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Welcome to MintFirsts. We specialize in literary first editions, with an emphasis on modernism.
Our diverse stock includes select works from the arts and sciences.
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First edition, second impression of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway ¹First edition of John Maynard Keynes's The End of Laissez-FaireSigned limited first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Spirit LevelSigned limited first edition of Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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The Buxton Book Fair at the Pavilion Gardens, now under the management of Jane Millington, has been a monthly feature of the social calendar of the Derbyshire spa town for decades. Featuring a mixture of antiquarian, second hand and out of print . . .These book descriptions are for reading
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Signed special edition of The Whoseday Book by Seamus Heaney et al.Signed limited first edition of John Betjeman's A Nip in the AirFirst edition in English, second issue of Franz Kafka's AmericaSigned limited first edition of C. Day Lewis's The Magnetic Mountain
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Third edition of William Blades's The Enemies of BooksPrivately printed copy of Amis's The Darkwater Hall MysteryFirst UK edition of Benjamin Anastas's An Underachiever's DiaryFirst edition, second impression of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway ¹
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Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Field Work ²
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. A New Translation.
Signed first edition and issue of de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin
First edition of MacGill-Eain's Hallaig, signed and dated by Seamus Heaney
First edition of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Money. A Suicide Note.
Signed limited first edition of V. Sackville-West's The Garden
First edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day ¹
Stephen Spender's annotated copy of R. S. Thomas's Collected Poems
India Paper edition, 7th impression, of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Inscribed first edition of Kingsley Amis's One Fat Englishman
Limited first edition thus of Tristan Tzara's Vingt-cinq-et-un poèmes
Signed limited first edition in Danish of Eliot's Familiens genforening
Third edition of James Joyce's Chamber Music
Signed first edition of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern
First edition in English of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
First edition of Charles Dickens's The Lamplighter: A Farce
First edition of George Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn
First edition of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain ³
First edition of Seamus Heaney's A Lough Neagh Sequence
First edition of Julian Barnes's Metroland
First edition of Robert Neill's Mist Over Pendle
Signed first edition of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
First edition of George Orwell's England Your England and Other Essays
Limited facsimile edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Signed first edition of Pat Barker's Regeneration
First UK edition of Peter Benchley's Jaws
Signed first edition of Leonard Woolf's A Calendar of Consolation
Signed first edition thus of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Signed proof of Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
First edition of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
First UK edition of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood ¹
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Clair Obscur: Poèmes
Second edition of Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung. [The Metamorphosis].
Signed first edition in English of Herta Müller's The Land of Green Plums
Signed first edition of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten
Signed first edition of Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers
Signed first edition of Toni Morrison's Paradise
Signed first edition thus of Seamus Heaney's Finders Keepers
Signed first US edition of Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann. An Adventure.
Uncorrected proof of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse
First UK edition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential
Signed first edition of Young Commonwealth Poets '65 by Heaney et al.
First UK edition of James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere
First edition of Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Signed first edition of David Beckham: My Side
Signed proof copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
First edition of Letters by Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey ¹
Signed first UK edition of Toni Morrison's Jazz
First edition of Alan Hollinghurst's Confidential Chats with Boys
First edition of Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai
First edition of Seamus Heaney's A Shiver
First edition of Seamus Heaney's Station Island
First UK edition of Patrick White's Voss ¹
Signed first edition of Helen Vendler's Seamus Heaney
Signed first edition of Ian McEwan's Atonement
Signed first edition of Julian Barnes's Before She Met Me
Signed first edition of Pinter's Screenplay of French Lieutenant's Woman
Uncorrected proof copy of T. S. Eliot's Poems Written in Early Youth
First edition of Ted Hughes's Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow.
Signed first US edition of Alex Garland's The Beach
Signed limited first edition of Robert Graves's The Shout
Uncorrected proof of Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade
First edition of Iris Murdoch's The Bell
First edition thus of Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi)
Inscribed re-issued paperback of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist
Signed first edition in English of Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat
Signed first edition of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl
First edition of J. M. Coetzee's Foe
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's The Moronic Inferno ¹
Inscribed first edition of Martin Amis's The Information