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Rare Modern First Editions Books Rare & Antiquarian Books
Modern firsts is a category that attracts many collectors and to which a great number of dealers state a specialty, but there isn't a consensus on what is meant by modern firsts. Where does the modern era begin? Some in the rare book trade will set the starting point for modern firsts at the beginning of the 20th century, others push that date back a bit to the later part of the 19th century. Biblio marks the start of modern firsts as 1919, corresponding with the end of WWI.
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Signed by Salinger, J.D
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Salinger, J.D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Signed. Boston: Little Brown, 1952. A fine SIGNED copy...
$55,000.00
in our time by HEMINGWAY, Ernest
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Binder's glue stains on the endpapers, as usual, tiny chips at the spinal extremities, and slight bowing of the covers, an excellent, very nearly fine copy. Hemingway's second book, cop...
$55,000.00
Gravity’s Rainbow. by Pynchon, Thomas
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition of Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Herb Yellin- Regards, Thomas Pynchon." The recipient Herb Y...
From Raptis Rare Books
$42,000.00
In Our Time by Hemingway, Ernest
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. 30pp. First edition. One of 170 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece author portrait by Henry Strater, an American painter and fellow expatriate who became friends with Hemingway in Paris. This is the author's secon...
From Bromer Booksellers
$37,500.00
One Hundred Years of Solitude; Innocent Erendira; In Evil Hour; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor; Clandestine in Chile; Love in the Time of Cholera. . . by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
NY and Bogota: Harper & Row, Knopf, LEC, Grupo Editorial Norma (1968-2005)., 1968. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collection. 16 First editions all INSCRIBED: An outstanding collection of 16 first editions of the Nobel Laureate all variously INSCRIBED to the ...
From Thomas Dorn ABAA
$32,500.00
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE by McCULLERS, Carson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers soiled and worn, lacking the dustwrapper. Good in a Fine custom morocco-backed clamshell box. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author for George [Davis] "Who is my Best and Campiest Friend-- /A...
From Charles Agvent
$18,750.00
CAMERA OBSCURA. with DESPAIR by Nabokov, Vladimir
London: John Long, Limited, [1935] & ;1937] Two Volumes, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. London: John Long, Limited, [1935] & ;1937] Two Volumes, 1935. 1st Edition. Soft cover. [NABOKOV, Vladimir] NABOKOFF-SIRIN, Vladimir. CAMERA OBSCURA. DESPAIR....
$17,500.00
A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1947. First edition. Pink boards; virtually as new in dust jacket, unfaded and with no wear. One of the fabled Norman Unger copies, purchased new by Williams's friend, the book collector Unger, then wrapped and stored for 30...
$15,000.00
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather, Willa
New York: Knopf, 1927. First edition. One of fifty numbered and signed copies printed on Japan vellum. Original full cream vellum paper, gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. Slight mottling to the spine, but a bright and fine copy, in the publisher's green p...
$15,000.00
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, William
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and to...
$15,000.00
All the Sad Young Men by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with no damage to type on pages 38, 90 and 248; in a first state dust jacket with lips unbattered. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in b...
$14,000.00
ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES by HEMINGWAY. ERNEST
Charles Scribner`s Sons. New York. 1950. PRESENTATION ISSUE, PRECEDING THE FIRST U.S. EDITION. With Scribner logo and letter A on verso of title page. One of just 24 copies, each bound in dark blue buckram with gilt lettering and ruling to the spine. Hem...
From Paul Foster Books
£9,500.00
Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] by Orwell, George [Eric Arthur Blair]
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 First printing of the First British Edition, original light green cloth, spine lettered in red, in red dust jacket, with the publisher's price listed on the inside front flap, 312pp. Slight tanning to spine, else boo...
From Idler Fine Books
$12,500.00
Flash and Filigree; The Magic Christian; Red Dirt Marijuana; Candy by SOUTHERN, Terry
NY: Various. (1958-1967). The first four books by Southern -- creator of Dr. Strangelove and screenwriter of Easy Rider -- each inscribed by him to his friend, the bandleader, composer, and musician Artie Shaw. Flash and Filigree (NY: Coward McCann, 1958;...
$12,500.00
The Catcher in the Rye by SALINGER, J.D
Boston: Little, Brown. 1951. Salinger's classic first book, a coming-of-age novel that has influenced successive generations of young people with its adolescent hero's rejection of the "phoniness" of the adult world around him combined with the authentici...
$12,000.00
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