Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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The Case Of The Demure Defendant

The Case Of The Demure Defendant

$15.00 AUD
Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen a seemingly timid young woman finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation, Perry Mason — the...
Doctor In The Swim

Doctor In The Swim

$15.00 AUD
Edition: bceCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the comic genius behind Doctor in the House comes another riotously funny chapter in the misadventures of the...
The Tiger In The Smoke

The Tiger In The Smoke

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the fog-shrouded streets of postwar London, a city still haunted by the wounds of war, Margery Allingham's The Tiger...
Leaves Of Grass

Leaves Of Grass

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew works in the canon of American literature have shaken the foundations of poetry quite like Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman's revolutionary, lifelong masterpiece...
May We Borrow Your Husband?: & Other Comedies Of The Sexual Life

May We Borrow Your Husband?: & Other Comedies Of The Sexual Life

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat begins as a seemingly innocent seaside holiday quickly unravels into a wickedly observed comedy of desire, manipulation, and human frailty in...
Henry Lawson: The Master Story-Teller: Prose Writings

Henry Lawson: The Master Story-Teller: Prose Writings

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices have shaped the Australian literary identity as powerfully and as enduringly as that of Henry Lawson, whose prose writings stand as an...
Goldfinger

Goldfinger

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markThe world's most dangerous man is about to meet his match — and his name is Auric Goldfinger. In Goldfinger,...
The Lincoln Lords

The Lincoln Lords

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the high-stakes world of American corporate ambition, Cameron Hawley's The Lincoln Lords chronicles the story of Ade Quincy,...
Notes On A Scandal

Notes On A Scandal

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as an unlikely friendship between two teachers at a London comprehensive school spirals into an electrifying...
Jazz

Jazz

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the electric backdrop of 1920s Harlem, Toni Morrison's Jazz is a hypnotic meditation on love,...
Penguin Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman Of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance Of Being Earnest; Salomé

Penguin Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman Of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance Of Being Earnest; Salomé

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers in the English literary canon wielded wit, paradox, and social critique with as much devastating precision...
Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich

Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA razor-sharp comedy of plutocratic excess, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich transports readers to the fictional Plutoria...
Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA master of comic absurdity at the height of his powers, Stephen Leacock's Literary Lapses is a riotous collection of...
The Story Of A Nutcracker

The Story Of A Nutcracker

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: moderate marks and specks on the board, otherwise internally sound.Few tales have enchanted generations of...
Three Jacobean Tragedies

Three Jacobean Tragedies

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; creased spineFrom the shadowy, blood-soaked courts of Jacobean England emerge three of the most electrifying dramas ever...
The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose

$15.00 AUD
Edition: 14th aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the lonely marshes of the Essex coast, where the great grey birds wheel and cry against a leaden...
Selected Poems 1957-1981

Selected Poems 1957-1981

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the brooding landscapes of Yorkshire to the mythic world of animal and elemental forces, Ted Hughes crafted...
Far And Wide: Nine Novels

Far And Wide: Nine Novels

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century command the narrative range and psychological precision of W. Somerset Maugham, and Far and Wide: Nine...
Stand Into Danger

Stand Into Danger

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe open sea is both refuge and battleground in Alexander Kent's Stand into Danger, the gripping second installment in the acclaimed Richard Bolitho series set...
Far And Wide: Nine Novels

Far And Wide: Nine Novels

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century captured the breadth of human experience with the precision and elegance of W. Somerset...
Festival At Farbridge

Festival At Farbridge

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the quietly comic tradition of English provincial life, Festival at Farbridge bursts onto the page with...
Lost Empires

Lost Empires

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the smoky gaslit world of Edwardian music halls in the final months before the First...
The Good Companions

The Good Companions

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grey, restless years following the First World War, three lonely souls — a wandering Yorkshireman,...
Adam In Moonshine — Benighted

Adam In Moonshine — Benighted

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodTwo early masterworks from one of Britain's most versatile literary talents are united in this handsome omnibus volume, offering readers both the romantic escapism of Adam...
The Doomsday Men; The Shapes Of Sleep

The Doomsday Men; The Shapes Of Sleep

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingTwo masterworks of mid-century British fiction are united in this compelling omnibus edition by one of England's...
They Walk In The City

They Walk In The City

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the teeming, indifferent sprawl of 1930s London, two young northerners — Rose Salter and Edward Fielding...
Delight: Self-Selected Essays

Delight: Self-Selected Essays

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the twentieth century possessed J. B. Priestley's rare gift for finding profound joy in...
Angel Pavement

Angel Pavement

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grey, grinding heart of 1930s London, a small, unremarkable veneer-trading firm called Twigg & Dersingham...
Let The People Sing

Let The People Sing

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the grand tradition of English comic fiction, Let the People Sing is a boisterous, warm-hearted romp...
Low Notes On A High Level: A Frolic; The Thirty-First Of June: A Tale Of True Love, Enterprise And Progress, In The Arthurian And Ad-Atomic Ages

Low Notes On A High Level: A Frolic; The Thirty-First Of June: A Tale Of True Love, Enterprise And Progress, In The Arthurian And Ad-Atomic Ages

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFrom one of England's most beloved and versatile literary minds comes a delightful double volume that showcases...
The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the turbulent backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland — a world of political intrigue, mob violence, and...
The Deerslayer: Or The First War-Path

The Deerslayer: Or The First War-Path

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the breathtaking wilderness of colonial America's Lake Glimmerglass in the 1740s, The Deerslayer: or The...
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, as the guillotine claims aristocratic head after aristocratic head, a mysterious English vigilante known...
Greatest Adventures: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth & Round The World In Eighty Days

Greatest Adventures: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth & Round The World In Eighty Days

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingTwo of literature's most breathless adventures are united in this magnificent anthology, binding together Jules Verne's twin...
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew works of literature have wielded satire with such devastating precision as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English literary canon have captured the anguish of social ambition and the hunger...
The Way Of All Flesh

The Way Of All Flesh

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels have cut as deeply into the hypocrisy of Victorian family life as Samuel Butler's The...
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Island Night's Entertainments, The Merry Men And Other Stories

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Island Night's Entertainments, The Merry Men And Other Stories

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew works in the English literary canon have so masterfully dissected the duality of human nature as...
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English literary canon have commanded such enduring fascination as Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's...
The Vicar Of Wakefield; She Stoops To Conquer And Poems

The Vicar Of Wakefield; She Stoops To Conquer And Poems

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the eighteenth century captured the warmth, wit, and gentle irony of English life as...
Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the cloistered world of a mid-Victorian cathedral city, a bitter war for ecclesiastical power ignites the...
Pride And Prejudice

Pride And Prejudice

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have endured with such fierce and universal appeal as Jane Austen's...
Mr. Midshipman Easy

Mr. Midshipman Easy

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingSet against the thunderous backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a rollicking nautical adventure...
Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English canon have burned as fiercely as Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel...
Cranford

Cranford

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingIn the quiet, genteel village of Cranford, where the elegant economy of its predominantly female inhabitants reigns...
The Mill On The Floss

The Mill On The Floss

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels capture the ache of childhood longing and the suffocating grip of provincial society quite like...
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels capture the grandeur and intrigue of Tudor England with the breathless intensity of Windsor Castle,...
The Woman In White

The Woman In White

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew novels have gripped the Victorian reading public with such ferocious intensity as Wilkie Collins's The Woman...