Gift Services
First edition books make very thoughtful and intimate gifts. To receive a first edition of a favorite book is the ultimate thrill for many, whether or not they are rare book collectors. As beautiful as they are historically significant, first edition books often become lasting family heirlooms for the next generation.
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Gift Suggestions
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Saunders, Louise (Maxfield Parrish, Illustrator)
The Knave of Hearts
Price: $2,000
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York, Edward Second Duke of [ed. Wm...
The Master of Game...The Oldest English Book...
Price: $2,250
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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Life on the Mississippi
Price: $3,500
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Proctor, Mary
Evenings with the Stars
Price: $1,950
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Hadfield, Elizabeth
Poetical Weeds
Price: $650
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James, Henry. Jim Dine (photographer)
The Madonna of the Future
Price: $550
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[Chapone, Hester]
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind...
Price: $950
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tales of the Jazz Age
Price: $750
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[Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet
Feats on the Fjord
Price: $650
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Jessie Wilcox Smith (illustrator)
In the Closed Room
Price: $650
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[Rackham, Arthur] Irving, Washington
Rip Van Winkle
Price: $650
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Cooper, Frederic Taber, Paul Bransom (illustrator)
An Argosy of Fables
Price: $1,100
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Hannon, John. Louis Wain (illustrator)
The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy...
Price: $850
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Dickens, Charles
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Price: $1,500
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Shakespeare, William
Shakespeares Pericles. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile...
Price: $850
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Mossman, Samuel
Gems of Womanhood, or Sketches of Distinguished...
Price: $475
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Montaigne, Michel de. (John Florio, translator)
Essayes
Price: $9,500
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Milne, A. A. (Ernest Shepard, illustrator)
When I Was Very Young
Price: $250
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Home, Esq., John
Douglas: A Tragedy
Price: $500
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Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a....
Price: $3,850
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Potter, Beatrix
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
Price: $850
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Brown, Olympia
Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers
Price: $1,850
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (in 12...
Price: $5,000
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Sheridan, Richard
The Critic, Or a Tragedy Rehearsed... [bound...
Price: $650
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Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Price: $6,750
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Fleming, Ian
You Only Live Twice
Price: $550
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[Kent, Rockwell]
Dreams & Derisions (Signed Limited Edition)
Price: $350
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Steinbeck, John
The Red Pony (Signed Limited Edition)
Price: $1,500
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[Sex Work] Montez, Madame Lola [Countess of...
The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of...
Price: $1,950
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[Lemon, Mark, editor. Hablot Knight Browne, illustrator]
Tom Moody's Tales
Price: $650
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Byron, Lord George Gordon
The Works (in 4 vols)
Price: $750
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Twain, Mark
Large Signed Photograph Portrait of Mark Twain
Price: $15,000
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Steinbeck, John
The Moon Is Down
Price: $800
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[Rackham, Arthur] Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
Price: $950
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[Rackham, Arthur] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
The Ingoldsby Legends
Price: $600
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Shakespeare, William
Shakespeares Lucrece. Being a Reproduction in Facsimile...
Price: $750
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Hemingway, Ernest
Across the River and Into the Trees
Price: $950
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Fitzgerald, Edward (translator) and Frank Brangwyn (illustrator).
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Price: $1,500
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Harris, Joel Chandler
Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings...
Price: $950
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Balzac, Honore de
La Comédie Humaine (in 40 volumes)
Price: $6,950
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Kent, Rockwell
N by E (Signed Limited Edition)
Price: $395
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Manly, William Lewis
Death Valley in '49
Price: $650
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[Rackham, Arthur] Merriman, Henry Seton
The Grey Lady
Price: $700
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Peet, Bill
An Autobiography (Presentation Copy with drawing)
Price: $1,250
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Shakespeare, William
Will Shakespeare. His Amatory Poems. The Sonnets...
Price: $850
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[Rackham, Arthur] Merriman, Henry Seton and S.G....
The Money-Spinner, and Other Character Notes
Price: $650
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Poe, Edgar Allan
Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination; and...
Price: $1,250
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Shakespeare, William
Shakespeares Venus and Adonis. Being a Reproduction...
Price: $650