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Discretions. A Memoir by Ezra Pound's Daughter.

DE RACHEWILTZ, MARY · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Faber and Faber. 1971, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [v], 312 pp (+ 16 pp. plates). Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this personal memoir by Pond's daughter, Princess de Rachewiltz, who recounts her strange upbringi...

Ezra Pound: The Last Rower

HEYMANN, C. DAVID · 1976 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Faber and Faber. 1976, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 372 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this biographical study, which deals frankly with Pound's political profile. As new. Fine/Fine.

The Red and the Green

MURDOCH, IRIS · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1984, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 319 pp. Grey boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. The Collected Edition. Iris Murdoch's tragicomic drama set in Ireland. Fine/Fine.

A Severed Head

MURDOCH, IRIS · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1988, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 253 pp. Grey boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. The Collected Edition. Iris Murdoch's wryly ferocious and seriously comic novel. Fine/Fine.

The Time of the Angels

MURDOCH, IRIS · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 253 pp. Grey boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. The Collected Edition copy of one of Iris Murdoch's most spelbinding novels. Fine/Very Good.

Ulysses

JOYCE, JAMES · 1932 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

Hamburg, The Odyssey Press. 1932, First Thus. Cloth. Book, 12mo. (4), 792, (blank), (1) pp. Cream-white cloth with red titles to upper board and spine. Top-edge tinted grey. Printed on India paper. Superior copy of the scarce first printing of Ulysses to have been issued in cl...

The Family Reunion

ELIOT, T.S. · 1939 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Faber and Faber. 1939, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (10), 136 pp. Grey cloth with red to spine. Clipped thick paper dustjacket. A fine first edition (March 1939) with a later issue dustjacket (c.1946) of this popular verse drama by the Nobel laureate. Very Good/Ver...

The Cocktail Party

ELIOT, T.S. · 1950 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London, Faber and Faber. 1950, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 171 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. A sound first edition of this popular verse drama by the Nobel laureate. Very Good.

Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot

MATTHEWS, T.S. · 1974 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1974, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xx, 219 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Green boards with gilt to spine. Clipped dustjacket. A very good copy of this acclaimed biographical literary study of T.S. Eliot. Fine/Very Good.

Affectionately T.S. Eliot: The Story of a Friendship 1947-1965

LEVY, WILLIAM TURNER; SCHERLE, VICTOR · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1969, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 148 pp. Orange boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of this personal memoir of the famous poet, acclaimed to be the first to be published since Eliot's death. Fine/Fine.

Eliot's New Life

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1988. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 174 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of Lyndall Gordon's second part of her acclaimed biography of the famous poet, the years of maturity of ...

Eliot's Early Years

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1977 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1977, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 174 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue clth with gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of Lyndall Gordon's acclaimed biography of the famous poet up till the age of thirty-eight. ...

Poetry and Drama

ELIOT, T.S. · 1951 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London, Faber and Faber. 1951, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 35 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with strengthening. Old bookseller's ticket to pastedown. Fine first edition of Eliot's essay given as the Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture at Harvar...

The Elder Statesman

ELIOT, T.S. · 1959 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Faber and Faber. 1959, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 108, (1) pp. Red cloth boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with strengthening to inside. Fine woodcut bookplate (Henri de Greeve) to pastedown. An excellent copy of this popular verse drama by the...

What Is a Classic?

ELIOT, T.S. · 1945 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Faber and Faber. 1945, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 32 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with chipping and strengthening. Library stamp to front pastedown. First hardback edition of Eliot's essay given as the first Annual Address to the V...

Four Absentees: Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Eric Gill, J. Middleton Murry

HEPPENSTALL, RAYNER · 1960 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Barrie and Rockliff. 1960, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. (6), 206 pp. Grey boards with blue to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. Very interesting reminiscences of Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Eric Gill and John Middleton Murry by the English neo-modernist no...

The Dynasts

HARDY, THOMAS · 1904 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€495.00 ($545.58 | £412.96 | ¥87,122)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1904, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 1904; 1906; 1908. xxii, 228, v, (1), (2 ads.) pp.; xiii, [blank], 302, 2 (reviews) pp.; xiii, (blank), 355 pp. Original green cloth with gilt monogram device to front boards and gilt to spines. All volumes uncut....

Little Gidding

ELIOT, T.S. · 1942 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Faber and Faber. 1942, First Edition. Original Wraps. Book, 8vo. (6), 16 pp. Stapled mauve wraps. An excellent first edition of T.S. Eliot's fourth and final part of his masterpiece the Four Quartets. Very Good.

Wat Wim En Anneke in de Vacantie Beleefden

DE BOONE-SWARTWOLT, J.C. · 1926 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff. 1926, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Riemersma, Ella. Book, 8vo. 77 pp. Quarter cloth. Illustrated boards by Ella Riemersma. Charming children's story illustrated throughout by famous female illustrator Ella Riemersma. Text in Dutch. Good.

The Prince and the Wild Geese

BROPHY, BRIGID · 1983 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1983, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Gagarin, Grégoire. Book, 8vo. (5), 63 pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of this enchanting rendition of a love affair between Prince Grégoire Gagarin and an ...