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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The Fat Woman's Joke [with] The Fat Woman's Joke 1966 typescript.
WELDON, Fay.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Presentation copy - with signed 1966 typescript. First edition inscribed twice by the author in ink to the front free endpaper, together with the s...
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[The Alexandria Quartet]. Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea.
DURRELL, Lawrence.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00'Why should not people show more than one profile at a time?'. Unusually the first and scarcest title (Justine) is in much better condition than th...
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A Wrinkle in Time.
L'ENGLE, Madeleine.Original price £5,250.00 - Original price £5,250.00Original price £0.00£5,250.00£5,250.00 - £5,250.00Current price £5,250.00Setting copy used for the British edition. A particularly interesting setting copy of this American classic in the scarce first issue dust-jacket, ...
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Poem.
SPENDER, Stephen.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. Poem was first printed in the Spectator on 23 November 1934, and reprinted in The St...
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Perhaps.
SPENDER, Stephen.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Frederic Prokosch's copy. One of Prokosch's 'Butterfly Books'. An inscription by Prokosch refers to a 'letter from the author enclosed', which is n...
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The Singing Head.
YEATS, W.B.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Frederic Prokosch's copy. The Singing Head by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This ...
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Leda and the Swan.
YEATS, W.B.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Frederic Prokosch's copy. Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This...
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Pre-publication radio script for Words and Music.
BECKETT, Samuel.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Rare unrecorded Samuel Beckett item. A pre-publication script for Beckett's Words and Music, a radio play in one act for two voices, produced by M...
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Some Random Recollections
KNOPF, Alfred A.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Inscribed by the author to Paul & Pauline Gallico. One of a series of little keepsakes produced annually to mark this lecture series. With the ...
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The Edible Woman.
ATWOOD, Margaret.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Association copy of the author's first novel - with autograph letter. A lovely association copy of Atwood's first novel, inscribed to her friend Je...
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Shakespeare's Boy Actors.
DAVIES, W. Robertson.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00The noted Canadian author's first book, his Oxford honours thesis, on the life and training of Elizabethan boy actors. Uncommon in the dustjacket....
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Wander Birds.
WHITE, Eric Walter; REINIGER, Lotte (illustrator).Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00Association copy. Limited to 200 copies. This copy is inscribed by the author to his wife in black ink to the half-title: 'Dodo from Eric 1939'.Fir...
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The Room and Other Poems 1921-1926.
WHITE, Eric Walter.Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00Presentation copy. First edition of this collection of White's poetry from 1921-1926, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the front free endpape...
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A Tarot Deal.
WHITE, Eric Walter.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00The dedication copy. Number one of 25 copies signed and numbered by the author, this being the copy inscribed by the author to his wife to whom the...
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The Poet Assassinated.
DINE, Jim (illustrator); APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume; PADGETT, Ron (translator).Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00Signed by the artist. The first public translation into English of Guillaume Apollinaire's masterwork, illustrated by Jim Dine and signed by him on...
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Native Son.
WRIGHT, Richard.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00The book club issue - from the sheet and in the same binding as all the first printings - may be distinguished by the much more attractive pictori...
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