Narrativa e romanzi

The Collected Poems

BROOKE, RUPERT · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1987. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. Frontispiece, (4), 333 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent copy of the revised 4th edition of 1987, published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Brooke's birth with a new...

The Myth Makers

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1979 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York, Random House. 1979, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 190 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of these perceptive critical essays on non-English language writers by one of the foremost literary critics of the twentiet...

The Tale Bearers: Essays on English, American and Other Writers

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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London, Chatto & Windus. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6), 223 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of these perceptive critical essays on mainly British and American writers. As new. Fine/Fine.

Midnight Oil

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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London, Chatto & Windus. 1971, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 253 pp. Plum boards with gilt to spine. Laminated unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of the second volume of VSP's classic autobiography. Here we read with stoic honesty and humour about...

A Cab at the Door

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1969. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 238 pp. (+ 2 pp. plates). Green boards with gilt to spine. Laminated clipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of the first volume of VSP's famous autobiography. Here we read about the eccentric and unabashed members of...

A Careless Widow and Other Stories

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii], 164 pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of these stories from the master of the genre who always captures the extraordinary strangeness of ordinary life. Fine/Fine.

Collected Stories

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, Random House. 1982, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 523 pp. Blue half-cloth and white boards with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of the collected stories of one of the leading short fiction writer of the twentieth century...

Three Fantasies

POWYS, JOHN COWPER · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (9), 186 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of these three surrealistic stories. Afterword by Glen Cavaliero. Fine/Fine.

Gertrude and Alice

SOUHAMI, DIANA · 1991 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Pandora Press. 1991, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (10), 300 pp. Red cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket with modest shelf wear. Diana Souhami's sympathetic and entertaining biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, their life together ...

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company

MELLOW, JAMES R. · 1974 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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London, Phaidon Press. 1974, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 528 pp.(+ 32 pp. plates). Half-cloth with gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this biography of one of the most influential American expatriates to have settled in Paris. Fin...

Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein

WINEAPPLE, BRENDA · 1996 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1996, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xiv], 514 pp. Green-blue boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, in which Brenda Wineapple ...

Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes

HERRING, PHILLIP · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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London, Viking. 1995, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxx, 386 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Black half-cloth with copper-gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of this excellent biography which charts the personal and professional struggles of Moderni...

Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken

AIKEN, CONRAD; (KILLORIN, JOSEPH. ED) · 1978 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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New Haven, Yale University Press. 1978, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 350 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Brown half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of prize-winning poet and novelist Conrad Aiken's correspondence....

Malcom Cowley, the Formative Years

BAK, HANS · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press. 1993, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xx, 626 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Plum cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. First edition of Hans Bak's biography of Cowley's formative years, from his birth in Pittsbur...

The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s

WISER, WILLIAM · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

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London, Robson Books. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xii], 292 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Purple boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of this social history of the celebrated writers, artists and expatriates in Paris during t...

Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939

FORD, HUGH · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Garnstone Press. 1975, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xviii, 453 pp. Beige cloth with blue titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this fascinating study of 'the centre of a vortex of original literary achievement in the Engli...

Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s

CARPENTER, HUMPHREY · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1988, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 246 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Purple half-cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A nice first edition of Carpenter's group biography of the key figures of the 'Lost Generation'...

The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

MONNIER, ADRIENNE · 1976 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1976, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 536 pp. Beige cloth with blue titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this 'intimate portrait of the literary and artistic life in Paris between the Wars' b...

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' - an Appreciation

POWYS, JOHN COWPER · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Village Press. 1975, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 21 pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. A fine copy of this largely unknown essay by one of the first people to recognise the genius of James Joyce. As new. Fine.

Iris and the Friends - a Year of Memories

BAYLEY, JOHN · 1999 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1999, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (4), 208 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of this sensitive portrayal of one of the greatest writers of her time and ...