KING, Jessie M.

Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910

Small 8vo, pp. 51. Original boards with oversized dustwrapper, colour illustrations to front and rear panel, spine lettered in grey. Publisher's ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

McGRATH, Pat

London: W.H. Allen, 1970

8vo, pp. 172. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first book, written when he was fourteen years old and published a year later. With a foreword by Alan Sillitoe, and a marvellously evocative photograph of the author on the rear panel.

LAWLISS, Chuck

New York: Gallery Books, N.d., stated first printing on verso of title page.

4to, pp. 155. Original white boards, lettered in pink on spine.

First edition.

MILLIGAN, Spike

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.

MILLIGAN, Spike

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

22 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. Series six, Number Three, first broadcast on 4 october 1955.

MILLIGAN, Spike

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

25 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. Series Six, Number Thirteen, first broadcast on 13 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MILLIGAN, Spike

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

20 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Two title pages (see below).

First edition. Series Six, Number Five, first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MILLIGAN, Spike

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

24 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. Series Six, Number Fifteen, first broadcast on 27 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MILLIGAN, Spike; STEPHENS, Larry

London: N.p. [BBC], 1956

23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. CO-WRITER LARRY STEPHENS' COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

LESSING, Doris

London: Cape, 1985

8vo, pp. 370. Original black boards lettered in gold on spine.

First edition, lacking the rare wraparound band.

SETH, Vikram

London: Faber, 1986

8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

ROY, Arundhati

London: Flamingo, 1997

8vo., pp. 340. Original purple boards, lettered in silver on spine. Dustwrapper.

First UK edition of the author's first book, and winner of the Booker Prize.

SPARK, Muriel

London: Macmillan, 1958

8vo, pp. 215. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First edition.

Spark's first collection of short stories, and a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] CARYLL, Ivan and MONCKTON, Lionel

London: Chapell & Co., 1908

4to, pp. 176, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Woodford Press, 1949

8vo, pp. 267. Original black cloth, lettered in yellow on spine.

First edition.
While use of the word 'gay' to denote homosexuality can be traced back at least to the 1920s and... [more]

DICK, Philip K.

New York: Ace, 1963

8vo, pp. 191. Original illustrated paper wrappers.

First edition. A paperback original.
The first hardback edition of this title did not... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

BURNS, John Horne

New York: Harper & Bros., 1947

8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]