Literature Archives

Brown Girl, Brownstones.

New York: Random House, 1959.

First edition of Marshall’s classic coming-of-age tale and a vivid portrait of one family’s struggle to achieve the American Dream. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-128761

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Stone, Oliver [Screenwriter]; Alan Parker [Director]; Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber [play]; Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce [Starring]

First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film, boldly signed by Oliver Stone, based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was in turn based on Rice and...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133217

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Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island.

New York: New Directions, 1974.

First edition of the legendary poet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Fred and Edie-...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135234

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Hemingway, Ernest. [Mary Hemingway]

Hemingway: The Viking Portable Library.

New York: The Viking Press, 1944.

First edition, early printing of this compilation of Hemingway’s works. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Mary Hemingway on the front free endpaper, “23 June 1...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135292

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Hemingway, Ernest

Islands In The Stream.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.

First edition of Hemingway’s autobiographical novel in three parts, published posthumously. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised ban...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140288

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Winfrey, Oprah; Danny Glover; Thandiwe Newton; Kimberly Elise. [Toni Morrison]

Journey to Beloved.

New York: Hyperion, 1998.

First edition of Oprah Winfrey’s emotional account of playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pul...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135044

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Hughes, Langston

Simple Speaks His Mind.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950; [1951].

First edition of the first book in Hughes’ “Simple” series. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gray top stain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Insc...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147216

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

First edition with the Scribner’s A and the publisher’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151217

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Maguire, Gregory

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.

First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Wickedly yours,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151603

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Roth, Philip

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sanford Roth. An exceptional example.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148093

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Enric C. Ricart [Illustrator]

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Barcelona: The Limited Editions Club, 1933.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Cervantes’ masterpiece, translated and with an introduction by John Ormsby. Quarto, two volumes, printed on Guarro paper, bound in full modern...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148437

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Legge, James. [Confucius]

Interpretation of the Correction of the Four Books of Huaying. [The Four Books: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Works of Mencius].

China: Kanshou, 1918.

James Legge’s classic Chinese-English translation of the four major texts of Confucian philosophy. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Ownership inscrip...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127035

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Hemingway, Ernest. Photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner

The Old Man and the Sea.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990.

First Limited Editions Club limited edition of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, signed by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Oblong quarto, bound in one quarter morocco over cloth-cove...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132702

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].

Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1975.

First Spanish edition of this “majestic, superb…a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant” (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Si...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46985

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Green, Peter

The Laughter of Aphrodite.

London: John Murray, 1965.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Peter Green with the author’s best wishes.” Near fin...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119457

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Kipling, Rudyard

Poems 1886-1929.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930.

Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s poetry. Quarto, three volumes, original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt, gilt motifs to front c...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149539

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Kipling, Rudyard

Ford O’Kabul River. No 2. Of the Second Series of Barrack-Room Ballads. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Gerard F. Cobb.

London: Cas. Sheard & Co, 1895.

Rare sheet music printing of Rudyard Kipling’s Ford O’Kabul River, a song from Barrack-Room Ballads. Folio, bound in one quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-126930

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Tennyson, Alfred

Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1867.

Finely bound example of one of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Duodecimo, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ela...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151178

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Powers, Richard

The Overstory.

New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2017.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “the best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period” (Ann Patchett). Octavo, original boards. Boldly...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151356

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].

Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1982.

Early German edition of the author’s masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138432

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Lewis, C.S

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956.

First edition of Lewis’ final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt ti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141307

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Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878.

Finely bound set of Moliere. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in full red morocco, illustrated with plates, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, inner dentelles, m...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104673

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Owens, Delia

Where the Crawdads Sing.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time and basis for the 2022 film. Octavo, original half-cloth. Lengthily signed by the author with a quote from the book on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148587

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Cohen, Leonard; Irving Layton

Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems.

New York: Alan Brilliant, 1958.

First edition of this anthology of Canadian poetry. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, four issues of poetry, number two. Boldly signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the title page, “Leonard C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149947

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

Brown Girl, Brownstones.

Evita.

Turtle Island.

Hemingway: The Viking Portable Library.

Islands In The Stream.

Journey to Beloved.

Simple Speaks His Mind.

The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Goodbye, Columbus.

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Interpretation of the Correction of the Four Books of Huaying. [The Four Books: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean, and The Works of Mencius].

The Old Man and the Sea.

El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].

The Laughter of Aphrodite.

Poems 1886-1929.

Ford O’Kabul River. No 2. Of the Second Series of Barrack-Room Ballads. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Gerard F. Cobb.

Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

The Overstory.

Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.

Where the Crawdads Sing.

Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems.