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, 1938. Used. prior owner name on inside page..HARDCOVER 1938 EDITION. BOOK HAS TAPE ON SPINE AND PAGES WITH TITLE WRITTEN ON SPINE BY HAND.INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE PAGES.SOME PAGES LOOSE..The Man from Snowy River is a collection of poems by Australian bush poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas.

Seacacus, N.J: Murray Child & Co, 1996. SOFT COVER. Used. Here is a comprehensive anthology of "Banjo's" ballads and prose. No poet deserves the title of Australia's balladist more than Andrew Barton Paterson. ThisMurray David Publishing 1997 edition contains all his famous poems and stories. Illustrated with pics of well-known identities.

London: Random House, 1994. Literary Award Winner. Used. A collection of three stories, each haunted in a different way by the spirit of Matisse, from the winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession.

London: Vintage, 1991. Literary Award Winner. Used. First published in 1964, this is the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of 17 to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist.

Leicester: Chatto & Windus, 2009. large size paperback. Used. The Children's Book is a 2009 novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. It follows the adventures of several inter-related families, adults and children, from 1895 through World War I. Loosely based upon the life of children's writer E. Nesbit there are secrets slowly revealed that show that the families are much more creatively formed than first guessed. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Readers Digest, Not recorded. Used. From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon"

London: Random House, 1994. Literary Award Winner. Used. The Virgin In The Garden Is The First Novel To Feature Frederica Potter, And The Beginning Of A Triumphant Quartet Of Novels. Set In Yorkshire In 1952 As The Inhabitants Of The Area Set About Celebrating The Accession Of A New Queen, This Is The Tale Of A Brilliant And Eccentric Family Fatefully Divided. The Virgin In The Garden Is A Wonderfully Entertaining Novel, In Which Enlightenment And Sexuality, Elizabethan Drama And Comedy Intersect Richly And Unpredictably.

London: Not Avail, 1991. Literary Award Winner. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERThese two novellas, MORPHO EUGENIA and THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. MORPHO EUGENIA is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society. THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL, a philosophical ghost-story concerns Tennyson's IN MEMORIAM, published in 1850, mourning the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.

London:WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Random House, 2011. Literary Award Winner. Used. GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize--the U.K.'s highest literary award--Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. Amazon.

Random House, 1997. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKET. FURTHER PICTURES CAN BE PROVIDED.In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, Babbletower, which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and distressed. Their crises mirror those of the age-abroad, this is the decade of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of J F Kennedy; at home it is the era of the Lady Chatterley case, of the Beatles, of Mods and Rockers, art school riots, the Profumo scandal. Moving and absorbing… Read More

London:WELL READ PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERKING PENGUIN, 1983. Vintage. Used. The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers--until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives.

Sutton: Random House, 1999. Literary Award Winner. Used. In the same delectable format as the MATISSE STORIES and THE DJINN IN THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE, this new collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of hte fullest lives. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world; a schoolgirl draws a blood-filled picture of jael; a swimming pool reveals a beauteous monster in its depths. The settings range from the heart of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, form chalk-strewn classrooms to herbscented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds. a marvellous present for all A. S. Byatt fans, this magical collection is also the perfect introduction to one of our finest contemporary writers.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. Hardcover. Used. HARDCOVER Y2000 EDITION.INSCRIPTION ON INSIDE PAGEIn this witty, Borges-like novel, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling Fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real things and facts.' Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of marbles, collections of tools and randomly assorted photographs. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Phineas feels he is hunting shadows. Like a shaman flying across the globe, his mind tracks his subject to African deserts and Arctic maelstroms, where the shapes of myth meet the patterns of science. He meets others building wholes from bits and pieces: taxonomists, ecologists, even travel agents offering 'the trip of your dreams'. In the process he also… Read More

Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Illustrated By Robert Lovett, 1984

London: Penguin Group Australia, 2005. Used. Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the story of a life lived to the full ??? the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man. Over 800,000 copies soldNow in it's 97th reprint

London: Pan Macmillan, 1950. Hardcover/Vintage. Used. HARDCOVER -FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION 1951. BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR TEARS.DUST JACKET IS IN POOR CONDITION WITH TEARS BOTH TOP AND BOTTOM AND SPINEWhen Mr Harrington Brande moves himself and his precious young son Nicholas to a grand house in the deserted Spanish town of San Jorge he is planning on a fresh start for the two of them. And only the two of them. For Mr Harrington Brande is a proud man and a jealous man. His beloved wife has recently fled his stifling love and now Brande has transferred all of his adoration onto Nicholas. He monitors his son???s every move and is obsessed with ensuring that the bond between them is stronger than ever. But history begins to repeat itself when Nicholas befriends the gardener Jos??. Jos?? is like no one Nicholas has ever met before and he instantly holds him in high regard. Brande does not take too kindly to having to vie for his son???s attention with the Spanish gardener, and… Read More

Vintage 1945 edition. No dust jacket but printed fabric coverThe Green Years is a 1944 novel by A. J. Cronin which traces the formative years of an Irish orphan, Robert Shannon, who is sent to live with his draconian maternal grandparents in Scotland

London: Penguin Adult, 1995. Used. A. E. Housman, being one of the most famous and widely read poets of the early twentieth century, is certainly worthy of praise. His 'Collected Poems' are therefore a valuable read because they allow readers to gain an impression of the author's mind, opinions and lifestyle. Furthermore, they simultaneously depict a man who was deeply pessimistic and obsessed with death, and, on the other hand, illustrate a man who was also very much concerned with love, youth, life and the fleetingness of the these concepts.It is easy to understand why Housman's sensitive and sympathetic depictions of heroic English soldiers influenced and affected his readers, as his poetry is often written in an uncomplicated, yet sensitive style, which allows readers to feel as if they are witnessing events almost as the poet writes them down. These poems are also intriguing to read if you are a Shakespeare fan, as it is possible to spot many Shakespeare references in Housman's writing. A… Read More

SOFT COVER EDITION...PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE PAGE...FRAYING AROUND EDGES.SLIGHT SPLIT FROM SPINE.TAPE ON INSIDE AND MARKS DUE TO AGE OF PUBLICATION-1926
.A Collection of Verses for Recitation from "The Bulletin" [1880-1901]
The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation From "The Bulletin" (1880-1901) [1901]...[Editor: This collection of poems was edited by A.G. Stephens and published by The Bulletin Newspaper Company in 1901.]

London: Granta Books, 2004. Guggenheim Fellowship. Used. A collection of charismatic and humorous stories about the bizarreness of the every-day.Things You Should Know is A.M. Homes' first collection of stories since the publication twelve years ago of The Safety of Objects, a critically acclaimed classic that immediately established her as one of the masters of the form. Homes is also the author of four novels, including the controversial The End of Alice. Homes' distinctive narratives demonstrate how extraordinary the ordinary can be. A woman pursues an unconventional strategy for getting pregnant; a former First Lady shows despair and courage in dealing with her husband's Alzheimer s; a teacher's list of things you already should know but maybe are a little dumb, so you don't, becomes an obsession for someone who wasn't at school the day it was given out, and adult tragedy intrudes into a childhood friendship. The stories are full of magic and strangeness and humour, but also demonstrate an… Read More