Search Results: Authors starting with P from Great Southern Books

Faber & Faber, London, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 467 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. All my books are available and are shipped from our Australian address.. The Assassin's Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassin's Gate - the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for The New Yorker. We see up close the struggles of individual American soldiers and… Read More

Sterling Publishing, New York, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Second impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 232 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." The Beatles rocking out with "Twist and Shout." Aretha Franklin demanding "Respect." Without covers, the world would have lost many unforgettable performances. This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis's… Read More

Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 264 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Detailed account of the search for the pilot and navigator of a Vultee Vengeance dive bomber lost in the outback of Western Australia in 1944. The search for the missing airmen was one of the largest in Australian history. Includes photos, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Australia; 1940s; ISBN: 0646409727. ISBN/EAN: 9780646409726. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8990. .… Read More

Brockhampton Press Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrator: Francis S. Walker. 125 pages. This book is in fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition and the dust jacket is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: This beautifully illustrated book portrays Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century. The pictures are the work of artist, Francis S Walker. Walkers captures the indomitable Irish spirit in his portraits of landscape, buildings and above all people, in this vivid, entertaining and affectionate book. 1. A wonderful evocation of the best of Scotland. 2. Illustrated throughout in full colour. 3. Excellent value. Illustrator: Francis S. Walker. Quantity Available: 1. Category:… Read More

Abbey Library, London. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Nelly Bariand (photography). Size: Quarto 4to. 107 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and shows only minor shelf-wear.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Illustrator: Nelly Bariand (photography). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Paleontology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4312. .

Boxtree Ltd, London, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 344 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Soon after creating the experimental pop group, Pink Floyd, in 1966, Syd Barrett took to using hallucinogenic drugs, which led to schizophrenia. He has now abandoned his past. Through interviews with Barrett's family and friends, this book provides an account of the man and his illness. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Music; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0752223283. ISBN/EAN: 9780752223285. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon… Read More

vintage, London, 2006. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: Small Octavo. 412 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. The book is available and ready to ship. "Haunted" is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated… Read More

Fleming H. Revell, Grand Rapids, MI, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 268 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and shows only minor shelf-wear.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Too often Christians settle for less in life, conditioned by their upbringing, entrenched insecurities, or the surrounding culture. We choose momentary pleasure over happiness, sex over love, fleeting popularity over connection. We'll settle for acceptance rather than forgiveness, relief rather than peace, and activity rather than larger-picture significance. The result of embracing things that can be good-yet not quite excellent-is a… Read More

Illustrated Editions Company, New York, 1935. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Good Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 370 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Guilt illustration of book on front cover (faded) with green ribbon. Previous owner's signature, pencil. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; United States; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6466. .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, United Kingdom, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 256 pages. Multiple copies available this title. This book is BRAND NEW. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Michael Palin's personality is a combination of some very disparate elements, many of them displayed at their most attractive in Sahara. There's the friendly, avuncular manner; the easy-going charm that women find so attractive; and that vein of surrealistic, sardonic humour that is the legacy of his Monty Python days. All these characteristics combined to create the perfect host for the ambitious travel programmes with which he's latterly been associated. The shows (and the handsome companion books that invariably accompany them) avoid the sometimes over-serious approach of other presenters and show us some very exotic parts of the world filtered through Palin's very idiosyncratic vision. Audiences and… Read More

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 255 pages. 255 p. Audience: General/trade. A great television series and a interesting book to follow it. Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure' is a masterpiece in its own right. Takes us on the journey of a lifetime, Papa's and his own. Palin visits the restless Hemingway's many residences, drinks (less excessively) in the same charming Parisian bars, tries boxing and Cuban marlin fishing, but he's really trying to discover what made Hemingway tick, what inspired him to write. In Spain, Palin examines Hemingway's passion for the country and the character of the matador in Hemingway's work while studying with young matador apprentices in a dusty Madrid bullfighting school. In Africa, which inspired and almost killed Hemingway, Palin learns spear throwing from Masai warriors, flies in a small plane around Mount Kilimanjaro, and searches for the site where Hemingway's own plane crash-landed" (Michele… Read More

Omnibus Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 480 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean, neat and free of foxing. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. Eighteen years after they last performed together, ABBA remain one of the world's biggest selling groups with one of the strongest catalogues in the history of popular music. As a group ABBA were active between 1972 - 1982 and broke sales records during that period. This biography offers a thorough, warts-and-all account, covering all aspects of the ABBA members' lives and careers: the period before the group came together, the amazing success story fo the Seventies, their marriage and divorces, the ups and downs of their empire and their careers after the group. The bulk of the book focuses on the ABBA years, but as the story of the group… Read More

Penguin Books , London, 1988. Second Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Fifth Impression. Size: 12mo Small. 411 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Moderately foxed throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. The book is available and ready to ship. Political, diplomatic, social, economic, and religious events and personalities during the first 82 years of this century have been compiled in dictionary form to provide a concise guide to world events. Brilliant book. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; World History; Britain/UK; 20th century; ISBN: 0140511318. ISBN/EAN: 9780140511314. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9717. . 9780140511314

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: Small Octavo. 464 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The new edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, drawn from the third edition of the best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, is a collection of 5800 well-known quotations by 1100 authors. Ranging in time from the eighth century BC to the 1970s and in space from Russia to South Africa, it provides excellent browsing among a varied company of authors and includes a generous index to guide the reader to a particular quote or selection of quotes. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama;… Read More

Harper Collins, New York, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 294 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Who said the reaper has to be grim? Filled with the frightening, funny, poignant, & just plain weird, this delightfully different travelogue follows one man s quest to discover how people around the world cope with the incontrovertible fact of death. The result is a wise, witty, decidedly quirky celebration of how we all face life. Explores human beings simultaneous fear & fascination with death; the physiological & psychological experience of death; the world s funeral & grieving rites; & religious, spiritual, & philosophical theories about immortality. Color photos. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable… Read More

Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Eighth Impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 534 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. The book is available and ready to ship. For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1… Read More

Faber & Faber, 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 536 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Set in Istanbul between 1975 and today, The Museum of Innocence tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles the long love affair between Kemal and Fusun. Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes who find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. For the past ten years, Pamuk has been setting up a museum in the… Read More

Barbour Publishing Inc, Ohio, USA. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing. 349 pages. This book is in very good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some very minor bumps and marks indicating previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are in stock and will be shipped same day or next business day directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: Quantity Available: 1. Category: Religious, Religious / Inspirational; ISBN: 1597893633. ISBN/EAN: 9781597893633. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0002006. . 9781597893633

Silverdale Books, United Kingdom, 2008. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 224 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Camellia Panjabi has explored all the regions of India to collect the best traditional recipes, learning dishes and cooking secrets from culinary experts as well as fine home cooks. Here she presents fifty of the most delicious, exotic, and inspiring of these curries. Each individual recipe is accompanied by a color photograph, and important ingredients are illustrated. Indian cuisine is unusual in its flexibility. There are no rigid recipes. Methods for preparing traditional dishes, such as curries, are not written down but are passed on through generations, the cooks adding… Read More

Minerva, Geneva, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: Quarto 4to. 143 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and shows only minor shelf-wear.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Translated by David Macrae. A history of ancient Spain to 210BC. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Spain; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4390. .