David Brass Rare Books

The Battle For Stuart Little
E.B. White’s Stuart Little has sold over four million copies since its original publication. It is a classic of children’s literature. Bu...
- Stephen J. Gertz

Keats, Poetry, Death and the Imagination
In the summer of 1820, John Keats knew he was not long for this world. Tuberculosis was consuming him ("That blood is my death warrant. I must die");...
- Stephen J. Gertz

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Leaves of Grass�[And:] Complete Prose Works [ 00383 ]
WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass�[And:] Complete Prose Works. Boston: 1898. Large-paper edition. One of sixty copies for sale in the United States. Two large octavo volumes. Finely bound by Wh (Full description)
Price: $16,500.00

Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A [ 00541 ]
THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: 1849. First edition, first printing, of Thoreau's first book. Twelvemo. Original brown cloth (BAL binding variant (Full description)
Price: $19,500.00

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) [ 00568 ]
TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: 1885. First American edition, later printing. Octavo. Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered (Full description)
Price: $9,500.00

Farewell to Arms, A [ 00755 ]
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First trade edition, first issue, with publisher's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on p. [x]. O (Full description)
Price: $11,500.00

The Prince and the Pauper [ 01155 ]
[WILDE, Oscar]. TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens. The Prince and the Pauper. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. First edition, inscribed by Oscar Wilde "For Joe Mack / from his / friend / Osc (Full description)
Price: $25,000.00

Complete Writings [Paumanok Edition], The [ 00912 ]
WHITMAN, Walt. The Complete Writings�New York: 1902. Paumanok Edition. Limited to 300 numbered sets. Ten octavo volumes. Etched and photogravure frontispieces and plates. Publisher's three-q (Full description)
Price: $12,500.00

Spy, The [ 01193 ]
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground by the Author of "Precaution." New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1821. First edition. Twelvemo. Contemporary tree calf, (Full description)
Price: $26,500.00