THE MORNING WATCH
First US edition, review copy, of Agee's semi-autobiographical first novel.
First US edition, review copy, of Agee's semi-autobiographical first novel.
First printing of this tale of a WWII veteran struggling with a morphine addiction – winner of the 1950 National Book Award for Fiction.
First printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans.
Inscribed first printing of this sometimes humorous but always grim Depression-era tale of the doomed Dove Linkhorn, a Texas drifter who lands in New Orleans – inscribed to the founder of the Lord John Press.
First edition of Anderson's swashbuckling fantasy adventure, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and translator Helen (Harding) Bretnor.
First UK edition of Baldwin's second novel, a story of love and and fear that first revealed Baldwin's full capacities as "the greatest American prose stylist of his generation" (Tóibín).
Limited BSI edition of these classic studies in Sherlock Holmes, reproduced in facsimile by the Baker Street Irregulars and introduced by Edgar W. Smith.
Inscribed first edition of this engaging first novel by the son of Robert and brother of Peter, set in midcentury Manhattan.
First edition, first printing of Thomas Berger's first novel, the start of a series focused on US army medic Carlo Reinhart in the aftermath of World War II.
Inscribed first edition of Bowles' first collection of short stories and second book, follow-up to his classic THE SHELTERING SKY — with an additional letter signed by Bowles.
First edition of Bowles's first short story collection, published without "The Delicate Prey" and "Pages from Cold Point" (both restored in the US edition) to save the fragile sensibilities of English printers and censors.
First edition of Bowles' fourth book and third novel, a political thriller set among the anti-colonial Moroccan independence movement of the 1950s.
Attractive first edition of the author's debut book, a collection of short stories from a master of the form.
Signed limited first edition of these three connected Golden Age science fiction novellas by the formative sf editor, originally appearing in AMAZING STORIES and edited for book publication by Lloyd Arthur Eschbach.
Scarce inscribed first edition of this hardboiled midcentury novel by the screenwriter and author of JOHNNY GUITAR and THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU.
First edition of Christopher's collected early SF stories, in the vivid and uncommonly well preserved dust jacket by Eric Mudge-Marriott.
Scarce first US edition of this ghost adventure by the pseudonymous writing team of Adelaide Manning, formerly of the War Office, and her neighbor, British intelligence officer Cyril Coles.
Signed first edition of Dahl's Edgar Award-winning collection, including his celebrated murder-by-leg-of-lamb story "Lamb to the Slaughter," along with seventeen horrifying others.
Beautiful first UK and first hardcover edition of Dick's tenth novel, originally published in 1956 as half of an Ace Double.
Uncommon first printing of this Edgar Award-winning first mystery novel by author and architect Douglass, set in the Caribbean and starring police chief Bolivar Manchenil.
First printing of the famed Dell edition, with the landmark gothic cover that anticipates the "woman running from the house" designs of the gothic romance wave a decade later.
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
Lovely signed limited first edition of Farmer's Shasta Science-Fiction Prize-winning novel, written in 1952 but not published until some thirty years later due to unscrupulous publisher shenanigans and the vagaries of fate.
First edition of this semi-autobiographical novel of growing up in the American South in the 1950s, Barry Hannah's first novel.
Scarce first UK edition of Heard's third murder mystery starring Mr. Mycroft, a loosely disguised Sherlock Holmes, involving the depths to which the overeducated human soul may sink when in possession of no morals and too many opinions about art.