Search Results: Authors starting with C from Sad Paradise Books

London: Bloomsbury, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A small but handsome production. First printing in publisher's colour illustrated boards, gold and black lettering to spine, map endpapers, 248 pages. Carey returns to Sydney after ten years in New York and embarks on a 'wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery,'

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press Brisbane (UQP), 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Near fine - a tight, bright copy. True first edition, preceding the US and UK editions. Octavo in original cream boards with blue title and credit to spine, 279 pages. Typical slight fading to dustjacket. This copy is signed and inscribed by Peter Carey on title page.

St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good,. A neat bright copy of the first edition in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel, 422 pages. Small closed tear to top of dustjacket and slight edge creases, top edge lightly spotted. Signed by Peter Carey in ball-point on title page,

Sydney: Knopf, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine,/Fine,. A flawless copy. First impression, first Australian edition. Octavo in original illustrated boards, 270 pages in semi-opaque dustjacket with title and credit lettered in red to front panel and spine. Signed by Carey on title page.

Milson's Point: Knopf Random House, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A tight, bright copy of the first Australian (and true first) edition.Original ribbed white boards, with title in maroon and credit in hot pink to spine, 280 pages, fore-edge pages uncut, maroon silk place-market, photographically illustrated and hot-pink endpapers. Carey uses the Ern Malley literary hoax as a starting place for his narrative which moves from Melbourne to 'the seedy, sweaty, tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.'

Lowell, Massachusetts: Ithaca Press, 1974. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Sound, tight copy. Second edition. Wrapper soiled, slightly worn, Kerouac's life from the perspective of an old Lowell school friend who became a professor of literature.

New York: Viking Press, 1989. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First impression. Original quarter cream linen, boards, gilt title to spine, 367 pages. Dustjacket spine faded, remainder stripe to lower edge. Chatwin's personal selection of his stories, profiles, and travelogues, reflecting his fascination for the beautiful and the bizarre, and offering a kaleidoscope of the many selves that Chatwin created. A tight, bright copy.

London: Methuen, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. A neat bright copy. Reprint in Methuen Drama series. Black illustrated stiff wrapper, 320 pages. Small slight wrinkle to front panel, small spot on front free endpaper, paper stock slightly toned. Looks unread.

New York: Orion, 1970. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original black cloth, silver and blue title to spine, first English edition translated by Pierguiseppe Bozzetti. 439 pages, numerous black & white stills from the films. Previous owner's initials and date on flyleaf. Contains screenplays of four of Clair's postwar films with commentaries on each film by the auteur. Near fine - a tight, clean copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Original green cloth with gilt title to spine, 242 pages. First impression. Page edges slightly discoloured - age-toning. This book is the first in Clare's series of medieval mysteries set in the Weald of Ken - a Hawkenlye Mystery. Near fine - a clean, tight copy.

Melbourne: Text, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A bright neat copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's tangerine and white boards with black lettering to spine,178 pages. Edges very slightly grubby otherwise fine. Coetze explores loneliness, friendship and love, and contrasting Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay,and dishonour to the truth of dreams. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Sydney: Landsdowne Press, 1985. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Reprint. pp152, map, index, black & white, coloured illustrations and plates, illustrated endpapers. Colwell's text is supported by over 180 pictures in all making this excellent production the most comprehensive pictorial record of the Burke and Wills expedition ever published. A tight, clean copy. Great gift idea.

London: John Calder, 1963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A neat, tight copy. First UK edition, first impression. Octavo in original wrappers, 190 pages. Some fading to wrapper. Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), one of America's leading poets was a a friend and contemporary of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. 'The Island' (Creeley's only novel) is based on his experiences on Majorca in 1953. It's an impressionistic autobiography, a fractured account of his difficult marriage and the social scene on Majorca.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A neat bright copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's fawn boards with gilt lettering to spine,192 pages. Dustjacket designed by Pat Doyle. Price-clipped dustjacket, a little spotting to top edge. A Scottish academic searches for his long-lost brother in Australia. An attractive copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

1971. Second revised. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat, tight copy. Slim quarto in card covers; unpaginated - includes frontispiece map of Fort Queenscliffe, six pages of photographic illustrations. The editor states 'The aim of this booklet is to provide the student or visitor with a brief history of Fort Queenscliffe and the Australian Staff College.' In this edition a brief history of the Staff College Crest has been included. Annex G-Graduates has been changed from an alphabetical list of all graduates to a listing by courses. Loosely inserted a card' With the compliments of Brigadier W.J. Morrow CBE Commandant Australian Staff College.'

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 176 pages including tipped in black & white frontispiece, maps. Spine faded, some spotting to preliminary pages, erasure scar on flyleaf. A boyhood encounter with 'The Breaker' led to Cutlack's continuing interest and research on this controversial figure. A very sound copy.