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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Breakfast at Tiffany's.
CAPOTE, Truman.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00The first edition of Truman Capote's renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward's film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.First edition...
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Poem-Scapes.
PATCHEN, Kenneth.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00One of 75 copies - hand-painted by the author. One of 75 copies prepared and painted by the author, of which this is number 30.Kenneth Patchen was ...
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Troubles.
FARRELL, J.G.Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00Winner of the 'lost' Booker Prize. The winner of the so-called 'lost' Booker Prize, a special edition of the Booker Prize awarded after a decisive ...
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The Picturegoers.
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 first book, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper and annotations throughout.First ed...
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[Frank Dawley Trilogy:] The Death of William Posters; A Tree on Fire; The Flame of Life.
SILLITOE, Alan.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Signed by the author. First edition of the Frank Dawley trilogy, following the anarchist Nottingham factory-worker Frank Dawley. Signed by the auth...
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The Tailor of Panama.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £275.00 - Original price £275.00Original price £0.00£275.00£275.00 - £275.00Current price £275.00Signed by the author. 'It was a perfectly ordinary Friday afternoon in tropical Panama until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pendel's shop asking t...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities.
WOLFE, Tom.Original price £75.00 - Original price £75.00Original price £0.00£75.00£75.00 - £75.00Current price £75.00Uncorrected proof copy. Uncorrected proof copy. One of Tom Wolfe's most well-known novels, allowing his journalistic instincts and insight to bear ...
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A Small Town in Germany.
LE CARRÉ, John.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Signed by the author. 'Only the Foreign Officer; a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador". The bull is Alan Turner, a...
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Wintering Out.
HEANEY, Seamus.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00The true first edition of Heaney's third collection of poetry, preceding the hardback edition by a year. 'Though Seamus Heaney is now back in his ...
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Finnegans Wake.
JOYCE, James.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00Joyce's last and most innovative prose work. One of 3,400 sets of sheets for the trade edition of Finnegans Wake which were printed for Faber. Of t...
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The 4-Dimensional Nightmare.
BALLARD, J.G.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00Ballard's second Gollancz publication and uncommon in this first issue binding. So normally this book comes in the standard Gollancz red boards. A...
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Femmes Damnées.
LARKIN, Philip.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00One of 400 copies - inscribed by the author to Bruce Montgomery with ALS. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to his close friend Br...
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Responses.
HEANEY, Seamus (Contributor).Original price £45.00 - Original price £45.00Original price £0.00£45.00£45.00 - £45.00Current price £45.00First edition, with contributions from Seamus Heaney ('Servant Boy'), D. J. Enright, Jon Silkin, among others.First edition, unnumbered issue; 4to...
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