Search Results: Titles starting with N from Sad Paradise Books

New York: Liveright, 1943. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Black and Gold Edition; original black cloth with extensive gilt decoration to spine, gilt emblem to front board. 707 pages including black and white plates, index. Some spotting to boards and preliminary pages. Highly readable account of Bonaparte's life. A very sound copy of this attractive edition.

Melbourne: F W Cheshire, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Original caramel cloth with brown title to spine, 218 pages including bibliography, index, 145 colour and black & white plates. Very slight offsetting to front endpaper, very *slight* patches of discoloration to predominantly white dustjacket. 140 pieces from European and Australian masterpieces housed at the National Galley of Victoria discussed and shown in mostly full-page individual plates. Near fine - tight and bright. Excellent gift. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Hardcover. Very Good,. A collection of articles in Dutch language from several issues of Nederlandsch-Indie Oud & Nieuw, bound in blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. There are tabbed separator pages between the four sections: 1. THAILAND; 36 pages including 29 full page photographic plates, many of Thai and Khmer Buddha heads together with relevant book reviews and articles from 1923, 1924 and Jan. 1930 issues. 2. CAMBODIA; 26 pages including 11 full page and 7 half page plates, a substantial article on Angkor Wat, additional article on Angkor Thom with plan, June 1926 3. CHINA; 108 pages of articles, numerous black & white line and photographic illustrations including 17 full page plates - 8 superb ones of T'ang and Sung Buddha heads. Also sections on Chinese jade, ceramics, bronzes and sculpture from the Nov. 1928, Dec. 1925 issues. 4. JAPAN: 22 pages including 7 full page photographic plates on masks, painting ceramics, history of the Dutch in Japan. A very interesting and desirable… Read More

Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Jacket spine a faded, previous owner's initials on front pastedown. Interviews with John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, William H. Gass, Donald Barthelme, Ronald Sukenick, Tom Wolfe, John Hawkes, Susan Sontag, Ishmael Reed, Jerzy Koninski, John Gardner and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A clean tight copy.

New York: Longman Chesire, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original black boards with silver title and credit to spine, 249 pages including further reading, bibliography and index. A collection of essays by major critics on Renaissance theatre. A tight, flawless copy. Perfect gift.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat, tight uncorrected book proof of the first UK edition. Cream card wraps, with black lettering and decoration to front panel and spine. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Slight scuffing to lower edge of front panel, small sticker removal scar on rear panel. Appears unread. A chronicle of the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women by drug boss Pablo Escobar.

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape Ltd. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright, crisp copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in publisher's original charcoal boards with silver title and credits to spine, 291 pages. 'An angry, disturbing account of how Escobar undermined all Columbia's civil institutions by murder or bribery, and a moving exploration of the fate of Escobar's hostages... a non-fictional record of real events, but one so transformed by a brillianrt story-teller that it must be called a novel.'

London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Bright and unmarked - it's hard to imagine there's a better copy available anywhere. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original navy cloth with gilt title and credit to spine, dark blue endpapers, 149 pages. Amis' protagonist is an American female detective - Mike Hooliham. She's seen it all - until she is confronted by the body of Jennifer Rockwell.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original navy boards with gilt lettering to spine, 248 pages. Slight speckling to top edge, small faint stain to fore-edge - all else fine. Lamming's first novel; an historical drama set in sixteenth century Florence. A very attractive copy.

New York: The Library of America, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. A very bright neat copy. First impression. Octavo in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 912 pages. Three library stamps: top edge, front and rear free endpaper - all else mint, looks like it's never been read.

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A very neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in bottle green cloth with gilt title and credits to spine 283 pages. Dustjacket price-clipped, three small very spots to front board, top edge a little spotty, small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Companion to 'Tunc', the second part of Durrell's 'Revolt of Aphrodite'.