Search Results: Authors starting with H from Sad Paradise Books

Sydney: Macmillan, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A bright, neat copy. Octavo in publisher's original tomato boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 567 pages.Slight age toning to page edges. 'Rodney Hall plunges the reader into an age of bloodshed and intrigue.

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: Alpine Fine Arts Collection Ltd, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A pristine copy in all respects. First impression. Folio in publisher's original grey cloth with title and credits in gilt to spine, also embossed on front panel. 194 pages including introduction, 99 plates, 48 in full colour. Ching's work is notable for its use of white space rendering the pencil or paint work almost non-existent, yet suggesting something quite complex - 'little pieces of time caught, held and thoroughly pared down to a kind of perfected simplicity'. Outstandingly superlative production values in this scarce and sought-after work. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Victor Gollancz & Wildwood House, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Original tangerine boards, gilt title to spine, 276 pages. True first edition. A small closed tear to front panel of dustjacket. A strange and exotic tale set on Crete. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original red cloth, blue title to spine, first impression. 174 pages. Hayes explores the threats that Japan faces in the coming decades, particularly if the US downscales its military presence in the region, presents a blueprint for an appropriate strategy. A bright, tight copy.

Tokyo: Kodansha International , 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong 4to, not paginated. Slipcase, red Japanese rice endpapers. Introduction by Donald Keene, illustrations by Masakuzu Kuwata. The slipcase is faded, slightly chipped. The book and dustjacket have slight edge abrasions caused by the slipcover. This work combines traditional Oriental paper-cutting & woodcut-print techniques for Hearn's famous story. A sound copy.

Michigan: University of Michigan, 1985. Paperback. Very Good +. A neat very sound print on demand edition of this Ph.D thesis. Two volumes in one, 583 pages. Slightly dog-eared. Consists of five chapters. 1. First appearances of the demonic on Goya's art. 2. Supernatural themes in Los Caprichos 3. Witchcraft paintings for the Duke and Duchess of Osuna 4. The war and the reappearance of monsters in Goya's art. 5. The Black Paintings. Album of 139 black & white photographic illustrations, bibliography.

London: John Murray, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, very sound copy. Wisdom of the East Series with a foreword by Arthur Waley. Publisher's original olive boards with claret lettering to spine and front panel, 89 pages including index. Light offsetting to endpapers, price-clipped dustjacket slightly soiled. A systematic explanation of the principal features of ideas associated with Confucius and his great interpreter Mencius. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Original white cloth, green title to spine, 284 pages, notes, index, black & white photographic plates. Heywood recounts the fascinating story of hoax behind the strange and brilliant poems of 'Ern Malley'. Includes Malley's opus 'The Darkening Ecliptic'. A tight, bright and clean copy.

Milsons Point: Knopf, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original charcoal boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 818 pages including 32 black & white photographic plates, bibliography and index. A highly engaging biography of the passionate, controversial interpreter of Aboriginal culture. A major work of scholarship. A very nice copy of this scarce edition.

Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's black boards, silver lettering to spine, 334 pages. 'A railway station in Queensland. A teenager, Robin, retrieved by her parent from the Centre is going home. So is Will, a man emptied by loss and self-doubt.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Soft Cover. Very Good. pp328, tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. Hill offers a balanced analysis, evaluation and explanation of Indonesia's economic performance from the mid-1960's. The book highlights not only Indonesia's successes, but also the significant challenges for the future. A clean, tight copy.

London: The Falcon Press, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Original black cloth, gold lettering and decoration to spine. 203 pages. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf. Dustjacket (now protected) has four chunks missing and no front flap. First UK edition of Himes' debut novel detailing the fear, anger, and humiliation of a black employee of a racist defense plant during World War II. A sound clean copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Hoeg's first novel, translated from Danish by Barbara Havilland. First novel of the author best known for Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow. A bright, tight example of the first edition in English.

London: Harvill HarperCollins, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A bright and crisp fine copy of the first printing. Octavo in publisher's original teal boards with gold lettering to spine, 410 pages. The bright unmarked dustjacket has a chip to the top of the spine and a couple of smal light creases to top edgs. Otherwise, a pristine collectible copy of this classic Scandinavian crime thriller. As new.

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.

Chichester: Antony Bird Publications, 1982. First printing. Book. Fine/fine. A very neat, bright copy. Octavo in original red boards with gilt title to spine, xiv + 212 pages including bibliography, index, 5 maps, 8 pages of black & white photographic plates. Brings to life through eyewitness accounts pre-war life in Singapore, the martial fevour of Japanese success and the worst military disaster in British history. A very nice copy indeed.

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: William Heinemann, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, neat and very sound copy. First impression. Small octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 379 pages. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 'The most controversial and exciting novel to come out of France for decades.'

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. First Australian edition. Quarto in original black boards with gilt credits to spine, 192 pages including numerous black & white and colour photographic plates, index, selected bibliography. The fascinating story of modern art theft - what started as looting of art treasures by invading armies, including the Nazis during World War II has exploded into a sophisticated international operation. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.