Adult Literature

Browse our curated collection of vintage adult literature and thoughtful philosophical reads at Latent Hart. Discover timeless classic novels, essays, and reflective prose handpicked for collectors and avid readers.

Vintage 1971 hardcover book The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carre on a plain background.
Vintage 1971 The Naive And Sentimental Lover By John Le Carre Hardcover Book
$30.00
Antique green hardcover edition of The Emphasized Old Testament Volume 2 by Rotherham with gold spine lettering.
1900s Antique Emphasized Old Testament Vol 2 Rotherham Bible
$50.00
Antique green hardcover edition of The Emphasized Old Testament Volume 1 by Rotherham with gold spine lettering.
1900s Antique Emphasized Old Testament Vol 1 Rotherham Bible
$50.00
Vintage 1949 edition of Keep Up with the World hardcover book with dark cover and gold spine lettering.
1940s Keep Up with the World Freling Foster Hardcover Book
$30.00
Vintage P. F. Collier hardcover book Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis with blue embossed cover.
Antique Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Hardcover Book
$35.00
Vintage Montgomery Ward hardcover book The Adventures of Gil Blas by Le Sage with green cover and illustration.
Antique Gil Blas Of Santillane Le Sage Montgomery Ward Hardcover Book
$35.00
Antique 1900 Alphonse Daudet Numa Roumestan Hardcover Book
Antique 1900 Alphonse Daudet Numa Roumestan Hardcover Book
$35.00
Antique The Manxman Hall Caine Hardcover Book
Antique The Manxman Hall Caine Hardcover Book
$40.00
Vintage Harper and Row hardcover book Roughing It Volume I by Mark Twain with blue cover and illustration.
Antique Harper And Row Mark Twain Roughing It Hardcover Book
$35.00
Antique 1902 The French Classical Romances hardcover book with green cloth cover.
1902 The French Classical Romances Edmund Gosse Hardcover Book
$35.00
Vintage 1945 Fun with a Pencil hardcover drawing book by Andrew Loomis with orange cover.
1945 Fun with a Pencil Andrew Loomis Hardcover Book
$50.00
Vintage 1972 The Films of Laurel and Hardy softcover book by William K. Everson showing classic cover photo.
1972 The Films of Laurel and Hardy by William K. Everson Softcover Book
$30.00
Front cover of an unused 1994 Bill Clinton and His Family paper doll book illustrated by Tom Tierney.
Vintage Bill Clinton And His Family Paper Doll Book By Tom Tierney
$35.00
1951 vintage Selections from The Messiah piano music book cover in solid royal blue with white text.
1951 The Messiah Selections Piano Book G.F. Handel Softcover Book
$25.00
1927 Schirmer's Library Salvatore Marchesi Twenty Elementary and Progressive Vocalises music book cover with local store stamp.
1927 Salvatore Marchesi Vocalises Schirmers Library Music Book
$25.00
1947 hardcover book spine for The New Can You Top This? Laugh Round-Up in black cloth with orange text.
1947 The New Can You Top This Hardcover Book
$25.00
Antique 1920s Helen's Babies hardcover book by Habberton with a red and black illustration of a person by a fireplace.
1920s Helens Babies by John Habberton Hardcover Book
$30.00
A vintage two-volume hardcover set of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes with torn dark green dust jackets
1967 The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volumes 1 & 2 Hardcover Set
$60.00
1983 vintage Kids' TV The First 25 Years book cover in light blue with retro black-and-white cartoon characters.
1983 Kids TV The First 25 Years Stuart Fischer Softcover Book
$30.00
Light green cloth vintage hardcover edition of The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles with blue mountain line graphic.
1950 The Enduring Hills Janice Holt Giles Hardcover Book
$35.00
Two 1999 vintage Royal Copley collector guide softcover books by Joe Devine showing colorful mid century art pottery
1999 Collector's Guide to Royal Copley Softcover Books 1 and 2
$40.00
Vintage terracotta cloth hardcover book spine for The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by The Viking Press
1953 The Short Novels of John Steinbeck Hardcover Book
$40.00
Antique blue cloth book spine for Henry James The Lesson of the Master with ornate gold gilt filigree detailing
1892 The Lesson of the Master by Henry James Hardcover Book
$160.00
1958 The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World hardcover book edited by Richard Aldington.
1958 The Viking Book of Poetry Hardcover Anthology
$35.00
Vintage 1959 The Catholic Missal hardcover book in red with a framed Last Supper inset image on the cover.
Vintage 1959 The Catholic Missal John P. O'Connell Hardcover Book
$40.00