Letteratura

Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939

FORD, HUGH · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Garnstone Press. 1975, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xviii, 453 pp. Beige cloth with blue titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this fascinating study of 'the centre of a vortex of original literary achievement in the Engli...

Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s

CARPENTER, HUMPHREY · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1988, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 246 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Purple half-cloth with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A nice first edition of Carpenter's group biography of the key figures of the 'Lost Generation'...

The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

MONNIER, ADRIENNE · 1976 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1976, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. viii, 536 pp. Beige cloth with blue titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this 'intimate portrait of the literary and artistic life in Paris between the Wars' b...

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' - an Appreciation

POWYS, JOHN COWPER · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

London, Village Press. 1975, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 21 pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. A fine copy of this largely unknown essay by one of the first people to recognise the genius of James Joyce. As new. Fine.

Iris and the Friends - a Year of Memories

BAYLEY, JOHN · 1999 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1999, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (4), 208 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy of this sensitive portrayal of one of the greatest writers of her time and ...

Elegy for Iris

BAYLEY, JOHN · 1999 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

New York, St. Martin's Press. 1999. Hardcover. Book, 12mo. [x], 277 pp. Yellow boards with gilt to grey spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy of this melodious, affecting tribute to one of the greatest writers of her time by her husband of over forty years. As n...

Memories of John Galsworthy (by His Sister)

REYNOLDS, M.E. · 1936 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Robert Hale & Company. 1936, First Edition. Half-Vellum. Book, 8vo. (12), 128 pp. (+ 24 pp. tissue guarded plates). Half-vellum with gilt to blue cloth boards and spine. A faultless first edition of this biographical memoir and collection of miscellaneous correspondenc...

Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo

BENKOVITZ, MIRIAM J. · 1977 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1977, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 332 pp. (+ 12 pp. plates). Blue boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge tinted pink. Clipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of this biography on the enigmatic and intriguing life of the writer and artist '...

Corvo

WEEKS, DONALD · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Michael Joseph. 1971, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxx, 450 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Brown boards with gilt to spine. Clipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of the first biography after A.J.A Symons's 1934 masterpiece to reassess the enigmatic and intriguing l...

Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story

BAKER, CARLOS · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1969, Signed First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvii, 697 pp. (+ 32 pp. plates). Blue cloth with gilt to front and spine. Original unclipped illustrated dustjacket with usual light lamination lift. Boldly signed by author to ffep. An excellent ...

Poems

FITZGERALD, ROBERT · 1935 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

New York, Arrow Editions. 1935, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [iv], 62 pp. Orange cloth blue titles to spine. Unclipped original thick paper dustjacket. Excellent scarce first edition of this debut collection of fine poetry, printed at Walter Goodwin's Rydal Press. Fine/Ver...

Anabasis

ELIOT, T.S. (TRANS.); PERSE, SAINT-JOHN · 1930 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

London, Faber & Faber. 1930, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 75 pp. Green cloth with gilt to front and spine. Boards with slight toning. Name to ffep. A very good first edition of T.S. Eliot's excellent translation of the French poet's celebrated prose poem published in ...

My Brother, Ernest Hemingway

HEMINGWAY, LEICESTER · 1962 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1962, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 283 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Red cloth with black titles to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Rare UK 'red cloth' first edition of Leicester Hemingway's intimate biography of his brother. A must for...

Four Plays: The Devil's Disciple, Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD · 1978 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library. 1978, Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Ill.: Hunter, Stan. Book, 8vo. [viii], 558 pp. Full leather binding with gilt to boards and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moiré endpapers. Silk ribbon marker. A excellent copy of this Franklin Library Limit...

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

JOYCE, JAMES · 1968 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1968, First Thus. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 258 pp. Green boards with gilt to front and spine.Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Top-edge tinted green. A fine copy of The Definitive Text edition, corrected from the Dublin holograph by Chester G. Anderson and...

Selected Letters of James Joyce

JOYCE, JAMES · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London, Faber and Faber. 1975, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxxii, 440 pp. Black cloth wirh gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Excellent first edition of Joyce's Selected Letters, edited and introduced by biographer Richrad Ellmann. The selection has been mad...

Personae

POUND, EZRA · 1949 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

New York, New Directions. 1949, First Thus. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xvi], 273 pp. Blue cloth with gilt to front and spine. Nice copy of Ezra Pound's poetry published by James Laughlin's New Directions. Contains all of Pound's shorter work up to 1949 and includes two appendices not ...

Closing Time

BROWN, NORMAN O. · 1973 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Random House. 1973, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [xii], (4), 111 pp. Black cloth with gilt and silver titles. Clipped illustrated dustjacket. A good copy of this unusually penetrating work. The pattern of Finnegans Wake is loosely derived from the Italian philoso...

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist

DAVIES, STAN GÉBLER · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London, Davis-Poynter. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6), 328 pp (+ 8 pp. plates). Beige boards with gilt to spine. Fine first edition of Gébler Davies's acclaimed biography, thankfully short on 'critical waffle'. Very Good/No Jacket.

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist

DAVIES, STAN GÉBLER · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Davis-Poynter. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. (6), 328 pp (+ 8 pp. plates). Beige boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of Gébler Davies's acclaimed biography, thankfully short on 'critical waffle'. Fine/Fine.