Original Signed Painted Portrait of an Unidentified Young Woman
An original, bold portrait painted by a 16-year-old Sylvia Plath.
An original, bold portrait painted by a 16-year-old Sylvia Plath.
Collection of almost 230 books from the library of legendary singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse — a narrative of her life and career through her personal reading, from her school days through her rise to fame and career.
First edition run of all 24 novels in the Tarzan series, including TARZAN OF THE APES in the rare original dust jacket and five inscribed books — along with Burroughs's rare 1917 AUTO-BIOGRAPHY and two further Tarzan titles.
The scarce first London edition of the most famous contemporary account of the Salem Witch Trials.
First edition of this historic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.
Original autograph manuscript of one of Plath's earliest poems, in a version preceding the 1946 revision published in her junior high school literary magazine and collected nowhere else.
Sylvia Plath's annotated copy, read in her first year of study for the Tragedy Paper at Cambridge, with marginal notes connecting the text to her own 1953 breakdown immortalized in THE BELL JAR and a prophetic description of Ariel as a poet.
Rare first complete English edition of the classic swashbuckling adventure.
Rare first printing of Fitzgerald's second novel, a sharply satirical portrait of a Jazz Age couple very like the Fitzgeralds.
Rare first printing of this selection of Poe's tales, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
First impression, first issue of the 2nd James Bond novel, a lovely copy in the rare first-state dust jacket.
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first edition of Plath's only novel, a modern classic, published in London under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" and unpublished in the US until after her death.
Uncommonly complete and exquisitely preserved set of the landmark Nonesuch Press publication, one of the most fully realized and beautifully executed Dickens collections ever produced — this with the original packing material and documents and in the rare original dust jackets.
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, second issue of Man Ray's extraordinary first monograph — association copy inscribed to friend and muse Joella Bayer, whose portrait appears in the book.
First edition of arguably the most influential novel in US history, in the scarce publisher's extra gilt binding.
First printing, first issue of this classic of US literature, a major influence on the development of the Western, American Romanticism, and North American-set historical fiction.
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.
First edition in English of one of the great novels of the 19th century, an exceptionally fresh and bright set.
Signed first printing of Williams's most enduring play, a beautiful copy in the iconic Lustig-designed dust jacket.
Landmark second edition of the epic American poetry collection, the first to include among the most famous blurbs in literature — Emerson's complimentary quote stamped, without permission, on the book's spine.
Twice inscribed first edition, first state of the first Tarzan novel, warmly presented from Burroughs to his niece.
Beautifully inscribed first edition of this dark satire on the patriotic narrative of American triumph in World War II, with a brief accompanying letter from Heller.
Complete run of Eugene and Maria Jolas's landmark literary journal, which — along with Margaret Anderson's THE LITTLE REVIEW — was one of the primary vehicles of Modernist and experimental writing.