Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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Nothing Serious

Nothing Serious

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the undisputed master of comic fiction comes Nothing Serious, a sparkling collection of ten short stories that showcases P.G. Wodehouse at his most...
Summer Moonshine

Summer Moonshine

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFrom the master of English comic fiction comes Summer Moonshine, a gloriously farcical novel set against the backdrop of a crumbling English country house and the...
Right Ho, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 5th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew comic partnerships in English literature have endured quite like that of Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves, and Right Ho,...
The Code Of The Woosters

The Code Of The Woosters

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedWhat happens when an amiable, silver-tongued young man of leisure is blackmailed into stealing a policeman's helmet, outwitting a proto-fascist country squire, and navigating...
A Raw Youth

A Raw Youth

$45.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the turbulent social landscape of nineteenth-century Russia, a young man consumed by ambition, illegitimacy, and a desperate...
Biggles & Co.

Biggles & Co.

$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew characters in British adventure fiction have matched the sky-bound daring of James Biggles Bigglesworth, and Biggles...
The Poor Parson

The Poor Parson

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: YellowedCondition remarks: significant wear evident throughout, particularly along the spine and joints. Binding: Original cloth or paper covered boards, with the spine severely worn and cracking,...
The Razor's Edge: A Novel

The Razor's Edge: A Novel

$300.00 AUD
Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: unclipped dj - worn, faded and chipped. Binding slightly shaky. What does it mean to...
The Young Desire It (SIGNED)

The Young Desire It (SIGNED)

$2,200.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: DJ: chipped and worn spine, unclipped, in mylar. Binding: Slight lean to book,...
An Imaginary Life (SIGNED)

An Imaginary Life (SIGNED)

$275.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedWhat happens when a man of words is stripped of his language, his culture, and his identity, and cast...
Chosen People

Chosen People

$1,400.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Original blue cloth, but the spine has sunned/faded to a grey-brown tone...
The Hobbit: Or There And Back Again (SIGNED)

The Hobbit: Or There And Back Again (SIGNED)

$6,500.00 AUD
Edition: Limited Numbered and Signed Edition - No. 90 0f 250 copies. Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed and Numbered by the artist. In a hole...
Fight Club

Fight Club

$550.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition, First PrintingCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markSomewhere beneath the fluorescent hum of modern consumerism, an unnamed narrator finds himself sleepwalking through a life he...
Bitter Honeymoon

Bitter Honeymoon

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a celebration of love quickly curdles into something far more unsettling in Alberto...
Sister Carrie

Sister Carrie

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little...
Butterfield 8

Butterfield 8

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of...
A Breath Of French Air

A Breath Of French Air

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThere are holidays, and then there are the Larkins — and when Pop, Ma, and their wonderfully chaotic...
Woman Of Paris

Woman Of Paris

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...
Cash Mccall

Cash Mccall

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sleek, high-stakes world of post-war American capitalism, Cash McCall introduces one of fiction's most magnetic and...
Bleak House

Bleak House

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the labyrinthine corridors of the Court of Chancery, where cases stretch across generations and justice is perpetually...
Twentieth Century Interpretations Of The Portrait Of A Lady

Twentieth Century Interpretations Of The Portrait Of A Lady

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew novels in the American literary canon have commanded as much critical fascination as Henry James's The Portrait...
Mountolive

Mountolive

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the shimmering, labyrinthine world of Alexandria, Egypt, Mountolive is the third volume of Lawrence Durrell's celebrated...
A Party For The Girls: Six Stories

A Party For The Girls: Six Stories

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSix women, six lives, six moments of quiet revelation — H.E. Bates's A Party for the Girls presents...
The Eye Of The Storm

The Eye Of The Storm

$20.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Patrick White's monumental The Eye of the Storm lies Elizabeth Hunter, a formidable and once-beautiful Sydney socialite now...
The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels And Stories

The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels And Stories

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and challenging literary voices comes The Cockatoos, a collection of shorter novels and stories that distils...
Fair Rosaline (SIGNED)

Fair Rosaline (SIGNED)

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Juliet, there was Rosaline. Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons boldly reclaims the silenced voice of Romeo's...
Don Camillo And The Prodigal Son

Don Camillo And The Prodigal Son

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched plains of the Po Valley, a stubborn parish priest and an equally obstinate Communist mayor wage an eternal, affectionate war —...
Candide And Other Romances

Candide And Other Romances

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...
Virgin Soil Upturned

Virgin Soil Upturned

$45.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s,...
Jerusalem The Golden

Jerusalem The Golden

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageClara Maugham, a girl forged in the cold, repressive furnace of a northern English provincial town, arrives in...
A Little Of What You Fancy

A Little Of What You Fancy

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe beloved Larkin family returns for one final, sun-drenched romp in A Little of What You Fancy, the...
The Pallisers

The Pallisers

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand drawing rooms and corridors of Victorian power, Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers unfolds one of English...
Short Stories: Volume 2 Friendly Brook And Other Stories

Short Stories: Volume 2 Friendly Brook And Other Stories

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the pen of one of the English language's most decorated and versatile storytellers comes a rich collection...
Such Is Life

Such Is Life

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet amid the sun-scorched plains and vast pastoral runs of colonial New South Wales in the 1880s, Such...
A Journal Of The Plague Year

A Journal Of The Plague Year

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLondon, 1665: the streets fall silent, the death carts rumble through the night, and a city gripped by...
Conjugal Love

Conjugal Love

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a man's obsessive devotion to his art begins to consume the very love he hoped...
The History of Sir Charles Grandison [ 3 volume set in slipcase]

The History of Sir Charles Grandison [ 3 volume set in slipcase]

$150.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Faded slipcase. This three-volume Oxford World's Classics set presents Samuel Richardson's final novel, "The History of Sir Charles Grandison," a landmark epistolary...
The Tale Of Genji (Two-Volume Set)

The Tale Of Genji (Two-Volume Set)

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Vol 1 book block - stained, but pages and text remain unaffected. Written over a thousand years...
Cliffs Of Fall

Cliffs Of Fall

$180.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: clipped dj, in mylar; minor insect damage. Binding: remains tight; boards - light bumping on corners. In...
The Evening Of The Holiday

The Evening Of The Holiday

$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: whiteout on fep. price clipped dj. Set against the sun-drenched landscapes of postwar Italy, The...
'Twixt Shadow And Shine

'Twixt Shadow And Shine

$180.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition: ex-library copy showing honest wear consistent...
The Enchanted Pilgrim: And Other Stories

The Enchanted Pilgrim: And Other Stories

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia emerges a collection of tales that captures...
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three supernatural spirits...
The Adventures Of David Simple: Containing An Account Of His Travels Through The Cities Of London And Westminster In The Search Of A Real Friend

The Adventures Of David Simple: Containing An Account Of His Travels Through The Cities Of London And Westminster In The Search Of A Real Friend

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...
The Spiritual Quixote: Or The Summer's Ramble Of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance

The Spiritual Quixote: Or The Summer's Ramble Of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...
Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of late eighteenth-century England, a young man's insatiable curiosity destroys his world — this is the gripping premise of William...
Anna St. Ives

Anna St. Ives

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...
The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle: In Which Are Included Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality

The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle: In Which Are Included Memoirs Of A Lady Of Quality

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels of the eighteenth century capture the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian Britain with the same riotous energy as...