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W.B. Yeats: The Poems

YEATS, W.B.; (ALBRIGHT, DANIEL. ED) · 1990 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1990, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. lxxii, 868 pp. Blue boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Superb scholarly edition of W.B. Yeats's poetry, with an excellent introductory essay and almost 450 pages of lucid and a...

Letters to W.B. Yeats (Two Volume Set)

FINNERAN, RICHARD J. (ET AL ED.) · 1977 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

New York, Columbia University Press. 1977, First Edition. Cloth. Book, [Two volumes] 8vo. xviii, 302; xiv, 303-628 pp. Black cloth with gilt to spines. Top-edges tinted navy-blue. Unclipped illustrated dustjackets. Fine set of some five-hundred highly selective collection of l...

W.B. Yeats: A New Biography

JEFFARES, A. NORMAN · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 374 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of A.N. Jeffares's new biography of the Irish poet, providing the most complete picture we have of...

Rupert Brooke: A Memoir

MARSH, EDWARD · 1918 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1918, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 159 pp. (+ frontispiece plate with tissue guard). Blue cloth with paper title label to spine. Spare title label tipped in to rear. First separate edition of Sir Edward Marsh's famous biographical memoir of...

The Collected Poems

BROOKE, RUPERT · 1928 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1928. Full-Leather. Book, 8vo. clviii, 162 pp. (+ 2 photographic plates). Full calf with embossed portrait to front panel and gilt to front and spine. Top-edge gilt. Inscription to ffep. A very attractive first impression of the revised second editi...

The Collected Poems

BROOKE, RUPERT · 1987 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1987. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. Frontispiece, (4), 333 pp. Brown boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent copy of the revised 4th edition of 1987, published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Brooke's birth with a new...

The Myth Makers

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1979 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York, Random House. 1979, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 190 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of these perceptive critical essays on non-English language writers by one of the foremost literary critics of the twentiet...

The Tale Bearers: Essays on English, American and Other Writers

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6), 223 pp. Green boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of these perceptive critical essays on mainly British and American writers. As new. Fine/Fine.

Midnight Oil

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1971, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 253 pp. Plum boards with gilt to spine. Laminated unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of the second volume of VSP's classic autobiography. Here we read with stoic honesty and humour about...

A Cab at the Door

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1969. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (8), 238 pp. (+ 2 pp. plates). Green boards with gilt to spine. Laminated clipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of the first volume of VSP's famous autobiography. Here we read about the eccentric and unabashed members of...

A Careless Widow and Other Stories

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii], 164 pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of these stories from the master of the genre who always captures the extraordinary strangeness of ordinary life. Fine/Fine.

Collected Stories

PRITCHETT, V.S. · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, Random House. 1982, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiv, 523 pp. Blue half-cloth and white boards with gilt to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Fine first edition of the collected stories of one of the leading short fiction writer of the twentieth century...

Three Fantasies

POWYS, JOHN COWPER · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (9), 186 pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine first edition of these three surrealistic stories. Afterword by Glen Cavaliero. Fine/Fine.

Gertrude and Alice

SOUHAMI, DIANA · 1991 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Pandora Press. 1991, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (10), 300 pp. Red cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket with modest shelf wear. Diana Souhami's sympathetic and entertaining biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, their life together ...

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company

MELLOW, JAMES R. · 1974 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Phaidon Press. 1974, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 528 pp.(+ 32 pp. plates). Half-cloth with gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this biography of one of the most influential American expatriates to have settled in Paris. Fin...

Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein

WINEAPPLE, BRENDA · 1996 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1996, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xiv], 514 pp. Green-blue boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this fascinating dual biography of these two American expatriates, in which Brenda Wineapple ...

Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes

HERRING, PHILLIP · 1995 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Viking. 1995, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxx, 386 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Black half-cloth with copper-gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of this excellent biography which charts the personal and professional struggles of Moderni...

Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken

AIKEN, CONRAD; (KILLORIN, JOSEPH. ED) · 1978 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1978, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxvi, 350 pp. (+ 20 pp. plates). Brown half-cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of prize-winning poet and novelist Conrad Aiken's correspondence....

Malcom Cowley, the Formative Years

BAK, HANS · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press. 1993, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xx, 626 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Plum cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. First edition of Hans Bak's biography of Cowley's formative years, from his birth in Pittsbur...

The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s

WISER, WILLIAM · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Robson Books. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [xii], 292 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Purple boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. A fine first edition of this social history of the celebrated writers, artists and expatriates in Paris during t...