Quicksand.
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.
First edition of Nella Larsen’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149548
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Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
London: Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-Street, 1674.
Rare second edition of Milton’s masterpiece, “one of the greatest works of the human imagination” (DNB). Small octavo, bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt titles and stamping...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149837
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
First edition of what Fitzgerald called, “undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. J...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-123473
The Night Traveler.
: A Bits Chapbook, 1978.
First edition of this early collection by Mary Oliver. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed twice by Mary Oliver, once on the front free endpaper and on the title page. In fine condition. Rare.
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-133671
The Chimney-Corner.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.
Later printing of this classic collection of essays which deals primarily with women’s issues, such as property rights, voting and education in post-Civil War America. Octavo, original publisher...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149908
Death of a Lady’s Man.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
First Canadian edition (and true first), first state with “Lie down.” on page 94. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Michael, Like a bird on a w...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-128929
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.
Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1857.
True first edition, first printing with the mistake in the name of the dedicatee, “Sénart” written with T and not a D, “nor of your dedication” on the same page, which will bec...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-144079
The Wreck of the Titanic: A Poem.
Brooklyn, NY: Donald Sinclair, 1913.
Rare first edition of this work on The Titanic. Octavo, original leather, frontispiece, illustrated by the author. Boldly signed by Horace Greeley on the second free endpaper. In good condition. We ha...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-148994
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in A Valley of the Marquesas.
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
First edition of Melville’s first book and his most popular during his lifetime. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in the original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, frontisp...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-144151
![Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/adventuress-of-huckleberry-finn-mark-twain-first-edition-1885-rare-book.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer's Comrade].")
Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition of Twain’s masterpiece, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt, title-leaf a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884; illustrated captioned “Him an...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-100058
The History of Charlotte Temple. Founded on Fact.
Hartford: Printed by John Babcock, 1801.
Early American printing of the first American bestseller, first published in 1794. 16mo, bound in one quarter contemporary leather over paper-covered boards. In good condition. Period ownership inscri...
$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-138507
The Waters of Siloe.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
First edition of Merton’s companion volume to his famed The Seven Storey Mountain. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title pa...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-110762
![The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. [Including: My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, Life and Letters, Etc]](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/the-writings-of-john-muir-manuscript-first-edition-rare-original-cloth.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. [Including: My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, Life and Letters, Etc]")
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. [Including: My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, Life and Letters, Etc]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript edition of The Writings of John Muir. One of only 750 numbered copies, this is number 461. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in the original green with morocco spine labels with gilt titles, co...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-96258
The Body in the Library.
London: The Crime Club, 1942.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-150394
The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators.
London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.
First edition of George Sale’s important translation of the Koran, the first to translate the original text directly from the Arabic into English. Quarto, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked, mo...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-145520
Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece with all of the agreed upon first issue points and including the extraordinary “bulging fly” illustration. Octavo, bound in contempor...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-150973
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-23055
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
New York: New Directions, 1955.
First edition, first issue of one of Williams’s best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. N...
$6,200.00
Item Number: RRB-150533
The Works of Oscar Wilde.
London: Methuen & Co, Ltd./Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908-1922.
Complete set of the works of Oscar Wilde, including For Love of a King issued in 1922 and often missing from this set. Octavo, 15 volumes in the publisher’s original gilt-decorated full buckram,...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-139028
![The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. [Fromont and Risler, Jack, The Nabob, Kings in Exile, Thirty Years in Paris].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RRB-147622.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. [Fromont and Risler, Jack, The Nabob, Kings in Exile, Thirty Years in Paris].")
The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. [Fromont and Risler, Jack, The Nabob, Kings in Exile, Thirty Years in Paris].
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900.
The Saint Botolph Edition of the works of Alphonse Daudet, limited to one thousand numbered sets and magnificently bound. Octavo, eighteen volumes elegantly bound in full plum levant morocco with red...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-147622
Cetta, Francesca [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]
Quindici.
Rome: Albatros, 2018.
First edition of this coming-of-age novel. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, in the original Italian. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Ruth Bade...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-148314
Bram Stoker Autograph Poem Signed.
Greeba Castle:, 1900.
Rare original autograph poem signed and entirely in the hand of Bram Stoker. Quarto, one page on a leaf removed from an album, complete four stanza poem titled “The One Thing Needful,” pic...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-148526
Appointment in Samarra.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. H...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-5829
The Works of Leo Tolstoy. Including: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.
Limited edition of the works of Leo Tolstoy, one of one hundred and fifty copies printed on Ruisdael paper, this is number sixty-eight. Octavo, 25 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles...
$6,000.00
Item Number: RRB-97546
