AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK
A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE: A Profile of William Warren Bradley.
New York: Farrar, Straus, (1965). First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Illustrated with photographs of Bradley in action as "the greatest player in the history of the Ivy League." INSCRIBED BY THE FUTURE SENATOR, "For ---- Thanks. Bill Bradley". Bright and near fine in dust jacket with..... Item #54674 More
TROPIC OF CANCER.
New York: Medusa, 1940. First U.S. edition -- albeit an unauthorized one -- of Miller's first and most famous book. One of only 1000 copies in the first-issue binding of light green linen boards with gilt spine lettering. According to Shifreen & Jackson, an overrun of 200 to 500 unbound..... Item #52777 More
MY UNCLE DUDLEY.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1957). First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Cross country trip in the mid-1920s narrated by Dudley's nephew, The Kid, who recalls how his uncle recruits a group of seven passengers traveling east and uses their deposits to purchase a rattletrap car. Along the way, they..... Item #51957 More
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THE WOUND AND THE WEATHER; [Inscribed association copy].
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946). First edition. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED "WITH LOVE" TO COMPOSER DAVID DIAMOND. The National Book Award-winning poet's first book, written when he was just 24 years old, two short years before he was to become the longtime poetry editor at The New Yorker. INSCRIBED on..... Item #72096 More
THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1983). First UK edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Tiny nick in rear spine gutter, otherwise fine in dust jacket with tiny closed tear to front spine fold, and short split in front flap with tiny nick at top. Item #15869 More
THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.
New York: Summit Books, (1987). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL, preceded only by two translations from North Canadian Algonquin languages. Uncorrected proofs. Near fine in light blue paperwraps with background of spine and top edge of rear panel very slightly faded. Item #33811 More
WISE BLOOD.
London: Neville Spearman, (1955). First UK edition of the author's first book. One of the best and strongest southern writers, in our opinion. Endpapers a trifle dark and about an inch of an offset line on half title page, otherwise fine in an unchipped dust jacket showing a little age..... Item #40357 More
CHILD OF SILENCE.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1993). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "To . . . 'There is nothing [underlined] but reality!' Abigail Padgett/ 7 May, 1994." Fine with small remainder mark on bottom page edges; in a bright dust jacket. Item #34341 More
A SHORT HISTORY OF A SMALL PLACE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First edition. His first book. SIGNED by Pearson on front endpaper. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #56121 More
A FIRING OFFENSE.
(London): Serpent's Tail, (1997). First UK edition of the author's first book. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #42928 More
HOUR UPON THE STAGE.
New York: Dodd Mead, 1929. First edition of her first book. A novel about a Jewish family's progress in the early 20th century along the coast of Lake Michigan, where the author grew up. Fine in very good price-clipped Arthur Hawkins dust jacket with few relatively small chips. Quite scarce..... Item #46344 More
CHINA TRADE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). First edition. Her first book. Featuring New York private eye Lydia Chin and her sometime partner Bill Smith. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #51469 More
KINDERGARTEN.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of only two novels to be published in his lifetime--25 years apart. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for the "best work of imaginative literature," the oldest literary award in the UK. Fine in a very good..... Item #40297 More
THE AFFAIR IS ALL.
London: Kozmik Press Centre, (1976). First edition. SIGNED, dated, and numbered "106/ 220." Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket with a few tiny chips and small closed tear. Item #42997 More
NIGHT-FLIGHT.
Paris: Crosby Continental Editions, 1932. First edition thus: the first English-language edition to be published in Paris. Number 7 in Careese Crosby's short-lived paperback series, "Crosby Continental Editions" published by her Black Sun Press. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert with an introduction by Andre Gide. 16mo cream-colored paperwraps..... Item #71901 More
A FEW LAST WORDS.
(New York): The MacMillan Company, (1970). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Gilt spine lettering a little rubbed and rear cover somewhat soiled, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with light soiling, slight wear to head of spine, a light crease in front flap and a closed tear..... Item #30444 More
THE PRIDE OF THE BIMBOS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1975). First edition of the filmmaker's first book. The story of a five-man traveling softball team that plays in drag. Fine in dust jacket with the author's name in red on spine faded but still readable. Item #36052 More
WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN?
New York: Random House, (1941). First edition. His first and most famous book. Novel based on his father's life, made into the long-running Broadway musical. SIGNED BY SCHULBERG WITH CRYPTIC "46-61-72" beneath his signature on back of a portion of paper torn from a form still retaining partial name and..... Item #54187 More
THE GRAVITY OF SUNLIGHT.
New York: Soho, (2000). First edition. Author's first book. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Item #46947 More
THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER.
London: W. H. Allen, 1959. First edition of his first book. Nine related stories including the title one which was the basis for the 1962 film of the same name with screenplay by Sillitoe. A poor Nottingham teenager with bleak prospects turns to long-distance running for emotional and physical escape..... Item #54092 More
DYING: An Introduction.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1967). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Fine in bright dust jacket with closed tear in rear panel (with tape repair on verso) and light foxing along flap folds and top edges of flaps. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper. Item #36198 More
DEATH TURNS A TRICK.
New York: Walker & Co., (1982). First edition. SIGNED BY SMITH. Her first book and first to feature San Franciscan lawyer turned sleuth, Rebecca Schwartz. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped otherwise fine; in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Item #54791 More
HEART'S NEEDLE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of only 1,500 copies printed. From the collection of Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, with his ownership signature on front endpaper. Fine in very good dust jacket with scant 1/8" chipped away at head of..... Item #53726 More
FLASH AND FILIGREE.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1958). First American edition of his first book. The first issue with book in full cloth (versus cloth and boards) and dust jacket with $3.50 price (versus $5.00). Fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket with two very small closed tears and tiny chips at top..... Item #47409 More