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... Read More about Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River
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New York: Macmillan, 1895. Fisrt American edition, one of 650 copies. First edition , First Printing of the... Read More about Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River
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New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about In What Hour
Price: $300
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co, [1886]. First edition. First Book. Fine copy of Robinson's first publication, an American sporting classic. Contains "The unlucky Bass", "The Foolish Fish" and "The Wise and Foolish Pike."John Kohn, of Seven Gables, back in 1972 came up with an approximate census of 8..... Read More about Forest and Stream Fables. By Awahsoose the Bear
Price: $1,250
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First edition of the author's first book. Roth's first book, comprising the title novella and five short stories. An immediate success, it won the 1960 National Book Award for Fiction. Read More about Goodbye, Columbus. And Five Short Stories
Price: $750
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First edition. The personal account of this famous black journalist who returned to his native south to make a 6000 mile tour and ask dangerous questions. His first book. Read More about South of Freedom
Price: $75
Oxford: J. Vincent, 1839. First edition of the author's first book. Presentation Copy. Ruskin’s first book, published while a student at Christ Church, Oxford, the Newdigate Prize poem for 1839."With J. Ruskin's kind regards" on the title-page. Read More about Salsette and Elephanta: a Prize Poem
Price: $3,500
New York: The Century Co, [1888]. First edition. The author's first and last book. He died at 26. Harris writes in the preafce: " ...Irwin Russell was among the first---if not the very first---of Southern writers to appreciate the literary possibilities of the negro character, and of the unique relations..... Read More about Poems. [Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris
Price: $150
np: nd [1904]. First edition of the author's first book. The first book by the Poet Laureate of South Carolina. Exceedingly rare. Read More about The Heart's Quest
Price: $1,800
New York: Appleton, 1869. First edition. SIGNED BY SANBORN ON THE PREFACE. Probably Kate Sanborn's first work, though we cannot be sure. Written anonymously with just the initials "K.A.S." at the foot of the preface, Ms. Sanborn has signed her name beneath the initials. This book was undoubtedly intended as..... Read More about Home Pictures of English Poets
Price: $150
San Francisco: City Lights[printed at the Press of the Villiers Publications, Ltd., Ingestre Rd. London], [1963]. First Printing. Sanders first book. Read More about Poem from Jail
Price: $175
Boston: Atlantic, 1975. First edition of the author’s first book. Author’s First Book, Inscribed. INSCRIBED on the title-page, “To George, John Sayles”. Read More about Pride of the Bimbos
Price: $350
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. First edition of author's first book. Read More about Forty Drawings. [Biography by Frank Kendon
Price: $550
New York: NAL, [1968]. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Lisa on the ffep Dec. 25, 1970. The author's first book. Read More about The Broken Place
Price: $250
London: J. & R. Dodsley, 1756. First edition, with half-title. "A treatise of fundamental importance for the history of English studies and the teaching of English, discussing all aspects of language-study, including grammar, rhetoric and elocution" (Alston)237714. Read More about British Education: or, the source of the Disorders of Great Britain. Being an Essay towards...
Price: $1,500
London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First English edition of the author's first book. Inscribed on title page "To Ian Bennett with best wishes on his birthday from Clancy Sigal." Read More about Weekend in Dinlock
Price: $250
New York: 1959. First edition, one of 1500 copies. Author's First Book. Read More about Heart's Needle
Price: $250
Baghdad: The Times Press Ltd, 1932. First edition. STARK'S FIRST BOOK. The scarce first book by one of the great twentieth century travellers, owned by a fellow resident of Baghdad, Edith Stewart. Born in Paris, brought up in Devon and Italy, Stark studied history at Bedford College, University of London..... Read More about Baghdad Sketches
Price: $1,250
London: Peter Davies, [1934]. First edition of the author's first book. This greatest of Australian writer's rare first book. Read More about The Salzburg Tales
Price: $350
Boston: Brown and Company 144 Purchase Street, 1899. First edition. With the first appearance of Wallace Stevens at page 28, "Vita Mea" which first appeared in the Harvard Advocate and here is its first and only book appearance. Read More about Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses
Price: $750
Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. First edition. The first book of author Patricia Storace, whose other works include Dinner with Persephone, a travel memoir about Greece; Sugar Cane, a children’s book; and, most recently, the novel A Book of Heaven. Since the mid-1980s, Storace has been a regular contributor to the..... Read More about Heredity
Price: $175
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1918]. First edition of the author's first book. Fine Copy in Dust-Jacket, Signed. Signed on the ffep, “Edward Streeter / New York June 27 1919” and below a drawing of a solider”s head, signed by the illustrator (“Bill Breck”).Streeter's first book and first in the..... Read More about Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie
Price: $450
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merril Company, Inc, [1951]. First edition. First Book. The author's first book. Read More about Lie Down in Darkness
Price: $150
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Second edition. In 1862, Ticknor & Fields bought 145 bound copies and 450 unbound copies directly from Thoreau, printed and inserted a new title page, and re-issued them. This is the scarcest issue. Read More about A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Price: $4,500
London: Duckworth & Co, [1912]. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about The Sea and the Jungle
Price: $250
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958]. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures
Price: $750
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958]. First edition. UPDIKE'S FIRST BOOK SIGNED. A signed copy of the author's first collection of poetry. Read More about The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures
Price: $1,350