

Modern First Editions
CHATWIN, Bruce
UTZ
London: Cape, 1988
8vo, pp.154. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A fine unread copy in a near fine dustwrapper with one small spot of wear to foot of spine.... [more]
DOYLE, Roddy
A Star Called Henry
London: Cape, 1990
8vo, pp. 343. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. Minimal edgewear to head of spine, otherwise a fine, unread copy. ... [more]
MORRISON, Toni
Tar Baby
London: Chatto & Windus, 1981
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition of the author's fourth novel.
CHAUDHURI, Amit
Afternoon Raag
London: Heinemann, 1993
8vo, pp. 133. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
[illus. LEMAN, Martin] CARTER, Angela
Comic And Curious Cats
New York: Harmony Books, 1979
4to, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First US edition.
A sparkling copy.
[illus. RIDDELL, Chris] HUGHES, Ted
FFangs The Vampire Bat And The Kiss Of Truth
London: Faber, 1986
Small 4to, pp. 96. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
Hughes in playful mood, but as muscular as ever.
SWIFT, Graham
Ever After
London: Picador, 1992
8vo, pp. 261. Original black boards, lettered in gilt.
First edition of the author's 6th book and 5th novel. Swift's bestselling book... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MOODY, Rick
Purple America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997
8vo, pp. 298. Original purple and black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's fourth novel,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, D. M.
The Flute-Player
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]
COETZEE, J. M.
Summertime
London: Harvill Secker, 2009
8vo, pp. 266. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition. The third installment of Coetzee's 'fictionalised... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FORSYTH, Frederick
The Fourth Protocol
London: Hutchinson, 1984
8vo, pp. 448. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
YATES, Dornford
B-Berry And I Look Back
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1958
8vo, pp. 285. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
ARCHER, Jeffrey
A Quiver Full Of Arrows
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980
8vo, pp. 190. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
First collection of short stories from one of Britain's leading perjurors.
BAILY, F. E.
Keep On Dancing
London: Odhams Press, N.d. [1938]
8vo, pp. 251. Original red boards, lettered in black on spine.
First edition.
A beautiful copy.
LLEWELLYN, Alun
Jubilee John
London: Arthur Barker, 1939
8vo, pp. 290. Original black boards, lettered in white on spine.
First edition.
Satirical romp through pre-war London nightlife. An unknown title by a forgotten author, in lovely... [more]
DUNNING, John
The Bookman's Wake
New York : Scribner, 1995
8vo, pp. 351. Original tan and maroon quarter boards, lettered in red and tan-on-red on spine.
First edition. The second of Dunning's biblio-mysteries featuring the bookloving detective... [more]
BROWN, George Mackay
Magnus
London: Hogarth Press, 1973
8vo, pp. 206. Original red boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First edition of Brown's second novel, the basis for Peter Maxwell Davies' one-act opera The Martyrdom of Saint... [more]
TREVOR, William
The Children Of Dynmouth
London: Bodley Head, 1976
8vo., pp. 222. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition. Booker shortlisted, and winner of the Whitbread Prize.
