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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 of John Maynard Keynes's The End of Laissez-FaireFirst US edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
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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
They say every picture tells a story. I would second that and add: every book entry should be story-focussed. There is nothing more dispiriting than perusing booksellers' catalogues that are mere agglomerations of facts, culled from Wikipedia or . . .From oneiromancy to book collecting
Having grown up in a household bereft of books, bar a tome on oneiromancy (a staple manual for Greek rural families in the mid-20th century), my hunger for them was heightened by their relative rarity. Then, in my first year at high-school, a . . .The all-new MintFirsts website is now online
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Signed limited first edition of John Betjeman's A Nip in the AirFirst edition in English, second issue of Franz Kafka's America
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Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. A New Translation.
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Field Work ²
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
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 first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern
Signed limited first edition in Danish of Eliot's Familiens genforening
First edition in English of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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
Signed first edition of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
First edition of George Orwell's England Your England and Other Essays
First edition of Julian Barnes's Metroland
Signed first edition of Pat Barker's Regeneration
First edition of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
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
First UK edition of James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere
First edition of Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum
First edition of Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai
Signed first edition of David Beckham: My Side
Signed proof copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
First UK edition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian
Inscribed first edition of Martin Amis's The Information
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's The Moronic Inferno ¹
Signed first edition of Monica Ali's Brick Lane
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Visiting Mrs Nabokov
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Koba the Dread
Uncorrected proof of Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Yellow Dog
First edition of Walter Abish's In the Future Perfect
Signed first edition of Martin Amis's Einstein's Monsters
First edition of Kingsley Amis's I Want It Now
First edition of The Egyptologists by Kingsley Amis & Robert Conquest
Signed first edition of Peter Ackroyd's Milton in America
Signed first edition of Tariq Ali's The Stone Woman
First edition in English of Jean Anouilh's Dinner with the Family
First edition in English of S. Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday
First edition of Kingsley Amis's Girl, 20