NO LONGER AT EASE
(1960)
Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART.
1960s
I WANT IT NOW
(1969)
First US edition of this comedic novel that follows the exploits of a TV panel show host and his (mis)adventures in love.
GOING TO MEET THE MAN
1965
First printing of this collection of eight short stories by the acclaimed mid-century writer.
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.
GILGAMESCH
1964
Catalogue of an exhibition on the epic of Gilgamesh, incorporating both modern visual art and archaeological artifacts, and with original silkscreened cover and frontispiece by Baumeister.
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.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
(1962)
First printing in the first-issue dust jacket, with the original last chapter as Burgess intended.
BLUESCHILD BABY
(1970)
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."
CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF C. FAIRFAX MURRAY
1962
Weighty and resplendent limited reprint edition of Davies's 1913 descriptive catalogue of German books printed from c.1455 to 1680 housed in the library of artist, dealer, and collector Charles Fairfax Murray.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
(1967)
First edition, paperback original, of this Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel combining the physics of Einstein, the philosophy of Godel, and the mythology of Orpheus.
A FEW NIGHTS AND DAYS
(1966)
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.
THIS SUNDAY
1967
First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
IF WE MUST DIE
1963
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.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
(1962)
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.
THE COLLECTOR
(1963)
Inscribed first printing of the still-shocking story of captivity and resistance.
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
(1969)
Handsome first printing of Fowles's postmodern evocation of the Victorian novel.
OUT OF THE BURNING
(1960)
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..."
THE RESURRECTION
(1966)
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.
KEZIAH DANE
(1967)
Signed first printing of Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.
KEZIAH DANE
(1967)
First printing of Sue Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.
THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR
(1969)
Signed first printing of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.
THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR
(1973)
Signed first paperback printing and movie tie-in edition of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.
GERONIMO REX
(1972)
First edition of this semi-autobiographical novel of growing up in the American South in the 1950s, Barry Hannah's first novel.
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
(1968)
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.
CATCH-22
1961
Beautifully inscribed first edition of this dark satire on the patriotic narrative of American triumph in World War II, with a brief accompanying letter from Heller.
