THE HEART NEVER FITS ITS WANTING.
Cedar Falls, IA: North American Review / University of Northern Iowa, 1980. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, wrapperbound issue, of the author's first book. Signed and dated by the author in 1981. Fine.
First Books
I HEAR VOICES.
Paris: Olympia Press, [1958]. Boards. Top edge a trace dusty, else fine in edgeworn dust jacket with minute chip at one corner. First edition of the late dramatist/novelist's first book, a serious exploration of narrative point of view, "focusing on a mentally ill man confined to a hospital bed as.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BROWN BUFFALO.
[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed.....
CONGAREE SKETCHES SCENES FROM NEGRO LIFE IN THE SWAMPS OF THE CONGAREE AND TALES BY TAD AND SCIP OF HEAVEN AND HELL WITH OTHER MISCELLANY.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1927. Cloth and boards. Oct. 1927 ownership inscription on title, cloth slightly smudged, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition, trade issue, of the author's first book, accompanied by a long introduction by Paul Green that addresses more the emergence of.....
ARTIE A STORY OF THE STREETS AND TOWN.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1896. Decorated cloth. Frontis and plates by John T. McCutcheon. First edition of the author's first book. Front inner hinge a bit tender, mild fraying at extremities, but a good copy.
OUT OF THE HURLY-BURLY; OR, LIFE IN AN ODD CORNER.
Philadelphia, etc. 1874. Pictorial brown cloth, stamped in black, lettered in gilt. Frontis and illustrations by A.B. Frost (his first book appearance) and others. First edition of Clark's first book. Top of lower joint has a frayed tear, slightly cocked, extremities a bit worn, some occasional hand-soiling; a good copy.....
PERMIT ME VOYAGE... WITH A FOREWORD BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH.
New Haven, Yale, 1934. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Issued as YSP 33. Spine and edges tanned, else very good, lacking the dust jacket.
PERMIT ME VOYAGE... WITH A FOREWORD BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH.
New Haven, Yale, 1934. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition, first book. Issued as YSP 33, with an introduction by Archibald MacLeish. Spine and edges faded, internally very good, lacking the dust jacket.
BROOKS-BRYCE ANGLO-AMERICAN PRIZE ESSAYS - 1927.
New York: Brooks-Bryce Foundation, [ 1927]. Small octavo. Red paper boards, printed label. Boards a bit edgeworn and sunned at spine, but about very good. First edition. Agee's first appearance in a book, as winner of the third prize while an 18 year-old student at Phillips Exeter Academy. His essay.....
HOUSES.
[Carrboro]: Truck Press, 1976. Printed wrappers. Photographs. First edition of the poet/novelist's first book. One of ca. five hundred copies. Fine.
CONFESSIONS OF JOHNNY RINGO. A FICTIONAL MEMOIR OF JOHNNY RINGO, GUERILLA AND OUTLAW.
New York: Dutton, [1987]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition, first novel. Fine in dust jacket, with review photo and flyer laid in.
EARTH TRIUMPHANT AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Gilt green cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Small skinned spot on lower edge of one board, cloth lightly soiled. A very good copy.
EARTH TRIUMPHANT AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Gilt green cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Faint spot of dulling to cloth on upper board, spot on top edge, otherwise a bright, tight, very nice copy.
INTERPRETATIONS. A BOOK OF FIRST POEMS.
London: Grant Richards, 1912. Quarter vellum and boards. First British edition of the future Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist's first book. Modest darkening, but a good copy.
THE ZOO STORY AND THE SANDBOX TWO SHORT PLAYS.
[New York]: Dramatists Play Service, [1960]. Printed wrappers. Baker's Plays label in lower corner of front wrapper, some tanning to wrapper edges and closed tear at lower edge of upper wrapper. A good copy. First edition of the author's first book. The printing status of DPS imprints are notoriously difficult.....
THYME OF DEATH.
New York: Scribner, [1992]. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author's first novel. A mystery novel set in the Texas Hill Country, featuring attorney/sleuth China Bayles. About fine.
THE PULL OF THE EARTH.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of the author's first book. About fine.
[ POEMS].
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Inscribed and signed by the author. Faintly dusty, very good.
[ POEMS].
Swinford: Fantasy Poets No. 32, 1956. Printed wrappers. First edition of the author's first book. Faintly soiled, very good.
PATRIS.
Cleveland: Published by Horace Carr, 1908. 12mo. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Faint bump at crown of spine, a few tiny flecks to boards, otherwise about fine. First edition of the first book and sole volume of poetry published by the first woman to serve on a state Supreme.....
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS.
New York: Knopf, 1985. Printed grey wrappers. Wrappers faintly sunned, else near fine, with author's publicity photo laid in. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition of this translation by Magda Bogin of the author's first novel.
NIGHTWIND.
Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [1975]. Cream boards. Bookplate, edges a bit foxed, otherwise very good in worn and somewhat foxed pictorial dust jacket. First edition of the author's first (and only?) novel, with her year of publication signed presentation inscription on front pastedown. The recipient's bookplate is affixed to.....
NEGLECTED LIVES.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1978]. Cloth. Edges dust speckled, slightly cocked, otherwise very good in spine-sunned, lightly soiled and nicked dust jacket. First edition of the author's debut novel, affectionately inscribed in the year of publication (signed "Steve") on the dedication page to two friends, one of whom provided.....
BLOOD TIES.
Port Clements, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1972. Boards. First edition of the author's first book. Small sticker shadow on endsheet, else a fine copy in a near very good dust jacket with small creased nicks and tears to the edges and one fingernail-size chip from the top edge.
THE RACHEL PAPERS.
New York: Knopf, 1974. Cloth. First U.S. edition of the author's first novel. Cloth touched and flecked a bit by humidity, but a good copy in very good dust jacket.