You Always Remember the First Time. An anthology. Edited by B. S. Johnson, with Michael Bakewell and Giles Gordon. (SIGNED BY SEVEN CONTRIBUTORS)

First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by seven of the contributors: Larry Adler, Carmen Callil, Giles Gordon, Barry Cole, Michael Moorcock, 'Nina', and Giles Playfair. 8vo. 195pp. Lilac boards lettered in silver at the spine. Backstrip ends and corner tips a little rubbed and bruised, with a sliver of toning to the margins of the text leaves. A nice crisp copy in good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, which exhibits some tobacco staining and a little wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Originally conceived by Bryan Johnson, this anthology of twenty stories detailing the authors' first sexual encounters was eventually published two years after his early death. A foreword by Michael Bakewell precedes often humorous contributions by Brian Aldiss, Larry Adler, Barry Cole, Ruth Fainlight, John Furse, Michael Moorcock, Philip Oaks, Emma Tennant and others. Curiously uncommon, and this copy nicely enhanced by the signatures of seven of the twenty contributors.