THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
(1980)
Signed first American edition of the sequel to THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
20th century
CALIFORNIA LA BELLA
(1926)
Rare signed true first edition of this novel of Mexican immigration to the United States from one of Bolivia's most celebrated writers.
THE VISUAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION
(1977)
First softcover edition of this pictorial checklist of SF, warmly inscribed by subject and contributor Philip José Farmer.
A TRIP TO MARS
1909
First edition of this early popular science fiction story, an adventure following two young boys as they travel to Mars and face warring kings and giant eagles – in spectacular pictorial cloth.
I, ROBOT
(1956)
First Signet paperback edition of one of the most influential science fiction books of the 20th century.
FIRST LESSON
1932
First edition of this tale of a Cambridge Don's oft-wacky adventures on the Mediterranean, its publication leading to a "minor scandal" (Gallix) after the parents of one of his students read it.
THEY WINTER ABROAD
1932
First edition of this "lightly preposterous" story about the "oddest of Mediterranean antics" of a group of quirky hotel guests.
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR
(1980)
Inscribed first printing of the intensively researched, massive bestseller about a young woman growing up in prehistoric times.
BACON'S ESSAYS, SYDNEY EDITION
1912
Finely printed and bound edition, based upon a 1673 collection of Bacon's philosophical essays, designed by A. A. Turbayne.
LONDON LOVERS
1906
First edition of this high society contemporary romance from the Edwardian golden age of the genre, "daringly, about the problems of Jews entering London society" (Rachel Anderson).
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
(1965)
First printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
(1965)
Inscribed first printing of the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
THE SEA
2005
First US edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel.
Handwritten manuscript of THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE
[no later than 1910]
Original draft, entirely written out by hand, of the sequel to the international sensation THE ROSARY.
TRACK OF THE CAT
(1993)
First printing of the first book in the Anna Pigeon series of mysteries revolving around United States national parks.
COME BACK, DR. CALIGARI
1964
Signed first edition of Barthelme's first collection of experimental short stories.
OVERNIGHT TO MANY DISTANT CITIES
1983
Signed first edition of this collection of short stories by the postmodernist writer.
PRESENTS
1980
Signed limited first edition, featuring tipped-in collages by the postmodernist author.
SIMULACRES ET SIMULATION
(1981)
True first printing of Baudrillard's philosophical exploration of reality, simulation, and shared experience – a key influence on THE MATRIX films.
BELIEVERS: A Novella and Stories
(1997)
Signed advance reader's edition in a specially issued slipcase.
MORE DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR
(1988)
First printing of this second collection of the long-running lesbian comic strip, the origin of the Bechdel Test, and "one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period" (Judith Levine).
A FAMILY AFFAIR
(1973)
A superlative and scarce Avon Satanic Gothic by the legendarily accomplished Banis as "Lynn Benedict".
CRAZY IN BERLIN
(1958)
First edition, first printing of Berger's first book, set in postwar Allied-occupied Germany.
CRAZY IN BERLIN
(1958)
First edition, first printing of Thomas Berger's first novel, the start of a series focused on US army medic Carlo Reinhart in the aftermath of World War II.
DEADLY HONEYMOON
(1967)
First printing of Block's first hardcover publication, a revenge thriller he wrote because he couldn't shake the plot idea suggested by another writer.
