modern first edition books from Firsts in Print
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The Booker Prize

All of the books on these pages are first editions and first printings


The Booker Prize, recently known as the Man Booker Prize, is generally recognised as the most prestigious literary award in the world.

Established in 1969, it provides readers with the opportunity to review the year's best fiction. Often highly controversial, the prize attracts much media attention and high book sales. Many book collectors of modern fiction try to build a complete set of all shortlisted and winning titles.

A longlist is announced in the summer followed by the shortlist in September and the final award in late October. The prize is given to the best novel in the English Language published anywhere in the world.

During its 40 years the prize has been won by some of the most famous contemporary writers such as Salman Rushdie, J M Coetzee, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Michael Ondaatje, Iris Murdoch, VS Naipaul and Margaret Atwood. Only J M Coetzee, Peter Carey and Hilary Mantel have won it twice.

Firsts in Print offers a wide range of Booker titles and would be pleased to help you fill the gaps in your collection.

Unexploded Alison MacLeod ( Hamish Hamilton) 
The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
- See more at: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/longlist-2013-announced#sthash.f9gEM9lG.dpuf

Please use the search facility for availability of titles or scroll down and click on the link at the bottom of this page.

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The International Booker Prize in turn is recognised as the most prestigious international literary award for translated fiction.

Established in 2005, it has existed in its current format since 2016, awarding a prize to the writer and translator of the best piece of writing of the previous year.


International Booker Prize Winner 2022 announced:

Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree


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Booker Prize Longlist 2022 announced:

The Colony - Audrey Magee

After Sappho - Selby Wynn Schwartz

Glory - Noviolet Bulawayo

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

Night Crawling - Leila Mottley

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies - Maddie Mortimer

Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet

Treacle Walker - Alan Garner

The Trees - Percival Everett

Trust - Hernan Diaz 

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

Oh WIlliam! - Elizabeth Strout

Booth - Karen Joy Fowler


Shortlisted books below. Please click on link for details of this year's longlisted books:

Longlisted books | Previous years' short-listed books | Previous years' long-listedbooks


Boulder
by Eva Baltasar


Published: And Other Stories, 2022

Fine in wraps, with a little bend to front panel near spine. Not unduly obvious. Booker International shortlisted. Signed by the author.

Price: £95.00

Boulder by Eva Baltasar


A Study for Obedience
by Sarah Bernstein


Published: Granta, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Signed via a loose publisher bookplate.

Price: £160.00

A Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein


The Gospel According to the New World
by Maryse Conde


Published: World Editions, 2023

Fine in wraps. Longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize.

Price: £55.00

The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde


If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery


Published: Fourth Estate, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. Booker longlisted. Signed to title page.

Price: £195.00

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery


Standing Heavy
by Gauz


Published: Maclehose, 2022

Fine in wraps. Booker Intl longlisted. Signed by legendary translator Frank Wynne.

Price: £95.00

Standing Heavy by  Gauz


Time Shelter
by Georgi Gospodinov


Published: W&N, 2023

Fine in card wraps. Intl Booker Prize shortlisted. Signed by the author and translator.

Price: £195.00

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov


Time Shelter
by Georgi Gospodinov


Published: W&N, 2022

Fine in fine wrapper. Intl Booker Prize winner. Signed, dated and located to title page by the author and translator.

Price: £295.00

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov


Time Shelter
by Georgi Gospodinov


Published: W&N, 2022

Fine in fine wrapper. Intl Booker Prize winner. Signed by the author to a loose label.

Price: £195.00

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov


This Other Eden
by Paul Harding


Published: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Signed to title page.

Price: £195.00

This Other Eden by Paul Harding


Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch


Published: Oneworld, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. Booker longlist. Signed by the author to title page.

Price: £295.00

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch


Western Lane
by Chetna Maroo


Published: Picador, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. Booker longlisted. Signed to title page.

Price: £145.00

Western Lane by Chetna Maroo


The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray


Published: Hamish Hamilton, 2023

Fine in fine wrapper. Booker longlisted. Signed to title page.

Price: £225.00

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray


Whale
by Cheon Myong.kwan


Published: Europa Editions, 2023

Fine in French flaps. Intl Booker shortlisted. Signed by the author and translator.

Price: £59.50

Whale by Cheon Myong.kwan


Still Born
by Guadalupe Nettel


Published: Fitzcarraldo, 2022

Fine in fine wraps. Signed by the author and translator. Shortlisted for International Booker Prize.

Price: £125.00

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel


Still Born
by Guadalupe Nettel


Published: Fitzcarraldo, 2022

Fine in fine wraps. Scarce copy signed to title page. Longlisted for International Booker Prize.

Price: £95.00

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

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