Search Results: Authors starting with K from Sad Paradise Books

London: The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright set. Octavo in original gilt decorated blue cloth, two volumes; combined xvii - 446 pages including plates, tables, foldout maps. Dustjackets a little soiled, tanned on spines. Kelly's translation of documents relating to Pedro Fernandez de Quiros' expedition to the 'Austral Lands' 1605. Volumes 126 and 127 in the Hakluyt Society Second Series.

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely bright copy. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and designs to spine and front cover, 12 colour plates including frontispiece, 250 pages. Slip case.

Port Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A very sound, neat copy. First impression in plum boards with white lettering to spine, 330 pages. Small closed tear to, light scuffing to dustjacket, shelf wear to bottom of spine, small book exchange stamp to front free endpaper. 'Like his huge best-seller 'Schindler's Ark', this novel dazzlingly displays Keneally's ability to transform historical incident into gripping storytelling.' Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: MacDonald, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. A neat, bright copy of the first U.K edition. Octavo in publisher's original black boards with silver title and credit to spine, 278 pages. Very slight rubbing, small creases to dustjacket edges. A newspaper strike in an American town spurs the protagonist into adventures that spiral further and further into wild heights of fantasy. A very nice copy of Kennedy' wickedly ironic and offbeat first novel.

Sydney: Hutchinson of Australia, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 320 pages, map endpapers. Price-clipped dustjacket edges have a few very small chips, slight creasing. 'Beneath the Mediterranean sun, and often insight of the enemy coast, Bolitho and his tired old ship face one conflict after another.' A clean, tight copy.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original fawn / black boards, 184 pages. Line illustrations throughout by Larry Rivers. Some light chipping to top of spine, very light age toning to page edges. A very attractive example of Kerouac's most accessible work; a collection of magazine articles on his wanderings across the US and then to Mexico, Morocco, Paris, London. Images available on request. Nice example of an important Beat classic.

New York: Grove, 1959. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Evergreen edition, third printing. Original black cloth with green metallic title and credit to spine, 245 pages. Very light corner creasing to a few pages. Near fine - a very neat, bright example of perhaps Kerouac's most sustained creative writing - his personal favourite. One for the collector, or a perfect gift.

London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Paperback. Near Fine,. Bright, neat - unread. Illustrated stiff wrapper, 616 pages including bibliography. Small unobtrusive mark to front edge. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good,Fine. A very neat, bright copy of the first US edition. Octavo in publisher's original binding of black boards, quarter bound with navy cloth. Gilt credits to spine and facsimile author's signature to front panel,326 pages. Dustjacket has small closed tear, light creasing at top of spine. A novel by the author of 'The Year of Living Dangerously'.

London: Heinemann, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original blue boards with gilt title to spine, 234 pages. Jacket is very slightly faded, very light bump to a top corner, top edge lightly speckled. Clean, tight and attractive copy of Koch's second novel.

London: Michael Joseph, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright dustjacket; a tight and clean example of the first UK edition. Publisher's black boards with gold lettering to spine, 271 pages. 'Scenes of dazzling and unparalled eroticism.' (Pub.)