Letteratura

Turkish Delight

WOLKERS, JAN · 1974 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

London, Calder & Boyars. 1974, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First English edition of the moving novel by the Dutch writer and artist Jan Wolkers. Translated into English by Greta Kilburn. Jacket design by Christopher Cresey, unclipped and unblemished. An exceptional copy of...

Collected Poems

PLATH, SYLVIA · 1981 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)

London, Faber and Faber. 1981, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, The scarce hardcover edition of this classic collection with an introduction by Ted Hughes. Due to the concurrent publication of the paperback edition the hardcover edition was issued in very small numbers and is n...

Robert Lowell: A Biography

HAMILTON, IAN · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Random House. 1982, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 529 pp (+ 24 pp. plates). Purple cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Nice copy of Hamilton's extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell, whose new, personal, confessional voice ...

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

BALDWIN, JAMES · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1985, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi, 125 pp. Black half-cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of this work in which Baldwin uses the notorious Atlanta child-murder case to tackle the subject of ra...

John Steinbeck: A Biography

PARINI, JAY · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

New York, Henry Holt. 1995, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxiv, 536 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Burgundy half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Parini's astute and sensitive portrait of a driven and difficult man. As new. Fi...

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

STEINBECK, JOHN (ED. SHILLINGLAW, S. AND BENSON, J.J.) · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Viking. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xviii, 430 pp. Cream boards with gilt to blue spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of this volume that brings together for the first time some of Steinbeck's finest essays, articles and colum...

Letters by Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller

MILLER, HENRY (ED. JOYCE HOWARD) · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Freunlich Books. 1986, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 163 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue half-cloth. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of Miller's intimate letters to his fifth and last wife, Hoki, laying open his feelings about eros and lov...

My Friend, Henry Miller

PERLÈS, ALFRED · 1955 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

London, Neville Spearman. 1955, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 242 pp. (+ 11 pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with repaired nicks. Some spotting to endpapers, otherwise a reasonable copy of Perlès's remarkable biography of Miller. Good/Fair.

Paul Bowles: A Life

CARR, VIRGINIA SPENSER · 2004 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Scribner. 2004, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xviii, 411 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Cream boards with gilt to black spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of the acclaimed biographer's masterful account of the extraordinary life of one of the m...

The Bonfire of the Vanities

WOLFE, TOM · 1990 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1990, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxviii, 659 pp. Black half-cloth. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first printing of the 'Gift Edition' of Wolfe's first novel, with a new foreword written specially for this edition by Wolf...

Ape and Essence

HUXLEY, ALDOUS · 1949 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1949, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [vi], 154 pp. Grey cloth with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted blue. Unclipped dustjacket. A good first edition of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel of life following a third World War and the horror of the moral disa...

Aldous Huxley: A Biography. Volume One: 1894-1939. Volume Two: 1939-1963

BEDFORD, SYBILLE · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, Chatto & Windus in association with Collins. 1973, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. Vol. I: xvi, 400 pp. (+ 11 pp. plates); Vol II: xii, 378 pp. (+ 9 pp. plates). Blue boards with gilt to spines. Unclipped illustrated dustjackets. First editions of Sybille Bedford'...

Poetry and Experience

MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD · 1961 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, The Bodley Head. 1961, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 204 pp. Orange boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Attractive ex-libris to front pastedown. Fine first edition of this study on the nature of poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald M...

Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels

BOWERING, PETER · 1968 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London, The Athlone Press. 1968, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xiii], 242 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Neat ownership name to ffep. A nice copy of this study of Huxley's nine major novels. Very Good/Very Good.

Ships That Pass in the Night

HARRADEN, BEATRICE · 1894 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Leipzig, Tauchnitz. 1894, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. (7) 263 pp. Embossed red cloth with gilt to front and spine. A fine first edition of the continental copyright edition of Beatrice Harraden's debut novel set in a tuberculosis sanatorium, which would go on to have a p...

Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature

JEFFERSON, GEORGE · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1982, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 350 pp. Burgundy boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy of this fascinating biography of the influential man of letters. Fine/Very Good.

Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (2 Vols. )

HOLROYD, MICHAEL · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Heinemann. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. Vol I: xxiv, 475 (4) pp. (+ 16 pp. plates); Vol II: xii, 754 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Red boards and illustrated dustjackets with strengthening to inside. Nice first edition (vol 2 second printing) of Michael Holroyd's fa...

Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (2 Vols. )

HOLROYD, MICHAEL · 1968 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1968, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. Vol I: xxiv, 475 (4) pp. (+ 16 pp. plates); Vol II: xii, 754 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Black boards and unclipped illustrated dustjackets. Stiff card slipcase. Nice first (US) edition of Michael Holr...

James Joyce: A Passionate Exile

MCCOURT, JOHN · 2000 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, Orion. 2000, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Various. Book, 4to. (6), 112 pp. Red boards with gilt to sipine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of this revealing account of the life, times and writings of the twentieth century's most distinguished novelist. C...

Malraux: A Life

TODD, OLIVIER · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 544 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Beige boards with unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Excellent first edition of Olivier Todd's meticulous biography in which he reveals how Malraux, the protean genius, became hi...