STARK'S FIRST BOOK
Baghdad Sketches
Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd, 1932. First edition. STARK'S FIRST BOOK. The scarce first book by one of... Read More about Baghdad Sketches
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The Summer Anniversaries.
Middletown, New Jersey: Wesleyen University Press, [1960]. First edition of the author's first book. First Book. Read More about The Summer Anniversaries
Price: $150
Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border Thirty Years Ago.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1860. First Edition. He was the Founer of British System of Popular Education. This is the first of his two novels, the second was Ribblesdale (1874). He wrote a large number of books and pamphlets on social reform including Public Education (1853), Four Periods of... Read More about Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border Thirty Years Ago
Price: $400
The Ink Truck.
New York: Dial Press, 1969. First edition. Attractive copy of the author’s first book, a comic novel of a small-town newspaper strike. Read More about The Ink Truck
Price: $150
Contemporary Notice of ”Tamerlane“
Specimens of American Poetry with Critical and Biographical Notices.
Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co, 1829. First edition. Contemporary Notice of ”Tamerlane“. A very useful and interesting work, containing biographical information and excerpts from the work of 188 American poets, including Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Scott Key, Sarah J. Hale, Richard H. Dana, William C. Bryant, Fitz-Greene... Read More about Specimens of American Poetry with Critical and Biographical Notices
Price: $900
The Under-wood. Poems.
New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1966. Three separate issues of the author's first book including 1 of 4 inscribed to the publisher. Three separate issues belonging to the publisher, Robert Wilson, proprietor of The Phoenix Bookshop. The copy in slipcase is signed by the author on the colophon, numbered by... Read More about The Under-wood. Poems
Price: $200
Beautiful Copy
The Slide Area. Scenes of Hollywood Life.
New York: Viking, [1959]. First edition. Beautiful Copy. Read More about The Slide Area. Scenes of Hollywood Life
Price: $250
Her first book
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. By a Lady of Philadelphia.
Boston: Munroe and Francis; and New York: C.S. Francis, 1828. First edition. Her first book. First edition of the first book by Eliza Leslie (1787-1858), the success of which would prompt her to write several cookbooks and domestic manuals, including Domestic French Cookery (1832), the House Book (1840), the Indian... Read More about Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. By a Lady of Philadelphia
Price: $1,500
London Lyrics.
London: Chapmnan and Hall, 1857. Cruikshank, George. First edition, one of 200 copies. Read More about London Lyrics
Price: $500
Sangschaw.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1935. First edition. Author's first book of poetry. Read More about Sangschaw
Price: $225
The Anatomy of Tobacco: or Smoking Methodised, Divided, and Considered after a New Fashion. By Leolinus Silurienses.
London: George Redway, 1884. First edition of the AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK. Machen’s first book, preceded by a pamphlet, Eleusinia. Uncommon. Read More about The Anatomy of Tobacco: or Smoking Methodised, Divided, and Considered after a New Fashion. By...
Price: $300
With a Document Signed Giving Elkin Mathews Publication Rights to 2nd Edition
Salt-water Ballads.
London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, one of 500 copies of the author's first book. With a Document Signed Giving Elkin Mathews Publication Rights to 2nd Edition. Signed on the flyleaf, “Mary E. Madox Rossetti/ 30 April 1904.” (Mary Madox Rossetti was the daughter of William Michael Rossetti). Laid into the... Read More about Salt-water Ballads
Price: $1,500
FIRST ISSUE
The British Mazdaznan Magazine. Vol I No. I. Jan.-Mar., 1914.
London: The Mazdaznan Publishing and Supply Co. Ltd., 86, Seymour Street, 1914. First edition. FIRST ISSUE. Mazdaznan is a syncretistic religious health movement based on Zoroastrian and Christian ideas with special focus on breathing exercises, vegetarian diet and body culture. It was founded at the end of the 19th and... Read More about The British Mazdaznan Magazine. Vol I No. I. Jan.-Mar., 1914
Price: $200
Angela's Ashes.
New York: Scribner, [1996]. First edition. Read More about Angela's Ashes
Price: $400
Biggity Bantam.
New York: Ariel, [1954]. First edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. McCready was married to Tudor at the time. Read More about Biggity Bantam
Price: $450
A Smuggler's Bible.
New York: Harcourt Brace and World, [1966]. First edition. Advance Reading Copy in yellow wrappers, as issued. Read More about A Smuggler's Bible
Price: $300
A Sense of Where You Are.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. This, McPhee's first book, is a non-fictional account of Princeton athlete William Warren Bradley. Read More about A Sense of Where You Are
Price: $750
Meredith's First Book, Inscribed to Frederick Locker-Lampson
Poems.
London: John W. Parker and Son, [1851]. First edition of the author's first book. Meredith's First Book, Inscribed to Frederick Locker-Lampson. Presentation copy of George Meredith's uncommon first book, inscribed on the title-page to the bibliophile Frederick Locker-Lampson (at the time Frederick Locke; he added the Lampson surname in 1885... Read More about Poems
Price: $1,750
FIRST BOOK
The Earth is Enough. Growing up in a of of Trout and Old Men.
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1989]. First edition. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Earth is Enough. Growing up in a of of Trout and Old Men
Price: $100
The Lyric Year. One Hundred Poems.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912. First edition, first issue. First appearance of "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read More about The Lyric Year. One Hundred Poems
Price: $150
Author's First Book: First Edition, Deluxe Signed Limited
Renascence and Other Poems.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917. First edition, deluxe issue, printed on Japan vellum, no. 3 of 15 signed and numbered copies. Author's First Book: First Edition, Deluxe Signed Limited. Millay’s first book in its rarest state, containing her most famous and enduring poem, "Renascence." Though limited to 15 copies, 17 were actually printed. Read More about Renascence and Other Poems
Price: $6,500
His First Book, Inscribed to His Mother
The Property of Harrison Gray Loyalist.
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1913. First edition of the author’s first publication. His First Book, Inscribed to His Mother. The renowned historian’s first book, offprinted from the Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. This copy is inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: “Mother, with much love, from..... Read More about The Property of Harrison Gray Loyalist
Price: $750
Author's First Book
The Wound and the Weather.
New York: Raynal and Hitchcock, [1946]. First edition of the author's first book. Author's First Book. Read More about The Wound and the Weather
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Rare First Novel
Loss and Gain.
London: James Burns, 17 Portman Street, Portman Square, 1848. First edition. Rare First Novel. The first work of prose fiction by the noted theologian, John Henry Newman (1801-1890), whose conversion to Catholicism in 1845 shook the Anglican church. A thinly disguised account of his conversion, Loss and Gain is the... Read More about Loss and Gain
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Kosinski's First Book, Inscribed
The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First edition. Kosinski's First Book, Inscribed. The author's first book, published pseudonymously as Joseph Novak, here INSCRIBED to Mrs. Alexander Knox ("from the author / New York January 1961") and with a 5 line Spinoza quote. Read More about The Future is Ours, Comrade: Conversations with the Russians. Introduction by Irving R. Levine
Price: $550
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 novel, rare enough in an acceptable dust jacket, here with a fine inscription on the flyleaf: "To Lorraine MacLean, in Bullock's Wilshire window. John O'Hara, Sept. 2, 1934" Read More about Appointment in Samarra
Price: $15,000