- 100 Classic First Editions of the
Twentieth Century
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- Compiled by R.B. Russell
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- 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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- This list has previously been included in
editions of the Tartarus Press Guide to First Edition
Prices,
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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
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4th September 2009
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