

Modern First Editions
BYROM, James
The Olive Mill
London: Heinemann, 1966
8vo, pp. 284. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE NOVELIST AND CRITIC DEREK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. GREENE, Graham]
The Old School
London: Cape, 1934
8vo, pp. 256. Original black boards, lettered in pale blue to front panel and spine. Bottom edge uncut.
First edition.
A collection... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
Le CARRE, John
The Naive And Sentimental Lover
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971
8vo., pp. 416. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition.
MILLER, Arthur
The Misfits
New York: Viking Press, 1961
8vo, pp. 132. Original beige boards, lettered in red on spine.
First edition of Miller's novelisation of his own screenplay. The film... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FULLER, Roy
The Middle Of A War
London: Hogarth Press, 1942
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine.
First edition. Volume VIII in the New Hogarth Library.
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Mauritius Command
London: Collins, 1977
8vo, pp. 268. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
An early entry -- instalment four -- in O'Brian's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. AUDEN, W.H., and KALLMAN, Chester]
The Magic Flute
New York: Random House, 1957
8vo, pp. 108. Original three-quarter pink and grey striped boards, lettered in mauve, blue, orange and silver to spine. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Little Warrior
New York: George H. Doran, 1920
8vo, pp. 384. Original tan boards, lettered in green and tan-on-green to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. pseud. CRAIGIE, Dorothy [GLOVER, Dorothy]] GREENE, Graham
The Little Horse Bus
London: Max Parrish, 1952
Small 4to, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine, and gilt device to front panel.
First edition.
Greene and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NESS, Patrick
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
London: Walker Books, 2008
8vo., pp. 479. Original illustrated boards, covered by the original transparent dustwrapper lettered in red.
First edition of the first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, the... [more]
OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
Young 2953
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Intrusion Of Jimmy
New York: W.J. Watt, 1910
8vo, pp. 314. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Hundred Days
London: Harper Collins, 1998
8vo, pp. 281. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the nineteenth book in the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BOURJAILY, Vance
The Hound of Earth
New York: Scribner's, 1955
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.
First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]
GREENE, Graham
The Honorary Consul
London: Bodley Head, 1973
8vo, pp. 335. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
A very nice copy.
STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
McGRATH, Pat
The Green Leaves Of Nottingham
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.
LESSING, Doris
The Good Terrorist
London: Cape, 1985
8vo, pp. 370. Original black boards lettered in gold on spine.
First edition, lacking the rare wraparound band.
