

Modern First Editions
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.
SETH, Vikram
The Golden Gate
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
The God Of Small Things
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
The Go-Away Bird
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.
The Girl In Blue
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
8vo, pp. 182. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine, angel device in silver to front board. Illustrated dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMPSON, Jim
The Getaway
New York: Signet, 1958
8vo, pp. 127. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine weakened at pp. 46-7.
First edition.
Thompson's ultra-hardboiled thriller was the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DICK, Philip K.
The Game-Players Of Titan
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
The Gallery
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]
HUGHES, Richard
The Fox In The Attic
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961
8vo., pp. 352. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
FORSYTH, Frederick
The Fourth Protocol
London: Hutchinson, 1984
8vo, pp. 448. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
THOMAS, D. M.
The Flute-Player
London: Gollancz, 1979
8vo, pp. 192. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first novel.
Initially acclaimed as ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SASSOON, Siegfried
The Flower-Show Match And Other Pieces
London: Faber, 1941
8vo, pp. 157. Original green boards, lettered in red on front panel and spine.
First edition.
A small volume of memoirs culled from earlier work.
ONDAATJE, Michael
The English Patient
London: Bloomsbury, 1992
8vo, pp. 302. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, photographic author's portrait to rear flap. Blue endpapers,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
