Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. Les Enfants Terribles is a 1929 novel by Jean Cocteau. It concerns two siblings, Elisabeth and Paul, who isolate themselves from the world as they grow up, an isolation which is shattered by the stresses of their adolescence. Translation by Rosamond Lehmann. Contains the com ...Show more
London Characters and Crooks by Henry Mayhew, Edited and introduced by Christopher Hibbert
$45.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction
Secondhand. First edition. Various sketches of London characters derived from the mid-1800s book London Labour and the London Poor, itself derived from articles in the Morning Chronicle written by Henry Mayhew,
Mapping the World by Peter Whitfield
$37.50 NZD
Category: Folio Society | Reading Level: very good
Melmoth The Wanderer by Charles Maturin
$85.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Illustrations by Felix Zakar including binding design. Charles Robert Maturin (1780 to 1824), an eccentric Irish clergyman, collected traditions from European and oriental folklore and wove the legendary qualities of Satan, Cain, Faust and others into the towering hero of his magnum opus of ...Show more
Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. In this first novel of the semiautobiographical Georg ...Show more
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Secondhand. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1930. It is a fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. Soon after its release, it was heralded as a classic and was even more successful than its predecessor, Memo ...Show more
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. A historical novel about an obscure young Englishman who watches, without understanding, the last years of the Weimar Republic. Politics and sex create the atmosphere. Superbly Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
My Life and Hard Times and Other Observations by James Thurber
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Contents: Introduction. My Life and Hard Times (complete) 1933. From The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying trapexe 1935. From let Your Mind Alone 1937. From Fables For Our Time 1940. From My World and Welcome To it 1942. From The Thurber Carnival 1945. From The Beast in Me and other Animals 194 ...Show more
My Life and Times by Jerome K Jerome
$21.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This book is a reprint of the original published in 1926. Superb Folio Society edition of Jerome’s autobiography, especially interesting for the depiction of his family’s crushing poverty in the west midlands. Includes photographs of Jerome and others.
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France by Benjamin Cowburn
$40.00 NZD
Category: World War II