

Modern First Editions
ROBSON, Don
Young and Sensitive
London: Hutchinson, 1964
8vo, pp. 175. Uncorrected proof copy. Original printed red stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Endpapers illustrated with facsimile manuscript.
Uncorrected proof copy of the author's...[please click on the image or book title for more details]
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]
KENT, Alexander
With All Despatch
London: Hutchinson, 1988
8vo, pp. 272. Original blue boards, lettered in gold to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of the eighteenth Bolitho title.
ROGERS, Leigh
Wine Of Fury
London: Grant Richards, 1924
8vo, pp. 340. Original red boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.
First U.K. edition, published the same year as the Knopf (U.S.) edition.
A novel set during the... [more]
SHARPE, Tom
Wilt
London: Secker & Warburg, 1976
8vo, pp. 211. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
[McKERN, Leo] MORTIMER, John
Will Shakespeare
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977
8vo, pp. 256. Original light brown boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FORD, Richard
Wildlife
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990
8vo, pp. 177. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's fifth novel, SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
YATES, Dornford
Wife Apparent
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1956
8vo, pp. 316. Original black boards, lettered in gold on spine.
First edition.
Originally entitled Lady In Waiting, the title was changed after printing when it was... [more]
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]
CARVER, Raymond
Where I'm Calling From
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988
8vo, pp. 393. Original browned boards, tooled in gilt on front panel and lettered in gilt at spine. Leading edge... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. FORTNUM, Peggy] ROBINSON, Joan G.
When Marnie Was There
London: Collins, 1967
8vo, pp. 224. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
Shortlisted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl
Watson's Apology
London: Duckworth, 1984
8vo, pp. 222. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
SWIFT, Graham
Waterland
London: Heinemann, 1983
8vo, pp. 310. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Author's photographic portrait to rear flap.
First ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DAWE, Carlton
Waste Lands
London: Ward, Lock, 1935
8vo, pp. 256. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with publisher's series number to spine.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MALLINSON, Allan
Warrior In South Africa, Matthew Hervey clashes with the warrior king of the Zulus
London: Bantam, 2008
8vo, pp.337. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. A fine, unread copy.... [more]
BALLARD, J.G
War Fever
London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1990
8vo, pp.176. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine. A fine, unread copy.... [more]
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.
[trans. AUDEN, W.H. and TAYLOR, Paul B.]
Völuspá
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1968
8vo, unpaginated. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt and with publisher's device reminiscent of Thor's hammer stamped in blind to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
