Price: $2,000
New York: Mcdowell, Obolensky, [1959]. First American edition, first issue binding and dust jacket. A sharp copy of the first American edition of Achebe's first novel, now acclaimed as a masterpiece of postcolonial literature. Read More Item Details for Things Fall Apart Add to Wish List
Item #372123
Price: $750
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of American Authors. Read More Item Details for Those Not Elect Add to Wish List
Item #2579
Price: $1,750
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. At some point Matthew Monahan who oversaw rare books at Gotham Book Mart and Gallery maintained a close relationship with many of the writers the shop worked with over the years obtained the book and had Algren sign it Inscribed, at a...... Read More Item Details for Somebody in Boots Add to Wish List
Item #338553
Price: $300
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford, 1936. The first book written and illustrated by Ardizzone. "Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain arose from stories told to his own family. It draws on memories of the harbour at Ipswich and upon his liking for ships and the sea, and in its..... Read More Item Details for Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain Add to Wish List
Item #322599
Price: $60,000
Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840. First edition. The first edition of Matthew Arnold's first work, his Rugby School prize poem on the conquest of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric I in 410 AD. Unusual for a prize poem, the work was published anonymously and was not identified as Arnold's until..... Read More Item Details for Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL Add to Wish List
Item #305338
Price: $225
New York: Prentice-Hall, [1947]. First edition of the AUTHOR's FIRST BOOK. Read More Item Details for The Indifferent Children. By Anthony Lee Add to Wish List
Item #239028
Price: $250
Aldington, Kent: The Ditchling Press, Sussex, 1952. First edition of the author's first book. Number IX in the publisher's series, "Poems in Pamphlet 1952" First book by the poet, who later adopted the pseudonym, "Gabriel Fielding" Read More Item Details for The Frog Prince and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #217281
Price: $300
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition, #66 of 100 copies. Read More Item Details for The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama Add to Wish List
Item #323653
Price: $1,250
Boston: I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1792. First Edition, first state of frontispiece (with £150,000,000); Blanck’s state A of footnote at p. 77. Belknap’s satirical allegory on the British colonies in America is “an allegory of the clearing out of John Bull’s wilderness, and incidentally of John Bull himself.” Belknap’s..... Read More Item Details for The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull, the Clothier. In a Series of Letters to a Friend Add to Wish List
Item #321047
Price: $150
New York: Henry Holt, 1921. First edition, without ads. Read More Item Details for Of All Things Add to Wish List
Item #230721
Price: $250
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More Item Details for The Journey Down Add to Wish List
Item #227052
Price: $1,250
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1956]. Shahn, Ben. First edition. Inscribed on the ffep "To George Peterson with every good wish of John Berryman Bread Loaf Aug. '62." Read More Item Details for Homage to Mistress Bradstreet Add to Wish List
Item #316128
Price: $4,500
New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1946]. First edition, second printing, one of 500 copies. Signed by the author on the title-page. Bishop's first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. The publishers asked Bishop to submit a manuscript for the prize after reading her "Songs for a Colored Singer" in..... Read More Item Details for North & South Add to Wish List
Item #309185
Price: $300
London: Sedgwick & Jackson, 1920. First edition. Blunden’s first regularly published book. Read More Item Details for The Waggoner and Other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #369788
Price: $250
New York: Pagan Publishing Co, 1918. First edition, second issue. The first edition of Bodenheim's first book and of author Ben Hecht's as well, having collaborated on the second half of this little volume, entitled "The Master Poisoner" [the point determining the first issue of this book being 'Posner' instead..... Read More Item Details for Minna and Myself Add to Wish List
Item #54545
Price: $400
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Delicate Prey Add to Wish List
Item #216157
Price: $400
London: W. H. Allen, 1977. First English edition of author's first book. Inscribed by Richard L. Boyer, on the title page, to Edgar Award winning author, Robin Winks: "For Robin Winks- With appreciation, and all Best Wishes! X-Mas, 1985. Rick Boyer" [Robin Winks won an Edgar Award, in 1999, for..... Read More Item Details for The Giant Rat of Sumatra Add to Wish List
Item #333362
Price: $250
London: The Leadenhall Press, 1894. First edition of the author's first book. Read More Item Details for English Farming and Why I Turned it up Add to Wish List
Item #365019
Price: $200
Boston: Little, Brown, 1932. Advance Review copy of the Author's First book. "In 1925 she and her children accompanied her husband abroad to a diplomatic posting in Beijing, China. She returned to England in 1927 because of a sick child and began writing to supplement the couple's income. In 1932..... Read More Item Details for Peking Picnic Add to Wish List
Item #214425
Price: $400
London: Basil Montagu Pickering 196 Piccadilly W, 1873. First edition of the Author's First book. Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List
Item #322656
Price: $400
Chicago: Robert Packard & Co, 1929. This is the first book by the noted gay author who also wrote the 1933 novel Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. The novel is regarded as the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience in a...... Read More Item Details for Spider Kin Add to Wish List
Item #326950
Price: $500
New York: (Self-Published), 1961. First edition, second issue with overstruck obscenities. Read More Item Details for Stamp Help Out And Other Short Stories. The Pot Smoker Add to Wish List
Item #333225
Price: $7,500
[Eureka]: Hearse Press, [n.d., 1960]. First edition of the author’s first book. Fifth in the Hearse chapbooks series. RARE. Read More Item Details for Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail Add to Wish List
Item #352458
Price: $1,250
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First Edition of the author’s first novel. Read More Item Details for Falkland Add to Wish List
Item #210547
Price: $300
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852. First American edition of author's first novel. Issued as Library of Select Novels No. 164. A novel, set in Ireland, about a young girl "placed in difficult circumstances." Edwina Jane Burbury (1818–1870), wife of Thomas Potter Burbury, was from the West Midlands, England..... Read More Item Details for Florence Sackville; or, Self-Dependence. An Autobiography by Mrs. Burbury Add to Wish List
Item #333570