Search Results: Titles starting with B from Sad Paradise Books

London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original navy cloth with title in white and gilt credits and decoration to spine, 414 pages.Slight browning to endpapers, a few small chips, edgewear and very light soiling to dustjacket, light offsetting to endpapers. The story of a Russian prima ballerina, first against the glamourous background of Vienna, and later in the strenuously competitive ballet of New York A brilliant depiction of the world of ballet by the author of 'Grand Hotel' and 'Tale of Bali'.

Scoresby, VIC, Australia: Random House Australia, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 310 pages including bibliography, colour photographic plates, illustrated endpapers. Bevan draws together the experiences of Australian war artists Rick Amor, Sir William Dargie, Nora Heysen, Ray Parkin, Bruce Fletcher, Ray Beattie, Wendy Sharpe & Peter Churcher. A bright, tight copy.

Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's black boards, silver lettering to spine, 334 pages. 'A railway station in Queensland. A teenager, Robin, retrieved by her parent from the Centre is going home. So is Will, a man emptied by loss and self-doubt.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983. Hardcover. Fine,/Fine,. A very neat, bright copy. Octavo in original blue boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 472 pages. Historical romantic novel based on the letters and diaries of men and women who took part in the fearsome campaign on India's northern frontier with Afghanistan in 1838. Flawless.

Sanur, Bali: P.T. Bap Bali, 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine,. A most attractive production featuring screen-printed text and illustrations inspired by both everyday and mythical birds from Bali. Slim folio, 48 pages. Screen printed cloth binding, line drawings throughout, some polychrome. Original prospectus / order form for the book loosely inserted.

Chichester: Antony Bird Publications, 1982. First printing. Book. Fine/fine. A very neat, bright copy. Octavo in original red boards with gilt title to spine, xiv + 212 pages including bibliography, index, 5 maps, 8 pages of black & white photographic plates. Brings to life through eyewitness accounts pre-war life in Singapore, the martial fevour of Japanese success and the worst military disaster in British history. A very nice copy indeed.

Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.: University of Georgia Press, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original grey cloth with red title to spine, 266 pages including appendix, notes, index, black & white photographic plates. Chronicles the distinguished life and career of the historian, teacher and university administrator Horace Mann Bond, illuminating not only the man and his accomplishments but also the many struggles that confronted those involved in black education. A tight, bright copy.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, clean and very sound copy of the first Australian edition. Octavo in publisher's original red boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 412 pages. Signed by Marilyn French on the title page. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper, light shelfwear, dustjacket lightly creased. An erotic novel by the author of 'The Women's Room' that employs flashbacks to reveal the affair between two mature Americans who meet in a train in England.

Camberwell: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Group Australia, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very neat bright copy. Second iimpression. Octavo in publisher's maroon boards with white titles to spine, 313 pages. In 1979 Nam Le's family left Vietnam seeking a new llife. Slight age-toning to paper stock. These seven stories demonstrate Nam Le's extraordinary range of vision and moral courage. Signed by author on title page.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Near fine - a bright, neat copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in original publisher's boards with silver title and credits to spine. Paper stock very slightly age-toned. 'A compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo-China to Paris, the Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story.'

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.

Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 176 pages including tipped in black & white frontispiece, maps. Spine faded, some spotting to preliminary pages, erasure scar on flyleaf. A boyhood encounter with 'The Breaker' led to Cutlack's continuing interest and research on this controversial figure. A very sound copy.

London: Jonathon Cape, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A lovely bright copy. Octavo in brown boards, gilt titles, 295 pages. Neat price stamp to free front endpaper, price-clipped dustjacket. All else fine. 'In a frolic of cartoons and comic outburts against rules and reasons Vonnegut strafes the whole spectrum of American society.'

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.

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.

Milsons Point: Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original charcoal boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 818 pages including 32 black & white photographic plates, bibliography and index. A highly engaging biography of the passionate, controversial interpreter of Aboriginal culture. A major work of scholarship. A very nice copy of this scarce edition.

London: Victor Gollancz & Wildwood House, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Original tangerine boards, gilt title to spine, 276 pages. True first edition. A small closed tear to front panel of dustjacket. A strange and exotic tale set on Crete. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine. A collection of loose elephant folio proof sheets from 'Donald Friend's erotic masterpiece 'Bumbooziana' wrapped in a green card portfolio within a captioned cloth slipcase. This out-of-series copy contains six single page proof sheets and two double page sheets all initialled & hand numbered 1/100 by Donald Friend. In addition, 14 proof pages, mostly double-sided and a half-page photo-lithographic proof. All in fine, unmarked condition.

Adelaide: Gryphon Books, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine. A flawless copy from a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by Donald Friend and the publisher Richard Griffin. Elephant folio bound in quarter green leather and orange cloth, gilt embossed decorations housed in matching slipcase 'This most infamously wicked work is an erotic (even by Donald Friend's uninhibited standards) dreamlike odyssey of lust and bestiality.' A remarkable tour de force in art publishing in Australia.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing , 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A fine tight bright copy. First printing. Octavo in publisher's red boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering to spine, 515 pages. Turow's second novel, exploring the story of a defence lawyer after his wife's death.