FAMILY DANCING
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a collection of stories.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a collection of stories.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel, having previously published a successful book of poetry.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel, having previously published a successful book of poetry. INSCRIBED "from a distance" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Leithauser to the same recipient as the inscription thanking.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1950). First American Edition. hardcover. Review Copy, with slip laid in, of the first book by this Nobel Prize winner.
Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Levine's second book and his first by a trade publisher. Especially uncommon in cloth. Boldly SIGNED by Levine on the front endpaper. Increasingly uncommon, especially in this condition.
Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Levine's second book and his first by a trade publisher. Especially uncommon in cloth. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.
Middletown: Wesleyan University, (1968). First Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Levine's second book and first by a trade publisher, this being the softcover issue. SIGNED by poet laureate on the title page.
New York: Putnam's, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Levine's first appearance in a book, joined by George Starbuck, Robert Mezey, Tillie Olsen, and others. SIGNED by Levine on the title page. Uncommon.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: South Florida Poetry Review, n.d. First Edition. Wraps. Johnson's first book, a chapbook, selected by Philip Levine who has SIGNED this copy on the title page.
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on 15 July 1983 on the front endpaper by the author, perhaps better known as Raymond Carver's editor than as a fiction writer. This is his first book, a novel consisting of letters to Truman Capote from.....
New York: Grove Press, (1955). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Poet's first book, the copyright page stating, "This copy is reserved for Review." Indeed this book is from the library of a reviewer. Dustwrapper with some soiling and short closed tear at the bottom front.
Paris: Collection Merlin, 1953. First Edition. wraps. Wraps in self dustwrapper. Copy #46 of 300 numbered copies (of a total edition of 600) of the poet's first book.
Cambridge: John Owen, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in modern 3/4 chocolate brown morocco leather with gilt-ruled spine retaining the half title but not the original endpapers. BAL 12065. Second state with altered textual readings of pages (v), 18, and 78 but original reading of page 23. Longfellow's first book.....
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Lowell's first trade book after the very scarce limited LAND OF UNLIKENESS. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
[New Haven]: [Yale University], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Printed wraps, 5-1/2" x 6-15/16"; 4 pages with the title on the first page and the poem on the following three pages. First edition of the author’s first separately published work. About 600 copies were printed and distributed to the Class Day.....
New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy in self-wrappers identical to the first issue dustwrapper of Mailer's impressive first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Uncommon state of this important book, downright scarce when signed.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, basis for the 1968 Sidney Lumet film BYE BYE BRAVERMAN.
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book of fiction, nominated for a number of awards and winner of the Hemingway Foundation Award. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page.
New York: Harper & Row, (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book of fiction, nominated for a number of awards and winner of the Hemingway Foundation Award. Dustwrapper blurb by Raymond Carver.
New York: Random House, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first book, especially uncommon in this hardcover issue.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, the issue bound in full green cloth, no priority known.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. The second issue of three with edges trimmed smooth. There was no American edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half title page incorporating the printed title of the book in the inscription: "These are quite the author's/first stories &.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel and second book, published when she was 27. An examination of motherhood.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in light tan wraps. Southern author's first book.