Search Results: Titles starting with D from Sad Paradise Books

Melbourne: Pan Publishers , 1944. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Near fine - a very neat copy. Slim octavo in original illustrated wrapper, 96 pages including a photographic frontispiece portrait of Ludwig Leichhardt, a black & white line portait and a map. Introduction by Alec H. Chisholm, F.R.Z.S and appendix by Dr. G. Neumayer ( formerly Director Flagstaff Observatory) `Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt as Naturalist and Explorer'. A little discolouration to the back panel, but in surprisingly nice condition for a softcover of this age.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A tight, Bright copy. Original grey cloth with black lettering to spine 277 pages including list of works cited, index, black & white photographic illustrations. A fascinating collection of essays exploring the life of the man who became a cult hero of literary circles on both sides of the Atlantic. It includes memoirs of people Lowry knew at critical junctures of his life, and offers critical insights into his writings. Of particular interest are the reminiscences of his wife, Jan, of their time in Mexico on 1936. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Melbourne: Australian Book Auctions, 2005 - 2007. All three volumes with matching numbers (#28) from limited hardcover issue of 150 copies only, signed by Jonathon Wantrup and Rodney Davidson. All in fine condition. A superb production. TOGETHER WITH an additional Australian Book Auctions Catalogue, August 2008 'The Davidson Collection', which lists 371 items supplementary to the main auction. TOGETHER WITH 'A Book Collector's notes on items relating to the Discovery of Australia, The First Settlement and the Early Coastal Development of the Continent.' by Rodney Davidson. A sound clean hardcover, faded dustjacket spine. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

New York: Harper and Row, 1982. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original green cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, buff endpapers, 312 pages. A light crease and a small closed tear to dustjacket. Very slight fading to cloth near, very light spotting to top edge. Ninth novel from the Nobel Prize winner; set in Chicago and Bucharest.

London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original red cloth, black lettering on spine, 310 pages. First UK edition. Very slight spotting to top edge. A brilliant novel of suspense and exceptional authenticity that places the authors in the ranks of the major thriller writers. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Hard to imagine that there's a better copy available of this scarce UK edition. .

New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A tight, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original dark navy boards, quarter bound in black cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, 226 pages. A love story between a Vietnamese woman, orphaned in the fall of Saigon and a US Vietnam veteran written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of 'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain'.

London: Bloomsbury, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Original black boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 439 pages, black and white plates, index. A stain to rear panel of dustjacket. These legendary diaries recount Tynan's place at the epicentre of the English theatre and film worlds. A bright, tight copy.

Melbourne: Text, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A bright neat copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's tangerine and white boards with black lettering to spine,178 pages. Edges very slightly grubby otherwise fine. Coetze explores loneliness, friendship and love, and contrasting Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay,and dishonour to the truth of dreams. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

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: Bloomsbury, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good +/Near Fine,. A neat tight copy. First printing on publisher's black boards with bronze lettering to spine, 273 pages. Ribbon place marker. Paper stock lightly tanned, a few of tiny spots to title pages, all else near fine.

Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good,. A very neat, bright copy. From an edition of 1997 copies. Quarto in publisher's faux linen boards with credits in brown lettering spine. Spine lightly sunned (as usual). 80 pages with 190 illustrations of Friend's work (many full page colour) as official war artist with the Australian forces on the islands of New Guinea and Borneo, contemporary photographs. Also contains an illustrated catalogue of all works produced by Friend as an official war artist and bibliography. A lovely copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Macdonald and Janes, 1977. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Near fine - a bright, tight copy of the first U.K edition. Octavo in publisher's original blue boards with silver title and credit to spine, 246 pages. Edges slightly spotty. A young English governess becomes engulfed in a world of terror when she travels to Andelucia to teach the young daughters of the enigmatic Don Isidro.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good,Fine. A very neat, bright copy of the first US edition. Octavo in publisher's original binding of black boards, quarter bound with navy cloth. Gilt credits to spine and facsimile author's signature to front panel,326 pages. Dustjacket has small closed tear, light creasing at top of spine. A novel by the author of 'The Year of Living Dangerously'.

United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1990. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Arisman, Marshall. Near fine - a tight, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original scarlet cloth, quarter bound in black with gilt title to spine. 94 pages including Marshall Arisman's brilliant and disturbing black & white illustrations and dustjacket design. *Very* slight creasing to jacket. A chilling novella about identical twins.

New York: Grove, 1959. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Evergreen edition, third printing. Original black cloth with green metallic title and credit to spine, 245 pages. Very light corner creasing to a few pages. Near fine - a very neat, bright example of perhaps Kerouac's most sustained creative writing - his personal favourite. One for the collector, or a perfect gift.

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original beige boards quarter bound in white cloth with gilt title and credits to spine. lemon coloured endpapers, 333 pages. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, shelfwear to cloth, *very* slight creasing to dustjacket edges. Historical fiction based on the realationship between the poet James Elroy and T. E Lawrence by the author of 'Hiroshima Joe'.

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: Dent and Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This copy is in very good plus condition - tight, square and clean in a bright attractive dustjacket.First edition hardcover in dustjacket, first English translation by Beatrice de Holthoir. Bookplate on front pastedown, price-clipped dustjacket with some very light creasing.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1992. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Original publisher's orange boards quarter bound in cream linen with brown title to spine, 276 pages including biographical note, important dates in the life of Stamford Raffles, map. A few very slight chips to dustjacket. Barley goes from Malacca to Java, Bali and Singapore seeking traces of him in overgrown forts, lost gardens, poignant cemetaries and dusty libraries. A clean, neat copy.

London: The Harvill Press, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. A lovely bright, tight and square copy of the first English Language edition. Stated first impression. Cult bibliophile thriller - the basis for Roman Polanski's film 'Ninth Gate'.