

Modern First Editions
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Clarissa Oakes
London: Harper Collins, 1992
8vo, pp. 256. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO TITLE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
The Dyer's Hand
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]
ISHIGURO, Kazuo
A Pale View Of Hills
London: Faber, 1982
8vo, pp. 183. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Ishiguro's first novel, now... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DeLILLO, Don
The Body Artist
London: Picador, 2001
8vo, pp. 124. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
Review copy: London Review of Books slip laid in.
THIRLWELL, Adam
Politics
London: Cape, 2003
8vo., pp. 279. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
CUSK, Rachel
Arlington Park
London: Faber, 2006
8vo., pp. 240. Original grey boards, lettered in black on spine.
First edition. Shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize.
SHAW, Irwin
Evening In Byzantium
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1973
8vo, pp. 312. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First U.K. edition. Novel set at the Cannes Film Festival.
BURN, Gordon
Fullalove
London: Secker and Warburg, 1995
8vo, pp. 232. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
Burn's follow-up to his Whitbread-winning Alma Cogan.
GLYDER, John
Flaming June
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1949
8vo, pp. 256. Original orange boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
TENNANT, Emma
The Time Of The Crack
London: Cape, 1973
8vo, pp. 142. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of Tennant's second book, and the first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIEN, Edna
Night
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972
8vo, pp. 151. Original brown boards, lettered in orange and white on spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. A fine copy.
HUGHES, Richard
The Fox In The Attic
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961
8vo., pp. 352. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
RICHLER, Mordecai
Cocksure
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968
8vo., pp. 207. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
[Olympia Press] O'CONNOR, Philip
Steiner's Tour
Paris: Olympia Press, 1960
8vo, pp. 170. Original green stiff paper wrappers. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition.
Extracts from the book appeared in the Olympia Press publication Evergreen Review,... [more]
GEE, Maggie
My Driver
London: Telegram, 2009
8vo, pp. 321. Original black boards, lettered in black on a gold spine. In the dustwrapper.
First edition.
Longlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards.
McMILLAN, Terry
Waiting To Exhale
London: Doubleday, 1992
8vo, pp. 366. Original blue boards, lettered in gold on spine. Pictorial dustwrapper.
First U.K. edition.
YATES, Dornford
Cost Price
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1949
8vo, pp. 286. Original black boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First edition. One of the Chandos books, written in the characteristic Yates style -- a style once described by Alan... [more]
YATES, Dornford
Lower Than Vermin
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1950
8vo, pp. 325. Original black boards, lettered in blue on spine.
First edition.
