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The Word: How We Translate the Bible--And Why It Matters

The Word: How We Translate the Bible--And Why It Matters

$15.00 AUD
From a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible , an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters Throughout history, most Jewish...
Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

$29.99 AUD$10.00 AUD
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx Outside of a Dog is the captivating account of...
Summary And Analysis Of The Dialogues Of Plato; With An Analytical Index, Giving References To The Greek Text Of Modern Editions, And To The Translation In Bohn's Classical Library.

Summary And Analysis Of The Dialogues Of Plato; With An Analytical Index, Giving References To The Greek Text Of Modern Editions, And To The Translation In Bohn's Classical Library.

$65.00 AUD
Author: Alfred DayBinding: HardbackPublished: Bell & Daldy, 1870Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Damaged boards. Binding fragile. Cracked...
Collected Essays

Collected Essays

$35.00 AUD
Author: Graham GreeneBinding: HardbackPublished: THE BODLEY HEAD, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light stain on book block. This volume...
Anaïs Nin: An Introduction

Anaïs Nin: An Introduction

$45.00 AUD
Author: Benjamin Franklin V And Duane SchneiderBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ohio University Press., 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor discolouration to spine and front of cover, spine is...
The Literary Companion To Sex

The Literary Companion To Sex

$20.00 AUD
Author: Fiona Pitt-KethleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has some general wear, creasing along spine. Moisture stain on title page and...
French Literature: Its History And Its Meaning

French Literature: Its History And Its Meaning

$60.00 AUD
Author: Wallace FowlieBinding: HardbackPublished: Prentice-HallCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has general wear and tear, previous owner name inside, some previous owner marks...
Women & Writing

Women & Writing

$20.00 AUD
Author: Virginia Woolf, Michele Barrett Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Women's Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has tanning along spineThis seminal work of literary criticism chronicles...
Giants Of Literature: Kipling

Giants Of Literature: Kipling

$20.00 AUD
Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Sampson Low, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, previous owner name inside first pageThis volume presents a comprehensive...
The British Controversialist, And Literary Magazine

The British Controversialist, And Literary Magazine

$50.00 AUD
Author: None StatedBinding: HardbackPublished: Houlston and Wright, 1861Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn boards with bumping on corners. Moderate tanning...
Knocking Round

Knocking Round

$20.00 AUD
Author: J. Le Gay BreretonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Ltd, Australia, 1930Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection of verse, Knocking Round, presents the lyrical observations...
The Poets' Chantry

The Poets' Chantry

$20.00 AUD
Author: Katherine BrégyBinding: HardbackPublished: HERBERT & DANIEL, 1912Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Light bumping on corners. Frontis loose. Clean...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

$12.00 AUD
Gerald Middleton is a sixty-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's "a failure with a conscience." As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up...
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

$12.00 AUD
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new...
Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews

Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews

$32.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades....
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

$10.00 AUD
Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn't talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far...
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of the Grove

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of the Grove

$90.00 AUD
Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover...
The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud

The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud

$29.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
Widely acclaimed for giving [an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche's personal experience and his most famous ideas[ (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in...
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

$12.00 AUD
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review , New York 's "Vulture", The Week , Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of...
The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam

The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam

$46.95 AUD$12.00 AUD
A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and

How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and

$36.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest-a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing...
Shakespeare In The Light Of Sacred Art

Shakespeare In The Light Of Sacred Art

$15.00 AUD
Author: Martin LingsBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD, 1996Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Reading copy with markingsThis scholarly work, Shakespeare In The Light Of...
The Ruskin Study Guide For Australian School Students - Volume 2)

The Ruskin Study Guide For Australian School Students - Volume 2)

$50.00 AUD
Author: T. J. DwyerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Ruskin Group Pty. Ltd., 1966Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed and worn boards....
The Oxford Companion To Classical Literature

The Oxford Companion To Classical Literature

$20.00 AUD
Author: Sir Paul HarveyBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning and slight warping from plastic jacket page edges lightly...
Sannazaro & Arcadia

Sannazaro & Arcadia

$85.00 AUD
Author: Carol KidwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth Publishing, 1993Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCarol Kidwell's Sannazaro & Arcadia chronicles the life and literary contributions of Jacopo Sannazaro, a pivotal...
Professing Poetry

Professing Poetry

$20.00 AUD
Author: John WainBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsProfessing Poetry presents a compelling collection of essays that scrutinize the art and craft of verse. John Wain,...
The Bodley Head Monographs

The Bodley Head Monographs

$30.00 AUD
Author: Roger Lancelyn Green, Anthea Bell, Elizabeth NesbittBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick/tear on DJ. The collection The Bodley Head...
Art, Society, Revolution: Russia 1917-1921

Art, Society, Revolution: Russia 1917-1921

$30.00 AUD
Author: Nils Ake (ed.) NilssonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1979Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Red marks on rear cover as shown in photo. Small crease on top...
Critical And Miscellaneous Essays (I, III, IV)

Critical And Miscellaneous Essays (I, III, IV)

$45.00 AUD
Author: Thomas CarlyleBinding: HardbackPublished: Chapman and Hall, 1857Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Minimal markings in...
An Outline Of Modern Knowledge

An Outline Of Modern Knowledge

$50.00 AUD
Author: William Rose (ed)Binding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1932Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cover has some light wearBook involves the works of twenty-four of the world's...
The Musical Companion

The Musical Companion

$45.00 AUD
Author: A.L. Bacharach (ed)Binding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cover has wear and spine tanned (see photo), previous owner name inside, light...
The Oxford Illustrated History Of English Literature

The Oxford Illustrated History Of English Literature

$50.00 AUD
Author: Pat RogersBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing., 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded spine and some minor bumps to DJ.This authoritative volume chronicles the rich tapestry of...
Australia Through The Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction 1830-1980

Australia Through The Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction 1830-1980

$35.00 AUD
Author: Brenda NiallBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press., 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some sun-fading to spine of DJ. This scholarly work chronicles the evolution of Australian...
The Bible: Designed To Be Read As Literature

The Bible: Designed To Be Read As Literature

$50.00 AUD
Author: Ernest Sutherland BatesBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Limited., 1950Condition:Book: PoorJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: DJ is damaged with some soiling...
A Charm Of Names

A Charm Of Names

$65.00 AUD
Author: Ivor BrownBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1972Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA captivating journey through the etymological landscape of language, A Charm of Names presents the...
Australian Literature: A Bibliography To 1938, Extended To 1950

Australian Literature: A Bibliography To 1938, Extended To 1950

$40.00 AUD
Author: E. Morris Miller And Frederick T. MacartneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson., 1956Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight chips and minor...
The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books

The Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books

$40.00 AUD
Author: Geoffrey DuttonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson Publishers., 1985Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Australian Collection: Australia's Greatest Books presents a curated selection of pivotal works from Australia's...
The Modern Jewish Canon: a Journey through Language and Culture

The Modern Jewish Canon: a Journey through Language and Culture

$54.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
Analyzes the major literary works by Jewish authors to chronicle the history of twentieth century Judiaism.
Literature, Culture and Society

Literature, Culture and Society

$81.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
As cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociology in favour of the semiotics of popular...
Secondhand Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2194

Secondhand Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2194

$100.00 AUD
Secondhand Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box Dive into the minds of literary giants and the critical interpretations of their works with our Secondhand Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box. Each book...
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography

$44.99 AUD$38.24 AUD
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul...
Tennyson: His Art And Relation To Modern Life

Tennyson: His Art And Relation To Modern Life

$25.00 AUD
Author: Stopford A. BrookeBinding: HardbackPublished: ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED, 1895Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Faded...
The Oxford Companion To English Literature: New Edition

The Oxford Companion To English Literature: New Edition

$20.00 AUD
Author: Margaret DrabbleBinding: HardbackPublished: Guild Publishing, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: One small tear in dust jacket cover front (see photo) and two very small tears...
The Grammar Of The Real: Selected Prose 1959-1974

The Grammar Of The Real: Selected Prose 1959-1974

$80.00 AUD
Author: James McauleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Oxford University Press., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Minor discoloration to spine from...
The Origins Of The English Novel

The Origins Of The English Novel

$12.00 AUD
Author: Michael MckeonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Radius, 1989Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMichael McKeon's The Origins Of The English...
Lev Tolstoy

Lev Tolstoy

$85.00 AUD
Author: Victor Shklovsky; Olga Shartse (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Progress Publishers, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsVictor Shklovsky's Lev Tolstoy presents a compelling and unconventional examination of the iconic Russian...