Rare and Antiquarian Books
Literature
Prose, poems and drama are some of the most lasting expressions of beauty to which humankind can aspire. What sort of literature charms you the most? Enjoy browsing the options below:
17th Century Literature
The plays of Shakespeare, the adventures of Don Quixote, Milton's epic poems, all put to paper in the 17th Century.
18th Century Literature
The Age of Enlightenment saw a range of great authors and works from the satires of Jonathan Swift to the lyricism of William Wordsworth.
19th Century Literature
A century of some of the greatest luminaries of the literary cannon. Dickens, the Bronte sisters, and even Alice in Wonderland!
20th Century Literature
The birth of the modern and post modern. These are some of the great works that shaped our love of literature.
Beat Generation
Before the hippies freed American culture from the strictures of 1950's, these individual thinkers formed a new path. Can you dig it, man?
Books into Film
Many of the greatest movies were great books before they came to screen. (The book is always better than the movie!)
Comic Books
Comic books have given unique voice to cartoonists since at least the 19th Century. Not always funny, comic books can be a way of communicating serious thoughts in an appealing way.
Dutch Language
The Netherlands was of the greatest colonial powers in history, and one of the greatest sources of art and culture, from Van Gogh to Louis Couperus.
Fantasy
Elves, fairies, unicorns and the worlds they inhabit...the doors of imagination opened wide to the possibilities of what could have been, or what could yet be.
Fiction of The West
Gunslingers, Sheriffs, big bad outlaws with big, bad mustaches...all the kitsch and grit of the American West in popular literature.
French Language
From Camus and Flaubert to great French works less known to the non-Gallic world. Great literature is best appreciated in the language in which it was written.
German Language
The land that created the Brothers Grimm, Friedrich Nietzsche and Goethe, to mention only a few of history's influential writers who penned their works in German.
Graphic Novels
When Speligman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, the mainstream world finally caught on to this genre-bending category where the narrative combines words with original art.
Horror Novels
Somewhere between dream and primal myth lies horror fiction. From the 19th centuries gothic horror works and the penny dreadfuls that they later evolved to until the contemporary works of Stephen King and Ira Levin that have lost us countless hours of sleep.
Literature
The dividing line between literature and "mere" popular reads is difficult to define. Usually only time will tell us when a book is ready to be added to this canon.
Modern First Editions
The first editions of the modern era strike a unique emotional connection.
Mystery
Cozy, hard-boiled, police procedurals and locked room mysteries. We have something to satisfy your inner detective...in the conservatory, with a lead pipe.
Poetry
Publishers typically report that poetry represents less than 1% of new book sales. That makes poetry one of the scarcest genre of collectible literature!
Radical Literature
The manifestos and journals of the thinkers that agitate for change.
Romance Fiction
The roots of romance fiction extend into the 18th century. Without Jane Austen there would be no Harelequin Romances. Explore love and literature in this collection of the best in Romance Fiction.
Russian Language
Nabokov was said "I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian language for a second-rate brand of English". Here are great works in their original form.
Science Fiction
"Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change." ~ David Brin
Spanish Language
Cervantes and El Cid to Octavio Paz and Che Guevara. From the Yucatan to Catalonia. The greatest works written in the Spanish language.
The Inklings
Imagine the conversations that JRR Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and other luminaries of fantasy had when they met at Oxford in the 1930's and 40's!
