Search Results: Titles starting with B from Dorian Gallery

Signed by the author.

Condition: Good dust jacket, just a few short closed tears on edges, back panel a little rubbed. Top edges clean, otherwise clean tight unread copy.

About:Between the Woods and the Water is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34.The first book in the series, A Time of Gifts, recounts Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the Middle Danube. Between the Woods and the Water (1986) begins with the author crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania. The planned third volume of Leigh Fermor's journey to its completion in Constantinople, The Broken Road, was not completed in his lifetime, but was finally published in September 2013.Many years after his travel, Leigh Fermor's diary of the… Read More

Fine condition, slight edge scuff and chip to jacket, now plastic protected.

BETWEEN THE WOODS AND WATER'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE'By Patrick Leigh FermorPublished By Viking, Elizabeth Sifton Books, New York, 1986First Edition / First Printing. Hardback with dust jacket. ISBN: 0670811491
Signed by the author.
Condition: Very good dust jacket, slight edge scuff, back panel a little rubbed.
Top edge very slightly foxed, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Blood and Bone Philip Hodgkins Angus & Robertson, 1986 First edition ISBN: 9780207154072Fine unread copy. Scarce title

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen Written and illustrated by Leonard Cohen
HarperCollins, Ecco, McClelland and Stewart 2006.
First Canadian edition, FIRST printing. 25th Anniversary Edition. ISBN: 9780061125584
New unread condition. Cohen's own wonderful illustrations and vignettes throughout. Signed, and stamped by the author.
About: Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen's artistry with language… Read More

Bradstow (Bowral): A study of status, class,and power in a small Australian town. by R. A. Wild Angus & Robertson 1974, first edition softcover. ISBN: 9780207136481Very scarce out of print title. A study of status and class in 1974 'Bradstow' NSW (Bowral) Condition: A clean sound copy, slight damp ripple to top front of cover, some rubbing to the back cover, slight sun fade to top of back cover.Believed to be a sociological study and portrait of Bowral NSW, renamed possibly for legal reasons.

Bradstow (Bowral): A study of status, class, and power in a small Australian town. by R. A. Wild Angus & Robertson 1974, first edition softcover. ISBN: 9780207136481Very scarce out of print title. A study of status and class in 1978 'Bradstow' NSW (Bowral) Condition: A clean sound copy, slight rub to back cover, slight sun fade to lettering on spine.Believed to be a sociological study and portrait of Bowral NSW, renamed possibly for legal reasons.

Brute Brothers (NM-55) Adults Only Gaytimes Book Club, Star Distributors, New York 1982. No author noted.Extremely rare surviving copy of American 1980's gay adult erotic fiction.Great condition, apart from a small area on the cover where original price has been scratched off.

Fine copy of a great novelist's autobiography.Slight shelf-wear to edges. Slight stripe of toning down the left hand edge of front jacket.