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.
1960s
COME BACK, DR. CALIGARI
1964
Signed first edition of Barthelme's first collection of experimental short stories.
LITTLE BIG MAN
1964
First printing of the popular anti-Western, the basis for the film of the same name.
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.
PLANET OF THE APES
(1963)
First edition in English, published the same year as the French first, the basis for the classic film co-written by Rod Serling and starring Charlton Heston.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
(1962)
First printing in the first-issue dust jacket, with the original last chapter as Burgess intended.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
(1965)
First US paperback edition, with an afterword by Stanley Edgar Hyman.
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
First edition of the book written to accompany the landmark film, whose screenplay Clarke wrote simultaneously with Kubrick.
THIS SUNDAY
1967
First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
(1960)
First impression of the first James Bond short story collection, featuring the only original jacket design to depict any part of James Bond himself.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
(1965)
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.
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.
THUNDERBALL
(1961)
First impression, first issue of the first James Bond book featuring his classic nemesis, Ernst Blofeld.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
(1964)
First impression of the James Bond thriller set in Japan, often cited as one of the best in the series.
THE COLLECTOR
(1963)
Inscribed first printing of the still-shocking story of captivity and resistance.
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.
THE REMEMBERED VISIT
(1965)
First edition of Gorey's take on the young American girl abroad in a vaguely Edwardian setting, evoking Henry James but distinctly Gorey.
THE SINKING SPELL
(1964) [i.e. 1965]
Signed first printing of this teasing short story, about an unseen "it" slowly sinking in various scenes within a vaguely Edwardian setting.
THE WUGGLY UMP
(1963)
First printing of this color-illustrated work by Gorey, in which the wholesome yellow and pastel blues alternate with the baleful brownish-grey, matching the alternating charming and ominous scenes.
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.
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.
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
(1966)
First printing 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.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
1965
First printing of the tragedy of a Texan 'stud-for-hire' brought low by New York City's impersonal cruelty.
