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By: Ali, Monica
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270791
ISBN: 038560484X
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls ... View more info
By: Antrim, Donald
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Viking: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199924
ISBN: 0670851396
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top page edge smudged, spine slightly cocked. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 185 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. In his first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World, Donald Antrim demonstrates all of the skill that critics have hailed in his subsequent work: the pitch-perfect ear, the cunning imagination, and the uncanny control of a narrative at once familiar and incandescently strange. In Pete Robinson’s seaside suburban town, things have, well, fallen into disrepair. The voters have de-funded schools, the mayor has been drawn and quarte... View more info
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By: Butler, S.C.
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2264580
ISBN: 0765314770
Condition: Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Hard Cover. 463, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Reiffen, only twelve years old, is the true heir to the thrones of both Wayland and Banking. He and his friends Avender and Ferris live in a magical world of talking animals, dwarves, and shape-shifting bears but…he lives with the shame of knowing that no one will ever let him rule these kingdoms, that their crowns will bring him nothing but betrayal and sorrow…and that he is powerless. Reiffen will have only a short life of child's innocence, a brief respite from the trial of impossible adult resp... View more info
By: Caldwell, Taylor
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202719
Condition: Good
First edition. Jacket rubbed & chipped, tape along jacket spine, pages toned, stamping on endpapers. 1938 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 797 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900–August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death (1938),... View more info
By: Chevalier, Tracy
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270646
ISBN: 0140265023
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 255, [7] pp. Author's first novel. Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin--two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to ... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200379
ISBN: 1582344167
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition, second state jacket (black with white lettering). Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at ... View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200961
ISBN: 1582344167
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition, first state jacket (white with black lettering) Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Spine head and foot faintly pushed. 2004 Hard Cover. 782 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, which inspired the BBC television series. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hu... View more info
By: Cody, Diablo
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Gotham Books: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260592
ISBN: 1592401821
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2006 Hard Cover. 212 pp. 8vo. First book by the writer of the screenplay for the Academy-Award-winning film Juno starring Ellen Page & Michael Cera. Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. On a whim, she performed at amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. She didn't win a prize that night, but she discovered that stripping delivered a rush she had never experienced before, and too many experiences to not write about it. While she didn't fit the ordinary profile o... View more info
By: DeWitt, Helen
Price: $150.00 $120.00
Publisher: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2297070
ISBN: 0786866683
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, corners lightly pushed. 2000 Hard Cover. viii, 530 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse, and Inuit; studying advanced mathematical techniques (Fourier analysis and Laplace transformations); and, as the titl... View more info
By: Dickey, James
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2303543
Condition: Very Good
First edition (stated, 6-84530 jacket code). Jacket edges rubbed. 1970 Hard Cover. 278 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, adapted to the film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, which was nominated for numerous awards, and imprinted an unsettling new context for the song Dueling Banjos on the collective consciousness. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a mo... View more info
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285925
Condition: Good
First edition. Binding a bit shaken but holding, edges rubbed. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [40 pp.] Pictorial paper over boards. Author's first book. A children's story written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, best known for The Twenty-One Balloons (1947), which won the Newbery Medal. He also worked as the art editor for The Paris Review, and was nominated for two Caldecott Medals. View more info
By: Ehrlich, Gretel
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Capricorn Press: 1970
Edition: Limited Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196147
ISBN: 0912264152
Condition: Near Fine
Limited edition, #39 of 50. Signed by author without inscription and hand-numbered on limitation page. Tiny sticker remnant on corner of front endpaper, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 34 pp. 8vo. The first published work by the poet, travel and nature writer, and essayist, who won the Henry David Thoreau Award. A collection of poems, it was published when the author was just 24 years old. This edition was limited to 600 copies, only 50 of which were bound in cloth. Designed and printed by Noel Young in Santa Barbara, cover drawing ... View more info
By: Gilchrist, Ellen
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Lost Roads Publishing Company / White River Printers: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196149
ISBN: 0918786150
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 1979 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 46 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the author who won the National Book Award for her 1984 short story collection Victory Over Japan. Gilchrist also studied under the well-known writer Eudora Welty at Millsaps College. Keywords: ELLEN GILCHRIST LAND SURVEYOR DAUGHTER POEMS POETRY SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Harris, Thomas
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202745
ISBN: 0399114432
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped. 1975 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. 8 1/2 x 6. Author's first book. Harris later wrote The Silence Of The Lambs, which inspired the film starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, and Ted Levine. Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris. It was the first novel by Harris, and achieved only moderate success, until it was sold to Hollywood, for the production of a film based on the novel. The novel is a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orlean... View more info
By: Hawkins, Paula
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books / Penguin Group Inc.: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2117100
ISBN: 1594633665
Condition: Fine
First edition. Spine ends faintly pushed. 2015 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 323 pp. 8vo. Author's first book. A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. 'Jess and Jason,' she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not... View more info
By: Johnson, Shawne
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Dutton: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200760
ISBN: 0525946543
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2002 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 261 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Violet, Lilly, and Rose know how it feels to be black women trying to find their place in a changing white world. Violet, the eldest, grows up believing in the myth of the southern belle-only to discover that good manners and genteel charm aren't going to bring her acceptance from a closed-minded society... or a philandering husband. Lilly is an ex-Black Panther and writer caught up in the stormy aftermath of the sixties; she shuts out this new world of confusion and pain with the heroin that can never give her peace... View more info
By: Jones, Sherry
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Beaufort Books, Inc: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2207865
ISBN: 0825305187
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2008 Hard Cover. ix, 358 pp. Author's first novel. Born Aisha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path Aisha confronted, from her youthful dreams of becoming a Bedouin warrior, to her life as the beloved wife and confident of the founder of Islam.Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, The Jewel of Medina presents the beauty and harsh realities of life in an age long past, during a ... View more info
By: Jones, Stan
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Soho Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2300412
ISBN: 1569471525
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Author's first novel. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('Ruth - Hope you enjoy the story. Stan Jones 6-28-99, P.S. Ronnie's not a bad kid!'). 1999 Hard Cover. viii, 264 pp. 8vo. An Alaskan State trooper must satisfy both Eskimo and white man's justice. Trooper Nathan Active, child of a fifteen-year-old unmarried Inupiat Eskimo girl, was given up for adoption and raised in Anchorage, where he graduated from the university. Now that he has been posted to his remote birth village, Chukchi, he longs to return to civilization. Before that happens, he is confronted with at... View more info
By: Just, Ward
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1970
Seller ID: 2269668
Condition: Very Good
First edition. A bit smoky, jacket spine a bit toned. 1970 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 223 pp. Author's first novel. Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, the story of a young man who is sent to South America to work for an American corporation and finds himself drawn into a local insurgency movement. Michael Reardon, easygoing and contemplative, passes his days in the high plateau of a South American country gathering information that disappears into the maw of a cosmetics com... View more info
By: Karr, Mary
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196007
ISBN: 0819521345
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 52, [2] pp. 8vo. First novel by the author of 'three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars Club, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Cherry, which was selected as a notable book by book reviews nationwide; and Lit, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year (and made virtually every other Best of the Year list) and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Kar... View more info
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196868
ISBN: 0060199652
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [5], 444 pp. 8vo. Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her extravagantly gifted narrative voice (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the heart o... View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2284551
ISBN: 0316011770
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Spine ends lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 642 pp. Author's first novel. Blends history & fantasy in evoking the enigmatic figure of Vlad the Impaler. To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to My dear and unfortunate successor, and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to ... View more info
![Image for The Johnstown Flood [The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating 'Natural' Disasters American Has Ever Known]](/assets/images/product/2283498.jpg)
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283498
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Remainder mark on page base, jacket flap price crossed out (but still visible), jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1968 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 8vo. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. The first book the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series 'Smithsonian World?' The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough's fi... View more info
By: McDermott, Alice
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Random House: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196025
ISBN: 0394522028
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges very slightly faded. Jacket mildly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 282 pp. 8vo. First book by the author of Charming Billy, which won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizab... View more info
By: McMillan, Terry
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196022
ISBN: 0395399742
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Tiny closed tear to jacket spine base. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. 8vo. Author's first book. The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan. Terry McMillan is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the novels Disappearing Acts, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Mama, a first novel, tells of a pr... View more info
Price: $200.00 $160.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2297072
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Edges lightly toned. 1968 Hard Cover. 212, [4] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, and the first novel by a Native American author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsiv... View more info
By: Patten, Nigel
Price: $60.00 $48.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200438
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('With the respects of the author, Nigel Patten, Villar [?] Juillet '67.'). 1967 Hard Cover. 255 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father's past sins. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born near London in 1940, Nigel Patten has lived permanently ... View more info
![Image for Ellie and the Harpmaker [Harp Maker]](/assets/images/product/2292975.jpg)
By: Prior, Hazel
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Berkley: 2019
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2292975
ISBN: 1984803786
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2019 Hard Cover. 327, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. A rich, heartwarming and charming debut novel that reminds us that sometimes you find love in the most unexpected places. Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn’t always get right or completely understand. On the anniversary of her beloved father’s death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan’s barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Dan gives h... View more info
Price: $600.00 $480.00
Publisher: Daw Books, Inc.: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294212
ISBN: 075640407X
Condition: Fine
First edition, first printing, in 'red haired man' jacket (one of two original jacket states). An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man's Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted you... View more info
By: Sakmyster, David
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Dragon Moon: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2265816
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed and dated (12/97) by author without inscription. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1997 Hard Cover. 517, [3] pp. 8vo. Author's first novel. Amid the ruins of Ancient Mexico, a prophecy predicts the end of the Fifth Sun, the universal destruction of our own time. Ahuitzotl is determined to fulfill the prophecy, to conquer both the living and the dead, while a ghostly pirate, a journalist and a young boy battle to stop him. Will they be able to stop the Aztec King before he destroys them all? View more info
