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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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  • The Kingdom of the Wicked.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.First edition, first i...

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  • The End of the World News.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Presented without chapter breaks, the plot weaves together three storylines. One follows Leon Trotsky on a journey to New York City shortly before...

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  • Little Wilson and Big God.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Presentation copy. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, 'To John & Andrew / Anthony Burgess / May 23 / 1988'.Fi...

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  • Any Old Iron.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Signed by the author. First edition of this modern take on the legend of Excalibur. Signed by the author on the title page.First edition, first imp...

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  • On Going to Bed.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Review copy - signed by the author. Review copy, signed by the author on the title page.First edition of this historical survey of the bed in theor...

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  • Ninety-Nine Novels:

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, lists his favourite novels in the English language from 1939 to 1983, including works by most of the gr...

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  • The Novel Now:

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First edition, intended 'for those, especially the young, who are starting to take the art of the novel seriously and want to organize their readi...

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  • The Eve of Saint Venus.

    BURGESS, Anthony; PAGRAM, Edward (illustrator).
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    Originally conceived as a play in three acts in 1952, it was rewritten as a novella after the author initially failed to find a theatre willing to...

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  • MF.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First edition of the novel that Burgess considered a personal favourite of all his writings. 'It is a rich feast of word-and-thought play: Greek t...

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  • The Clockwork Testament

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First edition of the third book of the Enderby quartet, originally intended as the final book in the series.First edition, first impression; 8vo; ...

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  • The Novel To-day.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Burgess' examination of novelists of the early 1960s, including Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, J.B. Priestly, Malcolm Cowley, Graham Greene...

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  • Urgent Copy:

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First edition of Burgess' personal selection of the best of his literary criticism over a period of six years.First edition, first impression; 8vo...

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  • Devil of a State.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First edition, based upon Burgess' experiences working in Brunei.First edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth,...

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  • Moses:

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    First UK edition of the first book in Burgess' Biblical trilogy.First UK edition, first impression; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's brown cl...

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  • The Executioner's Song.

    MAILER, Norman.
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    First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel, detailing murder and punishment in the 'moneyless side of the modern West' (jacket)....

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  • Look Back in Anger.

    OSBORNE, John.
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    Osborne's highly autobiographical play concerns a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class o...

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  • A Shorter Finnegans Wake.

    JOYCE, James; BURGESS, Anthony (editor).
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    Joyce's masterpiece revised by the satirist and literary critic Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). Published simultaneously in paperback, this hardback ...

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  • A Clockwork Orange.

    BURGESS, Anthony.
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    Three issues exist: two in black boards - the first priced 16s, the second priced 18s; thirdly, in the late '60s the last copies were issued in pu...

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  • Breakfast at Tiffany's.

    CAPOTE, Truman.
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    The first edition of Truman Capote's renowned novella, the basis for Blake Edward's film, starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.First edition...

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