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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.
  • Tender is the Night.

    FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
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    Fitzgerald worked for six years on his most accomplished and ambitious novel. Its complex structure and delayed publication met with little critic...

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  • The Unreliable Nightingale.

    PATTEN, Brian.
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    Patten was, of course, one of the famous Mersey Beat poets together with Andrian Henri and Roger McGough. First edition, first impression, number ...

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  • A Full Moon in March.

    YEATS, W.B.
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    First edition, comprising two plays - 'A Full Moon in March' and 'The King of the Great Clock Tower,' plus seven poetical works under the collecti...

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  • Winner Take Nothing.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    A 1933 collection of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Hemingway, including A Clean, Well Lighted Place, which James Joyce called 'one of...

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  • A Single Man.

    ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
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    A near-fine, limited edition of which, purportedly, only about half the limitation was actually printed. The novel was more recently adapted for ...

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  • War with the Newts.

    ČAPEK, Karel.
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    Rare first edition in English of Čapek's classic science fiction novel, which extensively satirises contemporary European politics, including colo...

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  • The Children of Sisyphus.

    PATTERSON, H. Orlando.
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    Scarce first edition of this Jamaican author's first novel, one of the first to consider the emerging Rastafarian movement and the Jamaican ghetto...

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  • The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico.

    PAZ, Octavio.
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    First UK edition of one of Paz's most influential works, consisting of nine parts concerned with the theme of Mexican identity and demonstrate how...

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  • The Games Were Coming.

    ANTHONY, Michael.
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    Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpaper: 'To John La Rose / with gratitude and admiration / Michael Anth...

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  • The London Aphrodite.

    LINDSAY, Jack & STEPHENSEN P.R. (editors).
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    'A deliberately outrageous and iconoclastic "little magazine," whose title was intended to challenge The London Mercury. Like most little magazine...

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  • Midnight's Children.

    RUSHDIE, Salman.
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    'An extraordinary novel. One of the most important to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation.' (Robert Towers, The New York Tim...

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  • Songs from the Classics.

    GRINDROD, Charles F.; SPARE, Austin Osman (illustrator).
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    The second series of Grindrod's Songs from the Classics, including 'The Riddle of Oedipus' and 'Arachne'. With superb illustrations by Austin Osma...

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  • The Shadow of the Raggedstone.

    GRINDROD, Charles F.
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    Originally 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).
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    One 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).
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    One 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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  • A Tourist's Guide to Ireland.

    O'FLAHERTY, Liam.
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    Signed by the author. One of The Mandrake Booklets, signed by the author to the front free endpaper.In the manner of 18th-century satire, Liam O'Fl...

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  • The Well of Sleevelessness.

    STEPHENSEN, P.R.; COLLINS, Hal (illustrator).
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    Published by the short-lived Scholartis Press, a small private press in London, founded by Eric Partridge in 1927. The press closed in 1931, when ...

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  • A Tourist's Guide to Ireland.

    O'FLAHERTY, Liam.
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    The Mandrake Booklets. - No. I.In the manner of 18th-century satire, Liam O'Flaherty writes what purports to be a general guide to Ireland for for...

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  • Miss America: Altiora in the Sierra Nevada.

    TURNER, W.J.
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    One 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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