1st peter owen london (21 resultados)

paperback, unread copy but with pronounced diagonal crease from mid- book almost to spine, internally bright and clean,173pp. Collection of essays bringing together artists who share a common thread of creating from the cutting edge. Included in the essays are writers Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin; musicians Leonard Cohen, Marc Almond. Contains material previously only avaiable in privately printed booklets such as: A Hundred Years of Disappearance, Count Eric Stenbock.…

paperback, very good condition, posssibly unread, signs of shelf life, a few biro squiggles on closed edge of book.240pp. Includes both short and long fiction as well as autobiographical pieces and travel writing. Whether he is writing about North Africa - or elsewhere, he forges his diverse and powerful themes, including sexual desire, racial tensions, drug hallucination and mental instability, superstition, justice and its dark counterpart revenge. ISBN 0720610915.…

hardback red/maroon cloth - no dustjacket, very good condition very slight bumping of one book corner, 120pp.

hardback in dustjacket, both as new, 148pp. An elderly American woman begins an agonizing search for the truth about her daughter, a famous painter who has died.

Fine in VG d/w.

hardback in dustjacket, book fine and dustjacket very good condition, small tears at bottom outward edges of dustjacket, 120pp. Reed focuses on a group of adolescents who come together in a seaside resort one summer before joining the adult world. His protagonists try to come to terms with their deviant sexual proclivities and the termination of their youth.…

hardback in dustjacket, both in very good condition, book is clean and unmarked, dustjacket is lightly rubbed, slight tears top of spine.150pp. Gaijin means 'outsider' however well they have integrated into Japanese society. A sense of tragicomedy pervades as the gay Major Sitfast and his nymphomaniac female companion, Lorelei Thrillingly, among other less savoury figures, are seized by the relentless tentacles of fate. Foreword by the Kirkup.ISBN 0720608333.…

paperback, fine condition, unread, but showing some signs of shelf life, 80pp. With previously unpublished photographs. Breaks a long silence to write about his personal life in Tangier.

A detailed study of the novelist & minor poet. VG+ in G-VG dustwrapper (marked on rear).

Hb In Dw 198pp 11 Illustrations Famous Danish Authors Travels in Spain and North Africa in 1862 Vg/Vg Copy.

paperback, fine condition, unread, minor signs of shelf life.240pp. Includes both short and long fiction as well as autobiographical pieces and travel writing. Whether he is writing about North Africa - or elsewhere, he forges his diverse and powerful themes, including sexual desire, racial tensions, drug hallucination and mental instability, superstition, justice and its dark counterpart revenge. ISBN 0720610915.…

paperback, fine condition, diagonal paper crease on back wrap, 144pp. From Japanese chopsticks to slaves, transvestites and androgynes; from sequinned ballgowns to aphromania on desert islands, Reed takes the reader on a journey through the many splendours of erotic love in stories that are sensationally imaginative, bizarrely sesual. 'Red Hot Lipstick has a timeless, almost gothic feel to it. Reed's lush, poetic use of language lends itself well to erotic imagery and his situations bring to mind the decadence of Paris's belle epoque.' Gay Times.…

Translated from the French by Dorothy Williams. Ex-library copy. VG. No dustwrapper.

hardback in protected dustjacket, both in very good condition, very slight tear top back of dustjacket, 223pp. Sylvia Field takes up a teaching post in Tokyo university. Soon she is caught up in a world of erotic possiblity. Sylvia trades confidences with her gay colleague, Matthew. Matthew and his Japanese lover, Jun, seek pleasure in Tokyo's underground, where an amusing transvestite strip-tease and the kinky relationships in an escort club for frustrated housewives are part of an alternative scene. When Sylvia gives a party in honour of her son's visit to Tokyo with his male lover, the novel reaches a climax.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small demy8vo, xxxiv, 229 pp. Original green boards, patterned endpapers. Top edge dusty, a trace of fore-edge foxing otherwise a fine copy in a near fine price-clipped d/j. First edition.

Size 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In black cloth covers with silver to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Light rubbing along edges. Shelving marks. Price clipped). Some light markings to covers. Lower front corner bumped. Inside clean and tight copy. 288pp. With b/w photographs. Reminiscnces of contemporaries of the three brilliant, enigmatic and often eccentric brothers. …

hardback in dustjacket, both in very good condition, 229pp. Includes over 30 illustrations including ones by Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico and Dali. A selection of stories and extracts from books published in the last 40 years. Selected and with an introduction by Peter Owen. Foreword by D J Enright. Authors include: Paul Bowles [ Pages from Cold Point - Young's no 366*], Cocteau [ extract from The Impostor], James Purdy [ The Candles of Your Eyes] and Jeremy Reed [ Independent a poem written for Peter Owen]. Also Herman Hesse, Anais Nin, Jane Bowles, Peter Vansittart, Collette and 12 others.…

8.75 x 5.75 inches. In black cloth covers with silver gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrappper. (d/w. spine slightly darkened with small piece missing at top. Small marks.Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Owner?s Ex Libris label to font endpaper, dated 1986. Else a clean and tight copy. 354 pp. With b/w illustrations, some plates, some in text. A biographical account of the varied and confused sex life of Lord Byro with discussion as to why he failed to maintain long standing realationships. Includes Lady Caroline Lamb who famously called him ?Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know.. …

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW a couple of minor light handling marks, some browning to edges of flaps, not price clipped.) Cover clean and smart. Some faint marks to top edges of endpapers. Some foxing to top of closed page edges. Signed on title page by the Author ?For Graham Snow, with best wishes Ron Ramdin, 5 November 1987.? 223pp. With 7 B&W photo plates.…

Hardcover. Scuffed Dustjacket, Edge Tears. Owners Ex Libris. Good.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In Illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good Dustwrapper (DW some minor rubbing to edges and corners, some mild foxing spots, NOT price clipped, in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean and smart. Some minor foxing spots to page edges, else inside pages and prelims all very clean and tight, no penned inscriptions. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 216pp. Jacket Design by Vassilis Voglis. Rare.…