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]

THOMPSON, Jim

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.

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]

HUGHES, Richard

London: Chatto & Windus, 1961

8vo., pp. 352. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.

FORSYTH, Frederick

London: Hutchinson, 1984

8vo, pp. 448. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

THOMAS, D. M.

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

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

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]

New York: Henry Holt, 1927

8vo, pp. 263. Original green boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Dicky, for ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

DIBDIN, Michael

London: Faber and Faber 1993

8vo, pp.151. Orignal black boards, lettered in white to spine.... [more]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1963

8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared three months... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

MacDONALD, John D.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1974

8vo., pp. 228. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in silver on black to spine. Yellow endpapers. Printed dustwrapper with... [please click on the image or book title for more details]