First edition thus, the first English appearance of Zola's 1887 novel LA TERRE since Henry Vizetelly's 1888 translation that led to his imprisonment for obscenity.

Signed limited edition, one of only 500 copies printed for private distribution under wartime conditions, this copy presented to the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarter Allied Expeditionary Forces.

Scarce Boston chapbook teaching chess to beginners, measuring only 4 inches high.

Signed first paperback printing and movie tie-in edition of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.

Rare complete first printing of the Ellen Terry miniature Shakespeare library, in the original hinged wooden box.

Signed first printing of Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.

First US printing of Munro's tenth collection of short stories.

Scarce first printings in English of Larsson's Millennium trilogy.

Second printing of Hayes's memoir-style cookbook, with a bookplate signed by Hayes affixed to the front fly leaf.

Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.

First printing of Kerouac's autobiographical novel of his brother's death.

First edition, trade issue, of Maugham's ambitious portrait of the search for transcendence (preceded by the signed limited edition but itself preceding the UK edition).

Rare first printing of Saint-Exupéry's well-beloved classic, published in the midst of World War II.