Modern first editions

All of the books featured on these pages are first editions and first printings

The Bone People
by Keri Hulme

Published: Spiral/Hodder & Stoughton, 1985

Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Slightly rubbed on lower edge as usual and with very slightly and hardly any fading to the spine. The true U.K. first and elusive Booker winner.

Price: £ 125.00

The Pocket Cannons: The Words of the Wise
by Various Authors

Published: Canongate, 1998

12 books - 6 from the Old and 6 from the New Testaments with introductions by modern authors. Louis de Benieres introduces the Book of Job, Will Self 'Revelation', A.S. Byatt 'The Song of Solomon' etc. Fine card wrapes in fine slip case.

Price: £ 20.00

Minaret
by Leila Aboulela

Published: Bloomsbury, 2005

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. 'Minaret' is a moving, deeply-felt portrait of a woman given a second chance and a unique look at the life of a devout Muslim woman in England.

Price: £ 12.99

The Strange Case of Dr Simmons & Dr Glas
by DANNIE ABSE

Published: Robson, 2002

Fine in Fine dust wrapper . Longlisted for the Booker Prize - a story that questions the possibility of a moral murder

Price: £ 12.00

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
by Alan Alda

Published: Hutchinson, 2006

Fine in fine dustwrapper. The autobiography of the man who was Hawkeye Pierce in 'Mash'. Subtitled '.....and other things I've learned', this is never a serious life story!

Price: £ 17.99

Disobedience
by Namomi Alderman

Published: Penguin Viking, 2006

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A debut novel set in the Orthodox Jewish community of London. Now into its fifth reprint - these are, of course, true first printings. Longlisted for the Orange Prize and now shortlisted for the Orange New Writer's Prize.

Price: £ 25.00

Somewhere East of Life
by Brian Aldiss

Published: Flamingo, 1994

Signed and dated ('95) by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Price: £ 18.00

Intimate Cartographies
by L.A. Alexander

Published: Duck Editions, 2000

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Appropriately subtitled 'A three-dimentional novel', the book comes with a set of coloured plates featuring maps and illustrations which assist the story. Debut novel.

Price: £ 8.00

Alentejo Blue
by Monica Ali

Published: Doubleday, 2006

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Price: £ 18.00

Alentejo Blue
by Monica Ali

Published: Doubleday, 2006

Signed Limited Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine in fine slipcase. Second novel.

Price: £ 35.00

Brick Lane - Dinner with Dr Azad in Granta 81
by MONICA ALI

Published: Granta, 2003

SIGNED Fine card wraps as issued. The 'Best of Young British Novelists 2003' Granta publication which includes this extract from 'Brick Lane' signed by the author

Price: £ 25.00

Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende

Published: Flamingo, 1999

Fine in fine dustwrapper. A highly praised novel which was rapidly reprinted. The story of a young woman, orphaned in Chile and later taken to California during the gold rush.

Price: £ 22.00

The Fire -Eaters
by David Almond

Published: Headline, 2003

Signed by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Prize. Comes with promotional postcard.

Price: £ 25.00

Human Capital
by Stephen Amidon

Published: Penguin Viking, 2004

Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Latest from this talented writer. A chronicle of the American suburban dream that is falling apart for the central character Drew Hagel. Special price.

Price: £ 12.00

The New City
by Stephen Amidon

Published: Doubleday, 2000

Fine in fine dustwrapper. Set in 1973 America.

Price: £ 5.00

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