

Modern First Editions
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Little Warrior
New York: George H. Doran, 1920
8vo, pp. 384. Original tan boards, lettered in green and tan-on-green to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HOLLINGHURST, Alan
The Line Of Beauty
London: Picador, 2004
8vo, pp. 501. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Winner of the ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LEWIS, C.S.
The Last Battle
London: Bodley Head, 1956
8vo, pp. 184. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the last... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GARNER, Alan
The Lad of the Gad
London: Collins, 1980
8vo, pp. 116. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
NESS, Patrick
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
London: Walker Books, 2008
8vo., pp. 479. Original illustrated boards, covered by the original transparent dustwrapper lettered in red.
First edition of the first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, the... [more]
OTIS, Harry
The Keval, And Other Gay Adventures
Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959
8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.
First edition.
Young 2953
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Intrusion Of Jimmy
New York: W.J. Watt, 1910
8vo, pp. 314. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Tissue guard to frontispiece.
First edition,... [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]
MILNE, A.A.
The House At Pooh Corner
London: Methuen,
1928
8vo, pp. 178. Original salmon boards, lettered in gilt to spine, two Sheperd vignettes in gilt to front panel. Pink illustrated endpapers.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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]
GREENE, Graham
The Honorary Consul
London: Bodley Head, 1973
8vo, pp. 335. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
A very nice copy.
STONE, Grace Zaring
The Grotto
New York: Harper Bros., 1951
8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.
First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]
McGRATH, Pat
The Green Leaves Of Nottingham
London: W.H. Allen, 1970
8vo, pp. 172. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, written when he was fourteen years old and published a year later. With a foreword by Alan Sillitoe, and a marvellously evocative photograph of the author on the rear panel.
LESSING, Doris
The Good Terrorist
London: Cape, 1985
8vo, pp. 370. Original black boards lettered in gold on spine.
First edition, lacking the rare wraparound band.
SETH, Vikram
The Golden Gate
London: Faber, 1986
8vo, pp. 307. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's first book, a novel written entirely in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SPARK, Muriel
The Go-Away Bird
London: Macmillan, 1958
8vo, pp. 215. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Spark's first collection of short stories, and a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Girl In Blue
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
8vo, pp. 182. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine, angel device in silver to front board. Illustrated dustwrapper,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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]
