Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA novel of shattering intensity, Beautiful Losers plunges the reader into a fractured, hallucinatory world where an unnamed...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if you surrendered every decision in your life — no matter how trivial or terrifying — to...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA blazing, irreverent portrait of the artist as a holy fool, The Horse's Mouth chronicles the misadventures of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the chaos of wartime Shanghai, a young English boy named Jim is separated from his parents and...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingA childhood frozen in amber, shimmering with the golden haze of a vanishing England — Cider with Rosie...

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,...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grey, cigarette-smoke-filled purgatory of wartime Chicago, a young man named Joseph waits — suspended between the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader seeking to navigate the vast and storied landscape of American literature, Ian Ousby's An Introduction...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVirginia Woolf's The Waves stands as one of the most daring and luminous achievements in twentieth-century...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen thirty-year-old Isadora Wing boards a plane to Vienna with her second husband, she is already dreaming of...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe curtain falls — but not without ceremony — on one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary sequences in Anthony Powell's Hearing...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of W.G. Sebald's haunting masterwork Austerlitz is a man adrift in time — Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural...

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: 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: 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: 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...

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...

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...