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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 Ted Hughes's Tales from OvidFirst UK edition of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
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Second impression of Virginia Woolf's Night and DaySigned limited first edition of Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanSigned limited first edition of Seamus Heaney's Electric LightSigned limited first edition of Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground
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First edition of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (King of Hanover's copy)
Signed first edition of Heaney's A Boy Driving His Father to Confession
First edition of Charlotte Brontë's Villette
First edition in English of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis ¹
First edition of George Eliot's Felix Holt the Radical
First edition of Jorge Luis Borges's El Aleph
First English edition, later issue of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
Historically significant presentation copy of Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
Signed first edition in English of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case
Signed limited first edition of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Le Cap de Bonne Espérance: poème
First edition in English of Albert Camus's The Outsider
First edition in English of Albert Camus's The Plague
First edition of Hermann Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel ¹
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Field Work ²
Signed limited first edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Japanese Stories
First edition in English of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
First edition of James Joyce's Pomes Penyeach
First edition of Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader ¹
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. A New Translation.
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
First edition of George Eliot's Adam Bede
Signed first edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day ²
First edition of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
The Gadshill Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens
First edition of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Signed first edition of Ian Rankin's The Flood
First edition of MacGill-Eain's Hallaig, signed and dated by Seamus Heaney
Signed first edition of José Saramago's Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Signed first and only edition of Midsummer Feast by Seamus Heaney et al.
First hardcover edition of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Signed limited first edition in English of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore ¹
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Poèmes
First edition of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
First edition of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
First UK edition of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Cérémonial Espagnol du Phénix
Signed eighth impression of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
Signed first edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
First edition of Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings ¹
Signed first edition of J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
Stephen Spender's annotated copy of R. S. Thomas's Collected Poems
First US edition of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
India Paper edition, 7th impression of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Signed proof of Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin
First separate edition of Albert Camus's L'esprit confus
Signed first edition of Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
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
First edition in English of Italo Calvino's The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern
Signed first edition of The School Bag by Seamus Heaney
Signed limited first edition in Danish of Eliot's Ødemarken og andre Digte ¹
First edition of Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary
Signed limited first edition of Paul Celan's Thirty-Two Poems
First edition in English of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
First edition of Hilary Mantel's Every Day is Mother's Day
First UK edition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential
Third edition of James Joyce's Chamber Music
First edition of Seamus Heaney's A Lough Neagh Sequence
First edition of George Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn
Limited facsimile edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Signed first edition of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Signed first edition of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things
First edition of Charles Dickens's The Lamplighter: A Farce
First edition of Robert Neill's Mist Over Pendle
Signed first edition of Leonard Woolf's A Calendar of Consolation
First edition of George Orwell's England Your England and Other Essays
First edition of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain ³
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Clair Obscur: Poèmes