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The Years

WOOLF, VIRGINIA · 1937 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1937, First Edition. Cloth. Ill.: Bell, Vanessa. Book, 8vo. [iv] 469pp. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped first issue dustjacket by Vanessa Bell is very good with only minor shelf-wear and spotting, and strengthening to ver...

To Whom She Will

JHABVALA, RUTH PRAWER · 1955 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,601)

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1955, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 304pp. Black boards with silver lettering to spine. Top-edge matching black. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by A. Breeze. An exceptional first edition example of this scarce debut novel w...

Levensgeschiedenis En Lotgevallen Van Robinson Crusoe

DEFOE, DANIEL · 1791 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

Amsterdam and Rotterdam, J. Allart & D. Vis. 1791. Hardcover. Ill.: Vinkeles, Reinier. Book, Three parts bound in one volume. 8vo. Unlabelled contemporary marbled boards. All edges deckled. Engraved frontispiece and 17 full-page plates by Reinier Vinkeles, with folding engrave...

Jacob's Room

WOOLF, VIRGINIA · 1922 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€1,450.00 ($1,598.16 | £1,209.69 | ¥255,206)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1922, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 290pp. 14pp. advertisements to rear. Original yellow cloth with paper label to spine. The usual general soiling and bumping common to this early Hogarth publication and light spotting to prelims. Otherwise a goo...

A Number of People

MARSH, EDWARD · 1939 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London, William Heinemann. 1939, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 420pp. Maroon-coloured cloth boards. Ex-libris of Antony Brett-James (ex Head of War Studies, Sandhurst), with his occ. marginal notations in pencil. A nice copy of Marsh's reminiscences of those writers, a...

Fields of Wonder

HUGHES, LANGSTON · 1947 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1947, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xiii, (1), 114, (3)pp. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped design to front and publisher's blind-stamp to rear. Gilt to spine. Set on Linotype in Janson. Dustjacket unclipped ($2.50 net) with minor rubbing to ...

The Twenty-One Balloons

DU BOIS, WILLIAM PÈNE · 1947 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€145.00 ($159.82 | £120.97 | ¥25,521)

New York, The Viking Press. 1947, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: du Bois, William Pène. Book, Illustrated basket-weave patterned boards, salmon-coloured spine and matching coloured top-edge. The unclipped dustjacket ($2.50) has the usual chipping and shelf-wear common to its ...

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

BROOKE, RUPERT · 1916 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1916, First Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Rooke, Noel. Book, Grey-coloured paper wraps (one shilling net) with lettering in black. Double-page woodcut by Noel Rooke. Rupert Brook's famous poem published separately in 1916. Extremely rare in this condit...

North & South

BISHOP, ELIZABETH · 1946 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1946, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. [viii] 54 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering and decorative vignettes to front board and spine. Pictorial dustjacket unclipped ($2.00). Elizabeth Bishop's debut work of poetry containing thirty poems, w...

Duke

ELLSON, HAL · 1949 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

New York, Scribners. 1949, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xiv, 170pp. Navy-blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Pictorial unclipped ($2.75) dustjacket in excellent condition considering its susceptibility, with only minor shelf-wear and nicks to top and bottom of ...

Plutonian Ode / Plutonische Ode

GINSBERG, ALLEN (TRANS. SIMON VINKENOOG) · 1980 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Heerlen, Uitgeverij 261. 1980, Limited. Hardcover. Book, Bilingual (English and Dutch) signed limited edition of Ginsberg's Plutonian Ode. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, the first 100 of which were numbered and signed by Allen Ginsberg and the translator (Dutch poet an...

Under Milk Wood

THOMAS, DYLAN · 1954 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1954, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 101pp. Original light-brown cloth boards; spine gilt blocked. Unclipped (8s. 6d. net) apple-green dustjacket. An excellent first impression (5th March, 1954) of Thomas's famous "Play for Voices". Dustjacket ...

Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka

FRISBIE, FLORENCE (JOHNNY) · 1948 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

New York, Macmillan. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 241pp. Turquoise boards with red ornamentation to front and spine. Extremely rare and fragile, unclipped dustjacket has some loss and minor chipping and is separating along spine-crease. Now protected in archiv...

Cider with Rosie

LEE, LAURIE · 1959 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

London, The Hogarth Press. 1959, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Ward, John. Book, 8vo. [iv] 280pp [1]. Green boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by John Ward. An exceptional first edition first issue copy of Laurie Lee's justly popular evocation of rur...

First Love, Last Rites

MCEWAN, IAN · 1975 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€875.00 ($964.41 | £729.98 | ¥154,004)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1975, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 165pp. Black boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Bill Botten. First printing of Ian McEwan's first book, which also won the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award. A truly superb copy of...

By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi, 489 pp. Red cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Top-edge tinted black. An excellent first edition (Scribner's 'A') of Hemingway's journalism articles and dispatches over four...

The Spire

GOLDING, WILLIAM · 1964 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

London, Faber and Faber. 1964, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. 223pp. Plum-coloured cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by John Piper. This is a truly exemplary copy of the Nobel Prize winner's allegory of personal obsession, self-delus...

Turkish Delight

WOLKERS, JAN · 1974 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

London, Calder & Boyars. 1974, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, First English edition of the moving novel by the Dutch writer and artist Jan Wolkers. Translated into English by Greta Kilburn. Jacket design by Christopher Cresey, unclipped and unblemished. An exceptional copy of...

Collected Poems

PLATH, SYLVIA · 1981 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

London, Faber and Faber. 1981, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, The scarce hardcover edition of this classic collection with an introduction by Ted Hughes. Due to the concurrent publication of the paperback edition the hardcover edition was issued in very small numbers and is n...

Robert Lowell: A Biography

HAMILTON, IAN · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

New York, Random House. 1982, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xii, 529 pp (+ 24 pp. plates). Purple cloth with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. Nice copy of Hamilton's extended study of the life and works of the poet Robert Lowell, whose new, personal, confessional voice ...