Search Results: Titles starting with C from Sad Paradise Books

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good,. Octavo in charcoal boards, gilt lettering to spine, 111 page, black and white photographic illustrations. Reprint. Three closed tears to dustjacket, previous owner's stamp to free front endpaper. The author had a close friendship with Jung and Hesse, and this book is the outcome of meetings and corresponence with them. A neat, sound copy.

London: Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages, endpaper maps, black & white, colour illustrations, index. Previous owner's name / date on half-title, price-clipped dustjacket. A lively and graphic account of the great explorer. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very neat, clean copies. First impression. Two companion volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 192 and 262 pages profusely illustrated with half-tone plates, line drawings, charts, and a large foldout chart in each volume redrawn from Cook's original maps.Top edge on NZ volume spotty. The dustjackets have light rubbing and creasing to edges, a few very small closed tears. These volumes bring together Cook's journals of his voyages to the east coast of New Holland, Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. These journals have been edited and annnoted to provide an interesting, important reference.

London: William Heinemann, 1929. Full-Leather. Very Good. A most attractive, desirable volume. A new impression. A highly attractive production with embossed and coloured titles and crest on cover and spine, 950 pages. Slight scuffs and hingewear. A collection of all of Galsworthy's tales written between 1900 and 1923.

London: Picador, 2021. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A bright unread copy. First printing in illustrated stiff wrapper, 220 pages, Translator into English by Louise Heal Kawai. A heart-warming story about a boy and a talking cat who go on magical adventures to save maltreated books. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: The Folio Society, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good,. A very neat bright copy. Bound in yellow cloth with black lettering and decorations to spine and front panel, black and white line drawings by Annie Newnham, glossary. 272 pages. Very good slipcase.

London: William Heinemann, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright copy of the first impression. Octavo in publisher's white boards with silver lettering to spine, afterword and bibliography. 328 pages. A comic and irreverent biography of Sri Ramakrishna through the eyes of his nephew and longtime caretaker.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A neat, very sound copy of this scarce edition. Octavo in publisher's original green cloth, gilt title to spine, 295 pages. Ex-library copy stamped on front pastedown, flyleaf, and (faintly) on top edge, borrower slip pasted to flyleaf. The author, brother of W. B. Yeats, was an artist / illustrator who created the first cartoon strip version of Sherlock Holmes in 1894. At the centre of this novel are two Irish tramps, very reminiscent of Becket's tramps in 'Waiting for Godot'. Yeats has not yet achieved the critical regard he deserves.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1981. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. A tight clean bright copy. Selected by Jean B. Read. Octavo in publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine and front panel. Very slight creasing to top of dustjacket edge. Selections from Stead's major works from her distinguished careen of over four decades.

London: HarperCollins, 1993. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. First impression. Quarto in original red boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 352 pages including black & white line illustrations / decorations throughout by Olivia Fraser, glossary, select bibliography and index. Top edge a little dusty, previous owner's name on flyleaf and half-title pages, a small closed tear and *very slight* creasing to top edge of dustjacket. William Dalrymple is a talented researcher and a superb and important writer on India past and present. He spends much of his life in Delhi and this book is a loving portrait of a city. A nice copy.

New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy - near fine. Tall octavo in red boards quarter bound in cloth with gilt title and credits to spine and facsimile author's signature embossed on front panel, 324 pages. Top edge *very* lightly speckled, rear dustjacket fold-in a little creased. Set on the on the Italian Riveriera in 1920, the protagonist Dora rules in her lonely widowed splendour in an immense white villa high above the threadbare fishing village, locked in combat with her sensitive, vulnerable daughter.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a bright, neat copy. Octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 250 pages. A pair of young Australian yachties get unwittingly caught up in the world of espionage and drug smuggling in Cochin, narrowly escaping with their lives. A terrifying, but heartening true-life adventure, a page-turner for the armchair sailor. Nice copy.

London: Harvill Secker, 2014. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A very neat, bright copy. First impression in polychrome decorative boards with white and pink lettering to spine, 298 pages. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, Murakami's thirteenth novel immediately topped best seller lists around the world. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: Vintage, 2003. Tight, bright copy appears to be unread in colour illustrated wrappers, 250 pages. In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: Heinemann, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original red boards, gilt title to spine, 310 pages. Appendix, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers, black and white photographic plates, maps. Previous owner's stamp to flyleaf, very slight chipping, creasing to top edge of dustjacket. A short but comprehensive history of China, Japan and South-East Asia by the Professor of Far Eastern History at Australian National University. A tight, bright copy of a classic work on this subject.

New York: Scribner, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. First impression. Octavo in original green paper-covered boards quartered with black textured boards, gilt title to spine, 347 pages. Dustjacket has slight rubbing to lower edge. Beautifully crafted narrative structure, deftly drawn characters, and a real feeling for place make this a highly engaging and satisfying novel. Set in bayside Melbourne, Paris and Chartres in 1923; Emily has to balance her own sense of identity against the demands of her father's expectations, her husband's ambition, and her unborn child. Winner of the NSW Premier's Prize, and short-listed for the 2001 Miles Franklin Award. Very nice copy.

London: Chatto & Windus Hogarth Press, 1985. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. A very nice tight, bright copy.Original red cloth, gilt title to spine, 223 pages. Slight yellowing of paper stock. Translated from German by Desmond I. Vesy. First published in English in 1937, and long unavailable in English, this novel is a subtle, profoundly moral masterpiece; a terrifying insight into the insidious, corrupting powers of jealousy, ambition and unrequited love. A very nice tight, bright copy. By the author of 'The Radetzki March.'

London: Jonathon Cape, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. Near fine - a very neat copy of the first UK edition. First printing. Octavo in original brown boards with gilt title and credits to spine, red top edge, 428 pages. A small erasure mark to front free endpaper, very light creasing, discolouration to dustjacket edges. This controversial Pulitzer Prize winning novel was attacked by African-American critics for appropriating the voice the leader of slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Despite this, the novel achieved wide critical acclaim for its exploration of the corrupting effects of slavery.

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.

Melbourne: Gryphon Books, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, bright copy. 82 pages including 24 colour plates plus black & white illustrations, decorated endpapers. Witty, playful children's book, text and illustrations by Australian artist Donald Friend. Signed by Friend on subtitle page. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.