modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

modern first edition books from Firsts in Print

Guardian Choices

Firsts in Print offers the following books which featured in the 2005 Guardian literary awards. Prizes are awarded for best first book and for fiction.

Fiction

A State of Independence
by Caryl Phillips

Published: Faber, 1986

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Second book.

Price: £ 25.00

A State of Independence


On Beauty
by Zadie Smith

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, this the third novel from the author of 'White Teeth' asks 'what are the truly beautiful things in life and how far will you go to get them?' Shortlisted for the Booker prize. Now into several reprints and now winner of the 2006 Orange Prize shortlisted.

Price: £ 25.00

On Beauty


The Accidental
by Ali Smith

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

Signed proof copy. Fine proof wrappers. Booker and Whitbread shortlisted.

Price: £ 75.00

The Accidental


Pascali's Island
by Barry Unsworth

Published: Michael Joseph, 1980

Fine in near fine dustwrapper - very slight wrinkling to laminate at middle of dustwrapper with slight indentation but not through to the book. A very nice copy of an uncommon Booker shortlisted title.

Price: £ 68.00

Pascali


What Was Lost
by Catherine O'Flynn

Published: Tindal Street Press, 2007

Fine illustrated card wrappers. A paperback original and true first. Longlisted for the Orange and Man Booker prizes. Probably the scarcest of the Booker titles because of its relatively small print run. Now also the winner of this year's Costa (formely the Whitbread) first novel award.

Price: £ 55.00

What Was Lost


Hotel World
by Ali Smith

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2001

Signed by the author. Near fine card wrappers as isued. Slight rub spot to front cover, but minimal and very light creasing to lower rear corner. Booker shortlisted - only available as a paperback original.

Price: £ 25.00

Hotel World


An Ice Cream War
by William Boyd

Published: Hamish Hamilton, 1982

Near fine in fine price clipped dustwrapper - slightly 'pushed' at spine ends. Booker shortlisted.

Price: £ 22.00

An Ice Cream War



26a
by Diana Evans

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. An extremely imaginative debut novel about identical twins - part fairytale, part nightmare. Winner of the Orange New Writer prize. Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize.

Price: £ 16.00

26a


26a
by Diana Evans

Published: Chatto & Windus, 2005

SIGNED by the author. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. An extremely imaginative debut novel about identical twins - part fairytale, part nightmare. Winner of the Orange New Writer Prize. Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize.

Price: £ 25.00

26a


Carry Me Down
by M.J. Hyland

Published: Canongate, 2006

Proof copy. Fine proof wrappers. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Price: £ 15.00

Carry Me Down


To a Fault
by Nick Laird

Published: Faber, 2005

Fine card wrappers with flaps as issued. A debut collection of poetry which has been well reviewed. The author also releases his first novel 'Utterly Monkey' in May. One to watch.

Price: £ 9.00

To a Fault


Sightseeing
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Published: Atlantic Books, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Short stories based on the seaside resorts in Thailand embacing the everyday in the exotic and revealing a country that is both dynamic and corrupt. Special price.

Price: £ 9.00

Sightseeing


The Hunted
by Alex Shearer

Published: Macmillan, 2005

Fine illustrated card wrappers. A paperback original. A futuristic novel in which a 'natural-born' boy is hunted and has a price on his head. Now shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Award.

Price: £ 7.50

The Hunted


Misfortune
by Wesley Stace

Published: Cape, 2005

SIGNED by the author. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A debut gothic novel - Lord Loveall, heirless lord of Love Hall and the richest man in England arrives home one morning with a baby he presents as the inheritor to the family name and fortune. He names the baby Rose in honour of his baby sister who died at the age of five. There is only one problem - the baby is a boy.

Price: £ 12.99

Misfortune


The Boy in the burning house
by Tim Wynne- Jones

Published: Usborne, 2005

Fine illustrated card wrappers. A paperback original. Winner of an Edgar Award for best mystery story and now on the Guardian Children's Award longlist. Now shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.

Price: £ 7.00

The Boy in the burning house


Non Fiction


Maximum City
by Mehta Suketu

Published: Review, 2004

Fine in fine dustwrapper. An intriguing personal account of life in modern Bombay. Nominated for the Guardian First Book Award.

Price: £ 20.00

Maximum City

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