Search Results: Author's First Book from Albert Books

New York: Viking, 1957. Near Fine in Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket, with minimal wear/tiny chips to spine ends, some rubbing to spine folds, rear white panel lightly soiled. . First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Vanguard, 1957. Previous owner's tiny sticker on front flyleaf, tiny stain to page 14, and faint tanning page 58/59 from news item laid in, else a fine copy of the author's first book in bright and crisp near fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950. Spot wear to tips and spine ends, else a bright and Near Fine copy of the author's first book. Dust jacket is clean, bright and Very Good, worn along vertical folds, and missing piece at spine bottom effecting part of the publisher's name.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Vanguard, 1963. Minor crimp to spine cap, else a very fine copy of the author's first book, signed by her on the title page. The equally fine dust jacket is crisp and bright, with only some light sunning to spine, and mild wear at the ends.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First issue of the author's first book, with "conversation" for "conversion" on p.196:13, "explaininn" for "explaining" p.202:12. Top edges slightly darkened, corners very lightly worn, tiny store sticker on front pastedown--internally bright and clean, binding sturdy and square--very good, or better in black and red patterned cloth, backed in red buckram.. First Edition, First Issue. Hard Cover.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. A fine copy in fine dust jacket of the author's first book, originally titled "Passion and Affect" when published in the United States the previous year. . First English Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1934. Cloth covers lightly soiled, wrap-a-round gilt band brilliantly bright, a tightly bound, internally fresh-looking, very good copy of the author's first book, in tanned dust jacket with a few small tears, detached at leading spine fold.. First Edition (stated). Hardcover.

New York: Putnam's, 1921. Burgundy quarter cloth, tan papered boards, paper spine label. 8vo. 207 + 4 pp ads. Lynn Fontanne frontispiece, with tissue guard, by Neysa McMein. Booth Tarkington introduction. Illustrated with stills from the play. Covers soiled and lightly worn at corners, offsetting to frontispiece tissue guard, minor dampstain to upper page margin of a few early pages, still this is a solid, tightly bound Very Good copy of the authors' first book, internally clean and bright. No dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster/Linden Press , 1981. Lightly dust-soiled top edges, mild softening to top spine cap cloth, else a fine copy of the author's first novel, in very near fine dust jacket, minimally toned rear panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Scribner's, 1947. with "A" on copyright page. Very faint, minor stain to top page edges, still a very near fine copy of the author's first book, in very good, unclipped dust jacket, that would be near fine but for 2-1/2" tear at bottom of front panel near the gutter, slightly soiled at rear. . 1st American Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Random House, 1967. Name on flyleaf, else Fine in lightly edgeworn Near Fine dustwrapper. The six plays: Birdbath / Lunchtime / Halloween / Ferryboat / The Shirt / Times Square.TO SEE IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.

New York: Dial Press, 1924. A beautiful copy, about fine, of the poet's first book. Quarter cloth and marbleized paper boards. Apparent binding error causing a thin line of vertical creases to front pastedown.. 1ST U.S. ED.. Hardcover.

New York: Knopf, 1965. A Fine copy of the author's first book in Near Fine dust jacket, with small patch of tiny speck-marks on front panel, nicked at spine crown.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1946. Tanning to spine, else a very near fine copy of the author's first book, signed by her on the title page. The dust jacket is tanned along the spine and at the folds, small fingernail-size chip at bottom of front panel, lightly chipped at spine crown, and slight dust-soiling to rear, overall an about very good jacket. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. This is one of the titles in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, edited by W. H. Auden... Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. Intermediate printing (between first and second printing) BAL 13501. Illustrated blue cloth, stamped in white, top edges gilt, other edges untrimed. 459pp. Minimal shelf wear, a Near Fine copy of the author's first book.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. The author's award winning first book, a near fine copy with a touch of wear to bottom cover edges, in the first issue dust jacket, priced $5.95, the Stegner quote, and photo of Stone holding a cup of coffee. The very good plus jacket shows some light wear to tips, one tiny chip to spine bottom; some scattered light rubbing at rear, and short dampstain at bottom of spine at the fold.. First Printing (stated). Hard Cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. A fine copy of the author's first book in a crisp, very good dust jacket, slightly toned and soiled at rear, nicked at spine ends.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.

Henry Holt., 1947. Author's first book, fine, but for minimal wear to edges; no dust wrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by .

London: Jonathan Cape, 1945. A very near fine, minimally worn copy of the author's first book in blue cloth with decoration and lettering in silver on spine. Dust wrapper is bright, clean and very good or better, with one-inch tear at top of front panel, and generous clipping of price at bottom of front flap, very lightly dust soiled.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Viking, 1980. Touch of soiling to top edges, former owner's stamp (WHS) to lower corner of front flyleaf, else an apparently unread, fine copy of the author's first book, in fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover.