Modern First Editions 2023
We are pleased to announce the release of our latest catalogue. This meticulously curated collection showcases an extensive array of exceptional modern first editions, encompassing signed, inscribed, limited, and association copies that are not to be overlooked.
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The White Feather.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A very decent copy of one of the scarcer early Wodehouse titles.First edition, first issue, second state of the ads but with the earliest state of...
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The Swoop or How Clarence Saved England.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /A vulnerable piece of book production, and although nothing approaching the rarity of The Globe By The Way Book, it is not common at all in collec...
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Doctor Sally.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Despite the noted flaws, this remains an unusually sharp copy of one of the great books of its era.First edition, first impression; 8vo; original ...
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The Map of Love.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /Only 1000 copies were issued, with this being in the earliest state with the publisher's name on the spine in blind and the purple topstain. First...
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Twenty-Five Poems.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /A lovely copy of Thomas's second collection. Uncommon in this condition.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's grey boards, titles to s...
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Geography and Plays.
STEIN, Gertrude.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /An exceptional copy in the particularly uncommon earliest state, of an important early collection by the great American Modernist.First edition, f...
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Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /A lovely copy of one of the author's best-known collections of short stories, featuring many of his famous characters from the Drones Club such as...
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The Forsyte Saga.
GALSWORTHY, John.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00| /With the dustjacket. The five volumes of the saga of the Forsyte family are here collected for the first time as 'The Forsyte Saga'. Very scarce in...
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Metroland.
BARNES, Julian.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /The author's first book.First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's blue boards, titles to spine in silver, grey endpapers, with the dust ja...
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The Beast Must Die.
[DAY LEWIS, Cecil]. BLAKE, Nicholas (pseud.)Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /The poet laureate, Cecil Day Lewis wrote a number of detective works under the name Nicholas Blake, of which this title is by far the best regarde...
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Absalom, Absalom.
FAULKNER, William.Original price £6,250.00 - Original price £6,250.00Original price £0.00£6,250.00£6,250.00 - £6,250.00Current price £6,250.00| /Many of Faulkner's books were produced in signed and limited issues within the first printing. The present title has always been one of the more s...
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The Gremlins.
DAHL, Roald.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /With photograph of Walt Disney in his studio. A very smart first edition copy of Roald Dahl's first book The Gremlins, a collaborative effort with ...
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Giacomo Joyce.
JOYCE, James.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The manuscript of this little erotic masterpiece was first discovered and published in America in a limited edition in 1967. This UK printing in t...
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Nineteen Stories.
GREENE, Graham.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00| /First edition of this post-war collection of stories, uncommon in the dustjacket. Stories include 'The Basement Room', subsequently filmed memorab...
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Dead Babies.
AMIS, Martin.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /The author's second book and one of his best.First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; pub...
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Many Dimensions.
WILLIAMS, Charles.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Very uncommon inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the on the front free endpaper, 'Charles Williams 14 Jan /31'. And with the armorial bookplate ...
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Solitude.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Solitude is a long, elegiac poem and was seen as the successor to Vita Sackville-West's award-winning poem The Land (1927).First edition, first im...
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Percy Wallingford and Mr. Pidger.
BERNERS, [Gerald] Lord.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00| /The dedication copy. Beneath the printed dedication the author has written, 'and again To Clarissa from Gerald October 1941'. The recipient Clariss...
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