Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon have endured with such vitality as The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's magnificent 14th-century masterpiece — a ribald,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase and boards; Few authors have shaped the English-speaking world quite like Charles Dickens, and The Annotated Dickens presents his most celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew anthologies have achieved the quiet, enduring enchantment of Come Hither, Walter de la Mare's monumental...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew literary collections have achieved the canonical sweep and intellectual ambition of Poets of the English Language, the landmark...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingThis Heron Books set collects the major fiction and travel writing of Aldous Huxley, anchored...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew collections have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world quite like Great Books...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection of twentieth-century Russian dramatic literature, The Complete Plays gathers the full theatrical output of Yury Olesha, one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most revolutionary novels of the twentieth century, A Portrait of the Artist as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the restless years between the two World Wars, three very different souls — a wandering...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the suffocating heart of small-town America, Carol Milford — an idealistic, college-educated young woman — marries a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe great novels of the early Victorian era — the sweeping moors of Brontë, the fog-laden streets of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWilliam Sansom's South is a captivating work of mid-twentieth-century fiction that transports the reader into sun-drenched landscapes where...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn into the turbulent world of the English Lake District at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Judith...

Edition: 10th aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the marshlands of Essex, a lonely, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an unexpected bond with a wounded...

Edition: one of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the legendary libertine of European myth is transported to the sun-scorched...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor lovers of wit, wordplay, and Victorian theatrical genius, The Savoy Stories presents a charming retelling of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan operas, transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew storytellers in the history of literature have conjured worlds as enchanting and enduring as Hans Christian Andersen, and this carefully curated selection brings...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodStep through the wardrobe and into a world where magic reigns, ancient prophecies are fulfilled, and the fate...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the heart of Western civilisation stands a singular question that has captivated thinkers for millennia: what does it mean to live well? Cicero:...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew works capture the living pulse of a nation with the precision and passion of Daniel Defoe's A Tour through the Whole Island of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: faded slipcaseFew voices have ever captured the soul of a nation quite like Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson, and this magnificent two-volume set —...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: FEP missingCondition remarks: Jacket: Fragile; Original red jacket, price-clipped, with chipping and loss at the foot of the front panel and spine. Edges rubbed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: ** Greek-Latin text ** - Good for age - Binding: Original leather, dried and cracked with the usual...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew authors have mapped the treacherous terrain of social ambition, moral consciousness, and transatlantic identity with the precision and psychological depth of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew stories of childhood capture the bittersweet ache of upheaval and resilience quite like The Railway Children. When their father mysteriously disappears and the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded facade of mid-century American prosperity lurks George Smith, a mysteriously wealthy recluse obsessed with building himself the grandest mausoleum the world has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedBeneath the manicured lawns and dinner-party facades of Tarbox, Massachusetts, ten affluent couples are quietly unravelling — and John Updike's Couples chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOnce upon a time, in a world where magic shimmers just beyond the veil of the ordinary, two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew catastrophes in the ancient world have captured the imagination quite like the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; damaged spineStep into a world where furniture holds the power of magic and every wish opens a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the beloved world of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, where the world's most extraordinary veterinarian and polyglot, Dr. John Dolittle,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the gaslit streets of Melbourne, a city buzzing with gold-rush prosperity and social ambition, a man is found dead inside a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in detective fiction are as deceptively sharp as Miss Jane Marple — Agatha Christie's seemingly gentle spinster from the village...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literature and political history stands a period so turbulent and transformative that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Thurber Country, one of America's most beloved comic writers turns his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader venturing into the labyrinthine worlds of James Joyce, William York Tindall's authoritative companion stands as an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1923, The Prophet stands as one of the most luminous and enduring works of spiritual literature...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: First Ed. Age tanning throughout, price clipped inside front dust jacket.Nancy Mitford's Don't Tell Alfred is a sparkling...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon carry the moral weight and sweeping grandeur of Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's monumental 1862 masterpiece set against the turbulent backdrop...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodFew voices from the Victorian era capture the full spectrum of human experience — from riotous comedy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the annals of Georgian England captured the public imagination quite like Jack...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: sandglass laid-inOne of the most celebrated biographies ever written, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. stands as a towering monument of English literature,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the depths of 14th-century England comes one of the most profound and enduring works of...

Edition: first export editionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: no price on dj, minor rubbing on the front cover; fold out map at rear intact; misprint **asssembled**...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped, chipped dj with some insect damage; binding remains tight; clean textFew novels have ever...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedAt the heart of one of literature's most towering achievements stands a Russia torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars — and the...

Edition: 16th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when a hapless, pleasure-seeking young man stumbles into the brutally competitive world of 1950s British medical...