First Edition. A novel about Brooklyn's Jewish gangs in the 1940s. The classic juvenile delinquent novel and the author's first book. First edition (stated). A very good copy in a good dust jacket chipped at the spine ends and extensively reinforced with tape on the back (verso).

First Edition. The author's first book, a novel. First edition (first printing stated). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket has some surface wear (as often) and some bumping and wear to the corners. It is nicely inscribed, "For Paul—This is the last extant.....

First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book, a collection of short stories published in the UK several years before it appeared in the US. An uncommon debut book. Your cataloguer can't decide if the subtitle reflects brio—writers' "collected works" usually cap careers, not start them—or modesty, with Egan's collected.....

First Thus. Le Guin's first science fiction novel, first published as a paperback original Ace Double (with a novel by another writer) in 1966. The first separate edition was hardcover edition for libraries in 1975, which did not have a dust jacket. This is technically the second hardcover edition, but.....

First Thus. Le Guin's first science fiction novel, first published as a paperback original Ace Double (with a novel by another writer) in 1966. The first separate edition was hardcover edition for libraries in 1975, which did not have a dust jacket. This is technically the second hardcover edition, but.....

First Edition. The author's first book, linked stories inspired by the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Uncommon signed.

First Edition. Updike's first book, poems most of which originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine. xii, 82 pages. First edition (stated, with code B-H). Very minor wear at the base of the spine in a very near fine, first issue dust jacket, with "two small children" on the rear flap.....

Ford's third book and the first Frank Bascombe novel. A paperback original. First edition (stated). A very good to near fine copy. Inscribed by Ford, "For Austin, with warm wishes for you from your Dad & from Richard Ford. October 24, 2006."

First Edition. The author's first book, a Los Angeles novel. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket (crease to one jacket flap; minor shelfwear). Signed by Semple on the title page.

First Edition. The first book by the late, beloved Portland, Oregon, writer. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a fine jacket with perhaps the slightest fading to the spine.

First Edition. The UK edition of the author's first book. First UK edition (first printing). Light edgewear, else a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Hjortsberg on the front free endpaper.

First Edition. The author's first book, a novel, written before he turned to short fiction. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy (minor bumping and fading to spine ends; small stain on the title page) in a near fine jacket with just the mildest bumping to the spine ends.....

First edition. A raw, semi-autobiographical depiction of the life of a teenage Mexican boy who comes to the United States to find a better life and instead encounters seemingly endless hardship. Macho! was published as a paperback original during the brief period in the early 1970s when New York publishers.....