The Mystic Masseur
New York: Vanguard, (1959). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny rubbed spots but none of the usual spine fading. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
Catalog 231 contains 233 modern first editions, all from a single owner collection. Included are books from Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, John Steinbeck, and more!
Download PDF of Modern First EditionsNew York: Vanguard, (1959). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny rubbed spots but none of the usual spine fading. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Small bookstore label on front paste down (from Trinidad and Tobago), else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with tiny spots of wear at the corners. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1978). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper that was price-clipped and with a sticker with the publisher's new price. More
(New York): Delacorte, (1978). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the usual spine fading. Winner of the National Book Award and increasingly scarce in this condition. A very nice copy. More
(New York): Delacorte, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny scratch. O'Brien's scarce first book, a classic of the Vietnam War. A beautiful copy. More
(New York): Delacorte, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Slight sunning at the extremities of the boards, else fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. A nice copy of the author's cheaply produced scarce second book. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Faint spot on the front board, else fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, (1955). Hardcover. First edition. A trifle rubbed at the bottom of the spine as always, light foxing on the endpapers, else near fine in an attractive modestly spine-faded, very good dustwrapper with a dampstain largely visible only on the inside of the jacket. The..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a light dampstain mostly visible only on the inside of the jacket. The author's second novel and the last of the three books that were to be published during her lifetime. More
(London): Longmans, (1960). Hardcover. First English edition. A couple of spots of foxing on the boards, else fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. The author's second novel and the last of the three books that were to be published during her lifetime. More
London: Neville Spearman, (1955). Hardcover. First English edition. Endpapers slightly tanned as usual else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little foxing on the rear panel. An unusually nice copy of the author's first book, this English edition usually found quite worn. *Burgess 99*. More
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very slightly soiled about fine dustwrapper. Nobel Prize-winning playwright O'Neill's powerful trilogy of plays, patterned on the *Oresteia* of Aeschylus, set in New England during the American Civil War. A lovely copy. More
New York: Vanguard Press, (1963). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Oates' first book, a collection of short stories. A beautiful copy. More
New York: Vanguard Press, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed else near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of a book usually found well-worn. More
New York: Delacorte / Seymour Lawrence, (1978). Hardcover. First Delacorte edition. White cloth gilt. Very slight soiling on the spine, very near fine in a little rubbed, very good fine cardboard slipcase. Copy number 16 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1961. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. A couple of tiny spots on the boards else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing and one short closed tear at the top of the front spine fold. The scarce hardcover issue of the author's first book, of..... More
London: Marion Boyars, (1981). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. More
London: Boyars, (1979). Hardcover. First English edition. Fine in a price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Booker Prize winner, and basis for the excellent Anthony Minghella film with Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. More
London: Bloomsbury, (1992). Hardcover. First edition, preceding the Canadian edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Booker Prize winner, and basis for the excellent Anthony Minghella film with Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. More
(Toronto): McClelland and Stewart, (1992). Hardcover. First Canadian edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. Booker Prize winner, and basis for the excellent Anthony Minghella film with Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Softcover. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine in printed yellow wrappers. Booker Prize winner and basis for the Oscar-winning Best Picture from director Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Juliette Binoche, who won for Best Actress in a Supporting..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1966). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper. Author's second book. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author and dated by him in 1980. The author's first book of non-fiction, a rumination on the relation of man to language. More