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Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems.
Boston: Loring, Publisher Corner Bromfield and Washington Streets. Printers Rockwell & Churchill, [1875]. First edition of the author’s first book of verse. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf, "Mrs. Maria Brown/ from the author/ Dec. 25, 1875" Read More
Price: $2,500
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
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
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
Price: $225
“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. “Straw that broke the back of Webster & Co.”. BACHELLER'S FIRST BOOK INSCRIBED. With a long inscription on the front blank reading“This is my first trial at writing a longish tale. There were only seven hundred... Read More
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
Price: $250
The Life of P. T. Barnum Written by Himself.
New York: Redfield, 110 and 112 Nassau Street, 1855. First edition of Barnum's first book. Read More
Price: $250
Quatrefoil.
London: Vision. New York Wehman Bros, [1957]. First English edition. Gay novel. Read More
Price: $150
The Journey Down.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More
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
Price: $4,000
First Novel, Inscribed to WEIRD TALES
The Scarf.
New York: Dial Press, 1947. First edition of Author's first novel. First Novel, Inscribed to WEIRD TALES. First novel by the 20th-century giant of horror fiction, author of PSYCHO, inscribed on the flyleaf "To the Gang at WEIRD TALES - my favorite people at my favorite magazine | Robert Bloch... Read More
Price: $400
Second Book
The Delicate Prey.
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Second Book. Read More
Price: $400
First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More
Price: $250
Author's First Book, Inscribed to Bliss Carman, Deluxe Binding
An Ode To Harvard And Other Poems.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1907. First edition of the Author's First Book. Author's First Book, Inscribed to Bliss Carman, Deluxe Binding. Inscribed to Bliss Carman on the flyleaf, "Bliss Carman/ with acknowledgement / and best wishes from/ Witter Bynner/ July, 1907." The first edition of this book was issued... Read More
Price: $300
The Flaming Terrapin.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More
Price: $225
FIRST BOOK
The Anatomy Lesson and other stories.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. FIRST BOOK. Read More
Price: $275
JOHN QUINN'S COPY
Almayer's Folly A Story of an Eastern River.
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
Price: $2,500
Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River.
New York: Macmillan, 1895. Fisrt American edition, one of 650 copies. First edition , First Printing of the publsihed state, including three pages of ads. Read More
Price: $1,000
Riverston.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857. First edition, listed in ads as "Just Ready." Craik's first novel consists of three stories linked by the first person narrator, Scottish governess Honor Haig. Read More
Price: $1,500
AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL
The Secret of Santa Vittoria.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Advance Reading Copy. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Read More
Price: $100
First Book
Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. A Tale Written for and Read to the Children of the Unity Church Sunday School, Saint...
Saint Paul, Minn: Printed by the Banning Press…For Unity Church of St. Paul, [1891]. First edition of his first book. First Book. Scarce. Longtime minister of the First Parish in Cambridge and preacher for Harvard College, the author later wrote several well known and popular whimsical essays including “The Pardoner's... Read More
Price: $150
Davenport's First Book
The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an introduction and notes, by Guy Davenport...
Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More
Price: $200