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Browse Books on Literature Title Title Author Price (ascending) Price (descending) Date Added (descending)    5415 Literature Books (showing 1 to 30) Search within Books on Literature Keyword/s:  Browse Australian Bookshops specialising in Literature Books   "O Beloved Kids" -Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to His Children Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0099350009 Zenith Books / Doubleday London, Great Britain 1984   Hard Cover 222 pages. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations. Has illustrated endpapers. Have been selected by Elliot L. Gilbert.  Good Price: $30.00 (AUD) Book Number: 028135  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     ’I Lived With You’, ’Party’, ’Symphony In Two Flats’ Ivor Novello ISBN: NoISBN Methuen London 1932 First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Literature. Plays. The first plays that Ivor Novello published; although Novello is principally famous as an actor, these 3 plays give him a high position as a contemporary dramatist; with an introduction by Edward Marsh (Methuen, London, First Edition, 1932) Used hardcover book in d/j, 287 pages, d/j is fair, with tears and pieces missing, soiling, creasing and heavy edge wear, book itself is good, with bookshop bookplate inside cover, foxing and marks on eps, foxing on edges of pages, text is very good.  Good Price: $75.00 (AUD) Book Number: L7830  Bookseller: Kay's Secondhand Books and Sheet Music Postage Rates     (Per) Versions of Love and Hate Salecl, Renata ISBN: 1859848397 Verso London - New York 1998 1st Edition  Hard Cover with Dust Jacket VG++, Mild wear, barcode label on rear pastedown/VG++, Edgewear, rubbing. Treatise on love-hate relationships, with discussions on love in literature and motion pictures. 184 pages, including the index. Illustrated with photographs. Expanded condition report/scan on request.   Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 019321  Bookseller: Klanhorn Postage Rates     01-01-00 - The Novel of the Millennium Pineiro R J ISBN: 0312870582 Forge, USA, 1999 first edition  1999 1st Edition  Hardcover Fine hardback in like dj.Owner's ex libris sticker on ffep.  Fine Price: $19.00 (AUD) Book Number: s6886  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     10 Years After Ivan Denisovichq Zhores Medvedev ISBN: 0333152174 Macmillan London 1973  Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Cloth 202 pages. Author gives fascinating portrait of the great writer in his struggle against censorship and a penetrating description of Soviet literary politics during the last ten years. Translated from the Russian by Hilary Sternberg. Minor scuffing to spine of hard cloth cover. Scuffing and discolouration to dust jacket with foxing on inside. Foxing to page edges.  Good to Very Good Price: $12.50 (AUD) Book Number: 024320  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     100 great books : masterpieces CANNING, John (ed) ISBN: NoISBN      H/C For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email. Good Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: B1865  Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange Postage Rates     1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare James Shapiro Faber and Faber Great Britain 2005  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover weight 655g  Fine Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 035147  Bookseller: Book Lore Postage Rates     18/44 Leroux, Etienne ISBN: 0395136474 Houghton and Mifflin Boston 1972 Stated First Printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 400 g; XIV, 114 pages, with original illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge of the text block was tinted pink by the publisher, the original boards shows no signs of damage, the dust jacket shows minor signs of handling, but is in very good condition nevertheless. Translated from the Afrikaans, this new novel is brilliantly fashioned around the correspondence between a popular novelist, the 44-year-old narrator, and an art student whom he never meets. The scene centres on archetypal Gothic Park, a paradise of projected love menaced and eventually destroyed by the treacherous, ambivalent outside world. -- front fold over blurb novel -- Relationships Very Good Price: $22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0224525  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     1900 : A FIN-DE-SIECLE READER : Edited by Mike Jay & Michael Neve no author ISBN: 071192578X      PB For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email.  Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: A3721  Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange Postage Rates     1934 Moravia Alberto Panther 1985  1985   Soft cover good softback,pages discoloured   Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: s3780  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne, Jules, illustrated by McLaren William ISBN: 0460050710 Dent, London, CIC Series of Illustrated Classics  1976   Hardcover Pages clean, bright and tightly bound. dj has numerous small chips to edges.  Fine Price: $14.00 (AUD) Book Number: s15508  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     20th Century Interpretations of To the Lighthouse : Virginia Woolf VOGLER, Thomas (editor) ISBN: 0139232192      PB For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email. Good Price: $5.50 (AUD) Book Number: B3027  Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange Postage Rates     25 Magic Steps to Word Power FUNK, Wilfred      PB For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email.  Price: $5.50 (AUD) Book Number: A1532  Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange Postage Rates     33 MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS St. Petersburg Stories Schulze, Ingo ISBN: 0330373412 Picador London 1999 First thus.  Hardcover Very good copy in very good dustjacket. Translated by John E. Woods. ; 205 x 135mm; x, 306 pages  Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 15543  Bookseller: M. & A. Simper Bookbinders & Booksellers Postage Rates     5 Great Novels of Philip K Dick Dick, Philip K. ISBN: 9780575084636 London; Gollancz; 2008      841pp paperback in very good condition, corners a little worn Price: $33.00 (AUD) Book Number: 67222  Bookseller: Fine Print Books Postage Rates     50 amazing hairbreadth escapes various Odhams     Hardcover good hardback, about 9x7", black cloth boards with gilt decoration,  Good Price: $39.00 (AUD) Book Number: s9576  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     50 Famous Animal stories Gribble (editor) Burke London     Hardcover good/ good Ex library.If required ask for further details on condition Rare title. Stories by famous writers, eg. child of the wild by Jack London, Fleetwing by Wyss, The Intellegent horses by Jonathon Swift, The Lions in the Way by John Bynyan, A boy and his bird by Charles Dickens, The black bear of the Hurons by J Fennimore Cooper, Dressed Kangaroo by Capt. James   Price: $30.00 (AUD) Book Number: 5067  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     500 Years of New Words Sherk, Bill ISBN: 1550025252 Dundurn Toronto 2004  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback   Very Good ++ Price: $8.50 (AUD) Book Number: 006858  Bookseller: Sophie's Books Postage Rates     7 Modern American novelists various Mentor 1968  1968 1st Edition  Soft cover good paperback, pages yellowing, biographies of Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and Nathanel West   Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: s4922  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     ?The black Tulip Dumas Alexandre (dixon illus) Collins Clear type press     Hardcover good hardcover, faded red cloth, gilt decoration  Good Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: s10342  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     A Bibliographic Guide Debra Adelaide Pandora Great Britain 1988  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover 360 gms. Light shelf wear to covers.  Very Good Price: $12.00 (AUD) Book Number: 032903  Bookseller: Book Lore Postage Rates     A bibliography of Horace Walpole Hazen A.T Yale university press 1948  1948 1st Edition  Hardcover good.Mild ex libraryClean and tight   Price: $100.00 (AUD) Book Number: s3061  Bookseller: Tony Henderson Postage Rates     A Bird’s Eye View of The Development of Modern Malay Literature 1921-1941 Siu Li Chuan Penerbitan Pustaka Antara Kuala Lumpur 1970   Soft Cover 58 pp, underlining in pencil, stamped half-title page  Good Price: $30.00 (AUD) Book Number: 36492  Bookseller: Dee Why Books Postage Rates     A Boat for England Sigurd Evensmo Eyre & Spottiswoode London, England 1947  Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 190 pages - dust jacket a bit worn around the edges from normal use.  Very Good Price: $17.50 (AUD) Book Number: 012769  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book of Australia Moore, T. Inglis -- Editor Collins London and Glasgow 1961 First Edition 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 375 g.; VI, 7-320 pages, aknowledgements introduction by T. Inglis Moore, Prologue: Nationality by Mary Gilmore, list of illustrations, dates in Australian history A.D.1606-1947, first lines of poems and list of authors. The text is illustrated with 52 black-and-white photographs throughout the book. Red coloured cloth boards with silver illustration and titles to the backstrip. Red coloured tint to the top text block edge. Minor bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Light browning to the text block edges and light age toning to the internal text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front based-down and light offset tanning to the endpapers. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges. There is a 0.25 " tear to the top edge of the backstrip with some lifting of the dustwrapper laminate. Quite noticeable creasing to the top edge of the backstrip. Creasing to the top right-hand corner of the front fold over panel and clipping to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. An anthology of poetry and prose, selected by the editor, who was at the time, The Associate Professor of Australian Literature at the Australian National University. The Anthology gives a representative picture of Australia and of its people and way of life through a selection of short stories and poetry. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Anthology Good Price: $16.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0107618  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     A Book Of Days For The Literary Year Edited By Neal T. Jones Thames and Hudson USA 1985 Reprint  Decorative Board Includes notable quotations, scores of birthdays, myriad marriages, some romance and a few deaths, all relating to the literary life. Decorated with signatures on frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with photographs, paintings and drawings. Previous owner's signatures on frontispiece. Minor scuffing to cover and spine. Slight foxing to title page.  Very Good Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: 020631  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book of English Essays W. E. Williams (Selection) Pelican / Penguin Books Great Britain 1956   Paperback Pelican Book Number A99 - 378 pages  Good Price: $7.50 (AUD) Book Number: 003504  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book Of English Essays W. E. Williams (Editor) Pelican / Penguin Books England, Great Britain 1967 Reprint  Paperback 378 pages. Pelican Books No. A99. First published 1942.   Good Price: $7.50 (AUD) Book Number: 005097  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book of English Essays Edited By W. E. Williams Pelican / Penguin Books Great Britain 1963 First Edition  Paperback 378 pages. One of the most notable and attractive forms of English Literature is the essay, which, through the last three and a half centuries, has prospered abundantly in all periods. Minor wear and creasing along spine and edges of front cover. Small scratching on top corner of front cover. Foxing on front cover, endpaper and edge of pages.   Good Price: $5.00 (AUD) Book Number: 018977  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book of Old Ballads. Nichols, Beverley London, Hutchinson & Co, 1934. FIRST ED.      Selected and with an Introduction. Illustrated by H.M. BROCK, b&w & 16 full-page color plates. Simple illus on eps. Oversize book, xl + 280 pp. Gilt title/author and mermaid design on front board, gilt title/author and harp design on spine. Foredge & bottom edge uncut. A lovely book, a sound, tight copy. VG, top and bottom of spine lightly worn, original d/w flyleaves inside book, otherwise no d/w.  Price: $120.00 (AUD) Book Number: 4499  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates   5415 Literature Books         Go to page:    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11        Next 30 Books