Search Results: Authors starting with G from Sad Paradise Books

London: William Heinemann, 1929. Full-Leather. Very Good. A most attractive, desirable volume. A new impression. A highly attractive production with embossed and coloured titles and crest on cover and spine, 950 pages. Slight scuffs and hingewear. A collection of all of Galsworthy's tales written between 1900 and 1923.

Camberwell, Australia: Penguin Books, 2008. First edition thus. Very Good +. A very neat, no creasing. Illustrated stiff wrapper, 374 pages. Paper stock slightly tanned. Inner suburban Melbourne in the 1970's: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from French by Merloyd Lawrence. Winder of the Prix Goncourt. Some foxing to preliminary pages. A tight, clean and square example in a tidy jacket.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A very tight bright copy of the first softcover edition. Octavo illustrated stiff card binding, 213 pages including tables, charts, appendixes, notes, index. The standard work on the subject; the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of 'kinship system'. A lovely copy. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. Octavo quarter bound in original ochre cloth and blue boards, title to spine in black. 247 pages. The insular world of a community of lighthouse keepers is shattered when a German U-boat reveals itself offshore. A flawless copy.

New York: St Martins, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Edges foxed, small closed tear to rear panel of slightly edge-chipped dustjacket. Charming, neat little inscription by previous owner on flyleaf. This oral biography was created from interviews with those who knew Jack as a man, a friend and a lover. A sound tight copy.

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A sound, clean copy of the first UK edition. First printing. xxii - 393 pages, black and white plates. Wrapper a little creased. This oral biography was created from interviews with those who knew Jack as a man, a friend and a lover.

Sydney: The Coral Press, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 194 pages, appendices, glossary, index, charts, figures, numerous superb black & white photographic plates. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, corners very lightly bumped, a few insect nibbles to flyleaf. A classic study on the structure and extent of the Great Barrier Reef and its extraordinary inhabitants lavishly illustrated. A clean, sound copy.

Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright neat copy of the first impression. Bound in publisher's cream boards quarter bound in rust cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic illustrations, index, 321 pages. The editor has selected the most significant letters from the 850 the men exchanged over nearly four decades to paint biographical and poetic portraits of two of America's most important - and most fascinating - poets. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Melbourne - Sydney: University of Melbourne, 1965. Very Good. This copy titled 'The Critical Review' - a joint Melbourne Sydney edition - No 8, 1965. T.B Tomlinson, Vincent Buckley, Penelope Curtis, John Fraser, Robin Grove, S.L Goldberg, Fred Inglis, John Wilshire, Neil Courtney. Previous owner's name on title page, stamped' no return' on edges, a trifle dog-eared, but still a very good copy.

Department of English, University of Melbourne., 1970. Soft Cover. Very Good. No 13, 1970. Essays by Anne Sedgley, Robin Grove, Rodney Mather, Morag Hollway, Graham Burns, T.B Tomlinson, T.J Kelly, A.L French. Previous owner's name on title page, top edge stamped 'no return', otherwise in very good crisp condition.

London: Faber & Faber, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Fine. Near fine - a very neat, clean copy. First impression. Octavo in original black boards with white lettering to spine, 313 pages. Paper stock lightly browned. Sequel to 'Rites of Passage' and 'Close Quarters' by the Nobel Prize Winner. A very nice copy.

South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A quite neat, very sound copy. Originally published as 'The Mammals Of Australia Volume II' (1863), this book retains Gould's text together with Dixon's additional observations. The slipcase is bumped and worn, but the book itself is in very good order, and all the plates are in excellent condition. Folio in original black illustrated boards with white title to spine in slipcase. 152 pages including indices, references cited, 70 full-page magnificent colour reproductions of plates by Gould accompanied by detailed descriptions of specific species, habitat and habits. A classic.

Sydney: Picador, 1992. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 228pp. Remainder mark to top edge. A tight and bright example of the first Australian edition.

New York: Viking Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in fawn cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 310 pages. A volume of The Collected Edition reissues of Graham Greene's work. A few small light tape marks to boards, all else neat and clean. The protagonist Pinky Pinkie,is a boy gangster in pre-war Brighton, a dark setting of double crossing and razor gangs.