Search Results: Titles starting with F from Sad Paradise Books

Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1965. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat, very sound copy. Slim quarto in publisher's original illustrated stiff wrapper, Black & white photographic illustrations to endpapers, 22 pages including chronology, selected references, 3 colour plates and 5 black & white plates ( all full-page) and catalogue listing of the 88 paintings in the exhibition. A valuable resource on Fairweather's work. Scarce. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A bright neat copy of the first edition. First printing. Edited with a foreword by Jann S. Wenner, introduction by Paul Scanlon. In publisher's original crimson boards, quarter bound in black cloth, title in red to spine, 872 pages. Small remainer mark to lower edge. The book showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary home as he pursued his lifetime obsession - the life and death of the American Dream.

Melbourne: Viking, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine,/Fine. Near fine - a tight, clean copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's blue board with white lettering to spine, black and white plates, 294 pages. A moving, passionate and often funny account of her curious early childhood, alone with her parents in the remote rainforests of New Zealand. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Sydney: Bay Books, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Good +. JOHN PERCIVAL. A clean bright copy. Folio sized in publisher's white boards with black lettering to spine and front panel, 256 pages including introduction by Andrew Sayers and 240 colour and black & white plates. Slight creasing and scuffs to dustjacket. Exuberantly signed by Percival with felt tip pen to the title page. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Faber & Faber, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Fine. Near fine - a very neat, clean copy. First impression. Octavo in original black boards with white lettering to spine, 313 pages. Paper stock lightly browned. Sequel to 'Rites of Passage' and 'Close Quarters' by the Nobel Prize Winner. A very nice copy.

London: Heinemann, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good +/Near Fine,. A very neat, bright copy of the first impression of the UK edition. Octavo on publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, black & white photographic plates, maps / plans /tables, notes. 396 pages. Some offsetting to endpapers, light soiling to front edge, top right corner bumped, all else clean and white. Signed and inscribed by Leary on free front endpaper. A flashback of Who's Who in the 70's & 80's :John and Yoko, JFK, Burroughs, Charles Manson, Aldous Huxley all feature in this enthralling tale of Leary on the run from drug charges, all the while convinced of his cause for freedom. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2016. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A very neat clean copy. First Printing. Octavo in publisher's charcoal boards with with lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, 361 pages. The story of two generations of the Nancarrow family in hardscrabble farming country, and the high-jumping circuit in New South Wales before the Second World War.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Good. A quite neat, sound copy. Second impression, first UK edition. Octavo in publisher's emerald cloth, red lettering to spine, 217 pages. Dustjacket has some spotting, soiling and small chips to head and foot of spine, price clipped. This novel follows Miller's success with 'Death of a Salesman'.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original plum boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 128 pages including bibliography, index and 150 magnificent color and 28 black & white plates. Stunning photographs with facinating accompanying text evoke the taste of the wealthy, aristocratic and artistic elite of Germany and Austria who created this cornucopia of delightful follies and fantasies - palaces, towers, pavilions, parks filled with statuary... a bright, tight copy. Perfect gift.

New Hampshire: Yankee, Inc., 1979. Paperback. Very Good,. A very sound, neat copy. Third printing. Octavo in original illustrated stiff wrappers, 62 pages including numerous black & white photographs, diagrams and illustrations. The text describes the evolution of the home-use brick bake oven, technical aspects of oven construction and using a brick bake oven. 'The only one of its kind, the book provides a valuable link, missing for years, between colonial times and the 20th century.'

Sydney: Hutchinson of Australia, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 320 pages, map endpapers. Price-clipped dustjacket edges have a few very small chips, slight creasing. 'Beneath the Mediterranean sun, and often insight of the enemy coast, Bolitho and his tired old ship face one conflict after another.' A clean, tight copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Original green cloth with gilt title to spine, 242 pages. First impression. Page edges slightly discoloured - age-toning. This book is the first in Clare's series of medieval mysteries set in the Weald of Ken - a Hawkenlye Mystery. Near fine - a clean, tight copy.

New York: Orion, 1970. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original black cloth, silver and blue title to spine, first English edition translated by Pierguiseppe Bozzetti. 439 pages, numerous black & white stills from the films. Previous owner's initials and date on flyleaf. Contains screenplays of four of Clair's postwar films with commentaries on each film by the auteur. Near fine - a tight, clean copy.

London: Macdonald and Janes, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very attractively illustrated by Richard Cuffari. Fictional account of the voyage of The Fox, sent in search of the Franklin expedition seeking the North West Passage. Clean, bright copy.

Norwich, United Kingdom: Frontier Publishing Ltd, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine as issued, 151 pages. Set in Switzerland, Australia and New York; a collection of three impressionistic three stories about women. Toler's first published work, SIGNED by her on the title page.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Very Good,. A neat bright copy of this hard-to-find first UK edition, first printing in publisher's royal blue boards with metallic turquoise lettering to spine, 309 pages, map endpapers and black & white photographic illustrations throughout. Very light spotting to top edge, small chips to dust jacket corners, neat previous owner's name on free front endpaper. A gripping account of an extraordinary narcotics sting. Adapted for a film of the same name which earned eight nominations and won five Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Scheider), Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Mixing. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated from French by Merloyd Lawrence. Winder of the Prix Goncourt. Some foxing to preliminary pages. A tight, clean and square example in a tidy jacket.