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The Beauty of Everyday Things
The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of Japanese design as we know it today - anonymity, quality, simplicity...
The Tale Of Genji (Two-Volume Set)
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Vol 1 book block - stained, but pages and text remain unaffected. Written over a thousand years...
God of Carnage
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach...
125 Selected Games
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedCondition remarks: faded boards. Light bumping on corners and spine. A legend of the 64 squares speaks for himself...
Birrung the Secret Friend (The Secret History Series, #1)
The first in a new series that focuses on a secret part of our history From best-selling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The transformative story of war and love as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp...
Kaii Higashiyama Art Album 1 Book "A trip to beautiful Japan" - 美しい日本への旅
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: **JAPANESE TEXT ONLY**Few Japanese artists of the twentieth century achieved the spiritual luminosity and quiet grandeur of Higashiyama Kaii, whose landscape paintings...
Songs for Ghosts
From Catfish Rolling's Clara Kumagai, a second novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly . 17-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan...
Story Of O
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most controversial and provocative novels of the twentieth century, Story of O presents the journey...
The Flavour Thesaurus: More Flavours: Plant-led Pairings, Recipes and
'Niki Segnit is definitely the reigning champion of matching ingredients' - YOTAM OTTOLENGHI 'Will inspire a new generation of home cooks, chefs and writers alike' - RUKMINI IYER _______________ The...
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further
The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur *AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* 'Starkly raw and vulnerable'...
A History Of Modern Japan
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate to the aftermath of the Second World War, A History of...
Nettle: Faery Realms series: The darkly enchanting YA fantasy
'Reads like an instant fairytale classic' - 5* Reader Review 'An elegant, dreamy tale steeped in folklore' - Irish Times 'Dark and enticing; an atmospheric, folklore-infused fantasy' - Kirkus Reviews...
Inside The Company: Cia Diary
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew accounts of intelligence work carry the explosive credibility of a confession written from the inside — and...
L'Empire Des Signes
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds turns his gaze upon an entirely foreign...
Laozi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time by
Laozi's Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and...
Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian
Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context....
The Secret of the Youngest Rebel (The Secret Histories, #5)
'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR ALL READERS' -- ReadPlus on Barney and the Secret of the Whales The whisper in the darkness is: rebellion! (Or: death or liberty!) Frog is an orphan,...
Yankee City Series: The Social Life Of A Modern Community; The Status System Of A Modern Community; The Social Systems Of American Ethnic Groups; The Social System Of The Modern Factory
$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew sociological projects in American history have proven as ambitious or as enduring as the...
The Death Of Woman Wang
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the remote county of T'an-ch'eng in seventeenth-century China, a peasant woman named Wang vanishes into the night,...
Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of developmental psychology and educational philosophy stands Jean Piaget's landmark work, Play, Dreams and Imitation...
The Rise And Fall Of Imperial Japan
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew geopolitical stories are as dramatic or consequential as the rapid ascent and catastrophic collapse of Imperial Japan — a nation that transformed itself...
The Secret of the Black Bushranger (The Secret History Series, #3)
The third book in a series that explores Australia's secret histories By the 1790s, orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm in the early NSW colony. All his dreams...
Bugatti By Borgeson: The Dynamics Of Mythology
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew names in the history of the automobile carry the mythological weight of Bugatti — a marque so revered that separating legend from mechanical...
Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might....
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that...
Tao Te Ching
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Taoist thought lies a text so ancient and so profound that it has shaped...
Great Masters Of World Painting: Botticelli, Canaletto, Watteau, Cézanne, Titian
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew art books dare to gather five of the most towering figures in Western painting under a single, authoritative volume — Great Masters of...
A Turkish View Of Gallipoli: Çanakkale
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew battles of the First World War have been chronicled with such ferocity of conviction as the campaign at Gallipoli — yet history has...
Black And Blue
$10.00 AUD
Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an...
The Balanced Investor: Managing Your Investment Portfolio
Have you accumulated an investment portfolio in a haphazard fashion, picking up various stocks that take your fancy along the way? Or have you found yourself in control of a...
The Desert King: The Life Of Ibn Saud
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched expanses of the Arabian Peninsula, one man forged a nation through sheer force of...
Voltaire
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
"A story of searing clarity from Ukraine's frontlines of an unfathomably resilient, freedom loving people who refuse to bend to Putin's assault on truth and human life." - Nicole Perlroth...
The Marriage Art
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when frank conversation about intimacy within marriage was rare, The Marriage Art by John E....
Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany,
** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'W ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars. ' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph ' Exuberant...
The Last Murder at the End of the World: The Number One Sunday Times
'Absolutely unforgettable' READER REVIEW 'Unlike anything I've ever read before' READER REVIEW THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER On a mysterious island where crime does not exist, a seemingly impossible...
Nana
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...
Life And Works Of Robert Burns: Critical And Analytical Edition. Volume 2.
$150.00 AUD
Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding: front hinges cracked; binding slightly shaky; no loose pages; some...
The Poetical Works Of George Macdonald: In Two Volumes
$120.00 AUD
Edition: fine-paper edition.Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards with minor marks and flecks. Binding slightly shaky. Markings:...
The Illustrated Poets: Edgar Allan Poe
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in the literary canon conjure darkness and beauty in equal measure quite like Edgar Allan Poe, and this illustrated collection presents his most...