Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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Memoirs Of Hadrian

Memoirs Of Hadrian

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodWritten in the form of a long, intimate letter from a dying emperor to his young successor Marcus Aurelius,...
Watership Down

Watership Down

$90.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the rolling English countryside, a small band of rabbits flee their doomed warren on a desperate...
Poems

Poems

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: yellowed; unclipped with some stains. Binding: boards remain clean, binding tight. Pages: light...
Short Circuits

Short Circuits

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of Canada's most celebrated humorist comes Short Circuits, a sparkling...
The Philosophical Works Of John Locke

The Philosophical Works Of John Locke

$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: worn and discoloured boards; frayed and rubbed edges; binding fragile; some moisture damage on the prelims; no loose pages; Few thinkers have...
Rumpole's Return

Rumpole's Return

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHorace Rumpole, the rumpled, claret-loving Old Bailey hack, is back — and London's criminal courts will never be...
The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the rain-soaked, grey backdrop of 1950s Dublin, The Ginger Man unleashes Sebastian Dangerfield — a wild,...
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

by -
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the frost-bitten halls of Camelot to an eerie green chapel lost in a wild winter...
The Snow Goose: A Story Of Dunkirk

The Snow Goose: A Story Of Dunkirk

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the vast, lonely marshes of the Essex coast, a reclusive, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an...
Fern-Seed And Elephants: And Other Essays On Christianity

Fern-Seed And Elephants: And Other Essays On Christianity

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Minor markings to back of cover, tanned edges.What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds turns his...
Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale Of Kirk And Covenant

Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale Of Kirk And Covenant

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of 17th-century Scotland, Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale of Kirk and Covenant chronicles the life of a...
The Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon

The Poetical Works Of Adam Lindsay Gordon

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the sun-scorched plains of colonial Australia to the fog-shrouded racetracks of England, the verse...
The Big Fisherman

The Big Fisherman

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingSet against the sun-drenched shores of the Sea of Galilee and the turbulent world of first-century Judea, The...
Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-scorched grandeur of ancient Judea, a wrongfully condemned Jewish prince named Judah Ben-Hur rises from the chains of Roman slavery to seek...
Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most charming epistolary novels of the early twentieth century, Daddy-Long-Legs chronicles the remarkable journey of Jerusha Judy Abbott, a witty and...
Becoming A Heroine: Reading About Women In Novels

Becoming A Heroine: Reading About Women In Novels

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to dream of becoming a heroine — not just in life, but through the pages of a novel? Rachel M....
The Decameron

The Decameron

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Black Death that devastated fourteenth-century Florence, ten young Florentines flee the plague-ridden city...
Treasury Of World Masterpieces: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles; The Mayor Of Casterbridge; Far From The Madding Crowd

Treasury Of World Masterpieces: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles; The Mayor Of Casterbridge; Far From The Madding Crowd

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew names in English literature carry the weight of Thomas Hardy, whose unflinching portraits of rural life, tragic fate,...
The Art Of Fiction

The Art Of Fiction

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat separates a great novel from a merely good one? In The Art of Fiction, celebrated novelist and...
The Existential Imagination: From De Sade To Sartre

The Existential Imagination: From De Sade To Sartre

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the darkest recesses of the human condition are given literary form? The Existential Imagination: From...
Sons And Lovers

Sons And Lovers

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have so unflinchingly anatomised the suffocating grip of maternal love as D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers....
The Oxford Book Of Ballads

The Oxford Book Of Ballads

$15.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary forms capture the raw pulse of human experience quite like the ballad — and The Oxford Book...
Collected Poems

Collected Poems

by Pope
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAmong the most dazzling intellects of the English Augustan Age, Alexander Pope crafted verse of such precision, wit, and satirical force that...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon carry the raw, sensory power of D. H. Lawrence, and Selected...
Sons And Lovers

Sons And Lovers

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons...
For The Term Of His Natural Life

For The Term Of His Natural Life

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the brutal penal colonies of nineteenth-century Van Diemen's Land, one man's fight for survival and justice becomes...
Gargantua & Pantagruel

Gargantua & Pantagruel

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works in the Western canon match the anarchic brilliance and riotous ambition of François Rabelais's...
The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'; Typhoon; The Shadow Line

The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'; Typhoon; The Shadow Line

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of Joseph Conrad's most celebrated novellas are gathered in this essential volume, each a masterclass...
Two Treatises Of Civil Government

Two Treatises Of Civil Government

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the dawn of modern democratic thought, John Locke penned one of the most consequential works in the history of Western political...
The Story Of Ferdinand

The Story Of Ferdinand

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBeneath the blazing sun of the Spanish countryside lives Ferdinand, the most unusual bull in all of Spain — a gentle giant...
Problems And Other Stories

Problems And Other Stories

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: stained book block; From one of America's most celebrated literary voices comes Problems and Other Stories, a masterful collection that maps the...
Murder In The Cathedral

Murder In The Cathedral

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the cold stone halls of Canterbury Cathedral, a man of God prepares to meet his...
Selections From The Arabian Nights: Sir Richard Burton's Famous Translation Of The Thousand Nights And A Night With Modernized Spelling And Punctuation

Selections From The Arabian Nights: Sir Richard Burton's Famous Translation Of The Thousand Nights And A Night With Modernized Spelling And Punctuation

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in world literature have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as The Arabian Nights —...
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

by Homer
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon have endured with such timeless power as The Odyssey — Homer's magnificent...
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFew names in the literary canon carry the weight of Sherlock Holmes — the razor-sharp, pipe-smoking detective of 221B Baker Street whose...
The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children Of Dune

The Great Dune Trilogy: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children Of Dune

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: front hinges cracked; Few works of speculative fiction have reshaped the genre as profoundly as Frank Herbert's Dune saga, and The Great...
The Bovadium Fragments

The Bovadium Fragments

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the legendarium of one of the most celebrated literary minds of the twentieth century comes The Bovadium Fragments, a remarkable...
Pride And Prejudice

Pride And Prejudice

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon have endured with such timeless grace as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,...
Ring For Jeeves

Ring For Jeeves

$75.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: DJ: clipped; worn with some loss; some stains on the rear panel....
Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes

Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the earliest and most beloved works of travel literature in the English canon, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes chronicles Robert...
Around The World In 80 Days

Around The World In 80 Days

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn one of the most thrilling wagers in all of Victorian literature, the supremely composed English gentleman Phileas Fogg...
Tom Sawyer Und Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer Und Huckleberry Finn

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**Few names in American literature conjure the untamed spirit of boyhood adventure quite like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry...
Pushkin: A Biography

Pushkin: A Biography

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: glue residue on endpapers;Few literary lives burn as brilliantly—and end as tragically—as that of Alexander Pushkin, the towering genius of...
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the scorching heart of the Sahara Desert, where honour is the only currency that matters, three English brothers...
Joe Wilson's Mates: 56 Stories From The Prose Works Of Henry Lawson

Joe Wilson's Mates: 56 Stories From The Prose Works Of Henry Lawson

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the sun-scorched bush and dusty shearing sheds of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson gave voice to the larrikins, battlers, and wanderers that defined a...
While The Billy Boils: 87 Stories From The Prose Works Of Henry Lawson

While The Billy Boils: 87 Stories From The Prose Works Of Henry Lawson

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the sun-scorched outback to the weatherboard pubs of the bush, While the Billy Boils presents 87 of Henry Lawson's most celebrated prose works,...
The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo

$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodThe Sterile Cuckoo is a tender, bittersweet coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of American college life in the...
England In Literature

England In Literature

$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA cornerstone of secondary education anthologies, England in Literature — part of the acclaimed America Reads series in its Medallion Edition — presents a sweeping survey...