Search Results: Authors starting with M from Sad Paradise Books

London: Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, endpaper maps, black & white, colour illustrations, index. Previous owner's name / date on half-title, price-clipped dustjacket. A lively and graphic account of the great explorer. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First impression, original red boards, gilt title to spine,348 pages. A couple of *tiny* chips to dustjacket edges. Maitland's second novel in the Kolla and Brock series. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

London: Maclehose Press / Quercus Publishing, 2019. Paperback. Fine. A very neat bright copy. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Illustrated stiff wrapper, 234 pages. Makine is the first novelist to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original green boards with gilt Title to spine, xii + 132 pages including index and black & white plates. Price-clipped dustjacket, previous owner's name on flyleaf, some light pencil underlining. A very sound copy.

London: The Folio Society, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely bright set comprising three volumes. Third impression. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, red and gold design to front panel, lino-cuts throughout by Edward Bawden. Some scuffing to slipcase, otherwise like new.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very bright neat copy of the first impression: bound in maroon cloth with white lettering to spine, index, 308 pages. Manguel reflects on the joy and solace of literature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat, tight uncorrected book proof of the first UK edition. Cream card wraps, with black lettering and decoration to front panel and spine. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Slight scuffing to lower edge of front panel, small sticker removal scar on rear panel. Appears unread. A chronicle of the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women by drug boss Pablo Escobar.

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape Ltd. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright, crisp copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in publisher's original charcoal boards with silver title and credits to spine, 291 pages. 'An angry, disturbing account of how Escobar undermined all Columbia's civil institutions by murder or bribery, and a moving exploration of the fate of Escobar's hostages... a non-fictional record of real events, but one so transformed by a brillianrt story-teller that it must be called a novel.'

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine. A bright, attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's original green cloth with silver lettering to spine, 188 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Twelve stories recounting the peculiar experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting abroad by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

London: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Bright, crisp example of the first UK edition. Very slight creasing to dustjacket.

London, United Kingdom: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. A bright and attractive example of the first UK edition. Very slight creasing to top edge of dustjacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. Unread. A very neat copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine,166 pages. Very light tanning to paper stock. This short novel is set in 1962 and two newlyweds arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. Over dinner they struggle to suppress their fears of the immanent wedding night... Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Sydney: Bay Books, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Good +. JOHN PERCIVAL. A clean bright copy. Folio sized in publisher's white boards with black lettering to spine and front panel, 256 pages including introduction by Andrew Sayers and 240 colour and black & white plates. Slight creasing and scuffs to dustjacket. Exuberantly signed by Percival with felt tip pen to the title page. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A very neat clean copy. First Printing. Octavo in publisher's charcoal boards with with lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, 361 pages. The story of two generations of the Nancarrow family in hardscrabble farming country, and the high-jumping circuit in New South Wales before the Second World War.

London: Picador, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Near fine - a bright neat copy. First impression. Octavo in original brown cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, 275 pages. Small stain to front board, light bump to one corner and bottom of spine. Mendelson contributes regularly to the TLS, the Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and the Observer. First novel by a highly regarded emerging young writer.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1972. First. Soft Cover. Very Good. A neat tight proof copy stamped UNCORRECTED on the front panel. Octavo in original buff wrappers, 264 pages including postscript, bibliography and glossary. Some light soiling and *very light* creasing to wrapper. Professor of Music at Newcastle University, musicologist Richard Middleton offers a rich and detailed account of the historical conditions relating to the blues and its syntheses that now reach global audiences. An unusual copy of a major classic on this subject. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. A very neat bright copy of the first impression. In publisher's grey boards quarter bound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic plates, notes, bibliography, index, 588 pages. Top corner of free front endpaper neatly snipped off. Draws upon Ginsberg; journals & correspondence and scores of interviews to weave an intimate portrait of a man whose poetry shocked the establishment, and whose rebellious lifestyle fuelled the counterculture revolution of the 1960's.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a bright, neat copy. Octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 250 pages. A pair of young Australian yachties get unwittingly caught up in the world of espionage and drug smuggling in Cochin, narrowly escaping with their lives. A terrifying, but heartening true-life adventure, a page-turner for the armchair sailor. Nice copy.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Good. A quite neat, sound copy. Second impression, first UK edition. Octavo in publisher's emerald cloth, red lettering to spine, 217 pages. Dustjacket has some spotting, soiling and small chips to head and foot of spine, price clipped. This novel follows Miller's success with 'Death of a Salesman'.

New York: Scribner, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original green paper-covered boards quartered with black textured boards, gilt title to spine, 347 pages. Dustjacket has slight rubbing to lower edge. Beautifully crafted narrative structure, deftly drawn characters, and a real feeling for place make this a highly engaging and satisfying novel. Set in bayside Melbourne, Paris and Chartres in 1923; Emily has to balance her own sense of identity against the demands of her father's expectations, her husband's ambition, and her unborn child. Winner of the NSW Premier's Prize, and short-listed for the 2001 Miles Franklin Award. Very nice copy.