New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, first issue jacket with Thomas Wolfe photo on back wrapper... Read More about Look Homeward, Angel. A Story of the Buried Life
Price: $6,500
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 American Authors. Read More about Those Not Elect
Price: $750
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 about Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems
Price: $2,500
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [1952]. First edition. Handsome copy of Anderson’s first book. Read More about Vault of the Ages
Price: $150
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
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
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
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
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
London: Vision. New York Wehman Bros, [1957]. First English edition. Gay novel. Read More about Quatrefoil
Price: $150
New York: Henry Holt, 1921. First edition, without ads. Read More about Of All Things
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
Price: $250
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: $4,000
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 about The Scarf
Price: $400
New York: Random House, [1950]. First American edition. Second Book. Read More about The Delicate Prey
Price: $400
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First Edition of the author’s first novel. His First Novel, in Boards. Read More about Falkland
Price: $1,250
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First edition. First Book. Read More about Wake Robin
Price: $250
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 about An Ode To Harvard And Other Poems
Price: $300
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 11 Glower Street, [1924]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Flaming Terrapin
Price: $225
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition, first printing. The celebrated author's first book. Read More about Other Voices, Other Rooms
Price: $150
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
Dublin: Maunsel and Co, 1917. First edition of the author's first book. Hugh Martin's copy and signed by him on the ffep. Read More about The Vengeance of Fionn
Price: $200
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. FIRST BOOK. Read More about The Anatomy Lesson and other stories
Price: $275
Published: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. MANUSCRIPT OF HIS FIRST BOOK. A wonderful archive, with a completeness to warm the collector's heart. Connett has heavily corrected his original typescript, which was originally titled “YOUTH AFIELD. A Guide for Young Sportsmen”. There are 8 pages of pencilled manuscript on pike... Read More about “WING SHOOTING AND ANGLING”. THE ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT WITH MANUSCRIPT PORTIONS,...
Price: $9,000
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
Price: $2,500