

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Greene, Graham

It’s A Battlefield.

London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1934.

First edition of this early novel by Greene. Octavo, bound in three quarters goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments with raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. In near fine condition.

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-149696

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Eliot, T.S

Ash-Wednesday.

New York : The Fountain Press Inc./London Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930.

Signed limited edition of T. S. Eliot’s classic “conversion poem.” Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. One of six hundred numbered copies, this is number 329. Boldly signed by T.S. Eliot on the colophon. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A very sharp example.

$2,600.00

Item Number: RRB-149679

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