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Browse Books on Literature Title Title Author Price (ascending) Price (descending) Date Added (descending)    4332 Literature Books (showing 1 to 30) Search within Books on Literature Keyword/s:  Browse Australian Bookshops specialising in Literature Books   (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     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     1001 Books you must read before you die - Australian Edition Peter Boxall, Preface by Jennifer Byrne ISBN: 0733316549 ABC Books      Fat Trade Hardcover in D/w, very good. 959pp. Index. Illustrated in colour with photographs of the books, the authors, examples of work and art. A Comprehensive reference source, chronicling the history of the novel. Australian edition with preface by Jennifer Byrne, but the reference section is the same.  Price: $55.00 (AUD) Book Number: 43644  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     12 Books That Changed the World Bragg, Melvyn ISBN: 0340839805 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd London, United Kingdom 2006 First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 800 g; VIII, 376 pages, last four pages blank, indexed, and illustrated within text with facsimiles of documents and books,, with 24 pages of black-and-white, or colour photographs. Includes timeline of the first Folio, (Shakespere) index. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. The author looks at works by Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Stopes, Charles Darwin, William Wilberforce, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michael Faraday, Richard Arkwright, Adam Smith, and the Bard himself. The Magna Carta, and the King James Bible also get a mention as does the Rule Book of Association Football! Literary Criticism Good Price: $26.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0220484  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     12 Books That Changed the World BRAGG, Melvyn ISBN: 0340839821      PB For a more detailed description of this book, please contact us by phone or email. Very Good Price: $12.00 (AUD) Book Number: B2149  Bookseller: North Sydney Book Exchange 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 Australian Novelists Roderick Colin M.A. M.Ed. Angus & Robertson Sydney 1947 First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Original Boards 323pp. No markings or inscriptions. Edges and paper browning and some rubbing at top of spine. 20 Australian novelist including Ion Idriess, Normal Lindsay, Miles Franklin, Kylie Tennant, Christina Stead and critiques of one each of their works.   Very Good ++ Price: $35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 001567  Bookseller: Isabella Booksellers Postage Rates     20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Verne, Jules Octopus Books Limited London 1980 Reprint  Hardback Octavo Size. VERY GOOD condition, no Dustjacket. Red boards,with gilt decorations and lettering to front and spine. 287 pagesComplete and unabridged  Price: $8.00 (AUD) Book Number: ID209060  Bookseller: Beulah Park Books 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     30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account Carey, Peter ISBN: 0747555001 London, Bloomsbury 2001      248pp, 1st ed hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition Price: $12.00 (AUD) Book Number: 53008  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     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     72 Essays Walter Murdoch Angus & Robertson Sydney 1947  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Cloth weight 500g  Fair Price: $5.00 (AUD) Book Number: 013092  Bookseller: Book Lore 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 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 Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand Hocken, T.M. Newrick Associates Ltd Wellington 1973 Reprint  Hardbound Small Quarto Size. Near Fine copy. No dustjacket. No. 1177of Limited Edition (1,250). !973 reprint of the originalpublished in 1909. 619 pagesBibliography covers the period from 1643 to early 1909.  Price: $60.00 (AUD) Book Number: ID194798  Bookseller: Beulah Park Books 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 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 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 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 W. E. Williams Pelican / Penguin Books England 1948 Reprint  Paperback 287 pages. Pelican Books No. A99.   Good Price: $5.00 (AUD) Book Number: 005435  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A Book of Grey Owl Ed. E.E. Reynolds Peter Davies London 1941 Reprint 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Cloth Publishers original pale blue cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Minor bumping to extremities and discoloration of spine. Dustwrapper: Unclipped, piece missing from head of spine, closed tear, chipping and rubbing to extremities, now protected in Brodart. 272pp plus 20pp illustrations. Minor discoloration on page edges otherwise very good copy. This book contains a selection from all Grey Owl's published writings under five headings: Sajo and Shapian, The Beaver People, On the Trail, Creatures of the Wild, and North American Indians. It is a delightful volume, attractively produced and fully illustrated with photographs old and new as well as Grey Owl's own sketches, representing all aspects of his many-sided genius  Very Good Price: $40.00 (AUD) Book Number: 000429  Bookseller: Eccleston Books & Curios 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     A Book of Pleasures; An Anthology of Words and Pictures Hadfield, John ( Compiler ) Vista Books London 1960 First British Edition Square Octavo 1/4 Cloth and Boards 650 grammes; X, 256 pages, introduction by author, notes on the illustrations, acknowledgements, and index to authors and artists. Illustrated endpapers, being a reproduction of a mediaeval tapestry, in an ochre shade. Illustrated frontispiece, which is a reproduction of the Spanish artists' Bartolome Esteban Murillo painting " Spanish Peasant Boy ". The text is illustrated with numerous reproductions, in both coloured and black-and-white, of paintings and also black and white photography. 1/4 white cloth spine with gilt writing and 3/4 green board with white and brown design. Minor rubbing and discoloration to the head and to the heel of the spine and bumping to the book corners. Heavy shelfwear to the lower book edges and their is heavy browning and staining to the paper edges. A few foxing spots to the spine region. Very, very light tanning of the internal pages. Plain text dustwapper, with green background and brown and white design with a small white insert with black writing on the front panel and spine. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dustwapper corners. Heavy rubbing and a little chipping to the top spine edged and heavy rubbing to the lower. The spine has become quite dark due to sun damage. A few stains to the spine area as well. Browning to the verso of the dustwapper and there has been clipping of the dustwapper both to the top right-hand corner of the front fold over and to the lower corner of the rear paste down. An anthology of quotes, poems, pictures and illustrations collected by the author. Digital image available upon request. Anthology Average Price: $14.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0104329  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     A Booklover’s Companion Reisz, Matthew The Folio Society London, England 2006  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hard Cover   Very Good Price: $18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 019159  Bookseller: Q's Books Postage Rates     A Box of Matches Baker, Nicholson ISBN: 0701174021 Chatto & Windus London, United Kingdom 2003 First Edition 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardcover 300 g; 186 pages, last eight pages blank. Illustrated dustwrapper. 33 chapters, each one lit by a match, kindling the fire of a new day, with observations on life. Fiction Good Price: $18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0215045  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates   4332 Literature Books         Go to page:    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11        Next 30 Books