

Modern First Editions
[BETJEMAN, John]
A Garland For The Laureate
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Celandine Press, 1981
Small 4to, unpaginated. Original marbled wrappers, title label lettered in red to front panel.
First edition. No. 166 of ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WHITE, Patrick
The Cockatoos
London: Cape, 1974
8vo, pp. 307. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge blue.
First edition.
A collection of six novellas and short... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AMIS, Kingsley
One Fat Englishman
London: Gollancz, 1963
8vo, pp. 192. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
MANTEL, Hilary
An Experiment In Love
London: Viking, 1995
8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
BYROM, James
The Olive Mill
London: Heinemann, 1966
8vo, pp. 284. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE NOVELIST AND CRITIC DEREK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BELLAH, James Warner
Gods Of Yesterday
New York/London: D. Appleton & Co., 1928
8vo, pp. 259. Original black boards, paper title labels to front panel and spine. Pictorial endpapers.
First edition? [please click on the image or book title for more details]
EDMUNDS, Murrell
Sojourn Among Shadows
Idaho: Caxton, 1936
8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First edition.
Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal... [more]
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]
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.
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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.
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]
