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Very Good, Jeeves!

Very Good, Jeeves!

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingWhen the supremely unflappable Jeeves is once again called upon to rescue his well-meaning but catastrophically inept employer, Bertie Wooster, from a...
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...
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,...
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION — The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) — SEALED

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION — The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) — SEALED

$400.00 AUD
Edition: Limited Edition, one of a 1,000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Factory sealed in original publisher's cellophane wrap; never opened. The book has not been examined,...
Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3046

Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3046

$150.00 AUD
Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3046 Twenty-plus issues of Lilliput from 1944 to 1949 — the pocket magazine that entertained wartime and postwar Britain with Walter Trier's unforgettable cover art,...
Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3045

Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3045

$150.00 AUD
Secondhand Vintage Lilliput Magazine Box SP3045 Eighteen issues of Lilliput — the beloved British pocket magazine of the 1940s — featuring Walter Trier's iconic cover illustrations, sharp short fiction, cartoons,...
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...
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 —...
You'Re A Beauty, Blondie

You'Re A Beauty, Blondie

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIf Blondie is the beauty, then who exactly is the beast? You're A Beauty, Blondie plunges readers back...
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...
Hägar The Horrible

Hägar The Horrible

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew comic strip characters have conquered hearts with quite the same blundering, big-hearted charm as Hägar, the lovably...
Hägar The Horrible: The Adventures Of Hägar

Hägar The Horrible: The Adventures Of Hägar

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a fearsome Viking warrior can't even get back into his own home? Welcome to the...
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore there was Babe Ruth's legend or Field of Dreams' romanticism, there was Jack Keefe — the swaggering, semi-literate rookie...
Ready When You Are, C.B!: The Autobiography Of Alan Yates Alias Carter Brown

Ready When You Are, C.B!: The Autobiography Of Alan Yates Alias Carter Brown

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the pen name Carter Brown lived Alan Yates — one of the most prolific and commercially successful crime writers of the twentieth century —...
Haircut And Other Stories

Haircut And Other Stories

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFew American writers captured the tragicomedy of ordinary life with...
Motel Of The Mysteries

Motel Of The Mysteries

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the year 4022, the entire North American...
Wizard Of Id: First Bumper Edition

Wizard Of Id: First Bumper Edition

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the absurd and anarchic kingdom of Id, where a tiny, tyrannical king rules with an iron...
The Short Stories Of Saki (H. H. Munro)

The Short Stories Of Saki (H. H. Munro)

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew writers have wielded wit as precisely and as lethally as Hector Hugh Munro, better known to the literary world...
Conference-Ville

Conference-Ville

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrank Moorhouse, one of Australia's most shrewdly observational writers, turns his satirical lens on the absurdity of institutional...
Major Thompson Goes French: The New Notebooks Of Major W. Marmaduke Thompson

Major Thompson Goes French: The New Notebooks Of Major W. Marmaduke Thompson

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when a quintessentially British major attempts to decode the baffling mysteries of French life? In Major Thompson Goes French, Pierre Daninos returns...
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

$120.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: dj - price clipped. What do you do after you've accidentally discovered the meaning of life, narrowly escaped the destruction...
The Hohenzollerns In America And Other Impossibilities

The Hohenzollerns In America And Other Impossibilities

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhat if the fallen German imperial family — stripped of their thrones and titles —...
Runyon On Broadway

Runyon On Broadway

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew writers have captured the electric pulse of New York City's underworld with the wit and warmth of Damon Runyon, and Runyon on Broadway stands as...
The Little World Of Don Camillo

The Little World Of Don Camillo

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingIn the fog-drenched flatlands of the Po Valley, a battle of wills rages between two of Italian fiction's most beloved and irascible characters —...
Dean Spanley: A Novel

Dean Spanley: A Novel

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat if a mild-mannered Edwardian clergyman harboured a secret life as a dog in a former incarnation — and a fine Imperial Tokay was all it...
As Berry And I Were Saying

As Berry And I Were Saying

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingThere are books that make you laugh, and then there are the Dornford Yates Berry novels — gloriously witty, warmly nostalgic, and utterly irresistible...
Mr Brain Knows Best

Mr Brain Knows Best

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when the most confident organ in the room is the one inside your skull — and it has...
The Best Short Stories Of Ring Lardner

The Best Short Stories Of Ring Lardner

$20.00 AUD
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...
The Collected Works Of Dornford Yates (26.vols)

The Collected Works Of Dornford Yates (26.vols)

$200.00 AUD
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...
The Wizard Of Id: No. 11

The Wizard Of Id: No. 11

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep into the absurd and anarchic kingdom of Id, where the bumbling, tyrannical King rules with an iron...
Fuzz Against Junk: The Saga Of The Narcotics Brigade

Fuzz Against Junk: The Saga Of The Narcotics Brigade

$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the seedy underbelly of mid-century America, where badge-wielding officers wage a relentless war against the drug trade,...
Blondie Knows Best!

Blondie Knows Best!

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShe may be dizzy, but Blondie Bumstead has never been more delightfully in charge — and Blondie Knows...
Catch-22

Catch-22

$1,000.00 AUD
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....
Reverend Randolph And The Fall From Grace, Inc.

Reverend Randolph And The Fall From Grace, Inc.

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen a glamorous murder lands on the doorstep of a Chicago megachurch, the last person anyone expects to crack the...
The Devilish Mystery Of The Flying Mum

The Devilish Mystery Of The Flying Mum

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do you do when your mum suddenly takes to the skies? The Devilish Mystery of the Flying Mum is a wildly imaginative children's...
Dover Strikes Again

Dover Strikes Again

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen the laziest, most disagreeable detective in all of England is dragged back into service, the results are as disastrous...
Murder, Maestro Please

Murder, Maestro Please

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhen a body turns up in the most theatrical of circumstances, amateur sleuth and music-world insider Mike Conti...
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: dj clipped within mylar. In the sun-drenched, death-obsessed world of Hollywood, California, a young British...
'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'

'Whatever's Been Going On At Mumblesby?'

$40.00 AUD
Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Long tear at back of jacketIn the sleepy, eccentric English village of Mumblesby, something has gone terribly...
Luck's A Fortune

Luck's A Fortune

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFortune is a fickle mistress, and in Luck's A Fortune, David McNicoll crafts a sharp and witty tale that puts that truth to...
Hero By Proxy: A Kaleidoscopic Misadventure

Hero By Proxy: A Kaleidoscopic Misadventure

$70.00 AUD
Edition: Second impression before publicationCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersWhen a mild-mannered...
A Comedian Dies: A Crime Novel

A Comedian Dies: A Crime Novel

$35.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen a stand-up comedian collapses and dies mid-performance, the death is quickly ruled an accident — but for Charles Paris, Simon Brett's charmingly dissolute actor-turned-amateur-sleuth,...
Moo

Moo

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWelcome to Moo University — a vast, sprawling Midwestern land-grant institution where ambition, eccentricity, and self-interest collide with...
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club

The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club

$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodBefore there was a Victorian novel in the truest sense, there was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens's uproarious debut...
The Young Visiters

The Young Visiters

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of literature's most endearing and unlikely masterpieces, The Young Visiters is the remarkable story of the socially ambitious Alfred Salteena —...