Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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: 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 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: 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: 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: Tanning and foxingFew figures in the annals of Georgian England captured the public imagination quite like Jack...

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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: **DUTCH TEXT ONLY**Few writers have ever captured the ribald spirit of the French Renaissance with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew authors shaped the English novel with such wit, moral audacity, and comic brilliance as Henry Fielding, and this magnificent four-volume Folio Society boxed set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: light foxing on spineFew novels in the history of world literature have dared to invent an entire genre — and then brilliantly subvert...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: boards - faded spine with small spine missing from rear panel;...