

Modern First Editions
AUDEN, W.H.
About The House
London: Faber, 1966
8vo, pp. 94. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Errata slip.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared six... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Look, Stranger!
London: Faber, 1936
8vo, pp. 68. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Auden was less than impressed by Faber's choice of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREENE, Graham
In Search Of A Character
London: Bodley Head,
8vo, pp. 123. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to red spine. Illustrated endpapers.
First edition.
Two... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NORTON, Mary
The Borrowers Aloft
London: J.M. Dent, 1951
8vo, pp. 154. Original blue boards, lettered in red to spine. Line drawing in red to front panel. Illustrated endpapers and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SIMMONDS, Posy
Gemma Bovery
London: Cape, 1999
Tall 8vo, pp. 106. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE.
DAWE, Carlton
Waste Lands
London: Ward, Lock, 1935
8vo, pp. 256. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with publisher's series number to spine.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Cosmopolitan
New York: International Magazine Company, 1922
Magazine format, pp. 168. Original illustrated paper wrappers.
One of Wodehouse's most famous short stories, and... [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.
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]
GREEN, Julian
The Transgressor
New York: Pantheon, 1957
8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.
First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]
[ed. JOLAS, Eugene]
Transition No. 22
The Hague: Servire Press: February 1933
8vo, pp. 179. Original outsize printed paper wrappers,inevitably worn at edges.
First edition.
With contributions from Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, Eugene Jolas and Stuart ... [more]
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]
LEONARD, Elmore
Get Shorty
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990
8vo, pp. 292. Original black and white boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition of perhaps the author's most famous book,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
VERCEL, Roger
Tides Of Mont St. Michel
New York: Random House, 1938
8vo, pp. 305. Original grey boards, lettered in black-on-red on spine. Top edge stained mauve.
First English-language edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CHATWIN, Bruce
On The Black Hill
London: Cape, 1982
8vo, pp. 249. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
Chatwin's third book, and his first novel.
HIGGINS, Jack
Storm Warning
London: Collins, 1976
8vo, pp. 277. Original grey boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
WWII thriller from the author of The Eagle Has... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FREUD, Esther
Hideous Kinky
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992
8vo, pp. 186. Original black boards, lettered in solver on spine.
First edition of the author's first novel, filmed with Kate Winslet ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MISTRY, Rohinton
Such A Long Journey
London: Faber, 1991
8vo, pp. 339. Original blue boards, lettered in white on spine.
First edition of the author's first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
