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Poets Of The English Language (Five-Volume Set)
$60.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFew literary collections have achieved the canonical sweep and intellectual ambition of Poets of the English Language, the landmark...
Forewords and Afterwords
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis collection features a selection of Auden's forewords and afterwords, offering insights into his thoughts on various literary works and...
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
W. H. Auden was once described as the Picasso of modern poetry - a tribute to his ceaseless experimentation with form and subject matter. Beginning with Anglo-Saxon poetry and ending...
Stop All the Clocks: Poems of Love and Loss
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone . . . W. H. Auden was the consummate poet of love and...
Another Time
Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of...
The Poet's Tongue: An Anthology
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Poet's Tongue stands as one of the most...
Novelists And Novels
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis academic collection presents a profound examination of significant literary figures and their enduring contributions to the novel. Harold Bloom, a...
The Viking Book Of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor wear at the edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover binding. A landmark anthology of...
A Better Class of Sunset: Collected Works of Christopher Pearson
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Poets And Their Critics (3 Volume Set)
$55.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Chipped and worn with some minor damage along spine and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on feps....
The Shield of Achilles
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers. The Shield...
Literary Lives
John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...
The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded drawing rooms of Eton to the literary salons of 1930s Vienna and London, The Whispering Gallery is the first volume of...
Selected English Essays
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA treasury of the English literary tradition, Selected English Essays gathers the finest prose compositions from Britain's most celebrated writers, spanning centuries of intellectual and aesthetic...
For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell In 1914, the age of European Imperialism came to its inevitable end, and the Twentieth Century was born in fire...
Memories
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century Oxford cut as distinctive a silhouette as Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra — classicist, wit, Warden of...
Up from the Mission: Selected Writings
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia's most...
The Sitwells: A Family's Biography
$25.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Good, bright with no tears or chips, minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding condition: Tight and secure. A richly...
Cyclopaedia Of English Literature; A Historical, Critical And Biographical, Of British Authors, From The Earliest To The Present Times. (Two-Volume Set)
$150.00 AUD
Author: Robert ChambersBinding: HardbackPublished: WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, 1844Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rare first edition in...
Professor Of Democracy: The Life Of Charles Henry Pearson 1830-1894 Oxford Don And Australian Radical
$15.00 AUD
Author: John TregenzaBinding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne University Press., 1968Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and...
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time
$12.00 AUD
Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas. It...
The Complete Sonnets And Poems
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few bodies of work have endured the centuries with such relentless force...
Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality
The book titled Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
Mike: The Memoirs Of The Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson; Volume I: 1897-1948
$25.00 AUD
Author: Lester B. PearsonBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Toronto Press, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling political memoir, Mike: The Memoirs Of The Rt....
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote...
W. B. Yeats: Man And Poet
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in literary history occupy as singular a position as William Butler Yeats — a man whose...
In The Days When The World Was Wide: Poetical Works Of Henry Lawson
$12.00 AUD
Author: Henry LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Lloyd O'Neil, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This collection presents the enduring verse of one...
Professor Of Democracy: The Life Of Charles Henry Pearson 1830-1894 Oxford Don And Australian Radical
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives bridge two worlds as dramatically as that of Charles Henry Pearson — Oxford don, Victorian intellectual,...
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
$80.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
20 Volumes from the Penny Poets Series -
$120.00 AUD
Author: VariousBinding: SoftbackPublished: The Masterpiece Library Review of Reviews, London, 1895Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markings20 Volumes from the Penny Poets Series - 2: Marmion:...
Thomas Love Peacock
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores the life and works of Thomas Love Peacock, an influential figure in English literature known for his...
Collected Verse Of Paterson
$15.00 AUD
Author: PatersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover has light staining from general use, previous owner markings inside first pageCollected...
A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet
$45.00 AUD
Author: Richard Perceval GravesBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRichard Perceval Graves's A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet chronicles the intricate life of the...
In War and Peace: The Life and Times of Daphne Pearson, GC
$15.00 AUD
In War And Peace is the autobiography of a truly remarkable woman, Daphne Pearson, born May 1911, was the first woman to receive the George Cross for acts of courage...
Ten Novels And Their Authors
$60.00 AUD
Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxing and tanning on block, wear and tear of jacket localised to...
Hound Dog Days: One Dog and his Man: a Story of North Country Life and
A decade and one dog after penning the bestselling Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows, and inspired by the purchase of his new hound, a petit basset-griffon Vendeen called Little Man,...
Lions And Shadows
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore Christopher Isherwood became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary voices, he was a...
The Collected Poems Of A. E. Housman
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have captured the bittersweet ache of youth, mortality, and the English...
Secondhand Literary Studies & Australian Writing Bargain Book Box SP2693
$100.00 AUD
The star of this box is hiding in plain sight: all seven volumes of Boris Ford's landmark Pelican Guide to English Literature, the series that shaped how English literature was...
Form In Literature: A Theory Of Technique And Construction
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed/tanning consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Binding appears intact and firm....