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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. His second book and first novel, only 5000 copies in the first printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. His second book and first novel, only 5000 copies in the first printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy with publisher's insert laid in of his first book.
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Full brown leather with gilt decorations. Edited by Joseph Blotner. Illustrated with a color portrait of Faulkner. Precedes the trade edition.
Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1932. First Edition. hardcover. Preface by Archibald MacLeish. With six poems by Faulkner, including "My Epitaph," as well as poems by Hart Crane, Harry Crosby, Kay Boyle, and others. One of 500 numbered copies, this lacking the glassine.
New York: The Dial Press, 1952. First Edition. hardcover. An important and scarce Civil War novel, uncommon in the first printing.
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, (1987). Gaylord Schanilec. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall tan cloth with a printed label on the front cover. Title page wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. First and only separate appearance of this story, originally published in ESQUIRE and later collected in ROCK SPRINGS.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. True First Printing of Ford's third book in pictorial wraps.
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Ford's third novel, originally issued in this softcover edition with the hardcover edition appearing much later.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected proof in light orange wraps of Ford's second and scarcest book.
New York: Atlantic Monthly, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Ford's fourth novel, made into a film more than 25 years after publication.
Austin: University of Texas, 1958. Jo Alys Downs. First Edition. Hardcover. Garrett's third book. Illustrated with drawings by Jo Alys Downs.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Her acclaimed first book, a selection of Oprah's Book Club in 1997, the same year a made-for-television film based on the book aired.
New York: Viking, (1985). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in white wraps.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to a close friend: "For my beloved Florence, this one,/after a long wait. And this one comes/at a time of new beginning, a time/of new strength and of healing./Through the years, Florence,/God love.....
New York: Random House, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Early novel simply INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to a close friend: "For dear Florence/with good hopes/and with love--/Bill/June, 1958/Erwinna, Pa."
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Uncommon format of author's first trade book, more often seen as a signed proof in a slipcase. It's likely that there are numerous changes from this format, which has 737 pages, to the final published book.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Perfect bound. Perfect bound with glassine front cover and black platic rear cover. The most uncommon state of the Uncorrected Proof in the form of 8-1/2" x 11" bound typed manuscript pages of this novel that had a first printing of 100,000.....
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: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in printed blue wraps of the Georgia native's second book, a wonderful collection of short stories. Read her, if you haven't. Blurbs by Pat Conroy, Olive Ann Burns, and others.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Georgia native's third book and first novel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. SIGNED by the author and dated 30 September 1995 on the title page.
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Georgia native's first book, a masterful collection of short stories and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction.
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
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.