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Literature:

Featured Item:

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

One of the most beloved of all children's books:

C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

First edition, beautifully bound. $1850.

 

Current Offerings:


 
Jane Austen's Emma
First edition. $15,500.

Anton Chekhov: Several Volumes of Short Stories
An exceptional collection.  $32,000.

Conrad's Lord Jim
First edition.  $2500.

Dostoyevsky's The Devils
First edition.  $8400.

William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
First edition, first issue.  $8500.

Heller's Catch-22
First edition, inscribed by Heller. 
Sold

Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls  
First edition, later printing, signed by Hemingway. 
Sold

Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea
First edition.  $1400.

Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poemsnew
First edition, 1 of 750 copies. $3600.

Hugo's Les Miserables
First edition.  $6500.

James Joyce's Ulysses  
First English (Egoist Press) edition. $2800.

Kerouac's The Town and the City
First edition of Kerouac's first book.  $650.

C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
First edition, beautifully bound. $1850.

Nabokov's Lolitanew
Rare first edition, first issue. $7500.

Orwell's Animal Farm
First edition.  $3600.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
First Edition.  $1300.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Remarkable letter to his wife.  Price on request.

Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
First edition. $10,500. 

Shakespeare's Fourth Folio
Magnificent 1685 Fourth Folio. $85,000.

Steinbeck's East of Eden
Signed limited first edition, 1 of 1500.  $3200.

Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath 
First edition, first issue.
Sold

Stevenson's Kidnapped
First edition.  $2600.

Tennyson/Doré: Idylls of the King
First edition in book form, illustrated by Gustave Doré. $3000.

Thoreau's Walden
First edition in original cloth. $12,500.

Tolstoy's War and Peace
First edition in English. $6500.

Twain's Huckleberry Finnnew
First edition, first issue in rare publisher's sheep binding. A remarkable copy in fine condition. Sold

Oscar Wilde's De Profundisnew
First edition, 1/50 copies on Japanese vellum. $10,000


Also see To Kill a Mockingbird, signed by Harper Lee, and John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire in our Gift Ideas section.
 

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