Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: FEP missingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Ex-library with usual markings,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Wear to jacket and in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Large tears now repaired with non-acidic tape.Few American writers captured the absurdity of everyday life with as much...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the history of world literature have endured as triumphantly as Don Quixote of the Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes' towering masterpiece that chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew Victorian writers possessed Anthony Trollope's gift for dissecting the social rituals of English country life with such sharp-eyed affection, and Hunting Sketches stands as a...

Edition: First edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Light chipping around spine - small corner missing. Otherwise fine.Set against the sweeping drama of a...

Edition: 2nd printingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWithin the drawing rooms and cricket pitches of Edwardian England, one figure stands apart from the rest — the magnificently imperturbable Psmith,...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the winter of 1618–1619, the great English playwright and poet Ben Jonson made an extraordinary journey on foot from London to Edinburgh,...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding tearing in some places but pages still intact.Few works have shaped the Western understanding of the ancient world as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of Lord Byron's most celebrated works — the brooding, autobiographical Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the irreverent, satirical Don Juan — are brought together...

Edition: Forth edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the glittering and treacherous world of sixth-century Byzantium, one man stands above all others — Belisarius, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the literary world resonate with as much intellectual vitality and lyrical precision as that of Virginia Woolf, and Books and Portraits...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some stains on interior front pages - not obscuring text. Small chips on spine.Few stories have...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn into the privileged world of Melbourne's colonial elite, Lucinda Brayford is a woman of rare beauty, intelligence, and quiet resilience — a character...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: First published in 1901. Preface by Henry Lawson. Original cloth. x, 232 pp. In the sun-scorched Australian bush at the turn of...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few novels capture the sweep of an entire civilisation with such devastating elegance as Martin Boyd's...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. minor stains on page 236. Few novels in the twentieth century have dissected the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when comedy becomes a form of belief? In Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in the canon of English literature conjure as vivid an image as Sherlock Holmes — the hawk-eyed, pipe-smoking consulting detective of 221B Baker...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the heart of Don DeLillo's monumental Underworld lies a single baseball — the one hit by Bobby Thomson in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of the most electrifying wilderness narratives ever written are bound together in this landmark volume, uniting Jack London's masterwork The Call of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grey, tragicomic world of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy chronicles the misadventures of an idle,...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. What if the true measure of a book's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding poor. Internally sound. Plates intact. Few novels in the Western canon match...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Clean and square boards. Light foxing on book block. Clean text. Few works in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Clean and bright set. Some foxing on book blocks. All plates and frontis present. No loose hinges/cracked joints. This twenty volume set...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: 2026100009492One of the most celebrated theatrical figures of the eighteenth century, David Garrick transformed the London stage with a naturalism and charisma...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: first 6 volumes bound in 3. Few memoirs in the history of Western literature match the audacity, intimacy, and sweeping grandeur of...

Edition: later reprintsCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA rare and remarkable collection awaits the devoted reader: a near-complete set of works by Dornford Yates, the pen name of Cecil...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Vol I - hinges slightly cracked. Small tear on half title page. Light...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,SignedCondition remarks: Overall: good. DJ: unclipped; minor shelf wear in mylar. Pages: Light foxing on book block. Light...

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Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: DJ: Unclipped (price intact); light corner wear to jacket. Boards square and tight, clean. Text unmarked (no inscriptions/ownership...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the age of cinematic universes and blockbuster adaptations, one hero reigned supreme in the hearts of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artistic collaborations across time are as magnificent as Sandro Botticelli's visual interpretation of Dante Alighieri's eternal masterpiece, and Kenneth Clark's landmark study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor over nine decades, Blondie has reigned as one of the most beloved and enduring comic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor over nine decades, Blondie has reigned as one of the most beloved and enduring comic strips in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most beloved and enduring comic strips in American pop culture history, Blondie No. 2 collects...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the heart of nineteenth-century Russian aristocratic society, Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of the Gentry chronicles the poignant and ill-fated love between Fyodor Lavretsky, a disillusioned...

Edition: First UK Edition with 2nd issued DJ. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: 8vo, 443pp. Red cloth boards, gilt titled spine. Name penned on fep....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodStep into a world of medieval grandeur and high adventure with Prince Valiant Volume Two: Companions in Adventure, the second...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the misty realm of Arthurian legend, a young Norse prince named Valiant embarks on an epic odyssey of chivalry,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Overall good. DJ: price clipped; minor wear along the edges with small chips/nicks. Markings:...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards worn, with moderate marks/flecking; spine faded and dulled...

Can you match Romeo with Juliet, King Lear with his fool and many more, in this Shakespeare-themed memory game? Shakespeare matching game: Reunite iconic duos from Shakespeare's plays in this...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Slight stain to top-edge of pages.Step into the fog-laden streets of 1920s London, where the razor-sharp mind of Solar...