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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

New York: Atheneum, 1962.

First edition of Albee’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Edward Albee 2010.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of she...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126769

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Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133129

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Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

Iron Horse.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567

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Williams, Tennessee

First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruli...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149896

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Eco, Umberto

The Name of the Rose.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Association copy, inscribed...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-127038

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Frank, Anne

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

London: Constellation Books, 1952.

Rare first British edition of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151624

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Amis, Martin

Martin Amis First Edition Collection.

Lonson: Jonathan Cape, 1984-2020.

Extensive collection of first editions by acclaimed novelist Martin Amis, including his best-known works Money and London Fields. Octavo, 18 volumes, original cloth and half-cloth. 15 volumes signed b...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134198

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Lee, Harper [Gregory Peck]

To Kill A Mockingbird.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145873

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Yeats, William Butler [W.B.]

The Tower.

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928.

First edition of what is generally considered Yeats’ single most important volume, one of 2000 copies. Octavo, original publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated pictorial olive green cloth w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146520

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King, Stephen

The Dead Zone.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1983 thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a near fin...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147101

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Salter, James

The Hunters.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

First edition of the author’s first novel and landmark in the literature of war. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117479

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Light That Failed.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher’s gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121637

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Tolstoi, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]

Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1887.

First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole with a preface by him. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-123477

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Pynchon, Thomas. [Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio]

Vineland.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.

First edition of this novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151495

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Blume, Judy

Superfudge.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980.

First edition of this beloved children’s novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151844

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Oe, Kenzaburo

A Personal Matter.

New York: Grove Press, 1968.

First edition in English (preceding the British edition by one year) of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-139621

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King, Stephen

Stephen King Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror”, boldly signed by him. Placed on cardstock. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11 inches.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141286

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99339

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Reage, Pauline [Anne Desclos] Jean Paulhan [Preface]

The Story of O: With A Slaves Revolt an Essay on The Story of O.

New York: Grove Press/The Olympia Press, 1959.

First edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151367

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McCarthy, Cormac [Chip Kidd]

The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.

First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Additionally si...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151995

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Faulkner, William

Pylon.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935.

First edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom h...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96589

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Travers, P.L. [Lin Manuel Miranda]

Mary Poppins Comes Back.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935.

First edition of the sequel to Mary Poppins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Lin-Manue...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150072

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wa Thiong'o, Ngugi [Ngugi, James]

Petals of Blood.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First American edition of “the definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120878

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Becker, Jurek [Robin Williams]

Jacob the Liar.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

First edition of this powerful work, basis for the 1999 film starring Robin Williams. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Academy-Award winning actor Robin Williams on the front free endpaper. Fi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151744

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

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Finnegans Wake.

Iron Horse.

The Night of the Iguana.

The Name of the Rose.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

Martin Amis First Edition Collection.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

The Tower.

The Dead Zone.

The Hunters.

The Light That Failed.

Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.

Vineland.

Superfudge.

A Personal Matter.

Stephen King Signed Photograph.

Ethan Frome.

The Story of O: With A Slaves Revolt an Essay on The Story of O.

The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

Pylon.

Mary Poppins Comes Back.

Petals of Blood.

Jacob the Liar.