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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.

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  • Lady Chatterley's Lover.

    LAWRENCE, D.H.
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    One of 1000 copies - signed by the author. This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature of relationships and ...

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  • A Girl Like I:

    LOOS, Anita.
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    Presentation copy. Presentation copy to the actress Rosalind Russell and stage manager Charles Forsythe, inscribed by the author on the half-title:...

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  • An Artist of the Floating World.

    ISHIGURO, Kazuo.
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    Signed by the author. The author's second novel. A lovely signed example of the author's breakthrough work.First edition, first issue, signed by th...

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  • The Grapes of Wrath.

    STEINBECK, John.
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    'muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man'. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of t...

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  • Kiss Kiss.

    DAHL, Roald.
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    Presentation copy. A collection of short-stories by one of the masters of that medium, Kiss Kiss includes the apiologically disconcerting 'Royal Je...

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  • Islands in the Stream.

    HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
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    The first of Hemingway's fictional works to be published posthumously.First edition, first printing; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's green cloth...

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  • Blood Meridian.

    McCARTHY, Cormac.
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    First UK edition of McCarthy's epic novel Blood Meridian. This is McCarthy at his most baroque and apocalyptic.First UK edition; 8vo; slight tonin...

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  • Thoughts on Life and Literature.

    CAMERON, Norman E.
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    Rare first edition by the founder of Guyanese drama, dedicated to 'A New Guiana'.First edition; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, bookshop stamp to vers...

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  • The Cutlass Is Not For Killing.

    MAHABIR, Dennis J.
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    'The Cutlass Is Not For Killing is a story of today, written by a knowledgeable author of today, in the hope of a better future for the Trinidad o...

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  • Green Days by the River.

    ANTHONY, Michael.
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    Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the dedication page: 'To John La Rose / from / Michael Anthony / April...

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  • Heartland.

    HARRIS, Wilson.
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    Scarce short novel by the acclaimed Guyanese author, his first published work following the conclusion of the 'Guyana Quartet'.First edition, firs...

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  • Some Spanish Ballads.

    MERWIN, W.S.
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    A collection of Spanish poems translated from the Spanish by Merwin and dedicated to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.First edition, first printing; 8v...

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  • The French Lieutenant's Woman.

    FOWLES, John.
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    Signed by the author. A near-fine copy of Fowles' best-known work, signed by the author on the title page.First US edition, first impression, signe...

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  • The Naked Lunch.

    BURROUGHS, William.
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    First edition of Burroughs masterpiece, one of the triumphs of the Beat movement.First edition, first impression; 8vo; one or two small marks to t...

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  • One Hundred Years of Solitude.

    MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García.
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    Regarded as Garcia Marquez's masterpiece (the novel was originally published in 1967 as Cien Años De Solidad) which won the author worldwide recog...

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  • Another Roadside Attraction.

    ROBBINS, Tom.
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    The author's first book - with a signed photograph. Uncommon first UK edition of the author's first book. Together with a photograph signed by the ...

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  • On Being Ill.

    WOOLF, Virginia.
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    A fine copy of Woolf's poignant and humorous essay. Originally published by The Hogarth Press in 1930.First edition thus; 8vo; internally fine; pu...

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  • Light Falling on Bamboo.

    SCOTT, Lawrence.
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    Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'For dear Sarah Can it launch a book without being...

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  • Witchbroom.

    SCOTT, Lawrence.
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    Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'For dear John + Sarah - what to say: so much than...

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  • The Games Were Coming.

    ANTHONY, Michael.
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    Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the dedication page: 'To John La Rose / from / Michael Anthony / April...

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  • Scoop.

    WAUGH, Evelyn.
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    The first edition, first impression of Waugh's satirical take on Fleet Street journalism, Scoop, partly informed by his experiences as a war corre...

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  • Confucian Analects.

    POUND, Ezra.
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    First edition thus of Pound's translation of the Analects of Confucius, in the unclipped dustjacket.First edition thus; 8vo; scattered light spott...

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  • The Room.

    SELBY, Hubert, Jr.
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    Inscribed. The first UK edition of Hubert Selby Jr's The Room, inscribed by the author 'Good luck H. Selby Jr 1/29/88' in the original unclipped du...

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  • The Man with the Golden Gun.

    FLEMING, Ian.
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    The first edition, first impression of Ian Fleming's penultimate Bond work, The Man with the Golden Gun, with the wrap-around dustjacket by Richar...

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