Search Results: Titles starting with O from Sad Paradise Books

Paris : Institut National De La Langue Francais, 1988. Soft Cover. Good. 140pp. Etudes and documents. Wrappers slightly stained and discoloured. A 'no return' stamp on flyleaf. A scarce and a most valuable bibliography and collection of resources on the topic. (In French). A sound copy

New York: World Publishing, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good,. A neat, very sound copy of the first printing. Bound in tangerine cloth with metallic lettering to spine. Small light marks to free front endpaper, dust jacket has a few chips, scuffs, a small closed tears and the usual laminate bubbling. The text was assembled after Lowry's death by his widow, Margerie Lowry, in accordance with his marginal notes and instructions. 'October Ferry' is a love story, an account of a marriage as it is evoked by the speeding images from the window of a bus.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine,. A very neat, square copy. First printing. Octavo in illustrated wrapper, 309 pages including black and white plates, index. Small dog-ear on front panel. Amram recounts his enduring friendship and artistic collaborations with Kerouac including the now classic film 'Pull my Daisy'. An important memoir of Kerouac, told by 'an ever-enthusiastic and energetic travel guide, taking you along in this extraordinary account of their adventures from 1956 until Kerouac's death in 1969.'

Sydney: John Ferguson, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good,. A very sound, attractive copy. Reprint in publisher's grey leathette with colour illustration to front panel, chocolate designs and gilt lettering spine, orange endpapers, 424 pages. No dustjacket. A handful of children face a major crisis alone - bushfire

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. Unread. A very neat copy of the first edition, first printing in publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine,166 pages. Very light tanning to paper stock. This short novel is set in 1962 and two newlyweds arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. Over dinner they struggle to suppress their fears of the immanent wedding night... Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire Publishing Pty. Ltd., 1967. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. John Percival. A very bright, neat copy. Slim quarto in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 42 pages. Slight shelf wear and small adhesive residue from a bookseller's label on front pastedown. A collection of Dutton's poems set on Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast celebrating a love of sea and bush, of bush animals and birds. John Percival has matched the mood and character of these delightful poems with illustrations which have a uniquely exuberant character of their own.Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: The Boy's Own Paper, No date (1927?). Hardcover. Very Good,. A quite neat copy. Duodecimo ( 7 - 8 inches tall ) in original red cloth binding with attractive embossed decoration to front panel and spine, gilt title to spine. 252 pages including black and white frontispiece illustration by Stanley L. Wood. Previous owner's neat gift inscription to front free endpaper. Quite spotty edges and preliminary pages. No dustjacket. Binding firm, text clean.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Five novellas translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. Previous owner's small inscription on title page, a bright and crisp example of the first UK edition.

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Hardcover. Fine. A very neat, handsome copy. Octavo in grey boards decorated in blue, quarter bound in light blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 736 pages. with Introduction by John Mortimer, line drawings by Llewellyn Thomas. Slip case in fine condition. The story centres on legal wrangles over the family farm. 'While it is primarily a tragedy of misdirected maternal love, the book contains much of the best Trollopian humor, and includes the portrait of his finest gentleman, Sir Peregrine Orme.'

London: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A bright, tight copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original black cloth with silver title and credit to spine, lilac endpapers. 294 pages including maps, colour photographic plates, index. An enchanting tale of travels among the Sea Gypsies of Sulawesi, Myanmar, Thailand, Sumatra, the Riau-Lingga Islands and Sulu Archipelago. Hope immerses himself in the simple, alluring way of life of a people clinging to a precarious existance in the modern world.

London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good,. Collection chosen and introduced by W H Auden. Second printing in navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front panel, index of titles, index of first lines, 553 pages. Some offsetting to endpapers, all else sound and clean.

South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very bright attractive copy. First printing. Quart in publisher's original tan cloth with gilt titles to spine, 304 pages. Alphabetical entries on people, institutions, places, ideas, movements, events, artefacts, and documents considered to be of significance in Australian history, profusely illustrated with mostly black & white photographic illustrations and line drawings. A lovely copy.