Search Results: Authors starting with P from Sad Paradise Books

Melbourne: Viking, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine,/Fine. Near fine - a tight, clean copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's blue board with white lettering to spine, black and white plates, 294 pages. A moving, passionate and often funny account of her curious early childhood, alone with her parents in the remote rainforests of New Zealand. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Dent and Sons, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This copy is in very good plus condition - tight, square and clean in a bright attractive dustjacket.First edition hardcover in dustjacket, first English translation by Beatrice de Holthoir. Bookplate on front pastedown, price-clipped dustjacket with some very light creasing.

London: Arthur Barker, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 318 pages, black and white plates. Introduction by Paul Kramer. Translated by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai. Library of Congress number 67-10588. Some very slight creasing to price-clipped dustjacket. An autobiography by Henry Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, later a Soviet and political prisoner for fourteen years, and then a Member of China's National People's Congress. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

Melbourne: Cheshire, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 276 pages, appendices, frontispiece portrait, black & white photographic plates. Pages slightly aged toned, bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Biography of a distinguished English poet and man of letters who spent seventeen years in Australia - "A combination of troubadour and prize fighter", says Edmund Gosse. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

London: The Harvill Press, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. A lovely bright, tight and square copy of the first English Language edition. Stated first impression. Cult bibliophile thriller - the basis for Roman Polanski's film 'Ninth Gate'.

London: The Harvill Press, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. First English Language edition. Stated first impression. Previous owner's inscription and bookseller's stamp on half-title. A fresh, tight and square copy.

London: Harvill Press, 1997. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A tight, square clean copy. Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto. Some light creasing to wrapper. An intellectual thriller reminiscent of Umberto Eco's novels that begins with a hacker getting into the Pope's own computer. The verso of the title page reads 'First published as an export edition in Australia in 1997' It's the true first edition, pre-dating the first UK edition. Near fine.

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.

East Melbourne: Lansdowne Pr, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Revised edition. Original ochre cloth with gilt title to spine. 112 pages including notes, exhibitions, works in public collections, bibliography, index, 28 quality black & white and 32 colour plates. Very light creasing, chips to dustjacket edges, one inch tear on a fold with a neat archival quality repair. Margaret Plant's perceptive and well-documented text traces the development of Perceval's distinctive and powerful work. A bright tight copy.

London: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Original brown cloth with gilt title to spine, 216 pages including notes, index, black and white plates. Top edge very slightly spotted. Plowden's book follows the intricate manoeuvers of one of the greatest English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I - one of the most facinating women of all time. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

Melbourne: Pan Publishers , 1944. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Near fine - a very neat copy. Slim octavo in original illustrated wrapper, 96 pages including a photographic frontispiece portrait of Ludwig Leichhardt, a black & white line portait and a map. Introduction by Alec H. Chisholm, F.R.Z.S and appendix by Dr. G. Neumayer ( formerly Director Flagstaff Observatory) `Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt as Naturalist and Explorer'. A little discolouration to the back panel, but in surprisingly nice condition for a softcover of this age.

London: William Heinemann, 1975. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A bright, neat copy with firm binding. !976 reprint of the first edition of 1975. Octavo in oringal publisher's red cloth with gilt title to spine, 272 pages. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, price-clipped dustjacket, slight taped residue to inside of dustjacket and cloth. The twelve and final volume of Powell's magnum opus 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Near fine - a very neat, clean copy of the signed and hand-numbered presentation edition of 800 specially created to celebrate the re-opening of the National Gallery of Victoria in December 2003 after the make-over by Mario Bellini + Metier 3. Signed by John Poynter on the limitation plate on the front free endpaper. Original black boards with gilt title to spine, enclosed in matching illustrated slipcase. 639 pages including black & white, and coloured photograhic plates, bibliography and index. Slipcase has a light bump to lower edge, and some very slight rubbing. The book falls naturally into two parts; the first is a biography of Felton, the second deals with his bequests and their execution. With Felton's bequest after his death in 1904, the National Gallery gained access to acquisition funds greater than London's Tate and National Galleries combined! Uncommon edition. Listing with Biblio… Read More

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.