IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
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 the first mystery introducing Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective who helps solve a murder case in a racist community in South Carolina.
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.
Signed first edition of Barthelme's first collection of experimental short stories.
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 in the first-issue dust jacket, with the original last chapter as Burgess intended.
First US paperback edition, with an afterword by Stanley Edgar Hyman.
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."
Signed limited edition set of Truman Capote's two semi-autobiographical Christmas stories, nostalgic tales of rural family holidays spent in the company of his older cousin.
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 American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
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 issue, the exceptionally rare first state with the gilt-stamped gun on the front board, of the final full-length James Bond novel by Fleming.
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.
First impression of the James Bond thriller set in Japan, often cited as one of the best in the series.
Inscribed first printing of the still-shocking story of captivity and resistance.
Handsome first printing of Fowles's postmodern evocation of the Victorian novel.
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 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 printings of these three Gorey classics, in the original publisher's slipcase.
Signed first printing of Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.
First printing of Sue Grafton's first novel, a work of literary fiction preceding her 'Alphabet' mysteries by well over a decade.
Signed first printing of the second and scarcer of Grafton's two mainstream literary novels.
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 semi-autobiographical novel of growing up in the American South in the 1950s, Barry Hannah's first novel.
First edition of this anthology of three centuries of Black American poets, edited by the first Black Poet Laureate of America.