Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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The Courts Of The Morning

The Courts Of The Morning

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowed jungles of a fictional South American republic, Richard Hannay's old comrade Sandy Arbuthnot embarks on one of the most audacious missions...
The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories

The Celebrated Jumping Frog And Other Stories

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFrom the pen of America's most beloved humorist comes a riotous collection that launched a literary legend —...
As A Man Grows Older

As A Man Grows Older

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the fog of middle-aged longing and quiet desperation, As A Man Grows Older chronicles the ill-fated romantic obsession of Emilio Brentani,...
Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the glittering yet hollow world of 1920s London, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies chronicles the frenetic misadventures...
Black Mischief

Black Mischief

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSet against the backdrop of a fictional African empire teetering on the edge of modernity, Black Mischief is...
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the backdrop of bohemian London in the 1930s, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in...
Malá Strana Stories: A Week In A Quiet House

Malá Strana Stories: A Week In A Quiet House

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNestled in the cobblestoned heart of nineteenth-century Prague, Malá Strana Stories is a masterwork of Czech literature that...
The Labours Of Hercules: Hercule Poirot Mysteries

The Labours Of Hercules: Hercule Poirot Mysteries

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the world's most fastidious detective decides to retire? In The Labours of Hercules, Agatha Christie's...
The Last Summer

The Last Summer

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the trembling backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, The Last Summer is a luminous novella that chronicles a...
Waterland

Waterland

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodSet against the flat, watery fenlands of East Anglia, Waterland is a mesmerising and deeply unsettling masterwork that chronicles the fractured life of Tom...
The Heat Of The Day

The Heat Of The Day

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Set against the shadow-laden streets of wartime London during the Blitz, The Heat...
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.Few novels have captured the raw drama of human survival quite...
The Art Of Telling: Essays On Fiction

The Art Of Telling: Essays On Fiction

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat separates a story from mere sequence of events? In The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction, one of the twentieth century's most formidable...
The Near And The Far: Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu

The Near And The Far: Containing The Root And The Flower & The Pool Of Vishnu

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the blazing, mystical backdrop of sixteenth-century Mughal India, The Near and the Far is a profound...
Washington Irving: History, Tales And Sketches

Washington Irving: History, Tales And Sketches

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers shaped the early literary identity of America with such wit, elegance, and imaginative daring as...
Humorous Stories Of Henry Lawson

Humorous Stories Of Henry Lawson

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched bush tracks to the rowdy pubs of colonial Australia, Henry Lawson's gift for comic storytelling captures the larrikin spirit of a...
Robert Smith Surtees: Scenes And Characters

Robert Smith Surtees: Scenes And Characters

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers captured the boisterous, mud-spattered world of Victorian English hunting society with the same razor-sharp wit and...
The Rainbow Bird

The Rainbow Bird

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the vivid, sun-scorched landscape of rural Australia, The Rainbow Bird by Vance Palmer chronicles...
War And Peace 2

War And Peace 2

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of one of literature's greatest achievements lies an epic canvas of love, war, and fate...
The Cousin From Fiji

The Cousin From Fiji

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageNorman Lindsay's The Cousin from Fiji is a sparkling comic novel set in the boisterous world...
Discoveries: 50 Stories Of The Quest

Discoveries: 50 Stories Of The Quest

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to search, to strive, to venture into the unknown and return forever...
The Time Machine; The Island Of Dr Moreau; The Invisible Man; The First Men In The Moon; The Food Of The Gods; In The Days Of The Comet; The War Of The Worlds

The Time Machine; The Island Of Dr Moreau; The Invisible Man; The First Men In The Moon; The Food Of The Gods; In The Days Of The Comet; The War Of The Worlds

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew names in the canon of speculative fiction carry the weight of H.G. Wells, and this magnificent omnibus collects seven of his...
Small World: An Academic Romance (SIGNED)

Small World: An Academic Romance (SIGNED)

$140.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Good condition, usual aging for a book of this era. What happens when the ivory tower collides with the...
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English language have seared the conscience of a nation quite like Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens' second novel follows the orphaned Oliver —...
Henry Lawson's Best Stories

Henry Lawson's Best Stories

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers have captured the soul of the Australian bush with the raw honesty and unflinching humanity of Henry Lawson, and Henry Lawson's Best Stories presents...
The Sleep Of Reason

The Sleep Of Reason

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling...
Last Things

Last Things

$30.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things...
The Rainbow

The Rainbow

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most daring and passionately argued novels of the twentieth century, The Rainbow charts the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen...
Women In Love

Women In Love

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon match the raw psychological intensity of Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence's searing masterwork that chronicles the intertwined lives of...
Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadowy backstreets of 1930s Brighton, a vicious teenage gangster named Pinkie Brown navigates a world of razor blades, racetracks, and cold-blooded murder — drawing...
The Plumed Serpent

The Plumed Serpent

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels dare to plunge a European consciousness into the beating heart of ancient Mesoamerican mysticism, yet The Plumed Serpent does so with ferocious intensity. Kate...
Sons And Lovers

Sons And Lovers

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew novels in the English literary canon capture the suffocating tenderness of family love and the violent pull of self-determination quite like D.H. Lawrence's Sons and...
The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the stifling confines of an English Midlands town, Alvina Houghton — a woman of quiet intelligence and restless desire — refuses to surrender to the...
Aaron's Rod

Aaron's Rod

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA restless miner abandons his family on Christmas Eve and sets off across Europe in search of freedom, artistic fulfilment, and a new philosophy of life...
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: dried coffee stain on block - does not extend internally.One of the most exhilarating adventure novels ever written, The Three Musketeers hurls...
Swallows & Amazons

Swallows & Amazons

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding loose, still intact. Some minor tearing to edge of board.For generations of...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the fog-shrouded marshes of Kent to the glittering drawing rooms of Victorian London, Great Expectations chronicles...
Kidnapped

Kidnapped

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of 18th-century Scotland in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Kidnapped chronicles the...
For Love Alone

For Love Alone

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the sun-drenched harbourside of pre-war Sydney and the grey literary circles of London, For Love Alone chronicles the...
The Rainbow

The Rainbow

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels in the English literary canon have matched the raw ambition of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow — a sweeping, multi-generational saga that...
Little Mexican: Six Stories

Little Mexican: Six Stories

$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly sardonic minds comes Little Mexican, a collection of six short stories that...
Women In Love

Women In Love

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war England, Women in Love is D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious and psychologically penetrating novel, charting the...
Testing The Current

Testing The Current

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedSet against the glittering yet turbulent backdrop of a small American town in the late 1930s, Testing the Current chronicles...
Doctor Dolittle And The Secret Lake

Doctor Dolittle And The Secret Lake

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingStep into a world where a kindly doctor who speaks the language of animals embarks on one of...
4.50 From Paddington

4.50 From Paddington

$120.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. DJ price clipped. Minor stains on book block. Binding remains tight. Clean...
Kipps

Kipps

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would you do if sudden wealth transformed you overnight from a draper's assistant into a gentleman of...
Five Stories

Five Stories

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew American writers have captured the vast, unforgiving beauty of the frontier with the precision and emotional depth...