First printing of the Jazz-Age novel published at the peak of Wharton's career, skillfully assessing the effects of gender roles in high society.

First printing of Wharton's post-war novel, "the beginning of a revitalized and extraordinarily experimental late period" (Sensibar) in her career – in the scarce original dust jacket.

First printing, first state, of this Jazz-Age assessment of Modernism through the lens of the most famous woman author of the era, in the scarce original dust jacket.

First printing of Wharton's magnum opus, a tragedy of decadent society that secured her lasting reputation, and for which she won the Pulitzer Prize – becoming the first woman to do so.

First edition, an uncommonly bright and beautiful copy in lavender cloth of this most quotable of Wilde's plays.

First edition of this autobiographical account by a formerly enslaved Jamaican apprentice, revealing the grim facts of the new system – in reality continued slavery – after the British Abolition Law went into effect in 1834.

First printing of the second Edgar Box mystery, an excellent yarn that Vidal composed ambivalently to pay the bills that his literary novels were not.

First English edition of this memoir of the Holocaust, one of the most important firsthand accounts of life in Nazi-run ghettos and concentration camps.

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.

First printing of White's inimitable fantasy of the boyhood of King Arthur.

First printing of the first CALICO BOOK, and Tudor's first book.

Scarce first edition of this Newbery Award winner about the son of a famous bullfighter in Spain – this copy from the collection of Marian Young, the prominent librarian and member of the Newbery Award Selection Committee.