First Novel

Sam Lipsyte is the author of one previous book, Venus Drive, a collection of short stories that was named one of the top twenty-five books of the year by the Voice Literary Supplement. His work has appeared in Open City, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, and The Quarterly, and he has worked as an editor of the online magazine Feed. He lives in the Astoria section of Queens, New York.

Alice McDermott is the author of five previous novels, including A Bigamist’s Daughter; Child of My Heart; Charming Billy; winner of the 1998 National Book Award; At Weddings and Wakes; and That Night. She lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.

Rae Meadows is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of Utah. Her short stories have appeared in Mississippi Review, Flyway, 580 Split, and Fine Print. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Calling Out is her first novel.

New York: Random House, 1983 1st ed. 136pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [slight age darkening to top and fore edges and endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A hard bound first edition of Southern writer Shivers's (1929-2014) first novel.

Los Angeles, CA: Wizard Promotions, 1980. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 136 pages. Softcover with black and white photos. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Record # 368472

Margaret River, WA: Margaret River Press. 2012. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. 316 pages. The author's debut novel evoking a bygone Western Australia . Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

New York: Scribner's. 1949. 250pp. green cloth 8vo: Good/no dj [edges are age foxed; bit of age browning here & there; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A comic satiric novel about the difference between tribal and British civil law in a remote Indian province, published just after Indian independence. Auberon Waugh, writing in 1970, said that Indian-Irish writer Aubrey Clarence Menen’s (1912-89) first novel "seems to have grown funnier and more topical with every year."

West Chester, Pa.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Some sun-fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. Record # 458750

Hardback. New.

Stuttgart GR: Arnoldsche, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Two volumes in a slipcase. Vol. 1: Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 333 pages profusely illustrated in color. German language. Vol. 2: Softcover, 88 pages, the English translation, text only. The colorful scenes from the Comedia dell'arte produce an entrancing vibrancy in the nearly 400 fascinating humorous figurines of porcelain and faience brought together from 60 museums from all over the world. A comprehensive European survey. A... Read more about this item

London: Futura, 1984 reprint. 190pp. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Sackville-West's (1892-1962) first novel, originally published in 1919.

Phiadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a peach-colored dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 116 pages with a reproduction of a Morley inscription as frontispiece. The fifth in the series of Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures. Clean copy. Record # 382102

West Palm Beach, FL: Avant Press (privately issued), 1976 1st ed. INSCRIBED by author on front flyleaf. 183pp. black cloth 8vo: Very Good/no dj [some shelf scuffs on back cover; else VG] A self-published first novel begun in the 1940s and finally finished in 1975.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 239 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Foxing to endpapers, with faint darkening to page edges. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610005

New York: Knopf, 2001 1st ed. SIGNED boldly on title p. by author. 288pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [prev. owner’s name in felt tip on ffep; hint of age darkening to top edge; else a nice crisp copy] A first novel featuring "quintessential New York characters and their issues" by a native New Yorker.

Georgetown KY: Americana Publications, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering and design. 271 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. A clean, bright copy. Record # 385155

New York: Sotheby's, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 75 pages. Softcover with paper warppers. Like new. Color photographs throughout. Record # 368998

Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 2014 1st ed. 297pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A first novel that won Mercer University Press' Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction.

Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages with color photos throughout. This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne and interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions... Read more about this item

NY: Praeger Publishers. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 156 pages with 10 color and 232 b&w plates. The chapters are: general history before 1850 with factory marks; excavations on the Caughley site: other early Coalport porcelain; Messrs Antice, Horton & Rose's Coalport porcelain; 1815-1850 & the factory pattern-books; porcelain from 1850: Coalport artists; early Coalport porcelain mentioned in 19th century catalogues; the 1841 & 1861 census returns.... Read more about this item

Atlanta: Turner, 1993 1st ed. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author w/his number #99. 298pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [dj = front inside fold has a vertical crease; else F] A nice crisp copy of former Atlanta Falcons linebacker Tim Green’s first novel with a sheet laid in advertising a book signing at Waldenbooks on which the author and book are depicted. Jacket praise from Pete Gent and Bob Costas.

Brownsville, OR: Storyline Press, 1992 1st Am. ed. 195pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine. A first novel set in a Pacific Northwest motel.

Burlington VT: self-published, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, 9" x 11 1/4", red cloth with silver gilt titling and decorative detail to front board and spine, 313 pages, map illustrated endpapers, Dust jacket very worn with minor paper loss. SIGNED BY CARLISLE on title page, also with a promotional sheet laid in with the author's comments on sales, addressed to publisher of Garden Wat Publications. Biographical sketches of 983 Vermont craftsmen. Limited to 1000 copies. Record # 374952

Pompano Beach: Exposition Press of Florida, 1987 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on ffep by author. 185pp. burgundy cloth 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj in poly cover [gilt spine titles are slightly faded; ink name ffep; else a nice crisp copy] A Florida poet's first novel.