Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew collections have captured the boundless imagination of childhood quite like Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling's enchanting suite of origin tales that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew texts in the Western canon have so radically reshaped the foundations of human thought as René Descartes' A Discourse...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew voices in the English literary canon resonate with the same breathtaking intensity as John Donne's — a poet who...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodAt the intersection of literature and history stands Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb, the monumental autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand — statesman, diplomat, and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: worn spineFew figures loom as large in the Australian literary imagination as Bill, the rough-hewn...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: slipcase: worn with some damage along the edges and corners. Few characters in literary history have captured the imagination of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedLong before the age of blockbusters and streaming giants, one fictional detective had already conquered every medium imaginable — and The Public Life of Sherlock...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew names in the English literary canon carry the enduring weight of Jane Austen's, and this magnificent omnibus...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in the English literary canon conjure the raw spirit of adventure and the mysteries of empire quite like Rudyard Kipling's, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of East Africa during the First World War, The African Queen is a gripping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the bustling, wig-wearing world of the Old Bailey, Horace Rumpole — barrister, claret enthusiast, and devoted reader...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Cambridge's glittering intellectual world stands Roy Calvert — a man of extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew works of English literature capture the quiet rhythms of rural life with such warmth and precision as Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford's celebrated...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras captured the absurdity and warmth of everyday English life with quite the same charm as Jerome...

Edition: No. 116 0f 390 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedFrom one of England's most celebrated Georgian poets comes...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedThe sun-drenched, morally labyrinthine city of Alexandria serves as both stage and character in Clea, the magnificent fourth and final...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the labyrinthine world of pre-war Alexandria, where political intrigue and personal betrayal are indistinguishable from one another, Mountolive strips...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the shimmering, sun-drenched city of Alexandria, Egypt, love, art, and truth collide in ways that shatter every certainty —...

Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerOne of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics turns his unflinching gaze upon the English poetic tradition...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few works in the English biographical tradition carry the quiet authority and intimate grace of Izaak Walton's collected Lives....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary forms carry the raw, narrative power of the traditional ballad — and The Oxford Book of...

Edition: The Travellers' LibraryCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedWhat if the land beyond the mountains you once discovered had, in your absence, transformed your very arrival into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the gaslit drawing rooms and cricket pitches of Victorian England, one man plays two very different games — by day, A.J. Raffles is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels capture the quiet terror of suburban alienation quite like Stern, Bruce Jay Friedman's darkly comic debut...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched, shadow-filled streets of pre-revolutionary Havana, a hapless vacuum cleaner salesman named James Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew playwrights have shaped the Western dramatic tradition as profoundly as Sophocles, and G. H. Gellie's Sophocles: A Reading...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsA cornerstone of classical scholarship, Roman Literary Theory and Criticism: A Study in...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price slipped djOne of the twentieth century's most celebrated minds turns his penetrating gaze...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodThree of the ancient world's most enduring and authoritative texts on the art of writing and rhetoric are united in this landmark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary careers illuminate the passage of an entire era quite like that of John Galsworthy — Nobel laureate, social...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary figures have wielded satire as a scalpel quite like Jonathan Swift, and this Norton...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sleepy, genteel village of Cranford, where the gracious rituals of tea-taking...

Edition: later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn a small, stubbornly ordinary village in the Po Valley of post-war Italy, a battle of wills unfolds between two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodCondition remarks: **GERMAN TEXT ONLY** Boards: good with minor marks; binding remains tight. DJ: split, spine panel missing; chipped and worn with small missing pieces. From...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the desperate, smoke-filled skies of France in 1940, a reconnaissance pilot is ordered on a mission so suicidal that...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a world where illusion and deception reign, a genuinely magical man arrives in a city of conjurers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew names in English literature carry the enduring power of Jane Austen, whose razor-sharp wit and penetrating social intelligence...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**Few works in the Western literary canon carry the weight of a...

Edition: No. 701 of 5000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**In the golden age of aviation, where every flight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the pen of J. Jefferson Farjeon — master of the light touch and the wry aside — comes The Works of...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers have captured the warmth, pathos, and moral complexity of domestic life quite like Charles...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the labyrinthine streets of Victorian London emerges one of literature's most heart-wrenching tales — The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the anarchic, gloriously misspelled world of Nigel Molesworth, self-proclaimed goriller of 3B at St....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew writers have captured the soul of rural England with such raw...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers in the English language have weaponised language with the precision and pleasure of Oscar Wilde, and The Wit of Oscar Wilde presents...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most intimate and vivid windows into seventeenth-century England, Pepys' Diary stands as an unparalleled masterpiece of personal writing — a candid,...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the sweeping backdrop of the Roman Empire at the time of Christ, Ben-Hur chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet beneath the vast, indifferent skies of the South African Karoo, The Story of an African Farm is a landmark work of literary realism that follows...