Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the bleak and luminous landscape of Ill Seen Ill Said, Samuel Beckett presents one of his most hauntingly distilled visions of human endurance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a rain-soaked, bombed-out London that never recovered...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gulag to the Russian countryside, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Stories and Prose Poems presents a searing and intimate...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a post-apocalyptic America where science has become a sin and cities are outlawed by constitutional amendment, two...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew writers of the twentieth century commanded the English novel with the effortless authority of W. Somerset Maugham,...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Minor tear to edge of DJ.Few writers of the twentieth century have provoked such fierce...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the poverty-stricken backstreets of Nizhny Novgorod emerges one of Russian literature's most haunting memoirs — Maxim Gorky's Childhood chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA searing portrait of poverty, resilience, and the hunger for self-education, My Apprenticeship is the second volume of Maxim Gorky's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the final volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, My Universities chronicles the young Alexei Peshkov's turbulent coming-of-age in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sweltering heat of pre-revolutionary Russia, Boris Pasternak's The Last Summer presents a haunting, lyrical portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in twentieth-century literature carry the weight and lyrical intensity of Boris Pasternak's, and The Voice of Prose: Volume One — Early Prose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century command the literary stage with the authority of Thomas Mann, and this sweeping omnibus edition brings together eight of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat would it mean if the greatest playwright who ever lived were not a relic of the past,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA haunting and intensely personal narrative, A Voice Through a Cloud is Denton Welch's autobiographical account of his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA wry and incisive observer of mid-twentieth-century British life, William Cooper presents in You Want the Right Frame of Reference another of his characteristically...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: minor nicks/tears on endpapers. Price clipped dj. In the quiet English countryside, a woman arrives to inhabit...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSet against the turbulent backdrop of post-revolutionary Russia, Cruelty is a morally charged novella that chronicles the story of Venka Malyshin, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the sun-drenched glamour of Hollywood lies a world of ambition, compromise, and quiet moral erosion — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodTime is a treacherous and transparent membrane in Vladimir Nabokov's slim but staggering novella, Transparent Things, a work that chronicles the four visits of Hugh...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat happens when a novelist loses his memory — and his muse refuses to let him forget her? Mantissa is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersA haunting masterpiece of psychological tension, Madame Solario unfolds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew works in the Western canon have confounded, enchanted, and rewarded readers in equal measure like James Joyce's Finnegans...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin is a masterwork of darkly enchanting fantasy — a collection of sixteen interconnected stories that conjures a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the genteel yet quietly subversive world of 1930s Edinburgh, a charismatic and dangerously unconventional schoolteacher holds court over a carefully chosen group...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crumbling heart of a fading Irish estate, a young man of impeccable breeding and catastrophically dwindling fortune stumbles headlong into a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Jacket in mylar sleeve. Before the world knew of Lady Chatterley's Lover, there was its raw, unguarded ancestor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the fertile imagination of one of Soviet Russia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Badgers, a searing portrait of a nation tearing itself apart at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smoky industrial backdrop of the Five Towns in the English Midlands during the latter half...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA man returns from the brink of death only to find that survival has shattered everything he once...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn postwar Tokyo, a world of elegance, ambition, and barely concealed desire collides in Yukio Mishima's razor-sharp novel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transgressions have proven as irresistible to the literary imagination as adultery, and Judith Armstrong's The Novel of Adultery presents a rigorous and captivating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFour masterfully crafted novellas, bound together under the title The Grandmothers, present Doris Lessing at the height of her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a novel of suffocating tension and psychological dread, Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat chronicles a single, catastrophic day in the life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind a thin partition wall in a Parisian boarding house, an unnamed young man discovers a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingIn the riotous and anarchic world of J.P. Donleavy's Leila, the irrepressible Darcy Dancer finds himself once again entangled in the magnificent chaos...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSeven masterworks of American literature, bound together in a single essential volume — The Short Novels of John Steinbeck gathers the defining works of one of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of a crumbling English estate on a single summer's day, Concluding presents one of twentieth-century literature's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the sun-drenched flatlands of the Po Valley, a thunderous village priest and a wily Communist mayor wage...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA restless Yorkshire farmer, a spinster escaping her dreary small-town life, and a schoolmaster with...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a wealthy lawyer named Louis Chavel makes a desperate and damning bargain: to buy his...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers of the twentieth century matched D.H. Lawrence's ferocious creative energy, and The Complete Plays of D.H. Lawrence stands...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Price clipped, chipping and spotting to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.In the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Moderate marks and flecks on boards. Unclipped dj, worn with some loss. Beneath the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a...