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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Spring in New Hampshire.
McKAY, Claude.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| /First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the author's first book, not issued in this form in America. With the contemporary owner...
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En attendant Godot.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot. The best copy we have handled of what is effectively the earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot; a ...
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Happy Days:
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /A great play and a beautiful piece of book design.First edition in English, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt, wi...
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Ill Seen Ill Said.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00| /The first UK edition is particularly susceptible to fading, unlike this copy which has no fading at all.First UK edition, first impresion; 8vo; pu...
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Play
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00| /The jacket reproduces a scene from Play which could not be more Beckettian if it took steroids!First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's r...
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Of - By - and About Henry Miller.
MILLER, Henry.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| /Inscribed by the author. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the first leaf, 'For Hans Reitzel Henry Miller 6/16/57'. The recipien...
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How It Is.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /One of 100 copies - signed by the author. There were two limited issues of this first printing of How It Is. One in tan morocco, as here, and one i...
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Elephants Can Remember.
CHRISTIE, Agatha.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /Inscribed by the author to her personal secretary. A Poirot novel. A fine association copy with the author's signed presentation inscription to the...
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Portrait photograph of Samuel Beckett.
[BECKETT, Samuel]. BRASSAI.Original price £4,250.00 - Original price £4,250.00Original price £0.00£4,250.00£4,250.00 - £4,250.00Current price £4,250.00| /With photographer's presentation inscription. A stunning portrait of Beckett in his absolute prime, showing his head and shoulders, leaning slightl...
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Listen.
HARTLEY, George (editor).Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /A complete run in superb condition of an important little magazine, principally devoted to original poetry. The contributors included, Philip Lark...
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At Night.
SPENDER, Stephen.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| /Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. At Night was first printed in the London Mercury in May 1935, and not subsequently r...
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The Secret Agent.
CONRAD, Joseph.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Conrad's thriller was based on a true incident from the late nineteenth century - a bombing in Greenwich Park. His treatment of the psychology of ...
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On Beyond Zebra!
SEUSS, Dr. [pseud. GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].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| /An very good example of the first edition of Dr Seuss' On Beyond Zebra! In this take on the genre of the alphabet book, Seuss presents, instead of...
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Love Among The Ruins.
WAUGH, Evelyn.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /One of 350 copies - inscribed by the author. From an edition of 350 copies, this is of one of the first 50 reserved for Waugh's own use. With the a...
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A Book of Princeton Verse II.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (contributor) et al.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /Publisher's presentation copy to one of the contributors. A contributor's copy with the holograph presentation inscription to the front free endpap...
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Grimus.
RUSHDIE, Salman.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| /First UK & US printings - signed by the author. The author's first book in the UK and US printings. All your Grimus needs in one fell swoop.UK:...
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Tales of Unrest.
CONRAD, Joseph.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| /Conrad's third publication and in our experience the hardest of the first three to find in such superlative condition.First edition, first impress...
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