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Modern First Edition books represents one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of book collecting, attracting collectors of literature across a range of ages and catering to a very broad church of tastes and enthusiasms. Here we have a wide variety of signed, inscribed, and limited editions by the most sought-after authors. Shop now.

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  • Waiting for Godot:

    BECKETT, Samuel.
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    True first edition in English. The true first edition in English of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century, preceded by Beckett's...

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  • Here Comes Everyone.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    The title, of course, a reference to the hero of Finnegans Wake, H. C. Earwicker.First edition, first impression. 8vo; publisher's green cloth, ti...

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  • The Grass Harp.

    CAPOTE, Truman.
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    First edition of the author's second novel.First edition, first printing; 8vo; mild offsetting to endpapers, slight age-toning, else unmarked inte...

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  • King Lazarus.

    BETI, Mongo.
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    Mongo Beti has an almost unique gift for getting humour out of vitally serious subjects. Here he satirises in turn the Catholic Church, obsolete t...

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  • God the Stonebreaker.

    BENNETT, Alvin.
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    Inscribed by the author. The first edition, first impression of Alvin Bennett's satirical novel God the Stonebreaker, inscribed by the author 'To J...

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  • Epithalamium.

    SITWELL, Edith.
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    One of 100 copies - signed by the author. One of 100 copies signed by the author, printed on English handmade paper and specially bound. With the o...

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  • Gold Coast Customs and Other Poems.

    SITWELL, Edith.
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    First edition in the original dustjacket. A very good first edition in the original dust jacket. 'Two new long poems and some songs are contained i...

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  • The Song of the Cold.

    SITWELL, Edith.
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    Presentation copy to her sister-in-law Georgia Sitwell. Inscribed by the author in black ink to her sister-in-law on the front free endpaper, 'For ...

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  • Gentle Caesar.

    MINNEY, R.J.; SITWELL, Osbert.
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    Presentation copy to the author's brother and sister-in-law. Inscribed and dated in blue ink by Osbert Sitwell to his brother and sister-in-law, 'F...

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  • Canons of Giant Art

    SITWELL, Sacheverell.
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    Presentation copy to the poet Edmund Blunden. Inscribed and dated by the author in black ink to Edmund Blunden on front free endpaper, 'To Edmund B...

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  • [Batsford Colour Books Series]:

    SITWELL, Sacheverell.
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    Five presentation copies to his son Francis Sitwell. A delightful five-volume set of works from the Batsford Colour Books Series, each inscribed in...

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  • Clowns' Houses.

    SITWELL, Edith.
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    Presentation copy to her governess and companion Helen Rootham. Inscribed by the author in pencil to front free endpaper, 'To Helen / With my very ...

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  • Section: Rock Drill 85-95 de los cantares.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    This section of the Cantos derives its name from the title of a review by Wyndham Lewis in the New Stateman and Nation (7 April 1951): 'The Rock D...

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  • Cantos LII-LXXI.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    First edition in the second state dustjacket. One of 1000 copies printed.First edition; 8vo; slight age-toning, else unmarked internally; publishe...

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  • The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    One of 4000 copies, with 750 distributed for the UK edition.First edition; 8vo; ownership inscription dated 1956 to front free endpaper, slight ag...

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  • Sophokles, Women of Trachis.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    One of 3000 copies printed. First American edition of Pound's translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a Greek tragedy considered by Pound to r...

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  • Moscardino.

    POUND, Ezra (translator); PEA, Enrico.
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    One of 1000 copies. One of 1000 copies. Pound's translation of the first volume of Enrico Pea's four-volume novel, Il romanzo di Moscardino.First e...

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  • De Moribus Brachmanorum.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    One of 500 copies. Number 235 of 500 copies anonymously edited by Ezra Pound. The publisher had planned a series of texts edited 'a po[und],' hence...

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  • Canto 98.

    POUND, Ezra; RACHEWITZ, Mary de (translator).
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    One of 1000 copies. Number 525 of 1000 copies. Published November 1958 in the publisher's 'Serie Letteraria'. First edition, number 525 of 1000 cop...

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