Search Results: Authors starting with B from Sad Paradise Books

New Hampshire: Yankee, Inc., 1979. Paperback. Very Good,. A very sound, neat copy. Third printing. Octavo in original illustrated stiff wrappers, 62 pages including numerous black & white photographs, diagrams and illustrations. The text describes the evolution of the home-use brick bake oven, technical aspects of oven construction and using a brick bake oven. 'The only one of its kind, the book provides a valuable link, missing for years, between colonial times and the 20th century.'

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very good +. Very neat attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's illustrated boards, 199 pages. Small, neat previous owner's name to free front endpaper. Paper stock slightly toned. A brother and sister work the family sheep farm in western New South Wales while their reclusive brother, Wesley spends years toiling away in one of the sheds writing philosophy. The novel was shortlisted for the following 2009 awards: The Miles Franklin, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

West Strand, London: John W Parker and Son., 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A neat, sound copy. Octavo in publisher's original decoratively embossed brown cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, 614 plus 8 pages of publisher's advertisements. Cloth lightly worn in a few places at edges, corners bumped. Hard to find, let alone in sound clean condition - a very presentable copy of this classic.

London: Faber, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very clean, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original ochre boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 160 pages. Baldwin evokes with hair-raising immediacy the horror, humour and bawdry of nineteenth century warfare.

London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A quite neat, very sound copy of the first U.K edition. Brown cloth with silver lettering to spine, as issued, 132 pages. Top corners lightly bumped, small area of offsetting to front free endpaper from bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Dustjacket has slight wear, creasing and a few small chips to edges. Written in Paris in the fifties, this early play is a fruitful hunting-ground for those interested in Baldwin's literary development. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Book Club Associates, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very bright neat copy in publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 291 pages. Light spotting to edges, very faint offsetting to free endpapers, all else fine. A young boy has to fend for himself when the Japanese invade Shanghai. A lovely copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: William Heinemann, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright copy of the first impression. Octavo in publisher's white boards with silver lettering to spine, afterword and bibliography. 328 pages. A comic and irreverent biography of Sri Ramakrishna through the eyes of his nephew and longtime caretaker.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1992. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Original publisher's orange boards quarter bound in cream linen with brown title to spine, 276 pages including biographical note, important dates in the life of Stamford Raffles, map. A few very slight chips to dustjacket. Barley goes from Malacca to Java, Bali and Singapore seeking traces of him in overgrown forts, lost gardens, poignant cemetaries and dusty libraries. A clean, neat copy.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original plum boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 128 pages including bibliography, index and 150 magnificent color and 28 black & white plates. Stunning photographs with facinating accompanying text evoke the taste of the wealthy, aristocratic and artistic elite of Germany and Austria who created this cornucopia of delightful follies and fantasies - palaces, towers, pavilions, parks filled with statuary... a bright, tight copy. Perfect gift.

South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very bright attractive copy. First printing. Quart in publisher's original tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, 304 pages. Alphabetical entries on people, institutions, places, ideas, movements, events, artefacts, and documents considered to be of significance in Australian history, profusely illustrated with mostly black & white photographic illustrations and line drawings. A lovely copy.

Devon: David and Charles, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine,. A bright, tight copy - new. First printing. Octavo in publisher's original red books with gilt lettering to spine, 286 pages including monochrome and colour photographic plates, a chronology, sources and index. Drawing on Pepys' famous diary as its central resource, the book is a fascinating and vivid account of life in seventeenth century London at a critical point in history - poised to become a major centre of international commerce and culture. Lovely copy.

London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original navy cloth with title in white and gilt credits and decoration to spine, 414 pages.Slight browning to endpapers, a few small chips, edgewear and very light soiling to dustjacket, light offsetting to endpapers. The story of a Russian prima ballerina, first against the glamourous background of Vienna, and later in the strenuously competitive ballet of New York A brilliant depiction of the world of ballet by the author of 'Grand Hotel' and 'Tale of Bali'.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A quite neat, very sound copy. Fourth edition. Octavo in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 565 pages including 150 black & white photographic plates and maps, index. Cloth is slightly blotchy, gilt lettering is faded, dustjacket only slightly chipped, creased at the head of the spine, otherwise bright and clean. An attractive copy of Bean's condensation of his twelve volume Australian Official History of the 1914 - 18 war.

London: Hogarth Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good,. Clean, tight copy, sixth impression. Octavo in publisher's boards, gilt lettering to spine, black & white plates, index, map endpapers, 300 pages.

Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket spine a faded, previous owner's initials on front pastedown. Interviews with John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Gass, Donald Barthelme, Ronald Sukenick, Tom Wolfe, John Hawkes, Susan Sontag, Ishmael Reed, Jerzy Koninski, John Gardner and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A clean tight copy.

New York: Harper and Row, 1982. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original green cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, buff endpapers, 312 pages. A light crease and a small closed tear to dustjacket. Very slight fading to cloth near, very light spotting to top edge. Ninth novel from the Nobel Prize winner; set in Chicago and Bucharest.

Scoresby, VIC, Australia: Random House Australia, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 310 pages including bibliography, colour photographic plates, illustrated endpapers. Bevan draws together the experiences of Australian war artists Rick Amor, Sir William Dargie, Nora Heysen, Ray Parkin, Bruce Fletcher, Ray Beattie, Wendy Sharpe & Peter Churcher. A bright, tight copy.

Neath: John E. Richards, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. A quite neat, reasonably sound copy of this title. First edition. Quarto in publisher's original teal boards with gilt lettering to front panel and credits to spine. x - 360 pages including frontispiece, 8 additional black & white plates, numerous photographic illustrations, plans, maps, etc. Introduction by the author, index; appendix including errata; and List of Subscribers (256). Corners bumped, tear at foot and wear at top of spine, some scuffing and marks to boards. Front hinge split. Gift inscription in ink on front pastedown from John Rees (noted in subscriber list as Leather Merchant, Penydre House Neath) to John Hopkins of Richmond, Victoria dated Feb. 27th 1901. (Prior to stated publishing date).

New York: Bantam Books, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good,/Fine. Neat very sound copy. First impression in publisher's blue boards quarter bound in navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, 392 pages, black & white photographic plates, bibliography, index. Some spotting to edges, slight bump to rear top corner. The first in-depth portrait of Warhol: the Prince of Pop, the pixie-like painter, film maker, publisher and partygoer extraordinaire who was rarely out of the headlines from the time he shocked the art world with his Campbell's soup cans in the 1960's until his premature death in 1987.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original beige boards quarter bound in white cloth with gilt title and credits to spine. lemon coloured endpapers, 333 pages. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, shelfwear to cloth, *very* slight creasing to dustjacket edges. Historical fiction based on the realationship between the poet James Elroy and T. E Lawrence by the author of 'Hiroshima Joe'.