Literature Archives

You Only Live Twice.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.

First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming’s lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original black cloth, patterned endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust j...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151591

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Ephron, Nora

I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of Ephron’s edgy collection of short observational stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Bill Zwecks With best w...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132355

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Goldsmith, Oliver. With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139375

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Amis, Martin

Money.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Helen, with best wishes Martin Amis.” Fine in a near fine du...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142202

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148213

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wolfe, Tom; Umberto Eco; Don DeLillo; Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; John Ashbery; Robert Stone; John Updike; et al

Modern Authors Signed Baseball.

St. Louis: Rawlings, .

Rare Rawlings Official National League baseball signed by over 20 authors including: Peter Dexter (on the sweetspot), Tom Wolfe, Umberto Eco, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, John Ashb...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-128460

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Byron, George Gordon [Lord]

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: John Murray, 1850.

Finely bound edition of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135627

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Laxness, Halldor

The Bread of Life.

Reykjavik: Vaka-Helgafell, 1987.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to actress Julie Andrews on the front free endpaper,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116748

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Clarke, Arthur C. [Keir Dullea]

2010: Odyssey Two.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition of “this daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001” (Carl Sagan). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the hal...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150241

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Bellow, Saul

Seize the Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For the Gabels with best...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-84225

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Note Signed.

:, .

Rare autograph note inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. The note reads, in part: “but it is a chapter about…theatrical. They are always great fun. Very sincerely yours...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95201

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Roberts, Charles G.D

Earth’s Enigmas: A Volume of Stories.

Boston and New York: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1896.

First edition of this collection of short stories, delving into the enigmatic aspects of both nature and human experience. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148056

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Roth, Philip

American Pastoral.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and additionally by legendary designer Milton Glaser on the fron...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151796

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Porter, Katherine Anne

Ship of Fools.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1962.

First edition of this classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner which dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unfo...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142403

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Griffiths, Philip Jones [Noam Chomsky]

Vietnam, Inc.

New York: Collier Books, 1971.

First edition of Philip Jones Griffith’s first book. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky, who in a later edition contributed an introduction to this vo...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146352

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hughes, Langston

The Langston Hughes Reader.

New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1958.

First edition of this compilation of the selected writings of Langston Hughes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149626

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hemingway, Ernest; Taylor Williams [Martha Gellhorn]

Taylor Williams Typed Letter Recollecting About Ernest Hemingway. [with] Ernest Hemingway Photographs.

:, .

Rare original typed letter from guide Taylor Williams recollecting about hunting antelope with Ernest Hemingway. One page, single typed sheet. The letter reads in full, “Hemingway Box by Taylor...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150090

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Isherwood, Christopher

A Single Man.

London: The Land Press, 1980.

Signed limited edition of Isherwood’s highly-regarded work, adapted into the film of the same name directed by fashion designer Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Quarto, boun...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124605

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Follett, Ken

The Pillars of the Earth.

London: Macmillan, 1989.

First British edition of Follett’s immensely popular bestseller, widely considered his masterpiece which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, picto...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150763

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Calvino, Italo

Difficult Loves.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1984.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Italo Calvino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket de...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-22051

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Mather, Berkely [Ian Fleming]

The Pass Beyond Kashmir.

London: Collins, 1960.

First edition of this classical adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with the rare original yellow Ian Fleming promotional wrap-arou...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150651

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145926

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Qadi Zada al-Rumi (1364-1436) Commentary on al-Hikma, 918 AH [1684 CE].

:, .

Octavo manuscript in Arabic on paper, consisting of two works, including Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s (1149-1209) Hashiya ‘ala sharh hidayat alhikma, contemporary blind-tooled leather. In very g...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-71008

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Allende, Isabel

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of each work in the author’s classic House of Spirits trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To ____ ____...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147493

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

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

You Only Live Twice.

I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections.

The Vicar of Wakefield.

Money.

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

Modern Authors Signed Baseball.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

The Bread of Life.

2010: Odyssey Two.

Seize the Day.

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Note Signed.

Earth’s Enigmas: A Volume of Stories.

American Pastoral.

Ship of Fools.

Vietnam, Inc.

The Langston Hughes Reader.

Taylor Williams Typed Letter Recollecting About Ernest Hemingway. [with] Ernest Hemingway Photographs.

A Single Man.

The Pillars of the Earth.

Difficult Loves.

The Pass Beyond Kashmir.

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Qadi Zada al-Rumi (1364-1436) Commentary on al-Hikma, 918 AH [1684 CE].

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.