Search Results: Books on Books from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Bounty Books. 2014. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 544 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

Lawrence, Kansas: The Regents Press of Kansas. 1980. Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ spine a little faded. 326 pages. A bibliography of some 1500 books and monographs that study trends in Americna and British literature. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Carlton Books. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a near fine dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Excellent condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 400 pages. The world's leading authors and their works . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1991. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 178pages. This book presents an interpretation of Faulkner's 1936 classic - Absalom, Absalom. The interpretation provided is suitable for everyone from the thoughtful beginner to the Faulkner scholar. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine a touch faded. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. 204 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1972. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Dustjacket DJ is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xxii, 178 pages. A well written and well illustrated portrait of Rudyard Kipling - the voice of imperialism in its heyday and perhaps the most widely read and quoted poet in the English language after Shakespeare. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1972. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in a Very Good Dustjacket DJ is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 178 pages. A well written and well illustrated portrait of Rudyard Kipling - the voice of imperialism in its heyday and perhaps the most widely read and quoted poet in the English language after Shakespeare. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Dallas,Texas: Spring Publications. 1988. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. A major study of classic American literature that suggests a Jungian theory of American Romanticism. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 209 pages. . 2nd Edition. Softcover.

Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1984. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket as issued. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 486 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1970. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. ix, 147 pages. The principal publications of each year from 1789 to 1968 together with an Alphabetical Index of Authors and Their Works. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Nelson. 1965. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front pastedown (hidden by front DJ flap). Includes extensive Notes, Index and Bibliograpy. xviii, 244 pages. First published in 1595. Part of Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Jonathan Cape. 1992. Very Good condition. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings and maps. 224 pages. The author has gone in search of the real people and places on which Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons' books were based. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1998. Small Quarto Size. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xviii, 246 pages. Contains more than 80 extracts drawn from fiction, non-fiction and poetry. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Perth: University of Western Australia Press. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 205 pages. A series of essays presented to John Colmer on his retirement as Professor of English at Adelaide University. Includes: Aussie Bards and Pom Reviewers: English Reviewers and Australian Writers in the Nineteenth Century by Barry Argyle; Grim Humour in the Short Stories of the 1890s by Robert White; Joseph Furphy and Narrative Art by George Turner; The Extended Edwardianism of Australian Literature by Adrian Mitchell; Buffoon Odysseys Australian Expatriate Fiction by Women by Diana Brydon; Some Godlike Grammar: The Narrator in the Transit of Venus by Robert Sellick; A Refined Look at Australia Angela Thirkell as Trooper to the Southern Cross by Virginia Kenny; Desire and Repetitions in the Novels of Helen Garner by Andrew… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus. 1951. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good (price-clipped) Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine and edges are a little age-toned. Offset to free endpapers. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. Deals with the earlier poems of the 1930s, the plays with Isherwood, and the long major poems. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Clive Bingley. 1975. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Completely revised and rewritten second edition. 191 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd Edition Revised. Hardback.

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. 1964. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy.. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 108 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: Macmillan. 1987. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. DJ spine and upper edge a little faded. Foreword by Morris West. 311 pages. Includes contributions by Barry Humphries, Nancy Keesing, Gabrielle Lord, Georgia Savage, Marion Halligan, Morris Lurie, John Olsen, Donald Friend, Mary Durack, Helen Garner amongst many others. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press. 1993. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Minor rubbing to top corner of leading edge. 417 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. 306 pages. This famous Australian literary figure opines with wit and scholarship on the range of modern English prevalent in Australia at the time; muses on the origin and disappearance of colourful slang and colloquial expressions and on the appearance of new ones; and rails against some of the more outrageous linguistic crime perpetrated by the Australian media. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.