Search Results: Authors starting with S from The Library Kit

1987 Virago Modern Classics #111 Introduction by Victoria Glendinning // Slight overall wear, Light age tanning and foxing of pages, Previous owner's name Lynne Oldfield 1990 written on top of first page, Old Virago Press sticker on back cover // The dizzying heights of Edwardian high society and its downfall // 349 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 28mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2004 Pantheon //In excellent condition, As new// The extraordinary graphic memoir of Marji's experiences growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran // 160 pages, 228mm x 153mm x 13mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2004 Pantheon //In excellent condition, As new// The extraordinary graphic memoir of Marji's experiences growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran // 160 pages, 228mm x 153mm x 13mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2009 Bloomsbury, Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009 // Light rubbings along edges, Gentle overall wear, Small tear on bottom edge of front cover // A globally-sweeping novel about shared histories // 363 pages, 233mm x 152mm x 30mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 Bloomsbury Classics, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 // Light overall wear, In excellent condition // A modern retelling of Antigone exploring the immigrant experience and global politics // 260 pages, 216mm x 135mm x 22mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2021 Virago // Slightest wear along edges, In excellent condition // An imaginative archival exploration, structured as a double helical (auto)biography of McCuller's and the author's intersecting queer experiences // 273 pages, 234mm x 152mm x 23mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1965 Victor Gollancz // Light overall age wear // A classic mystery thriller in the genre of a dead uncle and the beloved niece who inherits it all but seems to be meeting all sorts of accidents lately? // 160 pages, 190mm x 124mm x 17mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1985Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker // Gentle overall age wear, Slight creases on front cover and spine, Light foxing on page edges // Touted as the world's first novel, this 11th century Japanese classic exquisitely depicts the Heian court lifestyle and drama // 1090 pages, 234mm x 153mm x 48mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1971 Penguin Classics, Translation from the Japanese by Ivan Morris
//Light overallage wear //A tenth century Japanese classic, an intimate firsthand account of the Heian court lifestyle and drama// 411 pages, 197mm x 129mm x 21mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1965 Hutchinson //Gentle fading on hardcover, Bookplate of previous owner H. Annesley Chappie on second page, Light foxing on title and acknowledgement pages // In her own words, Sitwell offers up reminiscences and anecdotes of her life and work and other English eccentrics // 188 pages, 235mm x 152mm x 25mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1999 The Folio Society, Introduction by Mervyn Horder // In near perfect condition, Minor marks on slipcase, Very light foxing along page edge // A textual gallery of the extreme characteristics of English eccentrics, written in voice of the classic English wit // 268 pages, 715g, 238mm x 159mm x 33mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 Picador Book // Slightest marks on cover, In excellent condition // An extraordinary mix of memoir and science, a thought-provoking look behind the scenes of the racism and inethics that led to an indispensible discovery for modern medicine
// 369 pages, 196mm x 129mm x 27mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1996 Virago Modern Classics #410 // In excellent condition, As new // A classic haunting bildungsroman of love in all its forms // 342 pages, 197mm x 126mm x 25mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2012 Norton // In excellent condition, As new // A poetic elegy to to Robert Mapplethorpe // 93 pages, 186mm x 142mm x 8mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1985 Virago Modern Classic, Introduction by Janet Watts// Slight overall wear, Light age tanning of pages, Ex-library edition,Library label on spine, Various library stamps and stickers on first two pages // A conversational dialectic on love, delivered through a post-WWII worker's family holiday // 202 pages, 196mm x 125mm x 12mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1995 Constable Book, First Edition// Light wear on dust jacket, Slight foxing on page edge, Pages in excellent condition // The vanished world of Kensington bedsits, with an eclectic cast of characters as only Spark can wield //189 pages, 223mm x 143mm x 21mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1994 A New Directions Book // Light overall wear // The incredible fantastic debut of Spark, laying the solid groundwork to her trademarks //204 pages, 201mm x 132mm x 15mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1986 Virago //Gentle rubbing along dustjacket edges, Lightest tanning of pages, In excellent condition // A dissection of the tragic disintegration of Hollywood radicals, posthumously published //447 pages, 239mm x 163mm x 36mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1984 Penguin Modern Classics // Light age wear on cover, Slight yellowing on cover and pages // Three fictional biographies of three working class women in Baltimore, written in Stein's trademark unconventional style, One of the groundbreaking influences of 20th century modernism // 254 pages, 178g, 200mm x 131mm x 13mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1978 Penguin Modern Classics // Light overall age wear
// Two novellas on the complexities of relationships and the things left unsaid // 263 pages, 198mm x 126mm x 16mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW