SIGNED COPY, IN DUST JACKET
Mr. Pope and Other Poems
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. First edition, first printing (with page 33/34 tipped in, printing Tate's... Read More about Mr. Pope and Other Poems
Price: $2,000
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The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies
Those Not Elect.
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1925. First Edition, one of 10 signed copies on Ingres paper not for sale. The Author's First Book -- One of 10 Copies. The rare signed issue of the author's first book -- unrecorded by our only bibliographical resource: Bruccoli - Clark's First Printings of..... Read More about Those Not Elect
Price: $750
First edition of Nelson Algren's first book inscribed by the author to Matthew Monahan of Gotham Book Mart
Somebody in Boots.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. First edition of Nelson Algren's first book inscribed by the author to Matthew Monahan of Gotham Book Mart. Ed Landberg was the founder of the Berkeley Cinema Guild and Studio in Berkeley California in the late 1950s, during which he was partners..... Read More about Somebody in Boots
Price: $1,750
Vault of the Ages.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [1952]. First edition. Handsome copy of Anderson’s first book. Read More about Vault of the Ages
Price: $150
His First Book
Windy McPherson's Son.
New York: John Lane, 1916. First Edition. His First Book. Anderson's first book, dedicated “To the living men and women of my own Middle Western home town”. Read More about Windy McPherson's Son
Price: $450
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain.
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 about Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
Price: $300
Arnold's Debut, Inscribed
Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, June XII, MDCCCXL.
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
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FIRST BOOK
The Indifferent Children. By Anthony Lee.
New York: Prentice-Hall, [1947]. First edition of the AUTHOR's FIRST BOOK. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Indifferent Children. By Anthony Lee
Price: $225
Author's First Book
The Frog Prince and Other Poems.
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" Author's First Book. First book by the poet, who later adopted the pseudonym, "Gabriel Fielding" Read More about The Frog Prince and Other Poems
Price: $250
Quatrefoil.
London: Vision. New York Wehman Bros, [1957]. First English edition. Gay novel. Read More about Quatrefoil
Price: $150
First Book
The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama.
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition, #66 of 100 copies. First Book. Read More about The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama
Price: $300
The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull, the Clothier. In a Series of...
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 about The Foresters, An American Tale: Being a Sequel to the History of John Bull, the Clothier. In a...
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Of All Things.
New York: Henry Holt, 1921. First edition, without ads. Read More about Of All Things
Price: $150
The Journey Down.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
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INSCRIBED
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1956]. Shahn, Ben. First edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the ffep "To George Peterson with every good wish of John Berryman Bread Loaf Aug. '62." Read More about Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Price: $1,250
Bishop's first book, signed
North & South.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1946]. First edition, second printing, one of 500 copies. Bishop's first book, signed. 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..... Read More about North & South
Price: $4,500
FIRST BOOK OF BODENHEIM AND BEN HECHT
Minna and Myself.
New York: Pagan Publishing Co, 1918. First edition, second issue. FIRST BOOK OF BODENHEIM AND BEN HECHT. 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..... Read More about Minna and Myself
Price: $250
Second Book
The Delicate Prey.
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Second Book. Read More about The Delicate Prey
Price: $400
AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO ROBIN WINKS
The Giant Rat of Sumatra.
London: W. H. Allen, 1977. First English edition of author's first book. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED TO ROBIN WINKS. 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..... Read More about The Giant Rat of Sumatra
Price: $400
Poems.
London: Basil Montagu Pickering 196 Piccadilly W, 1873. First edition of the Author's First book. Read More about Poems
Price: $400
Stamp Help Out And Other Short Stories. The Pot Smoker.
New York: (Self-Published), 1961. First edition, second issue with overstruck obscenities. Read More about Stamp Help Out And Other Short Stories. The Pot Smoker
Price: $500
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail.
[Eureka]: Hearse Press, [n.d., 1960]. First edition of the author’s first book. Fifth in the Hearse chapbooks series. RARE. Read More about Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail
Price: $7,500
His First Novel, in Boards
Falkland.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First Edition of the author’s first novel. His First Novel, in Boards. Read More about Falkland
Price: $1,250
Florence Sackville; or, Self-Dependence. An Autobiography by Mrs. Burbury.
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 about Florence Sackville; or, Self-Dependence. An Autobiography by Mrs. Burbury
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First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin
Price: $250