Books

Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books


1709 Northeast 27th Street, McMinnville, OR, 97128, United States (Map)
We buy, sell, and appraise a variety of materials, including early books, illuminated manuscripts and single illuminated manuscript leaves, fine and historic bindings from all periods, important illustrated books (especially from before 1800, including early science, medicine, and travel), British and American literature, the best of the private presses, and things that are otherwise unusual or uncommonly interesting.
A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens

1843 First Edition

The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck

1939 First Edition

The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer

1929 No 344 OF 485 COPIES on paper (and 15 on vellum)

Comedies, Histories and TragediesWilliam Shakespeare

No 11 OF 106 SIGNED SETS printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott paper

Haveth Childers EverywhereJames Joyce

1930 First Edition

PoemsLord Alfred Tennyson

1902 ONE OF 25 COPIES ON VELLUM (and 325 on paper)

Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe

The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & NubiaDavid Roberts

1855 Second Edition

Catch-22Joseph Heller

1961

The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde

1899 First Edition

PoemsJohn Keats

1901

Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell

1835

The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer

Seven Pillars of WisdomT.E. Lawrence

1935

Paradise LostJohn Milton

1905

Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell

1949 First Edition

PoemsLord Alfred Tennyson

1846

Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë

1993 No 14 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED by the artist

Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë

1993 No 15 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED by the artist

The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck

1939 First Edition

PoemsPercy Bysshe Shelley

No 25 OF 40 COPIES printed on Japanese Vellum

The Descent of ManCharles Darwin

1871 First Edition

Paradise LostJohn Milton

1758 One of 1,500 copies

The Dream of a Ridiculous ManWilliam Shakespeare

1895

Don QuixoteMiguel Cervantes

1818

Paradise LostJohn Milton

1759 Second Edition

Through the Looking-GlassLewis Carroll

1932 Each one of 1,500 copies

Lord JimJoseph Conrad

1959 No 254 OF 1,500 COPIES, signed by the illustrator

Just So StoriesRudyard Kipling

1902 First Edition

Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen

1891

PoemsLord Alfred Tennyson

1880

Don JuanLord Byron

1828