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100 Classic First Editions of the Twentieth Century Compiled by R.B. Russell - The following list is a personal selection of the 100 most collectable books of the twentieth century. It is not a list of the most valuable books, nor is it a list, per se, of the literary giants. However, if you manage to acquire all of these you would certainly have a great, representative cross section of the most desirable books imaginable!
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Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (illustrated by Arthur Rackham) Baum, L. Frank, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Beckett, Samuel, En Attendant Godot Blyton, Enid, Five on a Treasure Island: An Adventure Story Borges, Jorge Luis, Fictions Brooke, Rupert, 1914 and Other Poems Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, William, The Naked Lunch Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep Christie, Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles Clarke, Arthur C., 2001 - A Space Odyssey Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (Published in Youth) Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin Dexter, Colin, Last Bus to Woodstock Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Hound of the Baskervilles Du Maurier, Rebecca Durrell, Lawrence, The Alexandria Quartet Eliot, T.S., Four Quartets Eliot, T.S., The Waste Land Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby Fleming, Ian, Casino Royale Forester, C.S., The African Queen Forster, E.M., A Passage to India Fowles, John, The Magus Francis, Dick, Dead Cert Frank, Anne, The Diary of Anne Frank Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One Hundred Years of Solitude Golding, William, Lord of the Flies Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows Grass, Gunter, The Tin Drum Graves, Robert, I, Claudius Greene, Graham, Brighton Rock Hammett, Dashiel, The Maltese Falcon Hartley, L.P., The Go Between Heller, Joseph, Catch 22 Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms Herbert, Frank, Dune Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World Isherwood, Christopher, Goodbye to Berlin James, Henry, Wings of a Dove James, M.R., Ghost Stories of an Antiquary James, P.D., Cover Her Face Joyce, James, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, Ulysses Kafka, Franz, The Trial Keneally, Thomas, Schindler's Ark Kerouac, Jack, On the Road Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest King, Stephen, Carrie Kipling, Rudyard, Kim Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon Lawrence, D.H., Lady Chatterley's Lover Lawrence, D.H., Sons and Lovers Lawrence, T.E., The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mocking Bird Lewis, C.S., The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lovecraft, H.P., The Outsider Lowry, Malcolm, Under the Volcano Madox Ford, Ford, The Good Soldier Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman Miller, Henry, The Tropic of Cancer Milne, A.A., Winnie the Pooh Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita Nesbit, Edith, The Railway Children Orwell, George, 1984 Orwell, George, Animal Farm Owen, Wilfred, Poems Peters, Ellis, A Morbid Taste for Bones Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar Potter, Beatrix, The Tale of Peter Rabbit Pound, Ezra, Thirty Cantos Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic Proust, Marcel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front Rendell, Ruth, From Doon With Death Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rushdie, Salman, Midnight's Children Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye Sassoon, Siegfried, The War Poems Seuss, Dr., The Cat in the Hat Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago Spender, Stephen, Nine Experiments Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood Tolkein, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse Five Walker, Alice, The Color Purple Waugh, Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited White, E.B., Charlotte's Web Williams, Tenessee, A Streetcar Named Desire Wodehouse, P.G., The Inimitable Jeeves Wolfe, Tom, The Bonfire of the Vanities Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse e-mail Tartarus Press with your reaction to the above Guide to First Edition Prices, 2008/9 Page updated 17th September 2007
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