First Novel, in Jacket, Inscribed
Appointment in Samarra
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition. First Novel, in Jacket, Inscribed. O'Hara's wildly successful first... Read More about Appointment in Samarra
Price: $15,000
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JOHN QUINN'S COPY
Almayer's Folly A Story of an Eastern River.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first issue, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110. JOHN QUINN'S COPY. John Quinn's copy of the first edition of Conrad's first novel. Conrad began this novel after an arduous command of the bark Otago. He worked on the manuscript... Read More about Almayer's Folly A Story of an Eastern River
Price: $2,500
Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First American edition. Uncommon first American edition of Conrad’s first novel. Read More about Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River
Price: $750
Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
New York: Macmillan, 1895. Fisrt American edition, one of 650 copies. First edition , First Printing of the publsihed state, including three pages of ads. Read More about Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River
Price: $1,000
Riverston.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857. First edition, listed in ads as "Just Ready." Craik's first novel consists of three stories linked by the first person narrator, Scottish governess Honor Haig. Read More about Riverston
Price: $1,500
AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL
The Secret of Santa Vittoria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Advance Reading Copy. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Read More about The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Price: $100
First Book
Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. A Tale Written for and Read to the Children of the Unity Church Sunday School, Saint...
Saint Paul, Minn: Printed by the Banning Press…For Unity Church of St. Paul, [1891]. First edition of his first book. First Book. Scarce. Longtime minister of the First Parish in Cambridge and preacher for Harvard College, the author later wrote several well known and popular whimsical essays including “The Pardoner's..... Read More about Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. A Tale Written for and Read to the Children of the Unity Church...
Price: $150
Davenport's First Book
The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an introduction and notes, by Guy Davenport...
Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More about The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an...
Price: $200
The Classic of Opium Addiction
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822. First edition. The Classic of Opium Addiction. First edition of the first part of De Quincey's classic, the author’s first book, the complete text of which did not appear until Boston, 1850. “Thomas De Quincey began using opium in 1802 and continued to use it... Read More about Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Price: $2,500
First book on television, signed by Baird
Television. Seeing by Wireless.
London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird. WITH THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT SIGNED BY JOHN LOGIE BAIRD. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless
Price: $6,500
An Alternative to Speech.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1986]. First edition. Lehman’s first collection of poetry, inscribed by the author to Tom Disch, science fiction author, poet, and perceptive critic: “For Tom, who remembers ‘Amnesia’, with love, David, 7 January 1987 New York City” Lehman is editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006)..... Read More about An Alternative to Speech
Price: $250
Welcome to Hard Times.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. Read More about Welcome to Hard Times
Price: $300
Sister Carrie.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. First edition. Dreiser's first novel, published by Doubleday, Page in 1900, over the objections of Frank Doubleday. Fewer than 600 copies of this edition were distributed, and subsequent editions were cut and bowdlerized. Read More about Sister Carrie
Price: $4,000
FIRST BOOK
The Lieutenant. A Novel.
New York: The Dial Press, 1967. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Lieutenant. A Novel
Price: $450
SIGNED
The Virgin Suicides.
New York: New Y, FSG. Uncorrected Proof/Not for Sale. SIGNED. Signed on title-page. Read More about The Virgin Suicides
Price: $150
Roar Lion Roar and other Stories.
New York: Random House, [1964]. First edition of author's first book. Read More about Roar Lion Roar and other Stories
Price: $100
East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems.
New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Company, 1893. First edition of the author’s first book. Fenollosa’s scarce first book, a poetic treatment of what he saw as the coming "synthesis of two continental civilizations … At the end of a great cycle the two halves of the world come together..... Read More about East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems
Price: $500
Presentation Copy
The Last Generation. A Story of the Future.
London: The New Age Press, 1908. First edition. Presentation Copy. Presentation copy of Flecker’s first prose fiction, inscribed on the half title “A.Y. Campbell d.d. James E Flecker” A.Y. “Archie” Campbell was a poet and scholar of Greek and a member of Rupert Brooke’s circle of friends in Cambridge. Fletcher presentations are..... Read More about The Last Generation. A Story of the Future
Price: $750
Fire and Wine.
London: Grant Richards, [1913]. First edition. Read More about Fire and Wine
Price: $250
AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK
Fire and Wine.
London: Grant Richards, [1913]. First edition. Printed by The Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Read More about Fire and Wine
Price: $250
Advance Reading Copy
The Day of the Jackal.
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Advance Reading Copy. Advance Reading Copy. A rare advance reading copy of Forsyth's first book. Read More about The Day of the Jackal
Price: $100
The Collector.
London: Jonathan Cape, [May, 1963]. First edition. Read More about The Collector
Price: $750
First Book by the Author of The Golden Bough
Totemism.
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1887. First Edition. First Book by the Author of The Golden Bough. Read More about Totemism
Price: $250
Seth's Brother's Wife. A Study of Life in the Greater New York.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition of the author's first book. State A. One of 3000 printed. Read More about Seth's Brother's Wife. A Study of Life in the Greater New York
Price: $300
Her First Book
The Other Paris.
New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1956. First edition of the author’s first book. Her First Book. Her scarce first book — a collection of short stories which first appeared in THE NEW YORKER. Difficult to find in a fine (or even or near fine) jacket. Read More about The Other Paris
Price: $250
FIRST BOOK
The Resurrection. A Novel.
New York: The New American Library, [1966]. First edition, first printing. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Resurrection. A Novel
Price: $300