LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. This copy has a paper label on the book's spine marked "Editorial Library" and is in a proof dustwrapper which has only the front and spine printed, the rest being blank with occasional register marks. Additionally, laid in.....
[Durham]: Duke University Press, 1945. First Edition. Designed and illustrated with wood engravings by pupils of Clare Leighton. Styron's first book appearance with two short stories: "Autumn" and "The Long Dark Road."
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's acclaimed first book in the first issue dustwrapper.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. The less common hardcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page in the year of publication: "with deep gratitude/for.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, December 1866. First Edition. Wraps. Original printed wraps. Usually found, when at all, in the bound volume with other issues, this is very scarce in original wraps and notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his first book.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866-1867. First Edition. Wraps. Half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners. Notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his first book. Published anonymously in the individual issues, the story is attributed in the table.....
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970). First Edition. hardcover. Author's second book and first novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Acclaimed writer's first book, a story of a German SS soldier during the Battle of the Bulge.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Acclaimed writer's first book, a story of a German SS soldier during the Battle of the Bulge.
(New York): Sanctuary Books, (2004). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (12" x 9-3/4") bound in black cloth. First Limited Edition, copy #21 of 200 numbered and SIGNED copies with an original 8x10 SIGNED print laid in. Introduction by Ben Lifson. An impressive first collection of photographs, mostly of life in.....
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First issue of Wilder's first book, this copy in the red patterned cloth. Laid in is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full by the author dated 18 February 1941 on his personal stationary to a Mr. Ording returning some books.....
Murray, UT: Pharos, Spring 1945. First Edition. softcover. Pharos: Numbers 1 & 2. Playwright's first play and first book, a double number of this periodical in original pale blue-gray wraps with yapped edges printed in red.
Murray, UT: Pharos, Spring 1945. First Edition. softcover. Pharos: Numbers 1 & 2. Playwright's first play and first book, a double number of this periodical in original pale blue-gray wraps with yapped edges printed in red.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cream boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (3-3/4" x 5"). Williams's second volume of poetry, and the first by a commercial publisher, after POEMS, published privately in 1909 in a very small limitation. Pencil signature on the front endpaper and a......
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Contains 5 poems by Edmund Wilson and 7 by John Peale Bishop, predating their first book by 6 years.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969). First Edition. hardcover. His first book. Nicely inscribed in 1998: "Thank you for your gracious letter + your generosity in continuing to teach my work" and SIGNED by the author. Laid in is a 1970 letter from the publisher announcing this book as.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Popular author's first book, illustrated by him.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first trade book. This copy, as with all we have seen, has the poem on page 36 with a large printed X through it.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's very scarce first book, part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. This copy belonged to Wright's wife, Liberty, with her SIGNATURE at the top of the front free endpaper and below that.....