Category Archives: Rare Books

Hiawatha: Gifted from Grace Hemingway to Ernest

Pictured: Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maynard’s English Classic Series (#218-219) “Listen to this simple story, [...]

The Song of the World: Gifted from Thomas Wolfe to Sherwood Anderson

Before discussing the singularity of this particular copy of Jean Giono’s The Song of the [...]

First, Signed Edition: West-Running Brook

West-Running Brook is a collection of poetry written by Robert Frost. It was first published in [...]

First, Signed Edition: The Cocktail Party

When you think of T.S. Eliot, do you think of The Waste Land or “The Love Song [...]

The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay Dying Signed Edition

Published just short of a year apart, William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury was published 7 [...]

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First Editions: Virginia Woolf

The Queen of Modernism, Virginia Woolf (born Adeline Virginia Stephen), wrote and published more work [...]

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The Rare Book Collection at a Glance

My collection of rare books began in July 2019. My father and I planned a [...]

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