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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.
  • The Grass is Singing.

    LESSING, Doris.
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    Signed first edition of the author's first novel. An exceptional copy of the author's first novel, signed by her in black ink on the title page.Fir...

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  • Swanson on Swanson.

    SWANSON, Gloria.
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    Multiple signatories. First edition of Swanson's memoirs, signed by the author and seven other celebrities who attended a Foyles Literary Luncheon ...

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  • The Caretaker.

    PINTER, Harold.
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    True first edition, preceding the Methuen hardback edition of the same year. Pinter's first commercial success, first performed at the Arts Theatr...

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  • Chips with Everything.

    WESKER, Arnold.
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    First edition of a major English Stage Company play. 'A drama of striking power, intensity and conviction' (New York Post).First edition, first im...

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  • The Doomsday Book.

    MACLAREN-ROSS, J.
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    First edition of one of the scarcest Maclaren-Ross titles.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver...

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  • The Dark.

    MCGAHERN, John.
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    The author's scarce second novel, banned in Ireland by the Censorship Board for obscenity in 1965.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked i...

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  • Shame.

    RUSHDIE, Salman.
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    The author's third novel and the second in his series of books dealing with Islam and the countries of the East, beginning with Midnight's Childre...

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  • The Laird of Abbotsford:

    WILSON, A.N.
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    Signed by the author. First edition of this biography of Sir Walter Scott, signed by the author in black ink on the title page.First edition, first...

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  • The Time of the Crack.

    TENNANT, Emma.
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    The author's second book and first Science Fiction novel. Preceded by her earlier novel, The Colour of Rain (1964), published under the pseudonym ...

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  • The Ever-Interesting Topic.

    [HOFF, Harry Summerfield] COOPER, William (pseud).
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    First edition of this satirical novel set in a boys school.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt...

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  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

    [DE QUINCEY, Thomas].
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    An excellent copy in the original boards of 'the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature' (Norman).First published in the Lond...

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  • The Method of Ethics.

    SIDGWICK, Henry.
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    One of the few indisputable classics in the history of moral philosophy'. The first edition of this systematic study of ethics often considered the...

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  • The Third Policeman.

    O'BRIEN, Flann.
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    One of The Master's masterpieces. A mystery story concerning the disappearance of a policeman and the strange presence of strange bicycles....Firs...

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  • I am Lazarus.

    KAVAN, Anna.
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    First impression of the true first edition, produced to wartime economy standards, in its original thin boards. Scarce in its original fragile war...

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  • Loot.

    ORTON, Joe.
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    Orton's second staged play, widely regarded as a comic masterpiece. Winner of the 1966 Evening Standard Drama Award for best play.First edition, c...

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  • Stories and Plays.

    O'BRIEN, Flann.
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    A collection of stories in which the writer reveals himself in all his incarnations - as playwright, as novelist, as short-story writer and critic...

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  • The Poor Mouth (An Béal Bocht).

    [O'BRIEN, Flann] GOPALEEN, Miles na (pseud.); POWER, PATRICK C. (translator); STEADMAN, Ralph (illustrator).
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    First English-language edition of Flann O'Brien's comic masterpiece, first published in the original Gaelic and Anglo-Irish dialect in 1941.First ...

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  • The Case of the Perjured Parrot.

    GARDNER, Erle Stanley.
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    First edition of the author's fourteenth title to feature the character of Perry Mason.First edition, first impression; 8vo; very slight age-tonin...

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  • Dictionnaire Abrégé du Surréalisme.

    [SURREALISM].
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    Containing valuable information about the poets and visual artists of the movement, the work was compiled to accompany the 1938 Exposition Interna...

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  • Le Nouveau Candide.

    PENROSE, Valentine.
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    Superb association copy - inscribed to André Breton. A superb association copy, inscribed by the author to André Breton on the half-title, 'à André...

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