Search Results: Authors starting with M from The Library Kit

2017 NewSouth Publishing //Gentlest wear on edges of dust jacket, Book in excellent condition // The tight bond between the fashionable mother and sophisticated son, revealing an intimate insight into mid-20th century Sydney society// 408 pages, 240mm x 159mm x 40mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2015 VintageBook , Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize // In excellent condition, with light wear around the corners // An exquisite, aching mix of grief, falconry, history, and biography // 300 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 22mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2010 New York Review Books, Introduction by Rachel Cusk // In excellent condition, as new // An epic masterpiece of a marriage and a war, detailing the civilian experience // 924 pages, 845g, 204mm x 129mm x 45mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1981 Penguin Book // Slight overall age wear //An epic masterpiece of a marriage and a war, detailing the civilian experience //924 pages, 199mm x 127mm x 51mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1998 Penguin Books // Gentle wear on cover, Slight creases on top and bottom right corners of front cover, Slightest tanning of page edges // The trifling everyday becomes revelatory and powerful under Mansfield's deft sensitive touch // 779 pages, 469g, 200mm x 130mm x 33mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1973 Penguin Modern Classics, Introduction by John Middleton Murry // Gentle wear throughout, Light creasing on cover, Foxing on page edges // A boisterous collection of Germanic portraits, this was the first published collection of Mansfield which hints at the brilliance that has arrived and is to come // 117 pages, 72g, 183mm x 112mm x 7mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2004 Vintage Book, Selected by C.K. Stead // Lightest wear throughout, In excellent condition //A selection of letters and journals by beloved New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, showing a perceptive and sensitive mind //272 pages, 266g, 200mm x 130mm x 21mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1951 Constable and Co // Gentle overall wear, Slight rubbings along hardcover edges, Light foxing of pages, Old bookshop sticker Swain's 123 Pitt St, Sydney on inside front cover // The collected letters of beloved New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry 1913 - 1922 // 701 pages, 1198g, 226mm x 162mm x 49mm //100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1948 Constable // Gentle rubbing on cover edges, Old shop Grahame Book Company sticker on inside front cover, Inscription on front of first page (see photo #2), Light tanning around page edges // Stories from the collections Bliss, The Garden-Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, as well as unfinished stories by the beloved New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield // 793 pages, 739g, 193mm x 135mm x 46mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1959 Penguin// Gentle overall wear, Light age tanning of pages around edges // A insider royal perspective of global events over the turn of the 19th century // 256 pages, 181mm x 111mm x 15mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1985 Secker & Warburg, Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz // Light foxing on page edges // The disillusionment of post-WWII Japan through the eyes of the ten-year old narrator // 253 pages, 222mm x 140mm x 26mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2019 Norton //Light wear on dust jacket, Deckle-edge // The power and sacrifices of women and women soldiers of war set during Muddolini's 1935 invasion of Ethopia // 428 pages, 243mm x 164mm x 37mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2019 Tilted Axis Press, Winner of the 2020 National Book Awards Translated Literature, Translation from the Japanese by Morgan Giles
//Slight wear along edges //A creatively mournful spotlight on Japanese culture and history from the perspective of its marginalised // 197 pages, 197mm x 127mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2001 Phoenix Press// Light overall wear // Part of a social research, Mitchison captures the day-to-day of the lives around her during WWII // 350 pages, 215mm x 136mm x 27mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2010 New York Review Books //Gentle overall wear, Slight water rippling //An excellent collection of investigative journalism and essays in the trademark Mitford wit// 274 pages, 203mm x 130mm x 22mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1998 faber and faber // Gentle overall wear, Light creases along spine and dog-ears // The absurdities of modern-day America as captured by Moore's trademark dark humour // 291 pages, 197mm x 127mm x 24mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW