Rare First Novel (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New/No Jacket as Issued. First Edition, First Impression. It got close to winning the Booker Prize, but perhaps the most remarkable fact is how it got published at all. It was rejected by many before this small press decided to go with it, and the book became an instant hit when it got through to the long list and then the short list for the Booker. This will always be the first edition of her first book of course, and it happened to be a very small one, about 2,500 copies. 0.0 0.0 0.0.…

Splendidly bound in crisp clean turquoise cloth stamped in red. A sharp copy with lovely endpapers. Very clean and tight throughout. In a handsome dust jacket with some light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends.The price of $2.50 is present on the front inside flap, though the top corner has been clipped. A collector's copy. First US edition. The MacMillan Company, 1935. With published 1935 on the copyright page. Rare in jacket First edition of the author's influential fantasy novel. "Long before Harry Potter, The Box of Delights remade children's fantasy). In The Telegraph in 2020 a headline stated "You'd never have J. K. Rowling without John Masefield." (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [10], 245pp. Red hardcover, title in white on black cloth spine. Stated "First Printing - 1970" on copyright page. Solid text block, light rubbing to print on spine, faint foxing to top edge. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 retail price on front flap, touch of rubbing to corners, shelf worn. Faint toning across flaps and verso of jacket. Without the normal glassine laminate issue, as is typical with this jacket. A near fine copy of Gil Scott-Heron's first published novel. Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is best known for his spoken word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," which critiques media, consumerism, and political apathy. Rare first edition of The Vulture: A Novel by Gil Scott-Heron. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION BOOK with DJ of ONE OF THE MOST ESTEEMED BOOKS EVER WRITTEN: Dark Green Leatherette with C3 Catalog at front with 35-37 titles listed making this a September, 1917 surviving copy; BL logo on front; excellent Green Marble Endpapers (1917-19); gift inscription on half title page: "Mary F.D. Browne, Xmas 1917, Mrs. HWH" (See Scan); light wear on top and bottom spine edges. UNUSUAL, VERY RARE DUST JACKET: Jacket is designed by famed book illustrator Willy Pogany. Jacket lettering is in an Art Nouveau script font for 'Modern Library' and 'Limp Croft Leather'. Designer's name appears back, left corner in miniature print on rear jacket panel. Jacket flaps have a numbered Boni & Liveright C3 catalog list of Sept. 1917, which also includes the 'ghost title' ML # 29.0, W.H. Wright 'Best French Epigrams'. Jacket is generic with no book title, therefore could be put on any book in the catalog. Since jacket was produced between Sept. 1917 and Spring 1918 (catalog C4), it was perhaps used for holiday gift books, being more festive than the regular scholarly style jackets. Over the last 20 years collectors have reported only 3 others to exist, each on a different title, each with the top of the spine including the word 'Limp' removed so that the binding title shows 'Croft Leather" only; worn thru in places; 95 cent sticker on bottom; a few chips, tears and folds. QUITE A FIND!.…