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Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:
Firsts. No.4 / Vonnegut KJr., 1998
Features a bibliography of books by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 1998
Features books relating to the American West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Upton Sinclair. Elizabeth Felicetti contributed an essay, "A Coming-of-Age Collection," in which she includes Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.5., 2001
Firsts. No.5/May., 1999
Includes essays on western landscape photographers, collecting Jim Harrison and the art of Russell Chatham. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6., 1998
Features detective stories and writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6., 1999
Firsts. No.6., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Ellery Queen, whose identity was actually the writing partners Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.6 / Bradbury R., 2001
William F. Nolan contributed a lengthy essay entitled, "Ray Bradbury; Space-Age Legend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 1999
Includes essays on post-colonial Indian literature and Victorian women novelists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 2000
This issue deals mainly with the works of Robert C. Howard, author of "Conan the Barbarian" among other pulp fiction novels. An essay by editor Robin H. smiley describes the restoration of a first edition copy of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.7., 2001
Firsts. No.7-8., 1998
Features the work of Mark Twain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.8., 2001
Firsts. No.9., 1999
This issue deals with the books by Henry David Thoreau. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.9., 2000
This issue deals mainly with collecting the works of James Thurber and Trash Collecting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.9., 2001
Firsts. No.10., 1999
This issue deals with science fiction and fantasy. Robin Smiley contributes an essay "The Internet Follies Hit the Road of Revisiting the Caveat Emptorium." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.10., 2001
Contains a list of the 100 most rapidly appreciating literary titles of the last decade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Firsts. No.11 / Danielewski M., 2000
This issue deals mainly with collecting works of Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett. A review and complete publication details of "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski are featured in the Update: Collectible Books section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.