The Bikeriders
New York, London: Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan, [1968]. First edition. Life with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. Attractive copy... Read More about The Bikeriders
Price: $1,750
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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
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
FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO HIS AMERICAN PUBLISHER
Lovers in London.
London: Alston Rivers, Arundel Street, W.C, 1905. First edition of Milne's very rare first book. FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO HIS AMERICAN PUBLISHER. With a lengthy humorous inscription to his American publisher on the front free endpaper. At the request of Elliott Macrae (1901-1968), who published Milne's Pooh books in the..... Read More about Lovers in London
Price: $4,000
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
Price: $150
WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ
WALDO FRANK. A Study by Gorham B. Munson.
New York: Boni and Liveright, -1923. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ. Read More about WALDO FRANK. A Study by Gorham B. Munson
Price: $225
The Mystic Masseur.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1959. First American edition. The first American edition of Naipaul's first novel. Read More about The Mystic Masseur
Price: $250
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
Price: $2,750
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
O'FLAHERTY'S FIRST BOOK (SIGNED AND IN DUST JACKET)
Thy Neighbour's Wife.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First edition of author's first book. O'FLAHERTY'S FIRST BOOK (SIGNED AND IN DUST JACKET). Thy Neighbour's Wife' is an attempt to write a book about life in the Aran Islands from the point of view of a native..." (from the dust jacket). Liam O'Flaherty was born..... Read More about Thy Neighbour's Wife
Price: $1,000
Appointment in Samarra.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934. First edition, stated, of the author's first book, in first issue dust-jacket withe $2.50 price and "Recent Fiction" on back panel, with erratum slip. O'Hara's wildly successful first novel, the story of the disintegration of Julian English. "If you want to read a book by..... Read More about Appointment in Samarra
Price: $1,250
The Blossomy Bough. Poems.
New York: Published by Sheamas O Sheel thru the Franklin Press 124 West 19th Street, 1911. First edition, with eratta slip between pp. 108-109. First Book. Read More about The Blossomy Bough. Poems
Price: $75
The Types, Borders, Rules & Devices of the press arranged as a Keepsake.
Stamford, Conn: The Overbrook Press, 1934. One of 150 copies and the first book of the press. Overbrook Press acquired the hardware of the August Heckscher's Ashlar Press, as well as the services of designer/compositor, printer Miss Margaret Evans. Read More about The Types, Borders, Rules & Devices of the press arranged as a Keepsake
Price: $350
In the RARE Dust Jacket
Poems with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition. In the RARE Dust Jacket. First edition of Owen’s posthumously published first book. One of the landmarks of Twentieth Century poetry and unquestionably the finest collection of poems to come out of the Great War, including “Strange Meeting”, “Anthem For Doomed Youth”, “Dulce..... Read More about Poems with an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon
Price: $17,500
The Big Heart.
[San Francisco: Feraon Publishers, 1967]. First edition of the author's first book. This is van Peebles first book, attributed to Melvin Van, came from an article and a series of photographs taken by Ruth Bernhard. Read More about The Big Heart
Price: $250
AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HIS WIFE'S COPY
Giant Otto.
[New York: Viking, 1936]. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, HIS WIFE'S COPY. The first Otto book in which Otto and his master Duke leave their little French town for Africa where they fight off attacking Arabs Pène du Bois married Jane Michele Bouche of Manhattan, daughter of artist Louis Bouche..... Read More about Giant Otto
Price: $750
The Expressman and the Detective.
Chicago: W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 113 and 115 State Street, 1874. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Expressman and the Detective
Price: $200
The Owl Creek Letters.
New York: Baker & Scribner, 1848. First edition. Author's first book. Read More about The Owl Creek Letters
Price: $300
Heart Songs and Other Stories.
London: Fourth Estate, [1995]. First UK Edition of the author's first book. Signed on the title-page by the author. Read More about Heart Songs and Other Stories
Price: $100
PYLE' S FIRST NOVEL
Within the Capes.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. First edition. PYLE' S FIRST NOVEL. Read More about Within the Capes
Price: $250
The first book of The Queen's Shop
Undine and Our Sylvan World.
Brookline, MA: The Queen's Shop, 1906. First edition. One of 100 copies. The first book of The Queen's Shop. The Queen's Shop was a small private press and bindery run by Daniel Edwards Kennedy which published at least 4 books of which we know. Ransom, in fact, found only the..... Read More about Undine and Our Sylvan World
Price: $300
WITH SIGNED CARD FROM AUTHOR
Wolfville.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1897]. First Edition, first issue with “Moore” in perfect type on line 18 of page 19. WITH SIGNED CARD FROM AUTHOR. First edition of the author's first book With Signed card from author laid in. Read More about Wolfville
Price: $300
In What Hour.
New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about In What Hour
Price: $300
Author's First Book, Inscribed to Edmund Gosse
The Torrent and the Night Before.
[Cambridge]: Private Printed for the Author [by Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press], 1896. First edition of the author's first book. Author's First Book, Inscribed to Edmund Gosse. Inscribed on the title-page "To Edmund Gosse/ with the compliments of E.A. Robinson/ 12 December 1896." Read More about The Torrent and the Night Before
Price: $4,000
First Book
Forest and Stream Fables. By Awahsoose the Bear.
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..... Read More about Forest and Stream Fables. By Awahsoose the Bear
Price: $1,250