Modern First Editions
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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The Shadow of the Raggedstone.
GRINDROD, Charles F.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Originally published in 1887, this is the first edition with the much sought after cover art by Austin Osman Spare.First edition thus; 8vo; slight...
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Merry-Go-Down. A Gallery of Gorgeous Drunkards through the Ages.
[HESELTINE, Philip] NOOLAS, Rab (pseud.); COLLINS, Hal (illustrator).Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00One of 600 copies. Limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is number 133. With contributions from Genesis through Pliny, Plato, Seneca and Pe...
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Amorous Fiammetta.
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni; JOSLING, K.H. (editor); LEONE, M. (illustrator).Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00One of 550 copies. A beautifully illustrated edition of Boccaccio's novel, reprinted from the original English translation of Bartholomew Young (15...
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Miss America: Altiora in the Sierra Nevada.
TURNER, W.J.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00One of 500 copies - signed by the author. One of 500 copies on Japanese vellum, signed and numbered by the author. Signed limited edition of Walter...
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You Only Live Twice.
FLEMING, Ian.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Jonathan from Ian'. The identity of Jonathan h...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00First edition, published a year before the UK edition, of this remarkable record of the 1960s 'tune in, turn on, drop out' culture that defined th...
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In a Green Night. Poems 1948 - 1960.
WALCOTT, DerekOriginal price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00The Nobel Laureate's first book to be published in the UK.First edition, first impression; 8vo; Publisher's cream cloth-backed green boards, title...
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The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies.
JOYCE, James.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00A beautiful piece of Dutch book production, with Lucia's characteristic illustrations. Prints a famous section of Finnegans Wake (the known as Wor...
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Down and Out in Paris and London.
ORWELL, George.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00First edition of the author's first book. Orwell's first book was printed in a run of just 1500 copies many of which sold to the circulating librar...
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The Mandrake Booklets:
[MANDRAKE PRESS]; STEPHENSEN, P.R.; CROWLEY, Aleister [et al.].Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Complete set of The Mandrake Booklets - with nine presentation copies. The complete set of The Mandrake Booklets in the original dustjackets, publi...
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The Maze.
SANDOZ, Maurice; DALI, Salvador (illustrator).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Signed by the illustrator. An attractive first edition, signed by Salvador Dali on the front free endpaper.A macabre tale by the pioneering Swiss f...
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Where The Wild Things Are.
SENDAK, Maurice.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00The true first edition. The true first edition with the correct first state dustjacket. A fine, well-preserved copy of what is perhaps the best-lov...
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A Prefect's Uncle.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00The author's uncommon second book, here in the earliest issue.First edition, first impression, first issue of the author's second book (with adver...
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The Watch Tower and Other Lyrics.
WHITE, Eric Walter.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00The author's copy. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is number 99, from the collection of Eric Walter White.Limited edition, number 99 o...
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