Modern Literature

Achebe (Chinua) No Longer at Ease, first edition, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, original boards, lightly faded, dust-jacket, price-...

Adams (Douglas) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first American edition, New York, 1980; Last Chance to See..., first edition, signed by the ...

Adams (Herbert) Signal for Invasion, first edition, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chi...

Adams (Richard) Watership Down, small patch of damp-staining to lower spine, a few light surface marks or nicks to extremities, 1972; Shardik, ver...

Agate (James) Ego 3, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, frontispiece and plates, original cloth, spine slightly fa...

Amis (Kingsley) That Uncertain Feeling, 1955; I Like it Here, jacket price-clipped, 1958; Take a Girl Like You, 1960; One Fat Englishman, new pric...

Amis (Martin) The Rachel Papers, review copy with slip loosely inserted, 1973; Success, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, 1978; Time's...

Amis (Martin) Dead Babies, jacket with slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1975 § Banks (Iain) The Wasp Factory, 1984 § Shute (Nevil) On the...

Amis (Martin) Invasion of the Space Invaders, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author and dated 1989, illustrations, introduction by...

Ardizzone (Edward) "Detectives in disguise were let loose in the streets", an original drawing for Eleanor Farjeon's 'The Little Bookroom', page 1...

Ardizzone (Edward) "All heads craned towards the windows", an original drawing for Joan Ballantyne's 'Kidnappers at Coombe', page 168, pen and bla...

Ardizzone (Edward).- Graves (Robert) The Penny Fiddle, jacket price-clipped, 1960; Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children, jacket price-clipped,...

Asimov (Isaac) Foundation, first English edition, scattered foxing to endpapers, half-title and title, original boards, edge-spotting, else fine, ...

Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, 1986; Wilderness Tips, 1991; Alias Grace, 1996, first or first English editions, signed by the author on ti...

Awdry (Rev. W.) Thomas the Tank Engine, first edition, early printing with "fat director", some ff. working loose, original maroon roan, gilt, lig...

Bainbridge (Beryl) Another Part of the Wood, signed by the author, 1968; Young Adolf, signed by the author on title, 1978 § Leon (Donna) Death at ...

Baldwin (James) Giovanni's Room, first English edition, strip of browning on endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, few closed nicks to upper edg...

Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue with View From the Hill Top frontispiece, colour print...

Ballard (J. G.) Two Autograph Letters signed to Jake Tilson, 2pp., with envelopes, Shepperton, Middlesex, 17th & 31st October, 1978, "I'll be happ...

Ballard (J. G.).- New Worlds Science Fiction, 17 issues, all signed by Ballard, illustrations, original wrappers, creasing, occasional chipping an...

Ballard (J. G.) A collection of 22 science fiction periodicals, including Science Fiction Adventures, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Fact an...

Ballard (J. G.) A collection of c.45 works in paperback by Ballard, 12 signed by the author, some marginal toning, the odd inscription, original w...

Ballard (J. G.).- AMBT. A quarterly of poems, short stories, drawings & c., 10 issues, 5 signed by Ballard, illustrations, original wrappers, some...

Ballard (J. G.) Tom Nairn, Elaine Feinstein and others, associate editors. Bananas, nos. 1-16, 7 issues signed by Ballard, illustrations, original...

Ballard (J. G.) The Drought, first edition, faint spotting to endpapers, original boards, bump to foot of spine, very slight fading to spine, dust...

Ballard (J. G.) The Crystal World, first American edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slight toning...

Ballard (J. G.) The Crystal World, first edition, signed by the author on title, faint foxing to endpapers, original boards, some bumping to spine...

Ballard (J. G.) The Atrocity Exhibition, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Dear Joe and Jos [Tilson], sorry it's tak...

Ballard (J. G.) Disaster Area, first edition, signed by the author on title, ex-library with ink stamps, lacking front free endpaper, surface adhe...

Ballard (J. G.) Vermilion Sands, uncorrected proof, ink inscription "SFA" to half-title, original printed wrappers, very slight toning to upper co...

Ballard (J. G.) Crash, first edition, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, very slight fading along upper and lower edges, d...

Ballard (J. G.) Concrete Island, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, slight creasing to head and foot, els...

Ballard (J. G.) Crash, reprint, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, 1974; Hello America, first edition, 1981 § Goddard (James) and Da...

Ballard (J. G.) High-Rise, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, slight creasing to corner tips, else fine, ...

Ballard (J. G.) High-Rise, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, very light toning, near-fine, 8vo, 1975.

Ballard (J. G.) Low-Flying Aircraft and Other Stories, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, light toning to...

Ballard (J. G.) The Unlimited Dream Company, jacket with light creasing to head, 1979; Hello America, 1981, first edition, signed by the author on...

Ballard (J. G.) Empire of the Sun, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, light marginal toning, some browning to front free en...

Ballard (J. G.) Cocaine Nights, some light foxing, 1996; Super-Cannes, jacket with light creasing to spine tips, 2000; Millennium People, 2003, fi...

Ballard (J. G.) High-Rise, very faint toning to jacket, edges very lightly creased, otherwise excellent, 1975; Low-Flying Aircraft, a fine copy, 1...

Ballard (J. G.) Concrete Island, 1974 § Le Guin (Ursula) Rocannon's World, price sticker to front flap, 1979 § Lindsay (David) The Violet Apple, j...

Banks (Iain) The Wasp Factory, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 1984.*** A superb exa...

Barker (Pat) [The Regeneration Trilogy], comprising Regeneration, 1991; The Eye in the Door, 1993; The Ghost Road, 1995, first editions, signed by...

Barnes (Julian) Metroland, 1980; Before She Met Me, 1982; Flaubert's Parrot, 1984; Staring at the Sun, 1986; A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chap...

Barstow (John Montagu Orczy) "John Blakeney". A Gay Adventurer: Being the Biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., Known as "The Scarlet Pimpernel"...

Bates (H.E.) [The Larkin novels], 5 vol., comprising The Darling Buds of May, signed by the author on title,  1958; A Breath of French Air, 1959; ...

Bell (Mary Hayley) Whistle Down the Wind, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author's daughter Hayley Mills "For AL, we must ...

Bellow (Saul) Dangling Man, jacket spine a little faded, 1946; The Victim, jacket spine a little faded, 1948 § Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast...

Bellow (Saul) Dangling Man, light toning to endpapers, jacket with small surface abrasion to lower panel, 1946; Seize the Day, light browning to e...

Benchley (Peter) Jaws, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author with shark doodle on title, South African advertisem...

Berendt (John) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1998 § Crichton (Michael) The Andromeda Strain, 2003, limited editions signed by the autho...

Beresford (J. D.) The Hampdenshire Wonder, first English edition, very faint scattered spotting, original boards, spine foxed, dust-jacket, the od...

Blackman (Malorie) Noughts and Crosses, 2001; Knife Edge, signed by the author on title, 200; Checkmate, signed by the author on title, 2005 § Ffo...

[Blixen (Karen)], "Isak Dinesen". Out of Africa, first American edition, Book-of-the-Month Club 4pp. pamphlet regarding this work loosely inserted...

Bloch (Robert) Psycho, first edition, endpapers a little marked, page edges toned, original boards, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, edges a little c...

Bowles (Paul) A Little Stone, endpapers with faint strip of toning, jacket spine faded, lower panel with one or two surface marks, otherwise excel...

Boyd (William) A Good Man in Africa, first edition, erased inscription to head of title and front free endpaper, ink stamp to foot of endpaper, du...

Boyd (William) An Ice Cream War, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, 1982; Brazzaville Beach, signed by the author on title,...

Bradbury (Ray) The Golden Apple of the Sun, jacket with the odd small hole, few nicks and short tears to extremities, 1953; Dandelion Wine, bookse...

Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first edition, frontispiece, Joseph Losey's copy with his pencil inscription to front free endpaper, original boar...