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Item 367882Beloved. A Novel.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. A fine review copy. Read More Item Details for Beloved. A Novel Add to Wish List
Item #367882
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Price: $450
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. A fine review copy. Read More Item Details for Beloved. A Novel Add to Wish List
Item #367882
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New York: Rinehartand Company, Inc, 1948. First edition. Fine, inscribed. The book that made Mailer's career, inscribed in May 1985 to Jim Silberman: "who has been up and down this long literary path with me over many a year / Cheers, my colleague" Read More Item Details for The Naked and the Dead Add to Wish List
Item #367879
Price: $450
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. First American edition, stated first printing, with $5.59 price on flap and "First Reviews from England" on dust jacket. The most famous novel by the Nobel prize winning author, a review copy with a TLS to editor James Silberman from the publicity director of..... Read More Item Details for The Golden Notebook Add to Wish List
Item #367876
Price: $500
New York: Viking Press, 2006. First edition. Inscribed to the powerhouse publishing couple Jim Silberman and Selma Shapiro. Read More Item Details for America: Back on Track Add to Wish List
Item #367870
Price: $12,500
New York: Random House, 1934. First American edition. A near pristine copy of the first American edition of James Joyce's groundbreaking modernist novel, which was published only after a court case brought by Random House reversed the previous ban on obscenity charges that had outlawed not just the book's publication..... Read More Item Details for Ulysses Add to Wish List
Item #367869
Price: $750
London: Printed for C. Bathurst et al, 1781. First authorized separate edition, second London edition. Read More Item Details for Lives of the Poets. Vols. 1–4 Add to Wish List
Item #367868
Price: $20,000
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. An outstanding copy of Huxley’s dystopian novel, a classic of twentieth-century world literature. Read More Item Details for Brave New World. A Novel Add to Wish List
Item #367867
Price: $200
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Like his 1946 New Yorker piece, "Hiroshima," The Wall retells the horrors of World War II, this time the story of the Warsaw Ghetto, the tragedy and the resistance, through the eyes of a group of its survivors. Read More Item Details for The Wall Add to Wish List
Item #367865
Price: $10,000
New York: Scribners, 1929. First edition, first issue with publisher's seal on copyright page, no disclaimer, Katharine Barclay on the inside flap and reviews for The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women on the back. Fine Copy of Hemingway's Classic War Novel. "His first full-length novel and probably his..... Read More Item Details for A Farewell to Arms Add to Wish List
Item #367863
Price: $225,000
New York: Scribners, 1926. First edition, first issue. Read More Item Details for The Sun Also Rises Add to Wish List
Item #367862
Price: $15,000
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. A beautiful copy of this literary classic — Golding's first and best book — with a storied history. Originally rejected by an in-house reader at Faber as "rubbish & dull," it was subsequently picked up by another editor there, Charles Monteith, who helped..... Read More Item Details for Lord of the Flies. A Novel Add to Wish List
Item #367858
Price: $500
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, eleventh printing. Read More Item Details for Invisible Man Add to Wish List
Item #367852
Price: $400
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1924. One of 350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, 1923. The designs were printed by Bruce Rogers from blocks prepared by Emery Walker based on the first edition of Dürer’s treatise on geometry, Unterweysung (1525), where they appear in..... Read More Item Details for The Construction of Roman Letters by Albrecht Dürer Add to Wish List
Item #367850
Price: $4,000
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1900. First edition. Cornerstone of American Realism. Dreiser’s landmark novel of American realism, published by Doubleday, Page in 1900, over the objections of Frank Doubleday. Fewer than 600 copies of this edition were distributed, and subsequent editions were cut and bowdlerized. Read More Item Details for Sister Carrie Add to Wish List
Item #367849
Price: $300
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. First edition. Joan Didion's third novel, and fourth book overall, harbors several real-life parallels: it takes place in a fictitious country very similar to El Salvador; is narrated by a woman whose style of commentary is reminiscent of Didion herself; and includes a character..... Read More Item Details for A Book of Common Prayer Add to Wish List
Item #367840
Price: $2,000
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition, first printing. Hailed as both a modern classic and an example par excellence of the New Journalism, Didion's first nonfiction book collects twenty of her previously published essays and articles about life in California during the 1960s. Dan Wakefield's contemporaneous review..... Read More Item Details for Slouching Towards Bethlehem Add to Wish List
Item #367839
Price: $27,500
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition, first issue. Superior Copy in Original Dust Jacket. Crane's classic tale of fear, shame, bravery, and redemption has captivated generations of readers with its naturalistic, impressionistic literary style, groundbreaking for its time. A contemporary review stated, "At times the description is..... Read More Item Details for The Red Badge of Courage Add to Wish List
Item #367836
Price: $10,000
London: Heinemann, [1962]. First edition, first binding. A Fine Copy of the Notorious Novel. Richly inventive in language, written in an argot that borrows heavily from the Russian, and with an unforgettable antihero at its center, Burgess's book was overshadowed by the futuristic 1971 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick, which..... Read More Item Details for A Clockwork Orange Add to Wish List
Item #367833
Price: $200
New York: Tiber Press, 1954. First edition, number 97 of 1500 numbered copies. Read More Item Details for The Girl in the Abstract Bed Add to Wish List
Item #367831
Price: $750
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition, inscribed on half title. Read More Item Details for Little Big Man Add to Wish List
Item #367829
Price: $5,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition, in the scarce original dust jacket. This semi-autobiographical novel was Baldwin's first published novel, the result of many years of work — as well as a prior unsuccessful contract with Harper & Brothers — before Alfred A. Knopf took the manuscript on..... Read More Item Details for Go Tell It on the Mountain Add to Wish List
Item #367823
Price: $750
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing. From the collection of the publishing couple Selma Shapiro and Jim Silberman, who met working at Random House during this period, where he was an editor and she was vice president of publicity. Read More Item Details for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Add to Wish List
Item #367816
Price: $5,000
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1953. First edition. First Edition of a Comic Masterpiece. Amis' first novel, a darkly comic masterpiece published to great critical and popular acclaim which won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction in 1955. The novel is dedicated to the poet Philip Larkin, whose previous tenure as..... Read More Item Details for Lucky Jim Add to Wish List
Item #367812
Price: $200
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First edition. The third novel by Amis, a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on his travels in Portugal while fulfilling the terms of the Somerset Maugham Award he won in 1955 for Lucky Jim, which required recipients to travel abroad in order to enrich their future..... Read More Item Details for I Like It Here Add to Wish List
Item #367811
Price: $300
Auburn: Derby & Miller. Buffalo: Derby, Orton & Mulligan, 1853. Sixth Thousand. Read More Item Details for History of the State of California From The Period Of The Conquest By Spain, To Her Occupation By The United States Of America.... Also, Advice To . To Get There. To Which Is Added A Brief Account of the Formation of the Government and Constitution of the Said State Add to Wish List
Item #367788