INSCRIBED
The House of Breath.
New York: Random House, 1950. First edition of the author's First Book. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the half title "Good hope to Warren Lawrence/ William Goyen." Read More about The House of Breath
Price: $400
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Author's first book, Inscribed
The Young Assassins.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American edition. Author's first book, Inscribed. The first American edition of the first novel by this important Spanish author, inscribed on the half-title "A Marjorie (Graff) avec l'amitié de J Goytisolo Paris-Oct. 59.” It was originally published in Spain in 1954. Read More about The Young Assassins
Price: $350
The Young Assassins. Translated John Rust.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. FirstAmerican edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Young Assassins. Translated John Rust
Price: $100
The Little Tin Gods-on-wheels, or, Society in our Modern Athens : a trilogy after the manner of the Greek...from the...
Cambridge: Charles W. Sever, University Bookstore, 1880. Sixth Edition. Author's very popular first book which first appeared in the Harvard Lampoon as "The Wallflowers" in January, 1878. Read More about The Little Tin Gods-on-wheels, or, Society in our Modern Athens : a trilogy after the manner of...
Price: $75
The Female Eunuch.
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1971]. First ediytion. Read More about The Female Eunuch
Price: $50
INSCRIBED FIRST BOOK
Annals of the Five Senses.
Montrose: C.M. Grieve, nd [1923]. First edition of the author's first book. INSCRIBED FIRST BOOK. Inscribed , "to Gorham Munson with te compliments of the author October 1924." Munson was the editor of the literary review Secession (Spring 1922- April 1924) just before this was inscribed. Read More about Annals of the Five Senses
Price: $750
RARE FIRST BOOK
The Genius of Oblivion and Other Original Poems.
Concord, NH: Jacob B. Moore, 1823. First edition of the author's first book, with half-title. RARE FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Genius of Oblivion and Other Original Poems
Price: $750
Hardy’s Rare First Book
Desperate Remedies. A Novel.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. First Edition of author’s first book, one of 500 copies, with all half-titles. Hardy’s Rare First Book. Hardy's first novel manuscript was turned down by George Meredith, reading for Chapman & Hall, who advised him to write something with a more "complicated" plot, than the first..... Read More about Desperate Remedies. A Novel
Price: $14,000
Bresant. A Novel.
London: D. Appleton, 1873. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about Bresant. A Novel
Price: $150
Fanshawe, and Other Pieces.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876. Second Edition, first printing. Read More about Fanshawe, and Other Pieces
Price: $250
The Last Crusade and Other Poems.
Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1887. First edition. First edition of the author’s first book. Presentation copy to Showell Rogers, inscribed: “With the Author’s kind regards. Nov. 1886.” Signed “W. Showell Rogers Nov. 30th 1886” in pencil on the verso of the flyleaf. Read More about The Last Crusade and Other Poems
Price: $100
An unusually bright, crisp copy
Death of a Naturalist.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American edition. An unusually bright, crisp copy. Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, it launched Heaney's career, and is still considered one..... Read More about Death of a Naturalist
Price: $1,500
Nothing is Sacred.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First edition of author's first book. Read More about Nothing is Sacred
Price: $250
Langrishe, Go Down.
London: Calder and Boyars, [1966]. First edition. A fine copy of Irish writer Aidan Higgins’ first novel, the experimental Langrishe, Go Down. “The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and was later adapted as a BBC television film by British playwright Harold Pinter, in association..... Read More about Langrishe, Go Down
Price: $250
Signed
If He Hollers Let Him Go.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. Signed. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison..... Read More about If He Hollers Let Him Go
Price: $2,000
If He Hollers Let Him Go.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1945. First Edition of the author's first book. Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison to..... Read More about If He Hollers Let Him Go
Price: $550
Salt Air.
Dublin: Irish Bookshop Limited, 1923. Fisrt Edition of the author's fisrt book. Irish poet and theatre director Frederick Robert Higgins' first collection of poems. Higgins' circle of friends included many of the leading Irish literary figures of his time, including Yeats, Padraic O Conaire, George William Russell, Lennox Robinson, and..... Read More about Salt Air
Price: $250
SIGNED
Poems.
London: O. Rich & Sons, 12, red Lion Square, 1846. SIGNED. Contains Griswold's memoir (pp. xvii-xx) of the author from "Poets and Poetry of America." While including the contents of the 1836 "Poems" the following were added for this edition: "Departed Days;" "Lines Recited at the Berkshire Festival"; "The Only..... Read More about Poems
Price: $250
Author's First Book
Gipsy-Night and Other Poems.
Waltham Saint Lawrence Bershire: The Golden Cockerel Press, [March, 1922]. First edition, one of 750 copies. Author's First Book. With "seduce" on p. 36. Read More about Gipsy-Night and Other Poems
Price: $100
Juvenilia; or, A Collection of Poems.
London: Printed by J. Whiting, 1801. First Edition. Read More about Juvenilia; or, A Collection of Poems
Price: $1,250
Hurston's first book
Jonah's Gourd Vine.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1934. First edition. Hurston's first book. Hurston's first book, an autobiographical novel, tells the story of her father, John Hurston, as he and his wife migrate from Alabama to Eatonville, FL, the first all-Black incorporated town in America, where Zora Neale grew up. She published articles..... Read More about Jonah's Gourd Vine
Price: $4,500
First book
Setting Free the Bears.
New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of the author's first book. First book. Read More about Setting Free the Bears
Price: $900
Author's First Book
Cowboys North and South.
New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1924. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Cowboys North and South
Price: $300
Jack Brass, Emperor of England.
London: T. Pettit And Co, 1873. First edition of the author’s first separately published work of fiction. Read More about Jack Brass, Emperor of England
Price: $1,500
Author's First Book
Deephaven.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition, first issue, with “was” for “so” on line 16, p. 65. One of 1280 copies. Author's First Book. Attractive copy of the first book by Sarah Orne Jewett. Read More about Deephaven
Price: $550