Search Results: Titles starting with I from Sad Paradise Books

London & New York: W H Allen, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Near fine - a bright tight copy. First UK edition, first impression. Octavo in original red boards with gilt title to spine, 193 pages. Some colour bleed from red boards to inside of dustjacket. After being dumped by her partner, plain Jane becomes a celebrated designer, has a total face and wardrobe make-over, and gains scores of ardent admirers. Her partner, of course, returns to beg for forgiveness. You wish! An hilarious cult autobiographical fantasy. Scarce.

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.

London: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely bright copy. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and designs to spine and front cover, 12 colour plates including frontispiece, 250 pages. Slip case.

Sydney: Picador, 1992. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 228pp. Remainder mark to top edge. A tight and bright example of the first Australian edition.

London: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A tight, clean example of the first UK edition. Octavo in publisher's teal boards with gilt lettering to spine: xx + 604 pp., glossary, index. Edited by Jeffrey Miller. Remainder mark on lower edge. Letters are organised into decades from the 1930's - 1980's and Later Letters.

Sydney: Picador Pan Macmillan, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A lovely copy. Publisher's black boards with silver titles to spine, 384 pages. Apart from slight toning to paper stock, a couple of spots of shelf weart, his book is as new. Author's signature to title page. An isolated young boy takes a journey from Australia to the west coast of Ireland, from adolescence to adulthood, from isolation to acceptance.

London: Book Club Associates, 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 288 pages, endpaper maps, chronology, sources, index, numerous black & white and colour photographs. Two corners lightly bumped, very slight creasing to dustjacket at head of spine. Moorhouse charts the course of British rule in India from the beginnings of the East India company down to 28th February 1948, when the last British soldiers left Indian soil. He then assesses the lasting effect each country has had on each other. Near fine - a bright, tight copy.

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.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine,. A very neat, bright copy. First printing in publisher's red boards quarter bound in black, gilt lettering to spine, 150 pages. Slight soiling to dustjacket. The story of musical conductor Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara and his great passion, Inez Prada, a diva is paired with the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. Fuentes at the height of his magical realist powers. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

London: Abacus, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. A very neat, clean copy in stiff wrapper, 1078 pages. Paper stock a little toned. A remarkable satire on American entertainment and addiction. Wallace writes with authority, deep feeling - and caustic wit. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good,. A sound, clean copy, signed, inscribed and dated by Godfrey Winn on the free front endpaper. Octavo in original publisher's blue boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 396 pages including index, black & white frontispiece photographic plate and an additional 22 pages of photographs. Dustjacket creased and slightly soiled, some shelfwear or insect nibbles to lower edges of boards, top edge lightly spotted. The first volume of a projected autobiography that deals with Winn's appearance as a boy actor in Dame Sybil Thorndyke's Company, the birth of his career as novelist; includes what is regarded as one of the most authentic portraits of his literary mentor Somerset Maugham. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day.

London: Flamingo, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A very neat, tight copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's original black cloth with gilt title and credits to spine, 494 pages. Richard Tull, failed novelist decides to hire a hitman to knock out his agonisingly successful friend. Comedy is the only genre with any future says Amis - it's all that's left.

London: MacDonald, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. A neat, bright copy of the first U.K edition. Octavo in publisher's original black boards with silver title and credit to spine, 278 pages. Very slight rubbing, small creases to dustjacket edges. A newspaper strike in an American town spurs the protagonist into adventures that spiral further and further into wild heights of fantasy. A very nice copy of Kennedy' wickedly ironic and offbeat first novel.

New York: Viking , 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A neat bright copy of the first printing in grey boards quarter bound in black cloth with orange lettering and design to spine, illustrated endpapers,194 pages. Introduced by the editor James Grauerholtz, jacket art by Burroughs. Small remainder mark to lower edge. Interzone the dreamlike imagined world where the laws of time, space and conventional human personality are suspended, where everything is both possible and permitted. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.

Croydon, Surrey: Judo Limited, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, very sound copy of this scarce classic on Kendo. Octavo in original publisher's linen cloth with red title to spine and front panel. 140 pages including numerous black & white line drawings and photographs providing clear illustration of technical points discussed in the text, weapons and armour. Appendices; 1. Dai Nihon Teikoku Kata 2. Notes on the Japanese Sword 3. Notes on the Japanese Armour 4. Tamashigiri 5. Seppuku. Glossary. Small bookseller's sticker inside front flap of dustjacket which has light creasing, chips to edges. The scope of the book focuses on the concerns of the samurai; his sword, his armour, seppuku - which, except to an historian or collector, are virtually unknown outside Japan.

Toronto: Vauve Press, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine,. A bright attractive copy. Firsy printing in illustrated wrappers, black and white photographic illustrations, map, historical timeline, table, bibliography, 295 pages. Signed by author on title page. Devine recounts Irma's life in wartime Estonia and her courageous battle with multiple sclerosis. A triumph of the human spirit.

London: Hutchinson, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original navy cloth with gilt title to spine, 305 pages. Lower rear corner bumped, previous owner's name on flyleaf, page edges starting to brown. A clean, very sound bright copy of the scarcer fourth novel with the Roman sleuth protagonist Marcus Didius Falco.

London: John Calder, 1963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. A neat, tight copy. First UK edition, first impression. Octavo in original wrappers, 190 pages. Some fading to wrapper. Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), one of America's leading poets was a a friend and contemporary of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. 'The Island' (Creeley's only novel) is based on his experiences on Majorca in 1953. It's an impressionistic autobiography, a fractured account of his difficult marriage and the social scene on Majorca.

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.