Classics

Oscar Wilde/ Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Large Paperback)

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (Introduction)     The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and...

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - HB Illustrated Edition - 1993

A hardcover 1993 edition, published by Reader's Digest - BUT not abridged ( full text ) , & not a shabby edition, this in hardcover boards with illustrations throughout from Joseph Ciardiello,m afterword from Clifton Fadiman.  First published (...

Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth - HB - Illustrated 1969

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging...

Dr. Seuss / Hunches in Bunches (Large Paperback)

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George Moore - The Lake - PB ( 1980, Originally 1905)

A paperback Colin Smythe Publishing reprint, 1980. This edition with an afterword by Richard Cave.  Condition, very good, spine uncreased, previous owner's name and date to blank endpage. 

James Healy / Songs of Percy French (Large Paperback)

William Percy French was one of Ireland's favourite sons and his influence on traditional Irish Music can still be felt.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will...

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters - PB ( Persephone Books Edition) 2007 ( Originally 1943)

James Morier - The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan ( Iran) - 2 Vol HB - 1895

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan is a satirical Oriental novel, written in 1824 by James Justinian Morier, a former British envoy who lived in Qajar dynasty Iran (Persia) in 1808–1809 and 1810–1814, amidst the diplomatic difficulties...

Arthur Conan Doyle / The Great Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Large Paperback)

Adventure - In this enthralling collection of Conan Doyle's best loved tales are pirates, soldiers, assassins, explorers and dabblers in the occult...   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Maurice Walsh - Danger under the Moon - HB 1980

Hardcover reprint, Chambers UK, 1980. 

Flynn Berry / Northern Spy (Large Paperback)

Tessa Daly Book  1 - Northern Spy       A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday...

Thomas Kilroy - The Big Chapel - HB - 1st Edition 1971 - Faber

A novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upon a notorious clerical scandal of Victorian Ireland, it deals with events in Ireland in teh 1870's. Thomas Kilroy has written an anatomy of religious violence that remains relevant. A...

Edward Fitzgerald (Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB 1965

Illustrations by Robert Stewart Sheriffs Hardcover in a leatherette effect covers, published in this reprint by Collins UK , 1965. Uneven sunfade to the spine, rubbing and wear to the top and tail of the spine, gilt finish to page block ends...

Graham Greene / The Captain and the Enemy (Hardback)

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa,...

Anthony Trollope - The Warden - HB Everyman's Library - 1949

Small format jacketed hardcover, published as part of the Dent / Everyman Library Editions - published in this edition 1949, originally 1855.  Now in a clear plastic jacket protector. 

D.H Lawrence / The Rainbow (Large Paperback)

      D. H. Lawrence's controversial classic, The Rainbow, follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family between 1840 and 1905. Their tempestuous relationships are played out against a backdrop of...

F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned (Large Paperback)

One of the great American writers whose works enjoy popular appeal as well as critical acclaim, F. Scott Lyric, highly readable novel traces the meteoric rise and fall of glittering young socialites Anthony and Gloria Patch. Building their marriage on...

Edgar Wallace - Again the Three - Vintage Pan PB

A vintage Pan paperback, published in this edition 1968, originally published in 1928. Previous bookshop stamp to the front endpage, prebvious owners name also on same page, covers clean, light tanning to page, very light creasing to covers.  Pan...

H.G. Wells - The Food of the Gods ( Airmont Classics PB - 1965

Published in 1904, this Wells classic is sci-fi and dystopia at its best, written by one of the creators and master of the genre.Following extensive research in the field of "growth," Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood light upon a new mysterious...

Robert Louis Stevenson / The Master of Ballantrae (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Daniel Defoe / Moll Flanders

The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her...

Francis Turner Palgrave - The Golden Treasury - Presentation Library - HB

The Palgrave Golden Treasury was first published in 1861, and almost immediately became a poetry classic, reprinted many times and never out of print since.  The older sections of the book include every major poet in English ( Shakespeare,...

Thomas Mann - Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull - PB

Thomas Manns populärer Gauner-Roman ist eine fiktive Autobiographie, deren jugendlicher Held im Sturm die Herzen der Leser erobert: Kein abgeklärtes Alterswerk, sondern eine parodistische Abenteuergeschichte von höchster sprachlicher...

Samuel Beckett - Dramatische Dichtungen in Drei Sprachen

With text of dramatist Samuel Beckett's work in three languages - English,  French (Waiting for Godot was originally published in French first) and German.  Originally published 1981. 

Robert Graves - I, Claudius - HB - 1988 ( Originally 1934)

  Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from...

Edward Fitzgerald ( Translator) - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - HB - Willy Pogany Illustrations

Illustrations by Willy Pogany A slim book, beautifully illustrated in colour.  A reprint (undated but late 1970's/1980's)  Moderate to heavy edgewear , and spotting and darkening to upper edges of the dustjacket. The green cloth cover...

James Hogg / The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hardback)

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824. It has been called "the greatest of all Scottish novels...

William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream

An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown...

Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice - Vintage PB - Pan Books 1968

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that...

Robert Louis Stevenson / Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide

In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across...

The Companion Book Club: 1970s (36 Book Collection)

The Companion Book Club: 1970s (36 Book Collection) Colin Forbes / target five harold q. masur / the attorney james leasor / green beach george simenon / maigret and the millionaires and maigret and the gangsters derek lambert / the yermakov...

Darach Ó Scolaí - Sadhbh - HB - As Gaeilge - BRAND NEW ( Ealaín le Alé Mercado)

An bhean óg a fhaigheann an ceann is fearr ar na firScéal cliste greannmhar atá sa phictiúrleabhar seo do léitheoirí fásta faoi bhean óg a sheasann an fód in aghaidh na bhfear — agus in...

R.D. Blackmore / Lorna Doone (Hardback)

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Francis Turner Palgrave / The Golden Treasury (Hardback)

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Patrick MacGill - Moleskin Joe - PB - 1983 Reprint

Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick MacGill's first two books, 'Children of the Dead End' and 'The Rat-Pit'. This sequel, first published in 1923, recalls the tramps and navvies MacGill encountered during his time on...

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury | As I Lay Dying - HB - US Modern Library

A US Random House edition, undated of two classic novels by William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury as well as As I Lay Dying.  Small format hardcover, price clipped on the inside front fold, now in a clear plastic removable jacket protector...

Penguin Publishing / Classics - (Thucydides / History of the Peloponnesian War Laxdaela Saga Egil's Saga Tennyson / Idylls of the King Oscar Wilde / The Importance of Being Earnest 5 Book Collection)

Penguin Classics (5 Book Collection) Contains:   Thucydides / History of the Peloponnesian War Laxdaela Saga Egil's Saga Tennyson / Idylls of the King Oscar Wilde / The Importance of Being Earnest      This collection is second hand...

George Chesney - The Battle of Dorking : Reminiscences of a Volunteer - PB

Originally published in 1871, this was one of a host of 'what if' books published in the UK between the 1860's and the first world war , dealing with fears of an invasion - usually by Germany.  Told in the manner of an imaginary soldier looking back...

C.S. Lewis / The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (Slipcased 1 Volume Set)

C.S. Lewis / The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (1 Book Box Set)

Penguin Publishing / Penguin Moderns (50 Book Box Set)

Penguin Modern (50 Book Box Set)   wendell berry / why i am not going to buy a computer vladimir nabokov / lance primo levi / the survivor andy warhol / fame jorge luis borges / the garden of forking phats carson mcculers / the hunted boy javier...

Christmas - Penhaligon's Treasury of Verse and Prose (1 Book Box Set)

Christmas: Penhaligon's Scented Treasury of Verse and Prose (1 Book Box Set)

Marcel Proust / In Search of Lost Time: A New Translation (6 Hardback Book Box Set)

Marcel Proust / In Search of Lost Time: A New Translation (6 Hardback Book Box Set) London, Allen Lane this translation originally 2002    The first new translation into English since Scott Moncreiff's original version, under the general...

George Eliot / Middlemarch (2 Hardback Book Box Set)

George Eliot: Middlemarch (2 Hardback Book Box Set)

Thomas Hardy / Thomas Hardy: Selected Works (Hardback)

A reader's anthology of Thomas Hardy's works includes two of his greatest novels, The Return of the Native and Tess of the d'Ubervilles, as well as a selection of his short stories.       This book is second hand, and while you...

Alan Ayling & Duncan Mackintosh - A Collection of Chinese Lyrics - HB ( Dual Language Poetry) 1965

Published by Routledge Kegan Paul, 1965.  A collection of Chinese lyric poems ( tz'u) from the T'ang and Sung dynasties ( circa 750 to 1700 AD) , some with period illustrations also. 

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary - PB - Folio Classique -1997 Reprint

Jamais Madame Bovary ne fut aussi belle qu'à cette époque... Ses convoitises, ses chagrins, l'expérience du plaisir et ses illusions toujours jeunes, comme font aux fleurs le fumier, la pluie, les vents et le soleil, l'avaient par...

Graham Greene - The Comedians - PB ( Originally 1966 )

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man--these are the "comedians" of...

Norman Mailer / The Naked and the Dead (Large Paperback)

Reissue of a modern classic -- the book that catapulted Norman Mailer to fame on its first publication in 1948. Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, 'The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically...

Classic Collection (8 Book Collection)

Classic Collection (8 Book Collection)   Lewis carroll / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Louisa May Alcott / Little Women Alexandre Dumas / The Three Musketeers Johanna Spyri / Heidi Jules Verne / 20000 Leagues under the Sea Robert Louis Stevenson...

Dover Thrift Editions (10 Book Collection)

Dover Thrift Editions (10 Book Collection)   edwin arlington robinson / miniver cheevy and other poems edna st. vincent millay / renascence and other poems thomas hardy / hardy's selected poems everyman and other miracle and morality plays f. scott...

William Shakespeare / The Penguin Shakespeare ( 1960s Editions) (7 Book Collection)

The Penguin Shakespeare Circa 1960s (7 Book Collection)   The sonnets, and a lover's complaint timon of athens a midsummer night's dream richard the second troylus and cressida the tragedy of king lear the winter's tale

Padraic Pearse ( Translated by Desmond Maguire) - Short Stories ( Dual Language Edition - PB - BRAND NEW

Pádraic Pearse, who played a prominent part in the 1916 rebellion, declared Ireland a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. He was executed, along with the other leaders, for his part in the Rising. But he was a gentle...