Search Results: Literature from Sad Paradise Books

Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1914. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edmund J. Sullivan. A tight, bright attractive copy. Original green publisher's cloth with title in gilt to spine and in black to front panel, 655 pages including twelve illustrations in colour by Edmund J Sullivan. Fore- and lower edge uncut. Caligraphic gift inscription in italics to flyleaf. Borrow's masterpiece written after his bohemian pilgrimage through rural England including contact with gypsies.

Australian National University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, very sound copy. Octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt lettering to spine, 91 pages. 66 poems exploring karma through eleven life cycles. From 1967 - 1978 he was the influential poetry editor of The Australian. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Rodney Hall on the flyleaf.

New York: Owl Books, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. First impression. Illustrated wrapper, 219 pages; shooting script, interviews and black & white stills from the film written and directed by Paul Auster. 'Lulu on the Bridge' combines myth, magic, and reality to uncover truths about the human experience. A bright, tight copy.

Melbourne - Sydney: University of Melbourne, 1965. Very Good. This copy titled 'The Critical Review' - a joint Melbourne Sydney edition - No 8, 1965. T.B Tomlinson, Vincent Buckley, Penelope Curtis, John Fraser, Robin Grove, S.L Goldberg, Fred Inglis, John Wilshire, Neil Courtney. Previous owner's name on title page, stamped' no return' on edges, a trifle dog-eared, but still a very good copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A quite neat sound copy. Title label on spine chipped, minor wear AND browning. Includes 'Bound East for Cardiff' , 'The Long Voyage Home' , 'In the Zone', 'Ile', 'Where the Cross is Made', 'The Rope'.

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.

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.

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: 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: 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.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very bright neat copy of the first impression: bound in maroon cloth with white lettering to spine, index, 308 pages. Manguel reflects on the joy and solace of literature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a tight, bright copy. Octavo in publishe's olive boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192 pages, index. Fiedler examines the origins and nature of those myths and images characteristic of the American experience and the literature it has inspired.

New York: Picador, 2008. Paperback. Near Fine,. A very neat bright copy with no creasing, in illustrated stiff wrappers, 352 pages. Paper stock very slightly age-toned. A magnificent adventure story exploring the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Sydney: Hale and Ironmonger, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright copy. Octavo in publisher's crimson boards with gilt lettering to spine and decorative device to front panel, black and white photographic illustrations, 256 pages. An account of growng up in a small town, Taranaki, in New Zealand

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: 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.

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.