New York: Viking, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page edge smudged, spine slightly cocked.
185 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. "In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine leans to the right.
323 pp. Author's first novel. A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings.....
New York: [Self-Published], 1962. First Thus. Soft Cover.
First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper.
The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting.....
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pages very faintly foxed. Jacket toned, rear jacket flap creased.
297 pp. The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.....
London: Penguin Books, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page.
255, [7] pp. Author's first novel. "Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her.....
New York: Gotham Books, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed.
212 pp. 8vo. First book by the writer of the screenplay for the Academy-Award-winning film Juno starring Ellen Page & Michael Cera. "Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Brazelton, Julian. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Includes scarce jacket. Jacket rubbed with some small chips and small tears to edges, front jacket flap clipped with price intact, edges a bit foxed.
341 pp. Illustrations by Julian Brazelton. "The author stepped almost directly.....
New York: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, corners lightly pushed.
viii, 530 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. "Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (stated, 6-84530 jacket code). Jacket edges rubbed.
278 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, adapted to the film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, which was nominated for numerous awards, and imprinted an unsettling new context.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. Du Bois, William Pene. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Binding a bit shaken but holding, edges rubbed.
[40 pp.] Pictorial paper over boards. Author's first book. A children's story written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, best known for The Twenty-One Balloons.....
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #39 of 50. Signed by author without inscription and hand-numbered on limitation page. Tiny sticker remnant on corner of front endpaper, otherwise an exceptional copy.
34 pp. 8vo. The first published work by the poet, travel and nature writer.....
Fayetteville, Arkansas: Lost Roads Publishing Company / White River Printers, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy.
46 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the author who won the National Book Award.....
New York: Dutton, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition.
viii, [2], 261 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Violet, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of.....
New York: Soho Press, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Author's first novel. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Ruth - Hope you enjoy the story. Stan Jones 6-28-99, P.S. Ronnie's not a bad kid!').
viii, 264 pp. 8vo. "An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo.....
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped, light scratch on rear jacket panel.
321 pp. Author's first novel. "FBI Special Agent Mike Yeager is in trouble. His most recent case---a child kidnapping, his usual---ended tragically, and the FBI has suspended him.....
New York: Random House, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges very slightly faded. Jacket mildly toned.
282 pp. 8vo. First book by the author of Charming Billy, which won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minimal wear to corners, small ink stamp on rear endpaper.
172, [8] pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and white checkerboard design on front board and spine. Norris's first book, Mother is in part a commentary against birth control.....
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
200 pp. Author's first book. A story of growing up in turmoil, rough house recounts a childhood divided between a charming, mercurial, abusive father in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and a mother struggling.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('With the respects of the author, Nigel Patten, Villar [?] Juillet '67.').
255 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. "Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia.....
Toronto: Park Row Books, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
301 pp. Author's first novel. "A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary… Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (green plush boards). Light stain to bottom third of pages, boards a bit rubbed, spine faded.
viii, [9]-239 pp. Author's first book, a collection of short humorous pieces, many written during his college years at Brown. Because.....
Indianapolis / New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by Mary Pickford on front endpaper. Includes new facsimile jacket. Spine titles rubbed with some loss of gilt, light 1/2 inch spot on top page edge, owner bookplate on front endpaper, light.....
New York: Grove Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very faint spots to top page ridge, ink stamp to title page, sticker remnants on jacket, jacket edges lightly bumped.
308 pp. First novel by the Tony-winning playwright. "In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908. Ralph, Lester. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Corners rubbed, spine leans forward slightly, endpapers foxed and edges a bit soiled with 1/2 inch spot on fore edge, ink name on front endpaper.
301 pp. Includes frontispiece and illustrations by Lester Ralph, as.....
New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy.
viii, 338 pp. Author's first novel. "Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of.....