Search Results: Titles starting with T from Sad Paradise Books

London: Harvill, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 226 pages, endpaper maps, black & white illustrations. Light remainder mark to lower edge. A highly readable account of the destruction by European greed and dogma of the paradise that was Tahiti. A bright, tight copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. Paperback. Near Fine,. A very neat uncreased copy. In publisher's illustrated wrapper, 426 pages. Paper stock lightly toned. A fictional portrait of the life of Murasaki Shikibu, author of 'The Tale of Genji', an erotic narrative set in the eleventh century imperial court of Japan.

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press Brisbane (UQP), 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Near fine - a tight, bright copy. True first edition, preceding the US and UK editions. Octavo in original cream boards with blue title and credit to spine, 279 pages. Typical slight fading to dustjacket. This copy is signed and inscribed by Peter Carey on title page.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original fawn cloth with red title to spine, 230 pages including notes, selected bibliography, index, black & white photographic plates. Previous owner's name to free endpaper, very light chips & creasing to price-clipped dustjacket, edges and boards slightly spotty. Pronko contends that a creative synthesis of Asian and Western tradition can revolutionize our whole theory and practice of drama. He discusses Balinese dance-drama, Chinese opera, Kabuki and Noh and evaluates their influence on Artaud, Brecht, Copeau, Genet and Becket. A neat, very sound copy.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press & Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,1964. Hardcover, fifth printing. Previous owner's signature to flyleaf, some small chips, light creases and a small closed tear to dustjacket, some spotting to top edge. Examining the work of Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill and Genet, Brustein looks at the nature of their revolt, the methods employed in the plays and their influences on the roots of modern theatre. A very sound copy. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Peter Owen, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A very neat, bright copy. Second edition. Octavo in original black cloth with silver title and credits to spine. 157 pages comprising introduction, eight sketches, glossary and four pages of photographic plates. Some light spotting to endpapers, stock stock slightly yellowed, previous owner's name neatly inscribed on free front endpaper. Bowles is at his best writing about places and these short pieces are fascinating short glimpses into life in Morocco, the Sahara, Mexico, Turkey and Sri Lanka.

London: Little Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a neat, bright copy. Octavo in blue boards with black lettering to spine, as issued. 336 pages including plans, chart, colour photographic plates. Dustjacket lightly creased. The Ridgeway family leave their life in Scotland behind and set out in their 57 foot ketch to follow the wind wherever it takes them; the South Seas, Peru, Patagoni, Antartica... An exhilarating tale.

Milson's Point NSW: Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. A neat, attractive copy. First impression in teal boards with white lettering to spine, 513 pages. Light tanning of paper stock. Hughes describes growing up in Australia, his exhilaration at leaving Australia to discover a new life, first in Italy and then in 'swinging sixties' London, then migrating to America to take up the position of art critic for 'Time' magazine. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. First impression. Publishers' original black boards with gilt title to spine, 255 pages. Rechy provides a compassionate insight into Jim's struggle to hold his life together after his arrest and trial under California's draconian criminalisation of homosexual behavior. John Rechy, author of 'City of Night' is the recipient of two coveted Lifetime Achievement Awards: PEN-USA-West's 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award, and The Publishing Triangle's William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. A really nice copy.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. Near fine - a bright, very neat copy. First UK edition. Octavo in original blue cloth with silver title to spine, 223 pages. The unchipped white dustjacket is lightly soiled and there are a few light spots to edges. An important collection of twelve stories including 'Night of the Iguana' that demonstrate the wide range of William's talent. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

Bangkok: White Lotus, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine,. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. Octavo in illustrated wrappers, 283 pages including frontispiece photograph of the author, maps, 88 page album (most full page) photographs by the author, index. A small Chinese stamp to front endpaper. Originally published as 'On and Off Duty in Annam' by Heinemann in 1910, the book is a fascinating account of a young woman's views of women, household life and gender relations in France's Indochinese colony.

London: Blackie and Sons, 1886. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. H. M. Paget.. A quite neat and very sound copy of this scarce and very attractive book. Octavo in publisher's original embossed chocolate cloth extensively decorated in gilt and black. 384 pages, plus 40 pages of publisher's advertisements. 12 charming full page black and white line illustrations by H. M Paget. Corners bumped with small worn areas to cloth, hinges neatly strengthened, previous owner's name in pencil to flyleaf. Boys' adventure tale centred on the uprisings by traditional craftsmen opposing industrialisation.

Toorak: Gryphon Books, 1978. A bright unmarked copy. Limited to 350 copies, this is one of the first 100 copies with a special dustjacket and containing an original drawing by Friend. Quarto in red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and design to front panel, decorative endpapers, black and white illustrations and two tipped in colour plates, unpaginated. Together with a folio size photographic proof for Bumbooziana initialled by Friend approving production. Light creasing to one edge, very suitable for framing. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

New York: Walker Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright, neat copy of the first impression in black boards with gilt lettering to spine,colour photographic plates, 304 pages. A quest through the great artist's life toward the physical and spiritual landscape of his enigmatic last paintings. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Atlantic, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A very neat, bright copy. First impression in publisher's original red boards with silver lettering to spine, 244 pages including black & white photographic illustrations, index. A personal memoir of the former editor of The New York Review of Books covering his arrival in Tokyo in 1975 and his involvement in avant-garde theatre, film and photography. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: Peter Owen Limited, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Marguerite McBey. A tight, clean copy. Octavo in original black boards with gilt title to spine, 93 pages. Bowles' first novel for twenty five years; Anita, newly divorced and world-weary has escaped her routine in New York to join her brother in the African desert.

New York: Alfred Knopf, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A bright unread copy in publisher's original red boards with gilt lettering to spine, 147 pages including introduction by the translator Thomas Karshan, & three pages under the heading Further Reading. Tiny remainder spot to lower edge. Nabokov's earliest major work, his only full length play. Never published in Nabokov's lifetime, it appeared for the first time in a Russian literary journal, The play deals with the events of the Russian revolution through the prism of Shakespearean tragedy.

London: The Folio Society, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good,. A quite neat, very sound copy in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, black & white illustrations by John Holder, 242 pages. Lower edge slightly soiled, a few faint spots to cloth, but all white and bright within. Steinbeck fits out ahis pickup as a camper van and sets off to tour America alone - except for Charley his French poodle.

Kent Town S.A: Wakefield, 2000. Paperback. Very Good,. A clean, neat copy in white illustrated wrapper, 268 pages. Front cover slightly curled, slight crease on rear panel. Gift inscription and signed by author on title page. 'A compelling story of computer crime, loyalty and betrayal against a city - and a country - on the cusp of political change. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

New York: Grove Press, 1961. Paperback. Very Good,. A neat bright copy of the First Black Cat Edition, fourth printing - "the complete unexpurgated Grove Press edition originally published at $7.50". Plain blue illustrated wrapper, 287 pages. Light creasing, tiny edge wear, light creasing. "The literary bomb that has been contraband in the U.S. since 1937' (Minneapolis Sunday Tribune) An attractive very early copy.