

Modern First Editions
BLATTY, William Peter
Which Way To Mecca, Jack?
New York: Bernard Geis, 1960
8vo, pp. 256. Original red and tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book.
A... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHARPE, Tom
Wilt
London: Secker & Warburg, 1976
8vo, pp. 211. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
BALLARD, J.G
Running Wild
London: Hutchinson, 1988
8vo, pp.72. Original black and brown three quarter boards, lettered in gilt to cover and spine.... [more]
WHITE, Patrick
The Twyborn Affair
London: Cape, 1979
8vo, pp. 432. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge brown.
First edition.
The Twyborn Affair was... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
City Without Walls
London: Faber, 1969
8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
A very nice copy.
AUDEN, W.H.
For The Time Being
London: Faber, 1944
8vo, pp. 124. Original orange boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, the US edition having appeared six months earlier.
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A Bend In The River
London: André Deutsch, 1979
8vo, pp. 296. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, author's photographic portrait to rear... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HUGHES, Ted
Difficulties Of A Bridegroom
London: Faber, 1995
8vo, pp. 159. Original dark blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. Poet and critic Anthony Thwaite's ... [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]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Yellow Admiral
London: Harper Collins, 1997
8vo, pp. 262. Original vermillion boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the eighteenth... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Nones
New York: Random House, 1951
8vo, pp. 81. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and in gilt on blue to spine. Printed... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BROOKNER, Anita
A Private View
London: Cape, 1994
8vo, pp.219. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to the spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
RUSHDIE, Salman
Shalimar The Clown
London: Cape, 2005
8vo, pp. 398. Original black boards, lettered in guilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
A fine ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FLEMING, Ian
Thunderball
London: Cape, 1961
8vo, pp. 254. Original black boards, skeletal hand blindstamped on front panel, lettered in gilt on spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
First... [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.
WINTERSON, Jeanette
Sexing The Cherry
London: Bloomsbury, 1989
8vo, pp. 167. Original blue boards, lettered in gold on spine and front panel. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition.
BOYLE, Kay
Year Before Last
New York : Greenburg, 1932
8vo, pp. 373. Original red boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition.
Boyle's second novel, dedicated to the poet Emanuel Carnevali,... [more]
