Kyle, TX: Insidious Productions, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. 97 pages. Illustrated by Tom Moran and Zach McCain. A horror novella, published in an edition of 100 copies. Softcover Novella Series no. 1. The author's first book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback), with a touch of.....
Price: $15
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first book, a Civil War novel made into a fine film. Winner of the National Book Award. 356 pages. First edition (first printing with numberline ending in one). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the John.....
Price: $50
New York: The Dial Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. The author's first book, a collection of short stories. First edition (first printing). A beautiful, bright copy in jacket with minor edge wear and a couple of hard-to-see closed tears. Inscribed across the title page, "For Michael Keith who.....
Price: $125
Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1843. Leather bound. Second edition, revised and corrected. [1, notices of the first edition], [1], viii, 216, 174, 5 [opinions of navigators and professors] pages. With a folding plate of angles. Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873) was a naval officer and an important 19th century oceanographer. This.....
Price: $300
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 380 pages. Forsyth's first book, a thriller that won the Edgar Award. The basis for two different movie adaptations. First edition (first printing with "Published in 1971..." and no additional printings noted on the copyright page). A very good copy in.....
Price: $20
New York: William Morrow, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 292 pages. The author's first book. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine jacket with some creasing to the top of the spine. Inscribed by the author, "To Tom, Stephen Hunter."
Price: $25
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. The first Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch novel. Winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery. First edition (first printing; numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author with an early, almost-legible signature.
Price: $185
[New York]: Brewer and Warren, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 80 pages. 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 was the law.....
Price: $300
![Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry: Stories [Inscribed]. Elizabeth McCracken](/pictures/thumb/9040.jpg?v=1597798860)
New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. The author's first book. First edition (first printing - first edition stated with numberline ending in 2, as is the way Random House and its subsidiaries indicate first printings). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the title.....
Price: $15
Las Cruces, NM: Puerto Del Sol Press, 1976. First Edition. Trade paperback. [42] pages. The author's first book, published in an edition of only 500 copies. Quintana's poetry relishes the small moments in life and this book shows the development of his unique style. His later books won him two.....
Price: $40
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first book, a classic of Southern fiction. 232 pages. First British edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket spine is somewhat dulled and there is light wear at the edges, but generally a very nice.....
Price: $400
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's acclaimed first book, a classic Southern novel. First edition (first printing). Previous owner's name on the flyleaf; old dampstain along the top two inches of the spine; extensive chipping along the top edge, affecting two letters in the.....
Price: $400
(El Paso, TX): (Cinco Puntos Press), 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 93 pages. The author's first book, a collection of fine short stories about Mexican Americans laboring on the margins of society. Your cataloguer remembers when this book was an easy C-note on the collectors' market. The law of supply.....
Price: $40
New York: The Dial Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. The author's first book, a collection of short stories. First edition (first printing). Spine a touch faded; minor wear to the jacket edges, else near fine. Publisher's name stamped at lower edge of front free endpaper (perhaps a file.....
Price: $40
![Dark Carnival [Signed First]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/995.jpg?v=1597798949)
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. According to the colophon, one of 3000 copies, but the actual print run was slightly larger. This collection of short stories launched one of the most remarkable careers in science fiction. First edition (first printing). A very good copy.....
Price: $1,250
![Vigilia [Inscribed with Autograph Letter]. Enrique Anderson Imbert](/pictures/thumb/441.jpg?v=1598298947)
Buenos Aires: (the author), 1934. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 147 pages. First book by this Argentinean novelist. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Spanish scholar Ramon Martinez Lopez, with an autograph letter signed by Imbert to Martinez enclosing the book.....
Price: $100
![The Black Echo [With Band]. Michael Connelly](/pictures/thumb/306660.jpg?v=1598070965)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 375 pages. The first Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch novel. Winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery. One of a relatively small number of copies that preserve the publisher's wrap-around band offering a $5 rebate for sending in proof of purchase. First edition.....
Price: $250
Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1959. First Edition. Trade paperback. 135 pages. The noted Central American writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Monterroso (a Honduras native but a Guatemalan citizen who lived in exile in Mexico) is known for his humorous stories. This collection presages his literary career with its comic.....
Price: $125
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1976. First Edition. Mass market paperback. 304 pages. "The violent and lusty novel of a hockey superstar"—from the cover. A Fawcett Gold Medal Book. The first book by a writer who would contribute to the Texas Monthly from its first issue in 1973 until his retirement in.....
Price: $30
