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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
First Book
The House of the Spirits. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American Edition of the author's first book. First Book. Read More
Price: $250
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
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
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: $450
Second Book
The Delicate Prey.
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Second Book. Read More
Price: $400
The Present State of Music in France and Italy. Or, The Journal of a Tour through those Countries, undertaken to...
London: Printed for T. Becket and Co. in the Strand, 1771. First edition of the author's first book. First edition of Burney's musical tour of France and Italy. Burney was the famous British composer, music historian, and member of the Johnson circle, whose seminal General History of Music was published... Read More
Price: $650
First Book
Wake Robin.
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More
Price: $250
The Flaming Terrapin.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More
Price: $225
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. Conrad began this novel after an arduous command of the bark Otago. He worked on the manuscript intermittently over five years, nearly losing it during his time in... 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
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
Poems.
London: Printed for the Author, 1797. First edition of the author's first book. The first and only edition of the first book by the future bibliographer and founder of the Roxburghe Club, written at the age of 21 while he was an undergraduate at Oxford. According to Dibdin, there were... Read More
Price: $750
An Alternative to Speech.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1986]. First edition. Lehman’s first collection of poetry, inscribed by the author to Tom Disch, science fiction author, poet, and perceptive critic: “For Tom, who remembers ‘Amnesia’, with love, David, 7 January 1987 New York City” Lehman is editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006)... Read More
Price: $250
Sister Carrie.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. First edition. Dreiser's first novel, published by Doubleday, Page in 1900, over the objections of Frank Doubleday. Fewer than 600 copies of this edition were distributed, and subsequent editions were cut and bowdlerized. Read More
Price: $4,000
FIRST BOOK
The Lieutenant. A Novel.
New York: The Dial Press, 1967. FIRST BOOK. Read More
Price: $450
SIGNED
The Virgin Suicides.
New York: New Y, FSG. Uncorrected Proof/Not for Sale. SIGNED. Signed on title-page. Read More
Price: $150