Signed limited first English edition, number 85 of only 100 deluxe copies (out of a total edition of 1000 copies) signed by James Joyce, printed on mould-made paper, and beautifully bound in full cream calf vellum featuring gilt-stamped Homeric bows on both covers designed by Eric Gill, uncut and entirely unopened in the scarce original slipcase. A fine copy, exceptionally rare and desirable. $42,000. | More...
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First edition, first issue, in the very rare first-issue dust jacket, of one of the most important and sought-after classics of modern literature. An exceptional copy of this great rarity, fine in an exceptionally lovely and entirely unrestored dust jacket. $278,000. | More...
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, signed by photographer Steve Schapiro
Limited "Collector's Edition," one of 1813 copies (of a total edition of 1963), signed by photographer Steve Schapiro, with more than 100 photographs from Schapiro. $350. | More...
Maus I & II
Inscribed by Art Spiegelman
First editions of Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus books, Volume I inscribed opposite the half title with his original full-page drawing, "For T—! best wishes, Art Spiegelman 11-26-91," along with Volume II inscribed opposite the half title with his original full-page drawing, "For M—! best wishes, Art Spiegelman, 11-26-91." $2400. | More...
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck's most important novel, his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and "intense humanity," winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. $7200. | More...
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
First edition of Hemingway's classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, winning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributing to his award of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, in original dust jacket. $4500. | More...
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
First edition in English of Sartre's epoch-making Paris lecture on existentialism—"the first sustained exposition of Sartre's philosophy to appear in English," including an "exact transcription of the discussion" that followed Sartre's lecture, in original dust jacket. $850. | More...
I, Robot
Inscribed by Isaac Asimov
First edition, first issue, of Asimov’s influential collection of nine robot stories, inscribed in the year of publication by the author, “For: Lester Mayer with best regards and crossed fingers against boredom. 12/3/50. Isaac Asimov.” $16,000. | More...
The War Poems of
Siegfried Sassoon
First edition of a powerful collection of WWI war poems by Sassoon, who "opened the dug-out door to the poet of modern war," most written while in the hospital recovering from his war injuries. including 12 poems never before publicly issued, in scarce original cloth and dust jacket. $3200. | More...
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
First edition of Wallace’s epic postmodern satire—“jubilantly anecdotal, winkingly sardonic” (New York Times)—in scarce first-issue dust jacket. $950. | More...
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
First edition of McCarthy's mythic vision of the American West, in original dust jacket. $5000. | More...
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
First edition of Sylvia Plath's only novel, published pseudonymously only one month before her death, her powerful exploration of a brilliant yet fragile mind, in very scarce original dust jacket. $13,000. | More...
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
First edition of Kerouac's second and most important novel, "a physical and metaphysical journey across America," in colorful original dust jacket. $9800. | More...
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