Search Results: Titles starting with V from Sad Paradise Books

London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original aqua cloth, gilt lettering to spine, seventh impression. 250 pages, colour and black & white photographic plates. Top edge very lightly spotted. A collection of Vita Sackville-West's articles from the periodicals 'In Your Garden', 'In Your Garden Again' and 'Even More for Your Garden' orgainsed around the months of the year. An unusual combination of the romantic and the practical. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. A very sound,clean copy. Second impression. Patterned grey boards quarter bound in black cloth gilt lettering to spine, black & white photographic illustrations to endpapers, 269 pages. The dustjacket is tatty with a big chunk missing from the front panel. A distinctly American coming of age; a wild time with drugs, writing and love exploding into a binge of non-stop experience that eventually even included murder.

London: Hogarth Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good,. Clean, tight copy, sixth impression. Octavo in publisher's boards, gilt lettering to spine, black & white plates, index, map endpapers, 300 pages.

Lowell, Massachusetts: Ithaca Press, 1974. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Sound, tight copy. Second edition. Wrapper soiled, slightly worn, Kerouac's life from the perspective of an old Lowell school friend who became a professor of literature.

Devon: David and Charles, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine,. A bright, tight copy - new. First printing. Octavo in publisher's original red books with gilt lettering to spine, 286 pages including monochrome and colour photographic plates, a chronology, sources and index. Drawing on Pepys' famous diary as its central resource, the book is a fascinating and vivid account of life in seventeenth century London at a critical point in history - poised to become a major centre of international commerce and culture. Lovely copy.

Hawthorn, VIC: Hutchinson, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Near fine - a very neat, bright copy. First Australian edition. Octavo in original dark olive boards with gilt title and credits to spine, map endpapers. 512 pages including black & white illustrations, references, index. Very slight creasing to dustjacket top edge. Withey makes use of recent scholarship in a range of disciplines to place Cook's achievements in the broader context of Pacific exploration from both European and Pacific people's perspective.

Harpercollins, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. A very neat tight copy. Octavo in original bleu cloth boards with silver title and credits to spine, 467 pages including black & white frontispiece of James Cook, map endpapers, appendices, index, numerous black & white charts and illustrations. Paper stock slightly toned. The book recounts the adventures and mishaps of the successive voyages to discover the elusive 'maritime philospher's stone' - a navigable passage through the icy seas of the Atlantic from Hudson Bay to the wealth of the Pacific Ocean