Letteratura

Red Roses for Bronze

H.D. · 1931 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1931, First Edition. Cloth. Book, (Hilda Doolittle) Red cloth boards and top-edge dyed in matching colour; gilt lettering to spine. First edition limited to 500 copies. Signature and inscription to ffep by Dutch writer Willem van Doorn. A fine edition ...

Poet: A Lying Word

RIDING, LAURA · 1933 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

London, Arthur Barker Ltd. 1933, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Publisher's dark-brown cloth boards with gilt to front and spine; top-edge tinted blue. Exceedingly rare first edition of early poetry by Laura Riding (Jackson). Fine.

Collected Poems

MOORE, MARIANNE · 1951 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

London, Faber and Faber. 1951, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Orange boards with gilt to spine. Dustjacket unclipped (12s 6d net). Neat bookseller's ticket on front pastedown, inconspicuously hidden behind jacket flap. This is the rare, true first-issue edition, pre-dating the se...

The Complete Poems of Robert Frost

FROST, ROBERT · 1951 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1951, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Blue-green boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted in similar colour. Neat bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Striking, unclipped (18s. net) decorative dustjacket in fine condition. Fine/Fine.

Collected Poems

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED · 1947 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

London, Faber and Faber. 1947, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi, 269pp. Olive-green boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with only trifle chipping to top-edge. An excellent first edition of Sassoon's first collected poems, compiled from eight separat...

The Years

WOOLF, VIRGINIA · 1937 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1937, First Edition. Cloth. Ill.: Bell, Vanessa. Book, 8vo. [iv] 469pp. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped first issue dustjacket by Vanessa Bell is very good with only minor shelf-wear and spotting, and strengthening to ver...

To Whom She Will

JHABVALA, RUTH PRAWER · 1955 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€225.00 ($248.00 | £187.68 | ¥39,607)

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1955, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 304pp. Black boards with silver lettering to spine. Top-edge matching black. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by A. Breeze. An exceptional first edition example of this scarce debut novel w...

Jacob's Room

WOOLF, VIRGINIA · 1922 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€1,450.00 ($1,598.20 | £1,209.51 | ¥255,242)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1922, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 290pp. 14pp. advertisements to rear. Original yellow cloth with paper label to spine. The usual general soiling and bumping common to this early Hogarth publication and light spotting to prelims. Otherwise a goo...

A Number of People

MARSH, EDWARD · 1939 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, William Heinemann. 1939, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 420pp. Maroon-coloured cloth boards. Ex-libris of Antony Brett-James (ex Head of War Studies, Sandhurst), with his occ. marginal notations in pencil. A nice copy of Marsh's reminiscences of those writers, a...

Fields of Wonder

HUGHES, LANGSTON · 1947 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1947, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiii, (1), 114, (3)pp. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped design to front and publisher's blind-stamp to rear. Gilt to spine. Set on Linotype in Janson. Dustjacket unclipped ($2.50 net) with minor rubbing to ...

The Twenty-One Balloons

DU BOIS, WILLIAM PÈNE · 1947 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€145.00 ($159.82 | £120.95 | ¥25,524)

New York, The Viking Press. 1947, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: du Bois, William Pène. Book, Illustrated basket-weave patterned boards, salmon-coloured spine and matching coloured top-edge. The unclipped dustjacket ($2.50) has the usual chipping and shelf-wear common to its ...

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

BROOKE, RUPERT · 1916 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1916, First Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Rooke, Noel. Book, Grey-coloured paper wraps (one shilling net) with lettering in black. Double-page woodcut by Noel Rooke. Rupert Brook's famous poem published separately in 1916. Extremely rare in this condit...

North & South

BISHOP, ELIZABETH · 1946 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1946, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [viii] 54 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering and decorative vignettes to front board and spine. Pictorial dustjacket unclipped ($2.00). Elizabeth Bishop's debut work of poetry containing thirty poems, w...

Duke

ELLSON, HAL · 1949 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

New York, Scribners. 1949, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 170pp. Navy-blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Pictorial unclipped ($2.75) dustjacket in excellent condition considering its susceptibility, with only minor shelf-wear and nicks to top and bottom of ...

Under Milk Wood

THOMAS, DYLAN · 1954 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€425.00 ($468.44 | £354.51 | ¥74,812)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1954, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 101pp. Original light-brown cloth boards; spine gilt blocked. Unclipped (8s. 6d. net) apple-green dustjacket. An excellent first impression (5th March, 1954) of Thomas's famous "Play for Voices". Dustjacket ...

Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka

FRISBIE, FLORENCE (JOHNNY) · 1948 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)

New York, Macmillan. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 241pp. Turquoise boards with red ornamentation to front and spine. Extremely rare and fragile, unclipped dustjacket has some loss and minor chipping and is separating along spine-crease. Now protected in archiv...

Cider with Rosie

LEE, LAURIE · 1959 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1959, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Ward, John. Book, 8vo. [iv] 280pp [1]. Green boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by John Ward. An exceptional first edition first issue copy of Laurie Lee's justly popular evocation of rur...

First Love, Last Rites

MCEWAN, IAN · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€875.00 ($964.43 | £729.88 | ¥154,026)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 165pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Bill Botten. First printing of Ian McEwan's first book, which also won the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award. A truly superb copy of...

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi, 489 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Top-edge tinted black. An excellent first edition (Scribner's 'A') of Hemingway's journalism articles and dispatches over four...

The Spire

GOLDING, WILLIAM · 1964 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

London, Faber and Faber. 1964, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. 223pp. Plum-coloured cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by John Piper. This is a truly exemplary copy of the Nobel Prize winner's allegory of personal obsession, self-delus...