RARE FIRST EDITIONS

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• 1903 – THE WIZARD OF OZ – L. Frank Baum
• 1881 – TOPO – G.E. Brunefille
• 1871 - LITTLE MEN  – L.M. Alcott
• 1884 - DO AND DARE  – Horatio Alger
• 1897 - FRANK AND FEARLESS  – Horatio Alger
• 1897 - WALTER SHERWOOD’S PROBATION – Horatio Alger
• 1907 - WALKER, LONDON (A PLAY IN THREE ACTS)  – J.M. Barrie
• 1852 - THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME  – G.A. Beckett
• 1852 – DEVEREAUX – Ed.W. Bulwer-Lytton
• 1888 – EDITHA’S BURGLAR – Frances H. Burnett
• 1818 – THE PRISONER OF CHILLON – Lord George Byron
• 1904 – THE EAGLE’S SHADOW – James B. Cabell
• 1881 – MADAME DELPHINE – George W. Cable
• 1898 – SYLVIE AND BRUNO – Lewis Carroll

• 1893 – SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED – Lewis Carroll
• 1925 – JIG-SAW – Barbara Cartland
• 1926 – MY MORTAL ENEMY – Willa Cather
• 1899 – PROGRESS IN FLYING MACHINES – Octave Chanute
• 1929 – THE POET AND THE LUNATIC – G.K. Chesterton
• 1926 – THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD – Agatha Christie
• 1929 – THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY – Agatha Christie
• 1923 – THE BLACK DOG AND OTHER STORIES – A.E. Coppard
• 1921 – THE SECRET POWER – Marie Corelli
• 1896 – GEORGE’S MOTHER – Stephen Crane
• 1934 – THE ADVENTURES OF DAVY CROCKETT – Davy Crockett
• 1925 – COLOR – Countee Cullen

• 1852 – HOME NARRATIVES – Chas Dickens
• 1910 – THE DICKENS-KOLLE LETTERS – Charles Dickens
• 1863 – EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF ALL YEAR ROUND – Dickens
• 1899 – ADRIAN ROME – Arthur Moore & Ernest Dowson
• 1929 – ROME HAUL – Walter D. Edmonds
• 1943 – FOUR QUARTETS – T.S. Eliot
• 1931 – IDYLL IN THE DESERT – William Faulkner
• 1552 – TALES OF FIRENZUOLA – Firenzuola
• 1930 – SOAMES AND THE FLAG – John Galsworthy
• 1934 – AFTERNOON NEIGHBORS – Hamlin Garland
• 1931 – COMPANIONS ON THE TRAIL – Hamlin Garland
• 1903 – HESPER – Hamlin Garland
• 1904 – THE LIGHT OF THE STAR – Hamlin Garland
• 1931 – THE GRASSHOPPERS COME – David Garnett

• 1927 – MADEMOISELLE de MAUPIN – Theophile Gautier
• 1928 – THE MYSTERY REVEALED – Oliver Goldsmith
• 1877 – G.T.T THE WONDERFUL ADVEN. OF A PULLMAN – Hale Everett
• 1930 – THE MALTESE FALCON – Dashiell Hammett
• 1920 – THE BOMB – Frank Harris
• 1894 – ELDER CONKLIN AND OTHER STORIES – Frank Harris
• 1899 – CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN – Joel C. Harris
• 1893 – EVENING TALES – Joel C. Harris
• 1892 – ON THE PLANTATION – Joel C. Harris
• 1899 – PLANTATION PAGEANTS – Joel C. Harris
• 1897 – GLEANINGS IN BUDDHAFIELDS – Lafcadio Hearn
• 1907 – LETTERS FROM THE RAVEN – Lafcadio Hearn

• 1905 – ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY – Lafcadio Hearn
• 1939 – A BOOK OF MIRACLES – Ben Hecht
• 1932 – THE GREAT MAGOO – Ben Hecht & Gene Fowler
• 1939 – THE LITTLE FOXES – Lillian Hellman
• 1892 – THE DASH FOR KHARTOUM – G.A. Henty
• 1898 – UNDER WELLINGTON’S COMMAND – G.A. Henty
• 1902 – WITH ROBERTS TO PRETORIA – G.A. Henty
• 1894 – DIVERSIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH – John Horne
• 1922 – THE COVERED WAGON – Emerson Hough
• 1888 – THE RISE OF SILAS LAPLHAM – W.D. Howells
• 1912 – THE HENRY JAMES YEARBOOK – Henry James
• 1856 – THE HEROES – Chas Kingsley
• 1915 – BIB BALLADS – Ring Lardner
• 1917 – THE JOB – Sinclair Lewis
• 1907 – BEFORE ADAM – Jack London

• 1913 – JOHN BARLEYCORN – Jack London
• 1907 – THE ROAD – Jack London
• 1919 – THE MOON AND SIXPENCE – Somerset W. Maugham
• 1975 – TERMS OF ENDEARMENT – Larry McMurtry
• 1925 – HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE – Christopher Morley
• 1947 – CHARADE – John Mortimer
• 1899 – AGAINST WIND AND TIDE – Louise C.  Moulton
• 1942 – THE DARK KINGDOM – Kenneth Patchen
• 1937 – NOON WINE – Katherine Porter
• 1929 – CAVENDER’S HOUSE – Ed W.A. Robinson
• 1943 – THE LITTLE PRINCE – Exupery Saint
• 1951 – THE CATCHER IN THE RYE – J.D. Salinger
• 1956 – THE HUNTERS – James Salter
• 1946 – POEMS OF THE MIDWEST -  Carl Sandberg
• 1928 – GOOD MORNING AMERICA – Carl Sandburg

• 1956 – ON THE VERGE – Maurice Sandoz
• 1970 – LOVE STORY – Erich Segal
• 1911 – THE TRAIL OF NINETY-EIGHT – Robert Service
• 1923 – THE GOOSE STEP – Upton Sinclair
• 1906 – THE JUNGLE – Upton Sinclair
• 1940 – WHAT ARE MASTERPIECES – Gertrude Stein
• 1939 – THE GRAPES OF WRATH – John Steinbeck
• 1919 – THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE: POEMS – A.C. Swinburne
• 1893 – THE L 1,000,000 BANK NOTE & OTHER STORIES – Mark Twain
• 1893 – THE L 1,000,000 BANK NOTE – Mark Twain
• 1886 – OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI – Mark Twain
• 1876 – TOM SAWYER – Mark Twain
• 1916 – THE ALLIE’S FAIRY BOOK – Various
• 1932 – BLACK MISCHIEF – Evelyn Waugh

• 1938 – THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS – P.G. Wodehouse
• 1936 – LAUGHING GAS – P.G. Wodehouse
• 1927 – OTHERS ABIDE – Humbert Wolfe
• 1953 – A WRITER’S DIARY – Virginia Wolfe

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