Letteratura

Mama Dot

D'AGUIAR, FRED · 1985 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

London, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press. 1985, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 48 pp. Decorative card wrappers with original "Poetry Book Society Recommendation" label to front. The highly acclaimed debut collection by renowned award-winning poet and novelist Fred D'...

The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness

HILL, SELIMA · 1989 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1989, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 47 pp. Original card wrappers. Minimal lightening of spine, otherwise excellent undamaged first edition of Selima Hill's third collection. Very Good.

My Darling Camel

HILL, SELIMA · 1988 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1988, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 64 pp. Original card wrappers. Minimal lightening of spine, otherwise excellent undamaged first edition of Selima Hill's second collection and winner of the 1987 Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competitio...

Saying Hello at the Station

HILL, SELIMA · 1984 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

London, Chatto & Windus - The Hogarth Press. 1984, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 48 pp. Original card wrappers. Minimal sunning to spine, otherwise fine undamaged first edition of Selima Hill's debut collection. Very Good.

Shadows on the Grass

DINESEN, ISAK · 1960 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London, Michael Joseph. 1960, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 108pp. Dark green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket, designed by Charles Gorham. Four short pendants to 'Out of Africa', maintaining the same beautiful tone as the earlier work, and ...

My Sister, Isak Dinesen

DINESEN, THOMAS · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London, Michael Joseph. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 128pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped and undamaged pictorial jacket. Biographical memoir of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) by her brother, including photograph illustrations. Translated from the origin...

Giacomo Joyce

JOYCE, JAMES · 1968 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

New York, The Viking Press. 1968, Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. Grey paper-covered boards with printed paper label and red clothbound spine with gilt. Original matching slipcase. The first edition (January 1, 1968) and only printing in this form, with four full-...

Americans Abroad: An Anthology

NEAGOE, PETER (ED.) · 1932 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,601)

The Hague, The Servire Press. 1932, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xii. 475pp. Yellow boards with grey cloth spine. Top-edge with publisher's blue stain. Decorative unclipped dustjacket. Famous anthology with selections from the work of fifty-two American writers includi...

At the End of the Open Road

SIMPSON, LOUIS · 1963 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,840)

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press. 1963, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 72 pp. Original pictorial wraps. Minor spotting to top-edge, otherwise excellent first edition of this early Louis Simpson work and winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize. Very Good.

The Tennis Court Oath

ASHBERY, JOHN · 1962 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press. 1962, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 94 pp. Illustrated card wraps. A very nice first edition of this famous work of contemporary American poetry. Very Good.

The Weakness

O'DONOGHUE, BERNARD · 1991 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1991, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 80pp. Decorated card wraps. No hardbound edition published. First edition of the poet's first full-length book of poems in excellent condition. Fine.

The Onion, Memory

RAINE, CRAIG · 1978 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1978, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. viii, 84 pp. Illustrated card wrappers. Excellent first edition of the award-winning poet's debut collection. Fine.

Sweethearts

WILLIAMS, EMMETT · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)

New York, Something Else Press. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. Unpaginated. Pale blue boards with red lettering to spine. All edges with matching blue stain. Decorative unclipped dustjacket with light shelf-wear to edges and small scuffed patch to front. Emmett William...

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

WILLIAMS, EMMETT (ED.) · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

New York - Stuttgart, Something Else Press - Edition Hansjorg Mayer. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 342pp. Silver-grey coloured boards with black lettering and black cloth spine. A fine rare first edition of the famous milestone anthology of concrete poetry edit...

Him

CUMMINGS, E.E. · 1927 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Boni and Liveright. 1927, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [iv] 145 pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with black cloth spine. Shelf-wear to corners and discoloration to spine. Slight staining to bottom of first pages otherwise internally good copy of ...

The Enormous Room

CUMMINGS, E.E. · 1922 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€595.00 ($655.80 | £496.39 | ¥104,723)

New York, Boni and Liveright. 1922, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (iv), 272 pp. Original tan-coloured cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition (first state with the word "Shit!" uncensored in the final line of page...

Glad Ghosts

LAWRENCE, D.H. · 1926 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

London, Ernest Benn Limited. 1926, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 12mo. 78pp. Yellow paper wraps, printed in black on upper cover. Glassine dustjacket. Scarce stated first edition (limited to only 500 copies) of Lawrence's short story Glad Ghosts, with the extremely uncommon...

Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D.H. Lawrence

LAWRENCE, ADA (AND GELDER, G. STUART) · 1931 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Florence, G. Orioli. 1931, Numbered Limited Edition. Vellum. Book, 8vo. xiv, 276pp. Vellum-covered boards with red phoenix device to front and lettering to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Original dustjacket with photograph of Lawrence to front. Numbered Limited Editio...

The Symbolic Meaning

LAWRENCE, D.H. · 1962 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Arundel, Centaur Press Limited. 1962, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (xii), 264pp. Black cloth boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge stained purple. Unclipped (35s.net), stiff paper dustjacket. First edition of the uncollected versions of Studies in Classic American Literature...

Clea

DURRELL, LAWRENCE · 1960 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

London, Faber and Faber. 1960, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 287pp. Orange cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with trifle scuffing to front. Altogether a superior first edition example of Durrell's wonderful conclusion to 'The Alexandria Quart...