1st peter owen london (22 risultati)

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,…

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…

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 T…

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 t…

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 s…

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 menta…

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 plea…

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. Re…

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:…

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 endp…

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 foxin…

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…