THE COMPLETE STORIES
First edition of O'Connor's collected short fiction, including twelve stories never before published in book form.
First edition of O'Connor's collected short fiction, including twelve stories never before published in book form.
Collection of more than three dozen magazine appearances by Plath — including the first appearance in print of "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus."
First printing of this collection of previously unpublished and fragmentary material from Vassar College's Bishop archive, inscribed by editor Alice Quinn to bookseller and publisher George Bixby.
Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of this YA novel — signed twice by Plath, with an original drawing by her and her bookplate laid in — the almost-too-apt story of a young Roman girl exiled to the soggy shores of Britain and burdened with a literal-minded mother named Aurelia.
First edition of Rhys's great postcolonial reimagining of JANE EYRE, the story of ill-fated Antoinette Cosway, Jamaican-born first wife of the fearful and hateful Edward Fairfax Rochester.
First edition of Jane Bowles's only novel, one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century.
First edition of the Ur-Gothic, the literary sensation credited by many for inaugurating one of the first major trends of the English novel — and the literary heart of Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY, which is both a satire of and homage to it.
Signed first hardcover edition of the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series, first published as a paperback original in 1968.
First edition of this first book from Stein's Plain Edition, inscribed by Alice Toklas to author Elizabeth Sprigge, who would publish one of the earliest formal biographies of Stein — and which Toklas repudiated.
First US edition of the wild Gothic tale of romance and betrayal, published only a few months after the nearly unobtainable London first, bound with another novel, NOW & THEN by Samuel Warren, published by Harper the same year.
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
First US edition of Austen's third published novel, centering on the comedic neighborhood drama caused by the amateur production of a play, with the specter of the slave trade hovering beneath the plot.
Rare true first edition of Plath's only novel, a modern classic, published in London under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" and unpublished in the US until after her death.
First edition of Stein's great Modernist prose poem that reveals the avant-garde in the ordinary.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
First edition thus, the first to be published with the author's real name, following its initial UK publication in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas."