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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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Explore the latest arrivals on our virtual shelves
First edition in English of Albert Camus's The Plague
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 García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
First edition of James Joyce's Pomes Penyeach
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Field Work ²
Signed limited first edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's Early Japanese Stories
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf. A New Translation.
First edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush. A Biography.
Signed first edition of Ian Rankin's The Flood
Signed limited first edition in English of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore ¹
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
Signed first edition of José Saramago's Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
First edition of Virginia Woolf's A Writer's Diary
First edition of Virginia Woolf's The Moment and Other Essays
First hardcover edition of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Cérémonial Espagnol du Phénix
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Poèmes
First edition of Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings ¹
First edition of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
Signed limited first edition of Paul Celan's Thirty-Two Poems
First and only edition of Midsummer Feast by Seamus Heaney et al.
First edition in English of Italo Calvino's The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Signed eighth impression of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party
Signed first edition of The School Bag by Seamus Heaney
First edition of Hilary Mantel's Every Day is Mother's Day
First separate edition of Albert Camus's L'esprit confus
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
First edition in English of Franz Kafka's The Castle
First edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day ¹
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 David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
Signed limited first edition in Danish of Eliot's Familiens genforening
First edition of Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern
Third edition of James Joyce's Chamber Music
First edition in English of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
First edition of Charles Dickens's The Lamplighter: A Farce
First UK edition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential
First edition of Seamus Heaney's A Lough Neagh Sequence
First US edition of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts
Signed first edition of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot
Signed first edition of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
Signed first edition of Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things
Signed limited first edition of V. Sackville-West's The Garden
First edition of George Orwell's England Your England and Other Essays
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 Pat Barker's Regeneration
First edition of Julian Barnes's Metroland
First edition of Robert Neill's Mist Over Pendle
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
First edition of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain ³
First UK edition of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood ¹
Presentation copy of Jean Cocteau's Clair Obscur: Poèmes
Signed first edition of Toni Morrison's Paradise
First edition in English of Ernst Jünger's Eumeswil
First edition of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
First UK edition of James Joyce's Haveth Childers Everywhere
Second edition of Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung. [The Metamorphosis].
Signed first edition of Young Commonwealth Poets '65 by Heaney et al.
Signed first edition thus of Seamus Heaney's Finders Keepers
Signed proof of Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea
First edition of Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum