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THORPE, ADAM · 1992 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

London, Secker & Warburg. 1992. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 385 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A nice copy of Adam Thorpe's acclaimed debut novel, brilliantly blending the traditional English pastoral with the post-modern. Very Good/Very Good.

The Horse Wisperer

EVANS, NICHOLAS · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

New York, Delacorte Press. 1995, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xii], 404 pp. Blue haf-cloth with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket with trifle wrinkling to laminate. A very good first edition of Nicholas Evans's gripping debut novel, a stirring...

Black Box

OZ, AMOS · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1988, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 259 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Sunning to spine. A good first edition of this novel pleasing for ambivalences to be resolved and passions to be channelled away ...

The Twin

BAKKER, GERBRAND · 2006 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Harvill Secker. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 283 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first English language edition of this prize-winning debut novel. As new. Fine/Fine.

The Forest

RUTHERFURD, EDWARD · 2000 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York, Crown Publishers. 2000, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xx], 599 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this spellbinding historical novel with as backdrop the ancient New Forest. As new. Fine/Fine.

Measuring the World

KEHLMANN, DANIEL · 2007 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London, Quercus. 2007, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 263 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition in English of Kehlmann's phenomenally successful novel 'Die Vermessung der Welt', winner of the 'Heimito von Doderer' pri...

Gathering the Water

EDRIC, ROBERT · 2006 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Doubleday. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 250 pp. Black boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of Robert Edric's fine Man Booker David nominated novel set in Victorian northern England full of dense sy...

Two Lives

SETH, VIKRAM · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London, Little, Brown. 2005. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [vii], 503 pp.(+ 24 pp. plates). Red boards with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent copy of Vikram Seth's extraordinary tapestry of a violent century seen through the eyes of his parents, o...

Last Night in Twisted River

IRVING, JOHN · 1994 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

New York, Random House. 1994, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xii, 563 pp. Blue-grey boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of Irving's twelfth novel full of emotional authority and disturbing authenticity. As new. Fine/Fine.

The Fourth Hand

IRVING, JOHN · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 319 pp. Black boards with gil to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Irving's novel published for the continental market by the Dutch publisher De Bezige Bij (The Busy Bee). As ne...

The Collected Stories of Angus Wilson

WILSON, ANGUS · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Secker & Warburg. 1987, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 414 pp. Black boards with silver to spine. Clipped dustjacket. A fine first edition of Angus Wilson's waspish, compassionate shorter fiction, collecting work published in 'The Wrong Set', 'Such Darling Dodos'...

A Singular Country

DONLEAVY, J.P. · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Peterborough, Ryan Publishing. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (7), 198 pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of J.P. Donleavy's idiosyncratic and personal view of Ireland told in the vernacular of the Irishman. F...

Human Traces

FAULKS, SEBASTIAN · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Hutchinson. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [vi], 615 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of Sebastian Faulks's exploration into the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and the search for what ...

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

PIRSIG, ROBERT M. · 1991 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Bantam Books. 1991, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x], 418 pp. Black boards with white titles to spine, Clipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first UK edition of Pirsig's second and final novel, and similarly to his previous work a profound exploration and medi...

The Wall of the Plague

BRINK, ANDRÉ · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Faber and Faber. 1984, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (12), 447 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this powerful exploration into self-understanding. Good/Good.

The Stories of Muriel Spark

SPARK, MURIEL · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, The Bodley Head. 1987. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [vi], 314 pp. Black boards and gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket with light toning to spine. An excellent copy of Muriel Spark's superbly crafted and entertaining short stories. Murial Spark was ranked in the t...

The Hearts and Lives of Men

WELDON, FAY · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York, Viking. 1987, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [viii], 357 pp. Blue half-cloth with white boards and silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket with slightly sunned spine. A nice first edition of this modern fable for grown-ups. Fine/Very Good.

Something out There

GORDIMER, NADINE · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Braamfontein / Emmarentia, Ravan Press / Taurus. 1984, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (9), 203 pp. Brown boards with white titles to front and spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A very good South African first edition of this collection of shorter fiction, embracin...

The Pickup

GORDIMER, NADINE · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 271 pp. Yellow half-cloth with white boards and black titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this powerful story immigration and alienation. As New. ...

Get a Life

GORDIMER, NADINE · 2005 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Bloomsbury. 2005. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 189 pp. Black cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent copy of this moving story of environmental activist Paul Bannerman and his family. As New. Fine/Fine.