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SIGNED 'MODERN FIRST EDITIONS'. 1987 EDITION SIGNED BY 38 20TH CENTURY AUTHORS
Signed 'Modern First Editions'. 1987 Modern First Editions, Third Edition by Joseph Connelly. Printed Macdonald Orbis, illustrated with colour plates. Signed to author biographies by thirty-eight of the most popular 20th century authors, novelists & writers, comprising: Peter Ackroyd, Brian W. Aldiss, Martin Amis, Alan Ayckbourn, Beryl Bainbridge, Iain Banks, Julian Barnes, Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Anthony Burgess (Burgess clearly started signed to the title page before the owner directed him to his bio), A. S. Byatt, Wendy Cope, J. L. Donleavy, Penelope Fitzgerald, Frederick Forsyth, Iris Murdoch (double signed, with additional signature to one of the illustrations), Dick Francis, George Fraser MacDonald, Seamus Heaney, P. D. James, Laurie Lee, David Lodge, Ian McEwan, John Mortimer, Craig Raine, Alan Sillitoe, Stephen Spender, Tom Stoppard, Paul Theroux, R. S. Thomas, WIlliam Trevor, Gore Vidal, and Arnold Wesker. Publisher's orig. cloth, unclipped dust wrapper, light bumping to the nead & tail of the spine and extremities, pages a touch age-toned, complete with two modern first editions bookmark scale of values. No ownership inscription; autographs likely collected at the Cheltenham Book Festival. An almost certainly unique book containing 38 autographs, clearly collected by a true bibliophile. 8vo.
Sold for £760
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