London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822. First edition. The Classic of Opium Addiction. First edition of the first part... Read More about Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Price: $2,500
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of..... Read More about Those Not Elect
Price: $750
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. First edition of Nelson Algren's first book inscribed by the author to Matthew Monahan of Gotham Book Mart. Ed Landberg was the founder of the Berkeley Cinema Guild and Studio in Berkeley California in the late 1950s, during which he was partners..... Read More about Somebody in Boots
Price: $1,750
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [1952]. First edition. Handsome copy of Anderson’s first book. Read More about Vault of the Ages
Price: $150
New York: John Lane, 1916. First Edition. His First Book. Anderson's first book, dedicated “To the living men and women of my own Middle Western home town”. Read More about Windy McPherson's Son
Price: $450
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford, 1936. The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone. "Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain arose from stories told to his own family. It draws on memories of the harbour at Ipswich and upon his liking for ships and the sea, and in its..... Read More about Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Price: $300
Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840. First edition. Arnold's Debut, Inscribed. The first edition of Matthew Arnold's first work, his Rugby School prize poem on the conquest of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric I in 410 AD. Unusual for a prize poem, the work was published anonymously and was not identified..... Read More about Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL
Price: $60,000
New York: Prentice-Hall, [1947]. First edition of the AUTHOR's FIRST BOOK. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Indifferent Children. By Anthony Lee
Price: $225
New York: Reynal & Company, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by the Sanora Babb. Sanora Babb (b.1907 - d.2005) led an interesting life. She was friends with William Saroyan, had an affair with Ralph Ellison, was a longtime member of the U.S. Communist Party and incorporated her own experiences of having..... Read More about The Lost Traveller
Price: $500
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1892. First edition of his first book. ‘the straw that broke the back of Webster & Co.’. BACHELLER'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED. With a long inscription on the front blank in Bacheller’s fine hand, reading “This is my first trial at writing a longish..... Read More about The Master of Silence. A Romance
Price: $175
Aldington, Kent: The Ditchling Press, Sussex, 1952. First edition of the author's first book. Number IX in the publisher's series, "Poems in Pamphlet 1952" Author's First Book. First book by the poet, who later adopted the pseudonym, "Gabriel Fielding" Read More about The Frog Prince and Other Poems
Price: $250
London: Vision. New York Wehman Bros, [1957]. First English edition. Gay novel. Read More about Quatrefoil
Price: $150
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Paris: The Hours Press, 1930. First edition, signed issue, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Samuel Beckett; author's first book. SAMUEL BECKETT’S FIRST BOOK. Samuel Beckett's first separately published work, published by Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press. Read More about Whoroscope. [A Poem
Price: $6,500
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition, #66 of 100 copies. First Book. Read More about The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama
Price: $300
Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1792. First Edition, first state of frontispiece (with £150,000,000); Blanck’s state A of footnote at p. 77. Belknap’s satirical allegory on the British colonies in America is “an allegory of the clearing out of John Bull’s wilderness, and incidentally of John Bull himself.” Belknap’s..... Read More about The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull, the Clothier. In a...
Price: $1,250
New York: Henry Holt, 1921. First edition, without ads. Read More about Of All Things
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
Price: $250
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1956]. Shahn, Ben. First edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the ffep "To George Peterson with every good wish of John Berryman Bread Loaf Aug. '62." Read More about Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Price: $1,250
New York: Pagan Publishing Co, 1918. First edition, second issue. FIRST BOOK OF BODENHEIM AND BEN HECHT. The first edition of Bodenheim's first book and of author Ben Hecht's as well, having collaborated on the second half of this little volume, entitled "The Master Poisoner" [the point determining the first..... Read More about Minna and Myself
Price: $250
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Second Book. Read More about The Delicate Prey
Price: $400
London: Basil Montagu Pickering 196 Piccadilly W, 1873. First edition of the Author's First book. Read More about Poems
Price: $400
[New York]: New Directions, [1952]. First Edition of the author's first book. Read More about Who walk in Darkness
Price: $50
New York: (Self-Published), 1961. First edition, second issue with overstruck obscenities. Read More about Stamp Help Out And Other Short Stories. The Pot Smoker
Price: $500
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First Edition of the author’s first novel. His First Novel, in Boards. Read More about Falkland
Price: $1,250
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1947]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Gallery
Price: $150