Search Results: Authors starting with S from Sad Paradise Books

London: Allen Lane, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title to spine, 224 pages including black and white photographic plates, appendix, notes, index. Sabbah uses the episode of fake reports of rare plants on the the Hebridian Isle of Rum in the 1940's as a starting point for a more general exploration of scientific fraud. A lovely copy - fine in all respects.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. pp314, index, 51 photos; 4 plates in color. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, one inch chip from head of dustjacket spine (price-clipped). Travels and observations in Japan -Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Nikko and the Inland Sea. Discusses painting, applied arts, Sumo wrestling, dolls, etc. A clean, sound copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original aqua cloth, gilt lettering to spine, seventh impression. 250 pages, colour and black & white photographic plates. Top edge very lightly spotted. A collection of Vita Sackville-West's articles from the periodicals 'In Your Garden', 'In Your Garden Again' and 'Even More for Your Garden' orgainsed around the months of the year. An unusual combination of the romantic and the practical. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

London & New York: W H Allen, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a bright tight copy. First UK edition, first impression. Octavo in original red boards with gilt title to spine, 193 pages. Some colour bleed from red boards to inside of dustjacket. After being dumped by her partner, plain Jane becomes a celebrated designer, has a total face and wardrobe make-over, and gains scores of ardent admirers. Her partner, of course, returns to beg for forgiveness. You wish! An hilarious cult autobiographical fantasy. Scarce.

Melbourne: Phoebe Publishing, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Arthur Boyd. Scarlet cloth, black title to spine. 192 pages including black and white line drawings by Boyd, high quality black & white and colour photographic plates. A whirlwind tour of the local art world; an endless stream of surreal anecdotes, quotations, coments and suggestions. A bright, tight copy - perfect gift.

London: Hamlyn House, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. Quarto in publisher's original illustrated boards with white lettered credits to spine. 160 pages including foreword by Carolyn Cassady, numerous informative and poignant colour / black & white photographic plates, list of books by Kerouac with a guide to who-was-who, selected bibliography. A fabulous photo-essay biography of Kerouac - excellent production values.

138 unbound A4 pages of a xeroxed copy of the revised draft (May 15, 1995) of Stephen Schiff's screenplay for 'Lolita', adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov. There are three binding holes in the left margins with two folded clips securing the manuscript. 'Lolita' written in marker pen on the 'spine', otherwise clean and unmarked.

London: Heinemann, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A bright attractive copy. Reprint. Octavo in publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine. This sequence of four novels take place in the period between the Quit India riots and the communal massacres that accompanied India's independance and partition in 1947. Adapted as a television series by Granada.

London: Bloomsbury, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Near fine - a tight, bright copy. Pictorial boards, 287 pages. In this collection of 10 short stories, Will Self writes about Purley, Croydon, and other outposts of lower-to-middle-middle-class London. He imposes his skewed vision upon the ordinary, with a resulting surrealism all the more extraordinary for its origins.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good,. Octavo in charcoal boards, gilt lettering to spine, 111 page, black and white photographic illustrations. Reprint. Three closed tears to dustjacket, previous owner's stamp to free front endpaper. The author had a close friendship with Jung and Hesse, and this book is the outcome of meetings and corresponence with them. A neat, sound copy.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original black boards with gilt credits to spine, 305 pages. Paper stock slightly age-toned. Debut novel exploring three generations of a southern US family from World War 2 to the Vietnam War.

London: Viking Penguin, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright copy. Octavo in publisher's black board with gilt lettering to spine, 152 pages, illustrated endpapers. 'In November The Times announced the discovery in Tuscany of a long lost story for children.

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A very sound, attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's original red boards with gilt titles to spine, 317 pages. Price-clipped dustjacket has a lightly faded spine, and very slight creasing / chips / soiling - very attractive nonetheless. Front flap of dustjacket stamped 'Macmillan\'s Overseas Library. This Library must not be circulated in the British Isles, the United States of America or Canada' i.e. Colonial Edition, but printed in Britain. Endpapers lightly bubbled at hinges during production. The book is a continuation of Sitwell's autobiographical excursions into the worlds of architecture, the arts and in this volume some particularly beautiful passages on dancing. The good deal of the last part of the book is taken up with flower descriptions. A very nice copy of this scarce item. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Ewing: Princeton Univ Press, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. xii + 472pp, tables, maps, bibliography, index. Farming, economics and politics in pre-war Japan. A tight, clean copy.

London: Bloomsbury, 2010. Paperback. Very Good +. A neat tight copy in illustrated stiff wrapper, black & white photographic illustrations, 278 pages. Very slight crease to one corner, light crease to spine. A salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and a portrait of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and their ascent to fame. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Tokyo: Kodansha International. First edition thus. Fine. A very clean neat copy without creases. Stiff illustrated wrapper, 172 pages. Translated by J. Cohn. Like 'Catcher in the Rye', 'Botchan is an hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against 'the system' in a Japanes country school is a classic of its kind.

United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original green boards, gilt title and credit to spine, 360 pages including bibliography, index. 23 colour plates, 126 monochrome, 22 line drawings. Top edge a litle spotty, a one inch closed tear to back panel of dustjacket. A fascinating analysis of the phenomenon of creative versatility - the urge of painters to write, artists to write, etc. Looks at Wagner, Stravinsky, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Kafka, Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence. A very sound copy. Fascinating.

London: Picador, 2021. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A bright unread copy. First printing in illustrated stiff wrapper, 220 pages, Translator into English by Louise Heal Kawai. A heart-warming story about a boy and a talking cat who go on magical adventures to save maltreated books. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Sydney: John Ferguson, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good,. A very sound, attractive copy. Reprint in publisher's grey leathette with colour illustration to front panel, chocolate designs and gilt lettering spine, orange endpapers, 424 pages. No dustjacket. A handful of children face a major crisis alone - bushfire

London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good. A neat, bright copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in original scarlet boards with gilt title and credit to spine. 264 pages. Slight rubbing, creases, tiny chips and very small closed tear to back panel of the bright dustjacket. A collection of 23 wild, witty and touching sketches by author of 'Candy' and 'Dr Strangelove'.