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By: Ali, Monica
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270791
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
Publisher: Viking: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199924
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 quartere... View more info
By: Bowen, Elizabeth
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York: Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2043190
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Ink name & date on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head, minor loss from corners and rear joint, two tears, jacket spine faded.Good. 1928 Hard Cover. 294 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, paper spine label, silk decorative endpapers. Author's first novel, which followed on the success of two short story collections (Encounters; Ann Lee's and Other Stories). Bowen was a well-known author and member of literary society, befriending a number of the Bloomsbury Group, and also carrying on affairs with several other authors, including May Sarton. From the ... View more info
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By: Butler, S.C.
Price: $10.00
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
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
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: Christman, W.W.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Harold Vinal: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1864014
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front endpaper ('With good wishes W.W. Christman Delanson, N.Y., May 28 1932.'). Includes original jacket. Includes tipped-in cut of envelope used to originally ship the book and an invoice for its purchase in 1977.Jacket toned and lightly rubbed. 1926 Hard Cover. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the noteworthy Catskills poet and transcendentalist, W.W. Christman.Keywords: POETRY CHRISTIANITY TRANSCENDENTALISM NATURE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS NATURE SIGNED FIRST EDITION WW CHRISTMAN View more info
By: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $75.00
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
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: Clarke, Susanna
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2270191
ISBN: 1582344167
Condition: Fine
First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy. 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 Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembl... 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: $250.00
Publisher: Talk Miramax Books / Hyperion: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2288516
ISBN: 0786866683
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 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 title hints, endlessly watching and analyzing Akira Kuro... View more info
By: Doerr, Harriet
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2273063
ISBN: 0670192031
Condition: Very Good
First edition. A bit smoky, page ridges lightly foxed, crease down front jacket flap. 1984 Hard Cover. 214, [2] pp. Author's first novel. Two Americans, Richard and Sara Everton, are the only foreigners in Ibarra. They live among people who both respect and misunderstand them, and gradually, the villagers--at first enigmas to the Evertons--come to teach them much about life and the relentless tide of fate. View more info
Price: $125.00
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
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. 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 by Judy Daniel. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, New York: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1670022
Condition: Near Fine
Signed first edition. Inscribed to a fellow author: 'For Nancy - Good luck with your novel - I look forward to reading the rest of Will's story. April Young Fritz, Oct. 18, 2003'. About fine.Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. 316 pp. Author's first novel. A strong debut in which Fritz portrays a 13-year-old girl dealing with grief and loss, and coming to terms with her mother's emotional instability. View more info
By: Gemmell, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New Infinities Productions, Inc.: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2290322
ISBN: 0441009956
Condition: Very Good
First edition - a paperback original. Spine anc back corner creased. 1988 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 383 pp. Author's first novel, originally published in the UK as 'Legend'. David Andrew Gemmell (August 1, 1948 – July 28, 2006) was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explores themes in honour, loyalty and redemption. With ove... View more info
By: Ghazy, Randa; Shore, Marguerite
Price: $3.00
Publisher: George Braziller Publisher: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1536734
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes original jacket.Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. 212 pp. Author's first novel. Dreaming of Palestine is a work of astonishing insight that takes us into the hearts and lives of a group of young people caught up in the Palestinian drive for independence. Writing in a passionate blend of poetry and prose, fifteen-year-old first-time novelist Randa Ghazy creates a convincing portrait of a group of friends who have grown up surrounded by fighting and know no world other than one with war or at least the threat of it. With eloquence and sensitivity, Ghazy creates a portrait of li... 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
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
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202745
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Lightly rubbed, jacket price clipped.Very Good. 1975 Hard Cover. 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 Orleans, and law enforcement efforts to st... View more info
By: Hawkins, Paula
Price: $20.00
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. 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 unlike the life she recently lost. And then s... View more info
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Price: $250.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274859
Condition: Very Good
First edition ('A' on copyright page). Faint spots on boards, edges a bit rubbed, jacket price clipped, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Author's first novel. Robert A. Heinlein's first juvenile novel for Scribner's, first published in 1947, follows the adventures of a rocket scientist and 3 young men embarking on an expedition to the Moon. The book was scientifically accurate for the time and the basis for the Academy Award-winning American film Destination Moon. In Heinlein's foreword to Expanded Universe he expl... View more info
By: Johnson, Shawne
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dutton: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200760
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
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: Just, Ward
Price: $25.00
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
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. 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, Karr has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and e... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196868
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
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. 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 an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of ... View more info
By: Kramer, Gavin
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Soho Press: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736013
ISBN: 1569471894
Condition: Very Good
First edition.Very Good. 2010 Hard Cover. Author's first novel. The unnamed narrator, an English expatriot working in Tokyo, prides himself on the authenticity of his immersion into Japanese culture. He knows the subtleties of the language, the right clubs to go to at night, and he has been cultivating an interest in the Japanese poet Dazai Osamu. Condescending to other expatriots who have not yet reached this level, he nonetheless befriends Alistair Meadowlark, a tall, bulky Englishman. Soon Meadowlark has become enamored of one of the local girls, the 16-year-old Sachiko. Vain and materialis... View more info
By: Long, Richard F.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vantage Press: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1889184
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Front free endpaper excised, small internal chip from jacket spine.Very Good. 1968 Hard Cover. 132 pp. Author's first book. An account of the efforts of the relief organization Medical Missions Sisters of the Catholic Church, detailing its presence in various third world countries, with special attention to its care of peasants wounded during the Vietnam War. View more info
