Rugby: Combe and Crossley, 1840. First edition. Arnold's Debut, Inscribed. 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..... Read More about Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Read More about Poems

New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Capote's First Book. The celebrated author's first book. Read More about Other Voices, Other Rooms

Melbourne: Clarson, Massina, and Co., Printers and Publishers, 1869. First edition of author’s first novel. The first novel from the bohemian Australian writer Marcus Clarke, author of perhaps the greatest Australian novel, HIS NATURAL LIFE, and “a pioneer in the development of the Australian short story and … a shrewd..... Read More about Long Odds. A Novel

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first issue, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110. JOHN QUINN'S COPY. John Quinn's copy of the first edition of Conrad's first novel. Conrad began this novel after an arduous command of the bark Otago. He worked on the manuscript..... Read More about Almayer's Folly A Story of an Eastern River

London: William Heinemann, 1906. First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the successful first novel by the former potter and stained-glass designer William de Morgan. With a tipped-in autograph letter signed ("Wm De Morgan") to editor Perriton Maxwell, dated August 16, 1915, reading in part, "Did you..... Read More about Joseph Vance. An Ill-Written Autobiography

Cape Town: C. Struik (Pty) Ltd, 1973. First edition of photographer's first book. Goldblatt achieves a masterful balance between pretty abstraction and biting social commentary in his first monograph, a three-part study of the gold mines of his native South Africa. With a 7 pp. essay by compatriot Nadine Gordimer..... Read More about On the Mines

New York: Norton, [1977]. First edition. GOULD'S FIRST BOOK, WITH THANK YOU LETTER FOR BLURB. First book by Gould, with the ownership signature of Ashley Montagu on the front flyleaf. Montagu’s blurb is at the top of the back cover: “Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most brilliant of..... Read More about Ever Since Darwin. Reflections in Natural History

London: The Poetry Bookshop 35, Devonshire Street, 1916 [but 1917]. First edition, second printing of Graves' first book. Author's First Book. Read More about Over the Brazier

London: Greening & Co, 1898. First edition of the Author's first Book. Read More about The Hypocrite

New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of the author's first book. First book. Read More about Setting Free the Bears

Lahore: Civil and Military Press Gazette, 1886. First Edition of Kipling's first published book. The first edition of Kipling’s first published work. Kipling was made sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, an Anglophone newspaper in Lahore, upon his return to India after his time at the United Service College;..... Read More about Departmental Ditties and Other Verses

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..... Read More about Salt-water Ballads