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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's brown cloth; eight pages of terminal ads in the second volume. BAL 13658. Melville's third book, issued about a month after the three-volume London edition, and his first major full-length fiction, a novel based on his.....
London: John Murray, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf leather with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-ruled spine with two matching gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels; xviii, 285 pages, no terminal ads with the half-title page present. BAL 13652: First Issue of page 19. Illustrated with a......
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. First book, a collection of stories, by the author of THE MEN'S CLUB.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with the typical browning to the paper though not as bad as usually found. The endpapers and pastedowns at front and rear have some foxing that does not enter the.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Tenth printing of Michener's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the actor who created the role of Capt. George Brackett in the original Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical: "To Martin Wolfson,/In a character.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with a very early INSCRIPTION dated 27 May 1947 SIGNED by the author: "Dear Jim,/The first serious writing I/did came your way. This one/had a better fortune, thanks to the/passing.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. hardcover. First book by the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. hardcover. First book by the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. hardcover. First book by the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. hardcover. First book by the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize.
Athens: University of Georgia, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a novel encompassing sex, dolphin communication, and the end of the world.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed beige wraps of Moore's second book and first novel. Descriptive sheet from publisher stapled to front cover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. hardcover. Advance Review copy of her first book, a collection of stories, with a review slip and publisher's announcement card laid in.
New York: Pantheon, (1998). Robert Bergman. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of.....
(Easthampton, MA): [Castalia Press], 1970. Barry Moser. First Edition. Loose Etchings. Folio consisting of 14-1/2" x 11" sheets including 4 text leaves and 11 pencil-SIGNED and numbered circular etchings. Copy #35 of only 35 of Moser's first illustrated book, SIGNED additionally on the colophon page. Housed in a cloth clamshell.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first Easy Rawlins mystery and first book.
New York: David McKay, 1965. First Edition. Wraps. Advance Reading Copy in printed blue wraps of author's first book, which was made into a film starring Liza Minnelli, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. With a long SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the author to editor Bill Targ.....
New York: McGraw Hill, (1960). First Edition. hardcover. Nixon's uncommon first book, a selection of his speeches compiled when he was Vice President. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to --- -- "With best wishes/from/Richard Nixon" and dated 8 September 1977. With the recipient's mailing label from Nixon with his printed free frank.....
New York: Summit Books, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards Author's first novel, nominated for the National Book Award. Blurbs by Peter Matthiessen and Barry Lopez among others.
Boston: Gorham Press, (1914). First Edition. hardcover. First book by this multiple Pulitzer Prize winner, perhaps the greatest playwright of the American theater. Atkinson AI-1-I: 1000 copies printed. This copy in the very scarce original white printed dustwrapper which has only minor soiling, a one-inch jagged closed tear to the.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Prolific author's first book of poetry.
New York: 8 April 1946. Letter. Exceptional two-page Autograph Letter of @435 words on two separate sheets completely in the hand of and SIGNED by Charles Olson to poet, editor, and librettist Ronald Duncan, a literary acquaintance of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. In part: "I have had [T.S.].....