Inscribed by the author
From Here to Eternity
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Inscribed by the author. A tight copy of the author's... Read More about From Here to Eternity
Price: $1,600
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The Gallery.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1948. First English edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Gallery
Price: $100
First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin
Price: $250
Strange Fugitive.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). Reprint of the author's first book. Read More about Strange Fugitive
Price: $50
The Flaming Terrapin.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Flaming Terrapin
Price: $225
Observations. Comments by Truman Capote.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1959). AVEDON, RICHARD. First edition of Avedon's first book. Read More about Observations. Comments by Truman Capote
Price: $750
Other Voices, Other Rooms.
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing. The celebrated author's first book. Read More about Other Voices, Other Rooms
Price: $150
Capote's First Book
Other Voices, Other Rooms.
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Capote's First Book. The celebrated author's first book. Read More about Other Voices, Other Rooms
Price: $500
The Vengeance of Fionn.
Dublin: Maunsel and Co, 1917. First edition of the author's first book. Hugh Martin's copy and signed by him on the ffep. Read More about The Vengeance of Fionn
Price: $200
Poems on Various Subjects.
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796. First Edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, with half-title and ads. First edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, including Charles Lamb's first appearance in print. Complete with half-title, errata and advertisements. "Like Spenser he is..... Read More about Poems on Various Subjects
Price: $6,000
FIRST BOOK
The Anatomy Lesson and other stories.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Anatomy Lesson and other stories
Price: $275
First Book Mint
The Innocent Villa.
New York: Random House, [1948]. First edition. First Book Mint. Read More about The Innocent Villa
Price: $50
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, 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
Hips & Haws. Poems.
Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First edition, 167 of 500 copies of the 7th book of the Press. Author's first book of poems. Read More about Hips & Haws. Poems
Price: $150
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
FIRST BOOK, ONE OF 150
The Shadow-Eater.
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1915. First edition, one of 150 copies on hand-made Tuscany paper and signed by the author. FIRST BOOK, ONE OF 150. Read More about The Shadow-Eater
Price: $300
INSCRIBED
Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal.
London: 1902. First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED. Inscribed to Dr. Jacob Schwartz (bookseller) on the ffep. Read More about Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal
Price: $1,000
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..... 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