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The Christopher Robin Story Book: From When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner

The Christopher Robin Story Book: From When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner

$90.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn and frayed boards with light soiling; binding fragilel...
A Cuckoo In The Nest

A Cuckoo In The Nest

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from...
What A Scream!: And Other Stories

What A Scream!: And Other Stories

$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories,...
The Four Million

The Four Million

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodNew York City has never felt so intimate, so electric, or so achingly human as it does...
The Dark Labyrinth

The Dark Labyrinth

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the sun-scorched island of Crete lies a labyrinth said to be the prison of the Minotaur —...
The Family From One End Street

The Family From One End Street

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMeet the Ruggles — a boisterous, warm-hearted working-class family living on One End Street, where Mr. Ruggles is...
Girls In Their Married Bliss

Girls In Their Married Bliss

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final, devastating installment of Edna O'Brien's celebrated Country Girls trilogy, Girls in their Married Bliss chronicles the...
The Love Object

The Love Object

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the quiet devastation of ordinary lives, Edna O'Brien's The Love Object presents a masterful collection of short...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of post-war British fiction, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes thrusts the reader into the morally tangled life...
The Bishop's Jaegers

The Bishop's Jaegers

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a perfectly ordinary fog-bound evening descends into gloriously anarchic chaos in Thorne Smith's The Bishop's...
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Jane Austen's most morally complex novel stands Fanny Price — a timid, impoverished girl...
Sense And Sensibility

Sense And Sensibility

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss,...
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...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
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...
The Annotated Dickens: Volume One & Volume Two

The Annotated Dickens: Volume One & Volume Two

$120.00 AUD
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...
The Collected Works Of Aldous Huxley

The Collected Works Of Aldous Huxley

$90.00 AUD
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...
Books that have Changed Man’s Thinking (14 vols.)

Books that have Changed Man’s Thinking (14 vols.)

$100.00 AUD
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...
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

$10.00 AUD
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...
The Good Companions

The Good Companions

$10.00 AUD
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...
Main Street

Main Street

$10.00 AUD
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...
South

South

$10.00 AUD
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...