Firsts in Print

D.dash.Day by Antony Beevor

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:00:56 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper A huge success in which the historian describes the events of one of the major events of the Second World War Now into many reprints this is of course a true first Very scarce

Blackmoor by Edward Hogan

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:37:31 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated card wrappers no hardback Debut novel and winner of the Desmond Elliot prize for Britains best debut novel Set in a small mining community at the time of the miners strike in the mid 1980s This is the true first

The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:29:24 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper The less common hardback edition A bittersweet love story

The Magykal Papers by Angie Sage

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:27:20 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine illustrated boards A companion volumne to the very successful Septimus Heap Adventures Fully illustrated

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:40:17 +0100 GMT

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 this is a true first

The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:52 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated card wrappers A bitter sweet love story revolving around the events of a single summers day From the author of Notes from an Exhibition

The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:00:26 +0100 GMT

Signed dated and lined by the author Fine card wrappers Well reviewed

Maritime Miscellany by Julian Stockwin

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:13:51 +0100 GMT

Signed numbered and stamped with nautical image One of only 250 copies signed by the author of the Kydd series Described as a ditty bag of wonders from the Golden Age of Sail this is an excellent compnion to the authors Kydd series The book is full of fascinating facts about ships sailing and sea lore fully illustrated The book comes with a signed postcard replicating the dustwrapper design a leather bookmark and a four page leaflet in which the author describes the creation and production of the book

Cockroach by Rawi Hage

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:54:08 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper The story of a selfconfessed thief and failed suicide One to watch in the prize lists later in the year

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:05:22 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in finwe dustwrapper From the author of The Blade Itself Set in Syria a war lords stay with mercenaries and a man murderer

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:06:01 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper A new novel from the author of The Shadow of the Wind

Strangers by Anita Brookner

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:33:43 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper Latest novel from this previous Man Booker Winner Well reviewed and into reprints so quickly that true firsts such as this one are very hard to find

One Day by David Nicholls

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:15:01 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated boards and as issued without a dustwrapper From the author of the very successful Starter for Ten A novel that will appeal to many as it revisits the same characters at a particular day from 19882007 Already reprinted this is a true first

The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:53:07 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper First in the Spooks series and now uncommon

Jerusalem by Patrick Neate

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:51:02 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated card wrappers in fine dustwrapper no hardback edition A portrait of Englishness in the early 20th Century and today Special price

We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:46:33 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper The story of several unlikely friends hopes A new novel from the author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Special price

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:24:42 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A huge novel from an accomplished novelist set in the England of the 1520s A novel about Thomas Cromwell and Tudor England Highly likely to be nominated for prizes Now reprinted this is a true first as are all books on this website

The Giant O'Brian by Hilary Mantel

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:24:02 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper

An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:44 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:25:46 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A debut novel which was a huge success The UK edition precedes the US an entertaining story about a master magician The authors new novel Sunnyside has just been published

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:26:30 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper Second novel from the Man Booker winner This is set in an imagined Indian city and presents a microcosm of Indian life in the 1980s between the assination of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Special price

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:22:18 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper Man Booker winner and debut novel

Comfort to the Enemy by Elmore Leonard

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:14:29 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A collection of three stories of which the third Comfort to the Enemy is a novella all feature the character Carlos Webster Not published in the US

To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:11:43 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A story about a retired television news anchor man who descovers greater happiness following the death of his wife a secret he tries to keep from his children

The Man from Pomegranate Street by Caroline Lawrence

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:06:58 +0100 GMT

Signed inscribed in Latin and dated 8vi2009 prepublication date Fine in fine dustwrapper The last of the Roman Mystery series

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:03:54 +0100 GMT

Signed lined and dated by the author Second book in the trilogy well reviewed and certainly a series to collect Fine in fine dustwrapper

The Selected Works of T S Spivet by Reif Larsen

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:00:58 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine illustrated boards and as issued without dustwrapper

Turbulence by Giles Foden

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:43:39 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper Well reviewed A topical novel which sets DDay preparations against the views of a pacifist

Goodnight Sweet Prince by David Dickinson

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:38:25 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper The first Lord Francis Powercourt mystery

Genesis by Bernard Beckett

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:39:48 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A futuristic novel about a utopian society but all is not as good as it seems One to watch

Sea Robber by Tim Severin

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:37:24 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper A 17th Century sea adventure novel third in the Hector Lynch series

The City and the City by China Mieville

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:16:48 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper An existential thriller set in a city unlike any other Shades of Kafta Philip K Dick and Raymond Chandler

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:15:07 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A huge success set during the second World War this book was published 65 years after the authors death as she died in the Auschwitz concentration camp in1942 Reprinted many times this is a true first

The Biographer's Tale by A S Byatt

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:32:00 +0100 GMT

Fine in Fine dust wrapper

The Detective is Dead by Bill James

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:17:56 +0100 GMT

Near fine in fine dustqwrapper slightly bumped on lower corners

Sunnyside by Glen David Gold

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:36:53 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper A new novel from the author of Carter Beats the Devil A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its centre which dramatizes the moment when American capitalism a world at war and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity Special price

How To Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:21:37 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated card wrappers as issued From the author of previously Man Booker shortlisted The Electric Michelangelo

Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:18:56 +0100 GMT

Near fine in fine dustwrapper Set in 1803 Sharpe is now an officer This novel completes the story of Sharpe in India

The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:13:06 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrappert Debut novel about a parasite ghost

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:08:48 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine illustrated boards in fine clear dustwrapper The first part of a trilogy now scarce Winner of several prizes and extremely well reviewed One to pick up now before the trilogy is complete Book 2 is also available on the website

The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:04:19 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper The author is a previous winner of the Orange Prize

Oath Breaker by Michelle Paver

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:01:44 +0100 GMT

Signed by the author Fine in fine dustwrapper Book 5 in the serioesChronicles of Ancient Darkness Now scarce as a signed first

Gents by Warwick Collins

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:46:28 +0100 GMT

Near fine in fine dustwrapper very slight page tanning A comic novel set in the underground world of a mens public urinal

F.dash.Woman by Warwick Collins

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:33:14 +0100 GMT

Fine illustrated boards and as issued without dustwrapper A spoof on the super hero genre and a ferocious critique of Hollywood FWoman hunts downsex criminals who terrorise the streets of Los Angeles

The Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:28:54 +0100 GMT

Fine proof copy of the fourth Charlie Bone adventures An uncommon proof

Hollow Crown by David Roberts

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:56:26 +0100 GMT

Fine in fine dustwrapper Third book in the Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne murder mystery series Now scarce

Pure Dead Brilliant by Debi Gliori

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:53:59 +0100 GMT

Fine velvet boards as issued The third in the series

The Glass Book of Dream Eaters by G W Dahlquist

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:51:20 +0100 GMT

Fine wrappers ten part volume which looks like a proof but isnt This is the true first of a book that was issued to subscribers in 10 parts prior to the hardback edition All ten sections are fine

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:40:14 +0100 GMT

Very good plus in fine dustwrapper edges browned as is usual with this title A huge success The story of a murderer part fable part surreal fantasy part novel of suspense

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:53 +0100 GMT

Signed by ther author Fine in fine dustwrapper The third Thursday Next novel Comes with promotional card