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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.
  • Call for the Dead.

    LE CARRÉ, John.
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    First edition of the author's first novel. The exceedingly scarce first edition of the author's first novel, introducing the character of George Sm...

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  • The Pursuit of Love.

    MITFORD, Nancy.
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    Nancy Mitford's most successful novel dedicated to Gaston Palewski, with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she moved to Paris at the...

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  • Moonchild.

    CROWLEY, Aleister.
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    Moonchild was the second of Crowley's interwar novels - following Diary of a Drug Fiend in 1922. It is a wild fantastical roman-à-clef and inciden...

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  • Time Was Away. A Notebook in Corsica.

    MINTON, John (illustrator); ROSS, Alan.
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    Signed by the illustrator. Signed and dated (1955) by the artist on the title page. Minton was a parsimonious inscriber of books; we have seen only...

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  • The Drowned World.

    BALLARD, J.G.
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    Key climate change novel. A truly excellent first hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World antic...

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  • The Go-Between.

    HARTLEY, L.P.
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    Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page: 'For Leon Drucker, with all my good wishes, Leslie Har...

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  • The Good Citizen's Alphabet.

    RUSSELL, Bertrand.
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    Signed limited edition. A superb copy of the scarce limited edition of Russell's witty guide to the alphabet for 'immature minds', one of only 100 ...

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  • For the Unfallen: Poems 1952-1958.

    HILL, Geoffrey.
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    First edition of the author's first commercially published work, preceded only by a Fantasy Press pamphlet.First edition, first impression; 8vo; m...

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  • The Caretaker.

    PINTER, Harold.
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    Presentation copy. First Methuen edition, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title, ' Aug 1960. To Peter from Harold.' The recipient ...

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  • The Testament of Charlotte B.

    KOCIEJOWSKI, Marius (editor); SMITH, Richard Shirley (illustrator).
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    One of 50 copies - inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. One of 50 specially bound copies of the fascinating 18th century letters of Charlotte Biggs. Inscri...

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  • New Poems.

    THOMAS, Dylan.
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    One of 1000 copies only in purple boards, from The Poets of the Year series. A further 1500 copies were published in wrappers.First edition, first...

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  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

    THOMAS, Dylan.
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    The great man's first novel of which just 1500 copies were printed. Uncommon in this condition.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked inte...

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  • Vernon God Little.

    PIERRE, D.B.C.
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    Signed by the author. First edition of the author's first novel, signed by him on the title page.First edition, first impression, signed by the aut...

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  • The Old Men at the Zoo.

    WILSON, Angus.
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    Inscribed by the author. First edition of Wilson's post-apocalyptic novel, dealing with the fallout of nuclear war. Lengthily inscribed by the auth...

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  • Travelling People.

    JOHNSON, B.S.
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    First edition of the author's first book. First edition of the author's first book, in which the subject matter of each chapter dictates its litera...

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  • The Magic Christian.

    SOUTHERN, Terry.
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    First edition of the author's second novel. The basis of the 1969 movie starring Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers & Raquel Welch.First edition, firs...

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  • The Magic Christian.

    SOUTHERN, Terry.
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    First edition of the author's second novel. The basis of the 1969 movie starring Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers & Raquel Welch.First edition, firs...

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  • Flash and Filigree.

    SOUTHERN, Terry.
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    First edition of the acclaimed screenwriter's first novel.First edition, first impression; 8vo; slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked inte...

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