Search Results: Authors starting with R from Sad Paradise Books

London, United Kingdom: Faber & Faber Limited, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 312 pages including index, black and white plates. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. This remarkable memoir by Pound's daughter recounts her strange upbringing and the close relationship that grew over the years between herself and her father. Many rare and previously unpublished photographs help create not only a moving autobiography, but a tribute to a great poet. A tight, bright copy.

London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. First impression. Publishers' original black boards with gilt title to spine, 255 pages. Rechy provides a compassionate insight into Jim's struggle to hold his life together after his arrest and trial under California's draconian criminalisation of homosexual behavior. John Rechy, author of 'City of Night' is the recipient of two coveted Lifetime Achievement Awards: PEN-USA-West's 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award, and The Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A really nice copy.

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very neat, clean copies. First impression. Two companion volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 192 and 262 pages profusely illustrated with half-tone plates, line drawings, charts, and a large foldout chart in each volume redrawn from Cook's original maps.Top edge on NZ volume spotty. The dustjackets have light rubbing and creasing to edges, a few very small closed tears. These volumes bring together Cook's journals of his voyages to the east coast of New Holland, Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. These journals have been edited and annnoted to provide an interesting, important reference.

London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original grey cloth with gilt title and credit to spine. 304 pages including 353 colour and 129 black & white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Richter's analyses of the symbolism inherent in jewelry sheds light on Asian cultures, while the aesthetic appeal of the items will make this volume irresistible to all jewelry lovers. SIGNED by author on title page. Superbly illustrated - perfect gift.

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books, 1994. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Stiff illustrated wrappers, 160 pages including chart, glossary, bibliography, index. Over 150 color photos by John Storey. An authoritative text based on extensive research of Indonesian decorative arts. Inscribed and signed by the author 'To my favourite collector - warm regards, Anne Richter.' A clean, tight copy. Superbly illustrated - perfect gift.

London: Little Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in blue boards with black lettering to spine, as issued. 336 pages including plans, chart, colour photographic plates. Dustjacket lightly creased. The Ridgeway family leave their life in Scotland behind and set out in their 57 foot ketch to follow the wind wherever it takes them; the South Seas, Peru, Patagoni, Antartica... An exhilarating tale.

London: Chatto & Windus Hogarth Press, 1985. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. A very nice tight, bright copy.Original red cloth, gilt title to spine, 223 pages. Slight yellowing of paper stock. Translated from German by Desmond I. Vesy. First published in English in 1937, and long unavailable in English, this novel is a subtle, profoundly moral masterpiece; a terrifying insight into the insidious, corrupting powers of jealousy, ambition and unrequited love. A very nice tight, bright copy. By the author of 'The Radetzki March.'

New York: The Library of America, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. A very bright neat copy. First impression. Octavo in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 912 pages. Three library stamps: top edge, front and rear free endpaper - all else mint, looks like it's never been read.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Paperback. Very Good +. A very neat, clean copy of the first printing. Colour illustrated wrapper, 356 pages.