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

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

New York: Prentice-Hall, [1947]. First edition of the AUTHOR's FIRST BOOK. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Indifferent Children. By Anthony Lee

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

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

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...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down

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

London: W. H. Allen, 1977. First English edition of author's first book. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO ROBIN WINKS. Inscribed by Richard L. Boyer, on the title page, to Edgar Award winning author, Robin Winks: "For Robin Winks- With appreciation, and all Best Wishes! X-Mas, 1985. Rick Boyer" [Robin Winks..... Read More about The Giant Rat of Sumatra

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Read More about Poems

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

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852. First American edition of author's first novel. Issued as Library of Select Novels No. 164. A novel, set in Ireland, about a young girl "placed in difficult circumstances." Edwina Jane Burbury (1818–1870), wife of Thomas Potter Burbury, was from the West Midlands, England..... Read More about Florence Sackville; or, Self-Dependence. An Autobiography by Mrs. Burbury