

Modern First Editions
GOLDING, William
Free Fall
London: Faber, 1959
8vo., pp. 253. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
One of 7500 copies of the author's fourth novel.
Gekoski & Grogan A6a.
THIRLWELL, Adam
Politics
London: Cape, 2003
8vo., pp. 279. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
NAIPAUL, V. S.
Guerillas
London: Deutsch, 1975
8vo., pp. 253. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
[pseud. CONNOLLY, Cyril] PALINURUS
The Unquiet Grave
London: Horizon, 1944
8vo., pp. 107. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, no. 419 of 1000 copies.
FULLER, Roy
Fantasy And Fugue
London: Verschoyle, 1954
8vo., pp. 192. 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.
THEROUX, Paul
Doctor Slaughter
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984
Large 8vo., pp. 137. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition.
THEROUX, Paul
The Consul's File
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977
8vo., pp. 192. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition.
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.
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.
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]
MILLER, Henry
Plexus
Paris: Olympia Press 1953
2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]
[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959
Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.
First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [more]
[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]
DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Obelisk, 1938
Octavo, pp. 260. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
No. 1 in the Villa Seurat series, established by Henry Miller and Laurence and Nancy Durrell as an imprint of the Obelisk... [more]
[Olympia Press] DURRELL, Lawrence
The Black Book
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959
Small octavo, pp. 301. Original green stiff paper wrappers.
First issue of the two Olympia Press versions issued by Maurice Girodias.
First published by Girodias' father Jack Kahane... [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.
