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.

Signed first edition of Barthelme's first collection of experimental short stories.

First printing in the first-issue dust jacket, with the original last chapter as Burgess intended.

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 of the first novel by "one of the foremost writers of Anglophone Cameroonian literature" (CAMEROON LITERATURE IN ENGLISH), the story of an African student in an interracial relationship while studying in Paris.

First edition of this novel about an African American Korean War veteran's experiences of violence while trying to exercise his right to vote in the segregated South.

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.

Inscribed first printing of the still-shocking story of captivity and resistance.

First printing, tales of "[b]urglary, mugging, gun battles in the streets, orgies in the cellar club, the suffering of adolescent romance, thirteen arrests and beatings by the police, a year in state training school..."

First printings of these three Gorey classics, in the original publisher's slipcase.

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 edition of this anthology of three centuries of Black American poets, edited by the first Black Poet Laureate of America.