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The Fourth Hand

IRVING, JOHN · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 319pp. 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 new...

William Styron: A Life

WEST, JAMES L.W. III · 1998 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Random House. 1998, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 509pp. First edition of West's excellent biography of William Styron, supported by many revealing photographs and in fine condition. Fine/Fine.

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

STYRON, WILLIAM · 1990 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

New York, Random House. 1990, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Burgundy coloured boards. Unclipped dustjacket with mild sunning to spine. First edition of Styron's candid experience of his devastating descent into madness. Fine/Very Good.

Sophie's Choice

STYRON, WILLIAM · 1979 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1979, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First UK edition of Styron's famous study of human responsibility in the face of extreme dilemma. Ffep missing, otherwise a very nice copy. Very Good/Very Good.

A Tidewater Morning

STYRON, WILLIAM · 1993 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1993, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First UK edition of these three stories told in the same voice set in the heart of Styron country. In excellent condition. Fine/Fine.

The Confessions of Nat Turner

STYRON, WILLIAM · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York, Random House. 1967. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 428pp. (2). Black cloth boards with gilt to spine and front cover. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Top-edge tinted red. Second printing (10/67) of Styron's Pulitzer winning novel in good condition. Very Good/Good.

The Hotel New Hampshire

IRVING, JOHN · 1981 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1981, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xii, 401pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with slight discolouring to spine. Irving's fifth novel about the quirky New Hampshire Berry family, Win, Mary and their five children. First UK ...

The Usurpers

MILOSZ, CZESLAW · 1955 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Faber and Faber. 1955, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 222pp. Red boards with black lettering to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Charles Mozley. A fine, scarce first English edition of Nobel Prize winner Milosz's novel of postwar Poland, transl...

Selected Poems

SIMPSON, LOUIS · 1965 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€32.50 ($35.82 | £27.11 | ¥5,720)

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World. 1965, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 145pp. Blue cloth boards with silver to spine. Top-edge in matching blue. Unclipped dustjacket with poet's portrait to rear. An excellent first edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's selected p...

Selected Poems

HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 140pp. Decorative red wrappers. First edition of this Carcanet edition. Translated by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott and introduced by A. Alvarez. In new condition. Fine.

Barbarian in the Garden

HERBERT, ZBIGNIEW · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Manchester, Carcanet. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 180pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket designed by Julia Farrar. The great Polish poet's excellent collection of essays, reflecting on art, architecture and history. Scarce first...

Birds of America

MCCARTHY, MARY · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1971, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [viii] 344pp. Tan-brown boards with blue and black to spine. Top-edge tinted in matching dark brown. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with photograph to rear. A very nice first edition of Mary McCarthy...

The Bone People

HULME, KERI · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press. 1985. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (xii) 452 pp. Blue-cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize of 1985. Keri Hulme's famous prize-winning fir...

Primo Levi

THOMSON, IAN · 2004 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

New York, Picador. 2004, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 626pp. First paperback edition of Thomson's celebrated biography of one of the 20th century's leading literary figures. Generously supported by sixty photographs and illustrations from Levi's life. A fine biog...

Primo Levi

THOMSON, IAN · 2002 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

London, Hutchinson. 2002, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 624pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket with photograph by Andrea Nemitz. Thomson's celebrated biography of one of the 20th century's leading literary figures. Generously supported by sixt...

The Mirror Maker

LEVI, PRIMO · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Schocken Books. 1989, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 177pp. Portions first published in Italy in 1986 as "Racconti e saggi". Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Unclipped dustjacket. Following on from The Periodic Table, this first edition collection of stories an...

The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987

LEVI, PRIMO · 2001 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, The New Press. 2001, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xxx, 306pp. First published in Italy in 1997 as "Primo Levi: Conversazioni e interviste 1963-87". Translated by Robert Gordon, and edited by Robert Gordon and Marco Belpoliti. Unclipped dustjacket. A fine exam...

The Monkey's Wrench

LEVI, PRIMO · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Summit Books. 1986, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 176pp. First published in Italy in 1978 as "La chiave a stella". First English language edition, translated by William Weaver. Unclipped dustjacket illustration by Bascove. Winner of Italy's prestigious Strega ...

The Apple Fall

DUNMORE, HELEN · 1983 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books. 1983, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 64pp. Decorative card wrappers illustrated by Pete Henry. First edition of Helen Dunmore's debut publication in excellent condition. Fine.

Airy Hall

D'AGUIAR, FRED · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 63 pp. Decorative card wrappers. Minimal discolouration to spine, otherwise fine. Rare second collection of poetry by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'Aguiar. Fine.