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Aesop's Illustrated Fables (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: Aesop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, beautifully illustrated with engravings and colour plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest...
The Complete Fables
Penguin Classics relaunch Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on...
Aesop's Fables
Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this epic edition...
Aesop's Forgotten Fables
This anthology revitalizes forty of Aesop's lesser-known fables, which have been rewritten by the talented anthologist, Fiona Waters, and sumptuously illustrated by renowned artist, Fulvio Testa. The collection includes fables...
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...
The Lion And The Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables
$12.00 AUD
These confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for clarity - the clarity found in Aesop's 2,500 year old fables. 70 writers from across...
The Lion and the Mouse
Author: Susanna Davidson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 It's tough in the wild, whether you're a tiny mouse or a big, scary lion. But friends can be found in...
New Light Through Old Windows: A Series Of Stories Illustrating Fables Of Aesop
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: 3 coloured plates. Good - for age. Boards -...
The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop's Fable
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...
Simon and the Better Bone
Author: Corey R. Tabor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Using the same innovative format as his Caldecott Honor winner, Mel Fell, Corey R. Tabor reimagines Aesop's "The Dog and...
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
Author: M. D. Usher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them....
Reading Champion: The Crow and the Pitcher: Independent Reading White 10
Author: Sheryl Webster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with...
Reading Champion: The Fox and the Goat: Independent reading Turquoise
In this retelling of an Aesop fable, Fox jumps into a well and finds he cannot get out. When Goat comes along, he decides to play a trick. When Goat...
A Toni Morrison Treasury: The Big Box; The Ant or the Grasshopper?;
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's books, cowritten with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first time in...
Greek Tragedy
Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English Literature, and Drama....
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote,...
Journeys Through Bookland (Ten-Volume Set)
$160.00 AUD
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...
The Oresteian Trilogy
Three powerful plays on revenge, fate and justice, Agamemnon, The Choephori and The Eumenides Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy,...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford...
Rhesos
$40.00 AUD
Author: Euripides; Richard Emil Braun (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, New York, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a classical Greek tragedy. The narrative examines...
The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome: Time, Network, and Repetition
This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current...
The Oresteia Of Aeschylus
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Robert Lowell's The Oresteia of Aeschylus presents a bold...
Aeschylus: The Oresteian Trilogy (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Rush RehmBinding: HardbackPublished: Hawthorn Press Melbourne, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book presents a comprehensive analysis of Aeschylus's Oresteian Trilogy. The work provides readers...
The Conquest of Gaul
Penguin Classics relaunch Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his...
Beastly Tales from Here and There
$12.00 AUD
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 Wasps
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis classical Greek comedy, The Wasps, satirizes the Athenian legal system through the uproarious tale of an elderly...
The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: faded, no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: inscription on fep. Usual shelf-wear. At the height of the Victorian era, a radical movement emerged that dared...
A New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics [...]
'This book is an important contribution, and I hope it will open many minds. What is particularly important in it are the discussions of David Bohm, of bioplasma, biophotons, and...
Osip Mandelstam: Poems Chosen And Translated By James Greene
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling collection, Osip Mandelstam: Poems Chosen And Translated By James Greene, presents a vital selection from one of Russia's...
The Classic Tale of Peter Rabbit Classic Heirloom Edition: The Classic Edition Hardcover with Slipcase and Ribbon Marker
Author: Beatrix Potter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Come along on an adventurous journey with the world's most beloved bunny, Peter Rabbit, in The Classic Tale of Peter Rabbit...
The Classic Tale of Peter Rabbit: A Press and Play Storybook
Come along on an adventurous journey with the world's most beloved bunny, Peter Rabbit, in The Classic Tale of Peter Rabbit. This beautiful sound book features illustrations by New York...
On The Watch Tower: Selected Editorial Notes From The Theosophist 1953-1966
$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsOn The Watch Tower presents a profound collection of essays and reflections from a prominent spiritual thinker. This work chronicles...
Millennial Fables
In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this...
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
***A Financial Times, TLS, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*** Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read...
A Toni Morrison Treasury: The Big Box; The Ant or the Grasshopper?;
Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Toni Morrison's eight children's books, cowritten with her son, are collected in one hardcover volume for the first time in...
One Generation Of A Norfolk House
$35.00 AUD
Author: Augustus JessoppBinding: HardbackPublished: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, first page has surface tear where it was previously stuck to another page,...
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories
'Be careful what you wish for,' wrote Aesop, 'lest it come true.' Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her...
The World's Wife
Author: Carol Ann Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 What did Mrs Midas think? Or Queen Kong? Read all about it in Carol Ann Duffy's hugely successful, tender and...
Secondhand Children's Picture Book Box SP3011
$110.00 AUD
Secondhand Children's Picture Book Box SP3011 Seventeen picture books for young readers — Peter Sis, Aaron Blabey, Heidi McKinnon, Meg McKinlay, Marc Martin, Hazel Edwards, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more....
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories
'Be careful what you wish for,' wrote Aesop, 'lest it come true.' Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her...
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories
'Be careful what you wish for,' wrote Aesop, 'lest it come true.' Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her...
New Wave Vision
Hayden Cox started his surfboard brand Haydenshapes at the age of 15 while still at school, taking on a fickle industry where few succeed beyond local reach. Today he is...