First Novel from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969 1st Am. ed. 283pp. hardback 8vo: ex lib. copy; dj is tipped down in poly cover public lib. style w/usual markings from a deletion; else a clean, complete & tight copy. A novel about Anglo-American pilots in China in the 1920s by a former RAF pilot who actually flew some of these old aircraft himself.

Biscuette Books. 2019. INSCRIBED by author on title p. & signed "James." 294pp. paperback 8vo: Fine.

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.

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 217pp. blue cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [blue cover cloth is mottled; else a crisp copy; dj = slightly roughed near spine tail; else F] Advance jacket praise for this first novel from Anne Rivers Siddons, Molly Giles and… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion Miramax Books, 2004 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 387pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj.

New York: Warner Books, 2005 1st ed. SIGNED boldly on title p. by author. 275pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is age browned owing to publisher's paper quality; couple of ink dots from author's pen; else a very nice crisp copy] The author's first novel.

New York: Atheneum, 1992 1st ed. SIGNED on half-title p. by author. 277pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover [several wrinkled bottom page corners mid-text; else a nice crisp copy; dj = p-c; else F] A first novel set in Atlanta praised by Reynolds Price, Josephine Humphreys, et al.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 302pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in poly cover [bookplate; text is age browned; else a nice clean and tight copy]

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.

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1992 1st ed. SIGNED on colophon p. by author. 392pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover. A first novel about a nurse facing burnout, by the RN author of the acclaimed memoir, "Intensive Care."

Madison, CT: St. Clair Press, 1992 1st ed. SIGNED on ffep by author. 536pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover. A first novel about the Bahamas by the American writer Ruzic (1930-2004). Jacket praise from astronaut Scott Carpenter, Hugh Downs and Arthur C. Clarke.

New York: Knopf, 1984 1st ed. SIGNED on half-title p. by author. 283pp. hardback 8vo: ex lib. copy [dj = tipped down in poly cover public lib. style w/few markings from a deletion; no external markings except a library withdrawn stamp top edge; no spine or cover markings; else a clean complete & tight copy] Interesting for Alabama-born writer Childress'… Read more about this item

New York: Putnam's, 2002 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 247pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [tiny rem. dot bottom edge; else F] A well-received autobiographical first novel.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1978 1st ed. INSCRIBED on ffep by author. 374pp. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [top edge foxing; bookplate; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = some edge tears; else G] A nice signed copy of Atlanta writer Diehl's (1924-2006) first novel, made into a 1981… Read more about this item

Alan Sutton/Guernsey Press, 1987, 1989. 261pp., 263pp. paperbacks: Very Good [Bedlam is in near Fine condition with some light age browning of text; Task Force is near Very Good with a spine crease and some age browning of text; all in all, two nice copies] Two comic novels, the second a sequel, about a hostile British government's attempts to abolish… Read more about this item

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.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on dedication p. & signed "Corinne." 232pp. paperback 8vo: Good+ [bottom cover corner and bottom corners of about the first third of the book are all thumbed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A first novel about Italian art.

New York: Penguin, 1984 reprint. 422pp. paperback: Good+. Popular Fayetteville, Georgia, physician and writer Dr. Ferrol Sams's (1922-2013) autobiographical first novel. In 2001 the Georgia Center for the Book placed "Run with the Horsemen" on its list of 25 books every Georgian should read. In May 2006 the City of Atlanta made the book its first choice in a new… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly on ffep by author and signed "Ira." 296pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj [couple of light top corner bumps; else F]

New York: Hyperion, 2003 advance reading copy. 290pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else VG+]