First Edition. A farce involving a dermatologist, an alcoholic detective, a mad judge, a high-speed car crash, and a hash (hashish) party. First US edition (the UK edition came first), first printing (with no indication of later printings). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with small.....

First Edition. The author's first book, which won the National Book Award for Fiction. The title story was adapted for the 1969 film of the same title. 298 pages. First edition (first printing stated). This copy belonged to the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning author Larry McMurtry, and it has.....

First Edition. The first republication of Bradbury's first book since it was published by Arkham House in 1947. Bradbury rewrote and revised about half of the stories for The October Country and the original versions of his early work remained out of print until this limited edition reissue. For this.....

First Edition. A reissue of the author's first book together with the first appearance of the sequel. A paperback original, published only in England. 300 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback) with minor shelf wear. Signed by the author on the title page. Scarce, especially.....

First Edition. Winner of the first Premio Quinto Sol for Chicano literature, and in print pretty much continuously since, with several different English translations, this is probably the first enduring classic of the Chicano Civil Rights era. This novel, in the form of vignettes written in Spanish, with English translations.....

First Edition. The first book with Arthur Rackham credited as the sole illustrator. xii, 188 pages. 17 full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations, all in black and white; title-page printed in red and black. First edition (foot of spine stamped J. M. Dent & Co.). Original publisher's.....

First edition. The author's first book, number 8 in the Chicano Chapbook series, published by the poets Lorna Dee Cervantes and Gary Soto. Unpaginated but 12 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.

First Edition. A collection of fourteen short stories previously published in The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and elsewhere. The author's first book. 183 pages. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with just a bit of soiling to the white dust jacket. Signed by the author.....

First Edition. The author's first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the William Faulkner Award. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in jacket that is lightly tanned at the spine (as usual). A nice copy of a major debut novel.

First Edition. The most famous American cookbook for which there are no recorded copies of the first printing in any library. This is the rare fragile, self-published first edition, published in an edition of just 800 copies. The Moosewood Cookbook, perhaps more than any other cookbook, brought vegetarian, whole-food cooking.....

First Edition. A cocktail book published during Prohibition with hors d'oeuvres and mixed drinks recipes, mostly dreadful, yet such was the state of entertaining "for the American People in the twelfth year of Volstead, 1930." The Volstead Act, the law implementing Prohibition, outlawed offering instructions on how to make alcohol.....

First Edition. Goodbye to a River, Graves' first book, is a beloved classic of environmental and conservation writing. Graves describes a three-week canoe trip down the Brazos River in Texas in 1957 to see the landscape before a series of dams were constructed on the waterway. This collection, assembled by.....

First Edition. The first book by Pacheco, an important Mexican poet. This, however, is a short story, published in a thin chapbook in tan wrappers illustrated with a drawing of a unicorn head printed in red-orange ink. One of 400 copies. Series edited by Juan José Arreola. First edition (first.....