THE BELL JAR
Rare true first edition of Plath's only novel, a modern classic, published in London under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" and unpublished in the US until after her death.
Rare true first edition of Plath's only novel, a modern classic, published in London under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" and unpublished in the US until after her death.
Over 80 volumes from the personal library of author and influential editor Mary Mapes Dodge, with many of the volumes inscribed to Dodge by the authors.
First edition of arguably the most influential novel in US history, in the scarce publisher's extra gilt binding.
First US edition of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of this YA novel — signed twice by Plath, with an original drawing by her and her bookplate laid in — the almost-too-apt story of a young Roman girl exiled to the soggy shores of Britain and burdened with a literal-minded mother named Aurelia.
Original draft, entirely written out by hand, of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Signed first trade edition of a landmark graphic novel, in extraordinary condition.
First edition of the Ur-Gothic, the literary sensation credited by many for inaugurating one of the first major trends of the English novel — and the literary heart of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is both a satire of and homage to it.
First US edition of the wild Gothic tale of romance and betrayal, published only a few months after the nearly unobtainable London first, bound with another novel, NOW & THEN by Samuel Warren, published by Harper the same year.
Signed first UK edition of the famous radical science fiction novel on gender and isolation by one of the most influential writers in the genre — an exceptionally beautiful copy.
First edition of this Regency comedy of manners, an important landmark in the history of the Scottish novel and in popular romance.
Signed first printing of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.
First edition of this interfaith contemporary romance — the "first American novel written by a Jew on a Jewish theme for an American audience" (D. G. Myers) — inscribed by the author to her brother.
Rare first edition of Kusama's first novel, never translated into English, illustrated with the artist's own work.
First edition of Eliot's third novel, a fable in realist dress, praised by some as the greatest of her works.
First printing of the classic coming-of-age story — a great copy, much nicer than typically seen.
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
Inscribed first issue of the famous bestseller of the Jazz Age, chronicling the high life of a Hollywood flapper's trip to Europe.
Handsome complete seven-volume set of Smith & Elder's New Editions of the novels and poems of the Brontë sisters, with Gaskell's Life of Elizabeth Brontë.
First edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein — and which Toklas repudiated.
Signed first hardcover edition of the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, first published as a paperback original in 1968.
First edition of Stein's great Modernist prose poem that reveals the avant-garde in the ordinary.
First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, Woolf's first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style.
Signed first printing of the fourth book in the Patternist series — inscribed to the owner of an important Black bookstore.