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André Malraux: A Biography

CATE, CURTIS · 1997 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, Fromm International Publishing. 1997, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 451 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Beige boards with unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this enthralling biography of the dramatic life story of the heroic prototype of the enga...

Sartre: A Life

COHEN-SOLAL, ANNIE · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, Pantheon Books. 1987, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 592 pp. (+ 24 pp. plates). Blue half-cloth with unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Nice first edition copy of Cohen-Solal's definitive biography of Jean-Paul Sartre. Fine/Good.

The Sea and Prisons: A Commentary on the Life and Thoughts of Albert Camus

QUILLIOT, ROGER · 1970 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

Alabama, University of Alabama Press. 1970, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxviii, 280 pp. Green cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Attractive exlibris to pastedown. Fine copy of the professor Quilliot's updated commentary on the life and works of hi...

Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner

WINEAPPLE, BRENDA · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York, Ticknor & Fields. 1989, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xx. 361 pp. (+16 pp. plates). Black half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Very good first edition of Brenda Wineapple's literary biography of Janet Flanner, award-winning author ...

The Cave

SARAMAGO, JOSÉ · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Harcourt. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xii], 307 pp. Blue boards and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Very good first edition of the Nobel laureate's novel, suffused with the extraordinary sense of humanity that marks each of his works. Translated by ...

Seeing

SARAMAGO, JOSÉ · 2006 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Harcourt. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 307 pp. White boards and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Very good first edition of the Nobel laureate's sinister novel and a sequel to his famous work, Blindness. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Fine/Ver...

The Encyclopedia of the Dead

KIS, DANILO · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

London, Faber and Faber. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii], 199 pp. Black boards and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. Excellent first edition of these nine short stories, considered to be Kis's masterpiece. Kis was a Yugoslav ...

The Double Bond. Primo Levi: A Biography

ANGIER, CAROLE · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2002, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 898 pp. Black half-cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Small top-edge remainder spot; otherwise excellent first edition of this meticulously researched, vivid and m...

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist

ANISSIMOV, MIRIAM · 1999 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Woodstock, The Overlook Press. 1999, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 452 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Green half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent first edition in English and first full biography of this complex, private man and major lit...

Solzhenitsyn: A Biography

SCAMMELL, MICHAEL · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London, Hutchinson. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 1051 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Black boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this first full biography in English of the famous Russian novelist. It covers every period of ...

Liquidation

KERTÉSZ, IMRE · 2006 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

London, Harvill Secker. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (iv), 262 pp. Black boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Translated by Tim Wilkinson. Excellent first edition of the Nobel Laureate's novel about 'trying to tell stories that resist be...

Fatelessness

KERTÉSZ, IMRE · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, The Harvill Press. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (iv), 262 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Translated by Tim Wilkinson (Winner of the American PEN/Book of the Month Club Award for Translation). Excellent first edition...

Scott Fitzgerald

TURNBULL, ANDREW · 1962 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London, The Bodley Head. 1962, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 320pp. (+ 16pp. plates). Red boards with top-edge tinted red. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Very nice first edition of Turnbull's comprehensive biography and personal memoir. Fine/Very Good.

Hart Crane: A Life

FISHER, CLIVE · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. viii, 568pp. (+ 16pp. plates). Yellow boards with cloth spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy of this excellent biography of this significant modernist poet. As new. Fine/Fine.

Carson Mccullers: A Life

SAVIGNEAU, JOSYANE · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 370pp. Grey boards with red cloth spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Excellent copy of this deeply sympathetic portrait of one of America's greatest novelists. Fine/Fine.

Dos Passos: A Life

CARR, VIRGINIA SPENSER · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, Doubleday. 1984, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxii, 624 pp. (+24 pp. plates) Cream boards with black cloth spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with neatly repaired short tears. Ownership name to ffep. A very good copy of this excellent biography of one of...

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J. · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Columbia, University of South Carolina Press. 2002, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. xxxii, 659 pp. Illustrated card wraps. Excellent copy of the second revised edition. Regarded as the basic work on Fitzgerald and the preeminent source for the study of the novelist. The ...

Hemingway on the China Front

MOREIRA, PETER · 2007 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Washington, Potomac Books. 2007, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. xviii, 245pp. Illustrated card wraps. Excellent copy of this detailed account of the journey made by Hemingway and Gellhorn through China during World War II. As new. Fine.

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; FITZGERALD, ZELDA; (ED. BRYER, JACKSON R.; BARKS, CATHY W.) · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

New York, St. Martin's Press. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxxii, 400pp. (+ 8pp. colour plates) Grey boards and unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent first edition of this stunning collection of mostly unpublished letters as well as an extensive narrative o...

As Ever, Scott-Fitz: Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT; (ED. BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J.) · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

London, The Woburn Press. 1973, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxii, 441pp. (+ 16pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to spine. Price-clipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent copy of the correspondence between the writer and his agent, which reveals previously obscure aspects ...