A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Second edition. In 1862, Ticknor & Fields bought 145 bound copies and 450... Read More about A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Price: $4,500
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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
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
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
Price: $60,000
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
‘the straw that broke the back of Webster & Co.’
The Master of Silence. A Romance.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1892. First edition of his first book. ‘the straw that broke the back of Webster & Co.’. BACHELLER'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED. With a long inscription on the front blank in Bacheller’s fine hand, reading “This is my first trial at writing a longish..... Read More about The Master of Silence. A Romance
Price: $175
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
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...
Price: $1,250
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
Price: $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
Poems.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Poems was Brooke's first collection; his previous poetry having been written for school competitions and printed solely for private distribution. Brooke developed a fatal case of blood poisoning from an insect bite while anchored off Skyros; he died on 23 April 1915..... Read More about Poems
Price: $1,250
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
The Gallery.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1947]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Gallery
Price: $150
First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin
Price: $250
Strange Fugitive.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). Reprint of the author's first book. Read More about Strange Fugitive
Price: $50
The Flaming Terrapin.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Flaming Terrapin
Price: $225
Other Voices, Other Rooms.
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing. The celebrated author's first book. Read More about Other Voices, Other Rooms
Price: $150
Cather's First Book
April Twilights. Poems by Willa Sibert Cather.
Boston: Richard G. Badger/ The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition. Cather's First Book. First edition of the author's first book, and apart from the author's revised edition which she published in 1923, her only collection of verse. Read More about April Twilights. Poems by Willa Sibert Cather
Price: $2,750
The Conjure Woman.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1899. First edition. The author's first book, which consists of seven folk tales told African-American dialect. "A protégé of William Dean Howells, Chesnutt was one of the best of the early black writers of fiction.… He was one..... Read More about The Conjure Woman
Price: $3,000
Pioneering where the World is Old (Leaves from a Manchurian Notebook).
New York: Holt, 1917. Signed Alice Hobart on the title-page. This is her first book. Read More about Pioneering where the World is Old (Leaves from a Manchurian Notebook
Price: $150
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SCARCE FIRST BOOK
The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898. First edition, home issue (only printing), second state, with errata present and catalogue dated 03/98. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SCARCE FIRST BOOK. First edition of Churchill's first book. "When the attacks of Afghan tribesmen on the north-west frontier of India led to the formation of a...... Read More about The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War
Price: $7,500