Letteratura

The Grass Harp

CAPOTE, TRUMAN · 1952 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

London, William Heinemann. 1952, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. [xiii] 192 pp. Light tan cloth. A very good copy of the rare UK first edition of Capote's second novel. Dustjacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with slight edge rubbing and chipping and minor closed tears. A nice exa...

The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories

BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

London, John Murray. 1987, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xii], 226 pp. White boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. A fine copy of these two long stories set in the Orkney Islands in the late nineteenth century when the pattern of island life, lit...

Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, W.W. Norton & Company. 1995, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xv. 418 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Burgundy boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated price-clipped dustjacket. Nice copy of Lyndall Gordon's excellent biography of the strong, fiery novelist who shaped her o...

Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend

LEHMANN, JOHN · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiii, 178 pp. (+ 12 pp. plates). Blue boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. Excellent copy of Lehmann's biography of the young poet who died on his way to Gallipoli in 1915. Fine/V...

Hermann Broch: A Biography

LÜTZELER, PAUL MICHAEL · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Quartet Books. 1987, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xiv], 329 pp. (+ 56 pp. plates). Black boards with silver to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket. A nice copy of Lützeler's biography of Hermann Broch. Extensively illustrated with photographs. Very Good/Ve...

Jorge Luis Borges: Bibliografia Total 1923-1973

BECCO, HORACIO JORGE · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Buenos Aires, Casa Pardo. 1973, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 244 pp. 93 ills. Card wraps. Bibliography (1,381 entries) illustrated in black-and-white. Text in Spanish. Very good in wrappers with a little sunning to spine and front cover. Extensive illustrated bibliograp...

The Museum at Purgatory

BANTOCK, NICK · 1999 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York, HarperCollins. 1999, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Bantock, Nick. Book, 8vo. xii, 115 pp. Illustrated blue boards. Illustrated dustjacket. Part narrative, part surreal catalogue, following the post-death journey of the mysterious Curator Non. Excellent condition an...

Bibliografie Van de Nederlandse Taal- En Literatuurwetenschap

GEESINK, M.S. ET AL (ED.) · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

's-Gravenhage, Stichting Bibliographia Neerlandica. 1995, 1st Edition. Cloth. Book, 16 Volumes: Vol. 18 (1940-1945); Vol. 22 (1960-1964); Vol. 23 (1965-1969) + registers; Vol. 24 (1970-1974) + registers; Vol. 25 (1975-1979) + registers; Vol. 26 (1980-1984) + registers; Vol. 27...

The Apple Tree (Incl. The Birds)

DU MAURIER, DAPHNE · 1952 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Victor Gollancz. 1952, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 264 pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by Val Biro with strengthening to verso. A first impression of Du Maurier's famous work featuring the first appearance of 'The Birds', in...

Adventures in the Skin Trade

THOMAS, DYLAN · 1955 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Putnam. 1955, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6) 115pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Nice copy of the first separate edition of this unfinished novel, forwarded by Vernon Watkins. Glassine dustjacket. Rolph B. 29. Fine.

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

WELTY, EUDORA · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1980, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 622pp. Burgundy half-cloth with gilt to spine. Clipped illustrated dustjacket. Faded dust-spotting to top-edge otherwise nice copy of all of Eudora Welty's short fiction. Very Good/Very Good.

Eudora Welty: A Biography

MARRS, SUZANNE · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

Orlando, Harcourt. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xx, 652pp. (+ 16pp. plates). White-beige boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this complete and involving portrait of one of the finest writers of short fiction. As new....

Atlas Shrugged

RAND, AYN · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

New York, Dutton. 2005. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 1171 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Cover art as appearing on first edition. Fine copy of the centennial edition of Rand's polemical novel espousing her philosophy of Objectivism. As new...

William Faulkner: American Writer

KARL, FREDERICK R. · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, Faber and Faber. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xviii, 1131pp. Burgundy boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Nice copy of Frederick Karl's unprecedented biography of one of America's greatest novelists. Very Good/Fine.

William Faulkner

PORTER, CAROLYN · 2007 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

New York, Oxford University Press. 2007, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. viii, 199pp. Grey and red boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of this volume in Oxford's 'Lives and Legacies' series, offering an insightful account of Faulkner's...

A Suitable Boy

SETH, VIKRAM · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Amsterdam, Uitgeverij G.A. van Oorschot (in conjunction with Phoenix House. 1993, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xvi], 1351pp. Black cloth with gilt to spine. White silk ribbon. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Vikram Seth's massive, generous, s...

Steve Jobs

ISAACSON, WALTER · 2011 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York, Simon & Schuster. 2011, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxi, (3), 630pp. (+ 16pp. plates). Whites boards with black text to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this exclusive biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs, his roller-coaster li...

Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre

THOMAS, D.M. · 2000 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

London, Duck Editions. 2000, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (4), 173pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Freed from the constraints of Victorian modesty and subservience, D. M. Thomas's modern 'Jane Eyre' is sexually and politically enligh...

Mr. Tutt Finds a Way

Train, Arthur · 1945 · Brookline Village Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. 1st edition . Hardcover. 241p. Very good condition/good.

Picture Palace

Theroux, Paul · 1978 · Brookline Village Books

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. 337p. illus. Ill.: Dennis Luzak. Very good condition in gilt stamped leather .