Search Results: Debut Works from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

Columbia, MO``: University of Missouri, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. An overall Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, of the Savitar, the 1931 -1932 Annual (or Yearbook) for the University of Missouri, published in 1932. The volume is in Very Good condition with a stamp and ownership signature to the front pastedown and some rubbing and wear to the covers, but is easily in better condition copy than the few other copies that we have seen over the past several decades with pages (including the tissue guards) being bright and clean. This unsophisticated volume contains seven (7) tissue guards, one located prior to each "Book" within. Thomas Lanier Williams (generally known by his pen name "Tennessee Williams") attended the University of Missouri from 1929 to 1931. While there, Williams joined the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. While he did not fit in well at his Fraternity, being a member of it led to his obtaining the name by which he later came to fame… Read More

New York: Viking, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Finw. A Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF for the first edition, first printing of Cecile Pineda's DEBUT BOOK in the Publisher's original yellow wrappers (light sunning to the spine). The novel won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and Pineda also won a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Copies of this Uncorrected Proof for this author's DEBUT BOOK are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. A Fine copy.

New York: The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/fine. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (spine mildly askew, some foxing to the closed page block's edges, tiny defect to the upper leading corner of the leaf hosing pages 39 and 40) in a Fine dust jacket; the author's Debut work of fiction and his second book to be published (the first being a philosophical work published 1988 under the title "Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970"). Writing of this Debut Novel in the New York Times, Anne Gotlieb stated "This is a strange and often wonderful hybrid -- an ebullient philosophical novel in the form of a folktale-cum-black girl's odyssey. It is a book bubbling like a conjure woman's kettle with African lore, preserved intact in the half-magical, half-demeaning world of Hatten County, Georgia." "Faith and the Good Thing" followed what Johnson calls his apprentice novels -- six novels that he had written by age 26 for which he could find no… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, unread, copy of the first edition, first printing with a bit of sunning to the upper edges, in a near Fine dust jacket (with sunning to the jacket's spine and upper edge and a shadow from removal of a security sticker from the verso but otherwise Fine). The book was published soon after the author's death and is her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.

University of Georgia Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, sharp, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, being a collection of seven (7) the author's short stories, as well as her DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. [Prior seller's price in pencil to the half-title.] The collection won the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY RITA CIRESI.

Cincinnati, OH: Elliston Poetry Foundation University of Cincinnati, [1964 Copyright]. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. An about Very Good copy of the first facsimile edition of Stephen H. Spender's first book, showing only mild wear and tide markings to the boards -- otherwise about Fine. [Only about thirty [30] copies of the ORIGINAL first edition in 1920 were printed, and those were done so by Spender himself. Per Encyclopedia dot com: The facsimile shows a presentation of the original copy presentation by Spender to "Winifred" on the second front free endpaper as well as the book's limitation notice with a note in Spender's hand stating that the copy reproduced here was number 1 of the group of "about thirty" of the first edition copies. [Please Note: the foregoing are facsimiles of Spender's handwriting.] Copies of this facsimile edition are uncommon to the market, and the great and distinguishing feature of this copy is the ORIGINAL SIGNED PRESENTATION OF THIS COPY BY STEPHEN SPENDER TO… Read More

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $200.00 NOW $65.00 A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original light-brown cloth (with quite light pushing to the spine panel's ends and a tiny mark to the closed page block's front edge), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED AND DATED BY REYNOLDS PRICE ON THE TITLE PAGE IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION. The dust jacket's front cover bears a charming illustration by Maurice Sendak. The tale centers on a young boy who, at age 11, must deal with the death of his mother, leaving him with only his father and his beloved dog. He lies awake at night feeling a deep sadness and the only thing that comforts him and brings him sleep is thinking about elephants that both he and his mother loved. He hears that a circus is coming to his town and anxiously waits for it to arrive. He is then thrilled to meet Sala, the only survivor of a group of four… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, Tight, Unread copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY CHARLES D'AMBROSIO on the title page and with the Publisher's original promotional booklet loosely laid in. [This promotional "booklet" is printed on both sides of a thin cardboard sheet folded to create eight.] This highly-regarded collection contains seven (7) short stories, is the AUTHOR'S DEBUT BOOK, was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Fine, tight, and unread copy.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of the Uncorrected Advance Proof for the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue wraps lettered in black, Wiley's DEBUT BOOK which won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, an Award given annually awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. [William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Fiction and used his prize money to establish the William Faulkner Foundation, one of the goals of which was to establish a Fund to support and encourage new fiction writers. The Foundation's inaugural award for a "notable first novel," was originally called the William Faulkner Foundation Award and was won by John Knowles's 1961 novel "A Separate Peace". The novel centers on three Japanese-Americans who take their band… Read More