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Dreamtigers

BORGES, JORGE LUIS · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, Souvenir Press. 1973, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 95 pp. Red cloth boards with black to spine. A nice first UK edition of Borges's short stories and poems with a woodcut illustration by Antonio Frasconi. Fine.

Extraordinary Tales

BORGES, JORGE LUIS (AND CASARES, ADOLFO BIOY) · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, Souvenir Press. 1973, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 144 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to spine. An excellent first UK edition of short sketches compiled by these great 20th century writers. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan. Fine.

Extraordinary Tales

BORGES, JORGE LUIS (AND CASARES, ADOLFO BIOY) · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

New York, Herder and Herder. 1971, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 144 pp. Plum cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated clipped dustjacket. A very nice first English-language (US) edition of short sketches compiled by these great 20th century writers. Translated by Anthony Kerr...

The Book of Imaginary Beings

BORGES, JORGE LUIS · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

New York, E.P. Dutton. 1969, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 256 pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. First English-language translation of Borges's extraordinary collection of this modern variation of the traditional bestiary, translated b...

The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969

BORGES, JORGE LUIS · 1970 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

New York, E.P. Dutton. 1970, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 288 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. First English-language translation of Borges's short story collection, edited and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. A fine first editio...

Evaristo Carriego

BORGES, JORGE LUIS · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

New York, E.P. Dutton. 1984, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 174 pp. Green boards and cream half-cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. First English-language translation of Borges's disarming and unclassifiable essay about the Argentine poet Evaristo...

Das Reich Der Sonne (Empire of the Sun)

BALLARD, J. G. · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

München, R. Piper GmbH. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 320 pp. Yellow boards with black to spine. Original illustrated dustjacket with photograph of author to rear flap. First German edition of Ballard's autobiographical novel set in Japanese occupied Shanghai and ...

The Old Devils

AMIS, KINGSLEY · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

London, Hutchinson. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 294 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by Alastair Taylor. An excellent first edition of the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel of regret for lost opportunity and destructive selfish...

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

OE, KENZABURO · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Grove Press. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 259pp. Creme boards with gilt to brown spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition of the Nobel laureate's novel, translated by John Nathan. As new. Fine/Fine.

The Master of Go

KAWABATA, YASUNARI · 1972 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1972, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 196pp. Yellow cloth boards with gilt to front and spine and publisher's device to rear. Top-edge tinted red, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Joseph del Gaudio....

The Old Gringo

FUENTES, CARLOS · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London, Andre Deutsch. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 199pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first UK edition of Fuentes's novel set during the chaos of the Mexican Revolution and attempts to address the Mexican ident...

The Tunnel

SÁBATO, ERNESTO · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1988, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 138pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of Margaret Sayers Peden's 1988 translation of El Túnel (1948). Lauded by such luminaries as Camus and Gr...

Living to Tell the Tale

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 2003 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

New York, Knopf. 2003, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (x), 486pp. Plum-coloured boards with silver to front and spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Pictorial unclipped dustjacket designed by Carol Carson. First edition of the long-awaited first volume of Marquez's memoirs, trans...

Gabriel García Márquez: Writer of Colombia

MINTA, STEPHEN · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1987, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. vi, 186 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A flawless first edition of Minta's acclaimed analysis of Marquez's novels, within the perspective of his background, the complex po...

Collected Novellas

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1990 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

New York, HarperCollins. 1990, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 249pp. Green boards and black half-cloth with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition of the three novellas: Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Chronicle of a Dea...

Collected Stories

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

New York, Harper & Row. 1984, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 311pp. Blue cloth boards with publisher's device to front and gilt to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. A beautiful first edition of Márquez's first three volumes of stories. Fine/...

Of Love and Other Demons

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€37.50 ($41.33 | £31.28 | ¥6,601)

New York, Knopf. 1995, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 150pp. Plum-coloured cloth boards with publisher's device to rear and with gilt to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Carol Carson and Chip Kidd. Another excellent translation by awar...

News of a Kidnapping

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1997 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

New York, Knopf. 1997, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 295pp. Brown boards and black spine with publisher's device to rear and gilt to front and spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Original unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this astonishing book chronicling the ...

In Evil Hour

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1979 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

New York, Harper & Row. 1979, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 183pp. Blue cloth boards with publisher's device to front and gilt to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Original unclipped dustjacket designed by Guy Fleming. First English-language translation of this novel, reflecting ...

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

MÁRQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCÍA · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€32.50 ($35.82 | £27.11 | ¥5,721)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xii, 106pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Original unclipped dustjacket. A scarce first UK edition of Márquez's journalistic account of the amazing story of Luis Alijendro Velasco, who survived for ten days ad...