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 House of the Dead.
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor; GARNETT, Constance (translator).Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00First Constance Garnett translation of Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical novel. A very uncommon and important edition; published as volume five i...
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AMIS, Martin.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Presentation copy. First edition of what is widely considered to be Amis' masterpiece, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'To Pete...
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Asylum Piece.
KAVAN, Anna.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00First edition of the author's first book under the name Anna Kavan; a collection of 19 linked short stories marking a radical departure from the a...
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Out of the Shelter.
LODGE, David.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 copy. The author's copy of his fourth book. Scarce thus, as it was rapidly pulped by the publishers after a litany of misprints and ot...
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The Naked Civil Servant.
CRISP, Quentin.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00Presentation copy. Rare presentation copy of Quentin Crisp's 'early' memoirs, inscribed on the front free endpaper, 'To John McFadden from Quentin ...
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Greek Horizons. Volume 1, No. 1.
PATMORE, Derek (editor); DURRELL, Lawrence; WARNER, Rex; WALLER, John [et al.] (contributors).Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00Signed by John Waller. The first and only appearance of Greek Horizons, a literary journal founded in Athens in 1946 by British author and war corr...
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Repetition.
KIERKEGAARD, Søren.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00The whole of life is a repetition'. Kierkegaard's great philosophical novel exploring the concepts of atonement, and the remembrance of things to c...
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The Harder They Fall.
SCHULBERG, Budd.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Presentation copy. First edition of the author's second book, with his signed presentation inscription in blue ink to the front free endpaper, 'For...
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The Ginger Man.
DONLEAVY, J.P.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00First edition of the author's first novel; a debauched comedy set in post-war Dublin, following the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield.First e...
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En attendant Godot.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Effectively the earliest obtainable manifestation of Godot.Written between October 1948 and January 1949, the play was not produced until January ...
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Deaths and Entrances.
THOMAS, Dylan.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00An exceptional copy of the author's most celebrated collection of poems, which deals with the effects of World War II.First edition, first impress...
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When We Were Here Together.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00One of 75 copies - hand-painted by the author. One of 75 copies prepared and painted by the author, of which this is number 51.Kenneth Patchen was ...
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The Pump House Gang.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £85.00 - Original price £85.00Original price £0.00£85.00£85.00 - £85.00Current price £85.00First edition of this collection of essays and journalism exploring various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s.First edition, first impres...
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00First edition of the author's first collected book of essays.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's white cloth, d...
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The British Museum is Falling Down.
LODGE, David.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00First edition of the author's scarce third novel.First edition, first impression; 8vo; some toning to page stock, else unmarked internally; publis...
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