The Virginian

The VirginianThe Virginian by Owen Wister First edition, first printing $800. 00 The MacMillan Company New York, 1902. Considered by many as the first Western ever published, this is a very good copy with no internal marks, owners signatures or bookplates. The spine has lightened with some fraying at the bottom of spine as shown in the picture. Overall a very good copy of this cornerstone of western literature.

Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition

Professional restoration to a few small closed tears on the dust jacket verso

The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris First edition

Military fiction at its finest

Capra Press

“See what is on the end of our forks” Jack Kerouac said  in describing the title he gave for the book

The book itself is tight and square with only a small owner’s signature to the top of the front free endpaper

The book from which the equally scary movie was created

” Binding is contemporary and holding strong in late 18th century boards which are very rare as most copies of Candide have been rebound in later boards

The author’s best book and a page turning mystery

The book is clean and square with age toning to the pages and no writing

This first without the FAI flag is worth considerably less so this is the one to collect