modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

The Man Booker Prize

All of the books on these pages are first editions and first printing

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 is as follows. Shortlisted titles in bold.

Author                          Title                                          Publisher

 Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)

Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song
(Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)

Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet  (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)

Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)

Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)

Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky
(Random House - Jonathan Cape)











Please use the search facilty for availability of titles or scroll down and click on the link at the bottom of this page. More longlisted titles will be added as they become available. The books shown below are from previous Booker years.

The shortlist will be announced on 7th September 2010
Winner announced 12th October 2010

The Man Booker Prize, formerly known as just the Booker Prize, is recognised as the most prestigious literary award in the UK.

Established in 1969, it provides readers with the opportunity to review the year's best fiction. Often highly controversial, the prize attracts much media attention and high book sales. Many book collectors of modern fiction try to build a complete set of all shortlisted and winning titles.

A longlist is announced in Mid August followed by the shortlist in September and the final award in late October. The prize is given to the best novel in the English Language written by a Commonwealth or Irish citizen and published in the UK.
During its 35 years the prize has been won by some of the most famous contemporary writers such as Salman Rushdie, J M Coetzee, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Michael Ondaatje, Iris Murdoch, VS Naipaul and Margaret Atwood. Only J M Coetzee and Peter Carey have won it twice. The winner in 2003 was D B C Pierre for 'Vernon God Little'.

Firsts in Print offers a wide range of Booker titles and would be pleased to help you fill the gaps in your collection.

Click here for 2005 longlisted books. Previous years' Booker Prize books are available by clicking here.


The Children Book
by A S Byatt

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2009

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An extremely well received novel from this previous Booker winner and is likely to feature in the prize lists later in the year. Now shortisted for for Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 30.00

The Children Book


The Children Book
by A S Byatt

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. The latest novel from the previous Booker winner and if the glowing reviews are right, this will feature again on the prize lists. One to watch. Now shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 20.00

The Children Book


The Childrens Book
by A S Byatt

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2009

Signed Limites edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in fine illustrated boards and as issued without dustwrapper in fully illustrated slipcase. An excellent edition of this much praised novel from this Booker winning author now shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 75.00

The Childrens Book


Summertime
by J M Coetzee

Published: Harvill Secker, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Longlisted for the Man Booker prize. The third part of a sequence that began with 'Boyhood' and 'Youth'. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 26.00

Summertime


The Quickening Maze
by Adam Foulds

Published: Cape, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel based on real events in Epping Forest, London around 1840 and centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. Foulds is an up and coming novelist and poet- definitely one to collect. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 26.00

The Quickening Maze


The Quickening Maze
by Adam Foulds

Published: Cape, 2009

Signed and dated by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Price: £ 40.00

The Quickening Maze


The Glass Room
by Simon Mawer

Published: Little Brown, 2009

Fine in fine dustwrapper. A new novel from the author of 'The Fall'. Set in Czechoslovakia. this is the story of the relationships that take place in and around an architectural masterpiece - the Glass Room. Very well reviewed and potential prize contender. Now reprinted and very very hard to locate- this is a true first. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and probably one of the most fancied 'outsiders'.

Price: £ 100.00

The Glass Room


The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters

Published: Virago, 2009

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A new novel from this twice Booker shortlisted author with a high possibility of that again. This is a chilling ghost story from a highly accomliished writer. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 28.00

The Little Stranger


The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters

Published: Virago, 2009

Signed Limited edition. An unusual and uncommon edition in that this copy is one of only 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine and without dustwrapper as issued in fine slipcase. There is a similar Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies but 100 were created for the Australian market (same edition, same ISBN, no reference to Australia) and numbered to show this limitation of 100. A few of these copies 'escaped' into the UK market and this is one of them. Needless to say copies such as this will be very scarce in the UK. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Price: £ 100.00

The Little Stranger

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