Search Results: Titles starting with P from Sad Paradise Books

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 160pp, Colour photography by John Tristam. The myths and folktales told by the people of the Pacific Islands, illustrated with stunning colour photographs. A clean, sharp copy.

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very good +. Very neat attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's illustrated boards, 199 pages. Small, neat previous owner's name to free front endpaper. Paper stock slightly toned. A brother and sister work the family sheep farm in western New South Wales while their reclusive brother, Wesley spends years toiling away in one of the sheds writing philosophy. The novel was shortlisted for the following 2009 awards: The Miles Franklin, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction and the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

London: Michael Joseph, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Bright dustjacket; a tight and clean example of the first UK edition. Publisher's black boards with gold lettering to spine, 271 pages. 'Scenes of dazzling and unparalled eroticism.' (Pub.)

London: Macmillan, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine,/Fine. Octavo in tan cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 123 pages including index. Scott's novels constitute a unique record of life in the Raj among Indians and Anglo-Indians during the period leading up to Independence for India and Pakistan in 1947. Swinden's exploration focuses on the Raj Quartet and Scott's other novels from 'Johnnie Sahib' to the Booker Prize winning 'Staying On'. A tight, bright copy.

London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Original red cloth with gilt title and credit to spine, 135 pages. First English edition, translated by Catherine Temerson. It has taken Marina Picasso fourteen years of analysis to be able to speak openly about her grandfather. It's a vivid and powerful memoir of growing up in the shadow of one of the cultural icons of the twentieth century. A tight, bright copy - excellent gift.

London: Methuen, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. A neat bright copy. Reprint in Methuen Drama series. Black illustrated stiff wrapper, 320 pages. Small slight wrinkle to front panel, small spot on front free endpaper, paper stock slightly toned. Looks unread.

London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Paperback. As New. A very neat bright copy. In illustrated stiff wrappers, 329 pages. 43 writers share their passion for reading

London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Paperback. Near Fine,. Bright, neat - unread. Illustrated stiff wrapper, 616 pages including bibliography. Small unobtrusive mark to front edge. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959

London: Victor Gollancz, 1972. First. Soft Cover. Very Good. A neat tight proof copy stamped UNCORRECTED on the front panel. Octavo in original buff wrappers, 264 pages including postscript, bibliography and glossary. Some light soiling and *very light* creasing to wrapper. Professor of Music at Newcastle University, musicologist Richard Middleton offers a rich and detailed account of the historical conditions relating to the blues and its syntheses that now reach global audiences. An unusual copy of a major classic on this subject. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First impression. pp101, black & white, colour plates, index. Byatt delves into the complex relationship between portraits and characters; her authors range from Henry James to Iris Murdoch, her artists from Holbein to Botticelli, Manet to the present day. A tight bright copy.

London: W H Allen, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. pp278, black and white plates. A couple of tiny chips to dustjacket edges. This is the first installment of Wilson's journals - 'I only aimed to catch sur le vif things that struck me as significant or interesting'. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.