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Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. First Edition. Wraps. Advance Copy of her acclaimed first book consisting of bound signatures. SIGNED by Gibbons on the title page.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. First Edition. Wraps. Advance Copy of her acclaimed first book consisting of bound signatures. SIGNED by Gibbons on the title page.
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowery Press) preceding the.....
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1986). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Poet's impressive first full-length book of which apparently only 750 copies were bound in hardcover. There was a Windhover Press publication with the same title published four years earlier. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "with best wishes/and excellent auguries" on the title.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. Virginia author's first book, a novel published anonymously. This in the first state binding with no name on the spine.
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Godwin's first book, briefly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. First book, a collection of stories, by this acclaimed writer.
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1958. First American Edition. Wraps. Second state of the wrappers of this, Gunn's first book published in America, limited to 1500 copies.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Acclaimed writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Dustwrapper blurbs by Mary Robison and Charles Johnson.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. His first novel, made into a film.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography and first book by one of our greatest songwriters, author of this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." This title, quite scarce in the first edition, especially in dustwrapper, served as the basis for.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography and first book by one of our greatest songwriters, author of this country's unofficial national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." Quite scarce in the first edition, especially in a dustwrapper, this title served as the basis.....
n.p. (Samuel R. Delaney), (1967). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Twenty-six mimeographed 8-1/2" x 11" pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE, which won the National Book Award--by seven years. Published by Hacker's then-husband.....
Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Advocate, 1955. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Stiff wraps with a blue printed dustwrapper. Hall's first collection of poetry published in the United States, issued as Volume I, Number I of the Pegasus Publication Series. SIGNED by the poet on the title page.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, and well deserving of it.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel.
San Francisco/New York: A. Roman and Company/W. J. Widdleton, 1866. First Edition. Twentieth century 3/4 navy morocco binding signed by Blackwell. BAL 7238: Form A or B. Harte's first book, an anthology of poetry edited anonymously by him. Contributors include Ina Coolbrith and Charles W. Stoddard.
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. The naturalist writer's first book, a collection of poems. Hay is the grandson of Abraham Lincoln's secretary, John Hay.
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. The naturalist writer's first book, a collection of poems. Hay is the grandson of Abraham Lincoln's secretary, John Hay.
Seattle, WA: Madrona Publishers, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first "serious novel," after publishing a suspense novel, CLOSE HIS EYES.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Stories Reconstructed from the Anvari-Soheill, Baital, Pachisi, Mahabharata, Pantchatantra, Gulistan, Talmud, Kalewala, etc. Blue-green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gilt. BAL 7912. First issue of author's first book, preceded by a translation. Housed in a half.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 750 numbered and SIGNED copies of this classic with a new preface by Heller. Published in 1994 to coincide with the publication of its sequel, CLOSING TIME, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original publication.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Helprin's first book, a collection of stories. He later went on to write A WINTER'S TALE and to serve as a foreign policy advisor and speechwriter to presidential candidate Bob Dole.
1970. First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed wraps. A poem, with six drafts reproduced, from his first book published the same year. A fine copy, though folded, of the dustwrapper for that book, DEPTH OF FIELD, is inserted.
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh, 1990. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in dark yellow wraps. Author's first collection of short stories, winner of the Drue Heinz Prize chosen by Russell Banks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive copy of the author's first book, a novel about the circus, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.