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E.B. White - Charlotte's Web - First Edition Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - First Edition Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman - First Edition Robert A. Heinlein - Double Star - First Edition Frank Herbert - Dune - First Edition Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms - First Edition Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead - First Edition T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets - First Edition James Baldwin - Go Tell it on The Mountain - First Edition Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind - First Edition Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth - First Edition John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath - First Edition F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - First Edition J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit - First Edition Isaac Asimov - I, Robot - First Edition
Buying and Selling First Editions of the Classics of Literature

Top 25 Books to own of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
By James Cahill, owner of Quintessential Rare Books, LLC

  1. “The Hobbit” – J.R.R Tolkien
  2. “Fahrenheit 451” – Ray Bradbury
  3. “I, Robot” – Isaac Asimov
  4. “Dune” – Frank L. Herbert
  5. “Lord of the Rings” – J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. “Starship Troopers” – Robert A. Heinlein
  7. “The Time Machine” – H.G. Wells
  8. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” – Philip K. Dick
  9. “Foundation” – Isaac Asimov
  10. “Stranger in a Strange Land” – Robert A. Heinlein
  11. “Tarzan of the Apes” – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  12. “Slaughterhouse-Five” – Kurt Vonnegut
  13. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” – J.K. Rowling
  14. “Game of Thrones” – George R.R. Martin
  15. “Ender’s Game” – Orson Scott Card
  16. “The Dark Tower” – Stephen King
  17. “Wizard of Earthsea” – Ursula K. Leguin
  18. “The War of the Worlds” – H.G. Wells
  19. “Nine Princes in Amber” – Roger Zelazny
  20. “Ringworld” – Larry Niven
  21. “Forever War” – Joe Haldeman
  22. “A Canticle for Leibowitz” – Walter M. Miller
  23. “The Outsider and Others” – H.P. Lovecraft
  24. “I am Legend” – Richard Matheson
  25. “Man in the High Castle” – Philip K. Dick
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Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot - First Edition Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five - First Edition William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury - First Edition Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers - First Edition Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire - First Edition E.B. White - Stuart Little - First Edition Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises - First Edition T.H. White - The Sword in the Stone - First Edition F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night - First Edition John Dos Passos - The 42nd Parallel - First Edition C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - First Edition Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - First Edition James Joyce - Ulysses - First Edition Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are - First Edition A. A. Milne - Winnie The Pooh - First Edition