Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART.

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.

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.

First printing of this novel about Black man just released from prison, "the bright boy of infinite promise [...] and the very old parolee of twenty-two, who sees little difference between the prison world and the world outside."

First edition, paperback original, of Delany's acclaimed debut novel and now science fiction classic, published as an Ace Double with White's SECOND ENDING.

First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.

First impression, the only book in the James Bond series told from the point of view of a woman rather than from Bond's own perspective.

Handsome first printing of Fowles's postmodern evocation of the Victorian novel.

First printing, in which a dying philosopher travels from San Francisco to Batavia, New York (Gardner's own hometown) for his last days, to do as much thinking as possible before terminal illness, childhood memories, and Upstate gloom join forces to drag him to his end.

First printing of Sue Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.

Signed first paperback printing and movie tie-in edition of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.

First printing of the first US paperback edition of the Hugo Award-winning futuristic political fable, in which a lunar colony revolts through the beneficent assistance of a powerful computer that develops AI.

First printing of the tragedy of a Texan 'stud-for-hire' brought low by New York City's impersonal cruelty.