Search Results: Titles starting with T from Dorian Gallery

ISBN: 9781920882396Reprint edition signed by the author.

Things Happen by Philip Hodgkins Angus & Robertson, 1995. ISBN 9780207189395. Scarce Australian Poetry Title. New unread copy.

Through the Gay Looking Glass:The Many Lives of Clive Madiganby Gary Wotherspoon Carlton Publications, Darlinghurst 2010. Softcover. ISBN 9780646813172, 246p.VERY RARE. Signed by the author on the title page.Some edgewear, one crease to the spine area. A clean copy of a rare biography.About:Clive Madigan was an unusual man who lived an unusual life in unusual times. He was born and grew up in Sydney's inner-city working class suburbs, a larrikin becoming, barely out of his teens, a member of the 'Hyde Park Push' [a group of camp men who drank at night around the Archibald Fountain and cruised other men there, while avoiding police]. He was soon organizing parties for them in the most unlikely suburban venues, and was later 'outed' in Sydney newspapers. Over much of the same time, he had an ongoing criminal career, which had started when he was a young teenager, and he consequently spent many periods in gaol. Later, having fled Sydney for the 'safety' of north Queensland, he took to writing about… Read More

A TIME OF GIFTS'ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube'by PATRICK LEIGH FERMORHardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 9780719533488Published By John Murray, London 1977, Reprinted 1978Signed by the author.Condition: The dust jacket is not clipped, the jacket edges are rubbed and the corners are a little scuffed. Moderate sunning to the spine area of the jacket. The book is clean and tight internally, boards are not bumped or rubbed. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. About:In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable… Read More

Hardcover. First U.K. edition (Translated by Lysander Kemp)A very good book, in a very good dust jacket. Edge scuff to jacket, price-clipped.Signed by the author on title page."When The Time of the Hero was first published in Peru in 1962, it was considered so scandalous that a thousand copies were burned in an official ceremony at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. That same year, the book received the Biblioteca Breve Prize, an award given to the best work of fiction in the Spanish language. It was later filmed by Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi. "

A Time to Keep SilencePatrick Leigh FermorLondon, John Murray, 1957. 95p.First trade hardcover UK.Signed by the author on the title page.Clean tight fine copy, cloth spine shows mild toning. No jacket.Sojourns in monasteries across Europe:"A Time to Keep Silence (1953) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. It describes Fermor's sojourns in monasteries across Europe, and is praised by William Dalrymple as a "sublime masterpiece".This was an early publication from the Queen Anne Press, a small private press, created in 1951 by Lord Kemsley, proprietor of the Sunday Times. In 1952 Kemsley made Leigh Fermor's friend Ian Fleming its managing director. The press concentrated on producing finely printed and bound editions, often with small limitations. A Time to Keep Silence was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies with illustrations by John Craxton.After revision, an open edition was published by John Murray in 1957. The monasteries discussed include the Abbey of St. Wandrille,… Read More

Travels with Charley. In Search of America, etc by John SteinbeckPan (Pan Books. no. M110.) 1965.Appears in new unread condition, toned and browned evenly overall. Name neatly written in the front. 8' Australian price on back."In 1960, Steinbeck bought a pickup truck and had it modified with a custom-built camper top – which was rare at the time – and drove across the United States with his faithful 'blue' standard poodle, Charley. Steinbeck nicknamed his truck Rocinante after Don Quixote's "noble steed". In this sometimes comical, sometimes melancholic book, Steinbeck describes what he sees from Maine to Montana to California, and from there to Texas and Louisiana and back to his home on Long Island. The restored camper truck is on exhibit in the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas."

The Tree of Man by Patrick White Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1956, First Edition.Signed card inserted on the title page.Condition: Jacket edges rubbed and scuffed, damage from removed promo sticker bottom right, front flap not price clipped, spotted jacket rear. Fine scattered spots to endpapers and top of prelims. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise very clean and tight internally. About:The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has bequeathed to Australian society in general. "When we came to live [in Castle Hill, Sydney]", White… Read More

William Wise, 1874 Triumph of Scipio Etching after Andrea Mantegna. Print by: William Wise 1874. After Andrea Mantegna, Italian (active Padua, Mantua, and Verona), 1431 - 1506. Dimensions: 178 millimetres x 288 millimetres (260 x 265 mm sheet) Approx: 7" x 11.5" (10" x 14.3") Signed in the plate at lower right: 'W Wise after Mantegna' Superb museum quality print held in national museums. British Museum Description: Scene in ancient Rome; a man, thought to be Cornelius Scipio, surrounded by onlookers, falling on his knees at the sight of the sculpted bust of Cybele, carried by two men at left; stone monument behind, lettered with 'S P Q R / C N Scypio / N I CORNELL / V S F P'; illustration to 'The Portfolio' of 1874; after Mantegna. 1874. PS, Mantegna's painting 'The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome' is at the National Gallery, London, NG902

Twenty Poems
NERUDA, Pablo; Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright.
London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968.

Signed on the half-title page.

First edition of Neruda's classic work. Octavo, original cloth.
Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda on the half-title page. Fine copy in a very good edge-rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket.
Jacket design by Lawrence Edwards. Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright.

Neruda's second published work, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair initially appeared in Santiago in 1924; Neruda was 19 years old. The work gained a controversial reputation for its arresting eroticism, especially considering its author's very young age. The work remains the best selling poetry book in the Spanish language ever published. "Pablo Neruda is the greatest poet of the twentieth century-in any language" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez).