Literary first editions
Jonathan Swift, Contests and dissentions (Boston 1728): The first Irish book published in America
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). A discourse of the contests and dissentions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome : with the consequences...
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Herman MELVILLE. The Confidence Man. First edition, Association Copy
MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, 1857. First edition. vi, 394 p.; 19 cm. BAL 13670. ...
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A Coded film script by Lynn Riggs
Riggs, Lynn (1899-1954) and W. P. Lipscomb (1887-1958). The Garden of Allah: Dialogue Continuity. American Version. [Culver City:] Selznick Internatio...
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Albert Camus, La Chute (1956). First edition. Signed.
Camus, Albert (1913-1960). La Chute. Paris: Gallimard, 1956. 170 p. First edition. One of 1050 numbered copies printed on "vélin labeur" and bound in ...
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Albert CAMUS. The Plague (1948). First American edition.
Camus, Albert (1913-1960). The Plague. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. First American edition. Very good or better in dustwrapper.A lightly worn but s...
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Ambrose Bierce. Black Beetles in Amber (1892), first edition, signed
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?). Black Beetles in Amber. Popular Authors' Series, No. 1. San Francisco: Johnson and Emigh, 1892. First edition, 2nd issue...
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Ann Williams: 18th century working woman, feminist poet, and scientific martyr
Williams, A[nn] (1745? – 1779). Original Poems and Imitations. London: printed for the author, and sold by W. Harris, 1773. Octavo. Pp. [viii], 191, [...
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Anthony BURGESS, The Right to an Answer (1960). First edition.
Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993). The Right to an Answer. London: Heinemann, 1960. First edition. Very good or better in dustwrapper.An early work by the ...
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Arthur Conan Doyle. Micah Clarke (1889). First edition, signed. Vincent Starrett's copy.
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Micah Clarke, his Statement as Made to his Three Grandchildren, Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben, During the Hard Winter ...
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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). First American edition, with a suppressed Sherlock Holmes story
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859 – 1930). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First American edition, first state. pp. 28...
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Charles DICKENS, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), First American edition
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Some Uncollected Pieces. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First American editio...
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Cormac McCARTHY. Child of God (1973). First edition.
McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933). Child of God. New York: Random House, 1973. First edition. Some ink annotations to text from a reviewer; very good or bett...
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