Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Library Kit

2016 Profile Books, Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) // Light creases on spine, Tiniest dog-ears on bottom right corner of cover, Pages unmarked and in excellent condition // A conversational and comprehensive overview of a millennium of Roman history // 606 pages, 528g, 200mm x 130mm x 41mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2019 One World// Slightest wear along cover edges, Light foxing along page edges
// A gut-punch collection of short stories exploring home and heritage through its Latina characters against the harsh Colorado backdrop // 212 pages, 216mm x 143mm x 25mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2013 Sort of Books, Introduction by Ali Smith, Translation from the Finnish by Kingsley Hart
//Slightly faded spine, In excellent condition //A lightly-fictionalised memoir of Jansson's bohemian Helsinki childhood // 162 pages, 205mm x 132mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 Picador, Translated and Edited by H.M. Parshley // Cover very gently worn, Slight creases along spine, Lightest tanning of pages // The feminist bible that kicked off second-wave feminism // 762 pages, 563g, 199mm x 131mm x 49mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2005 Allen & Unwin// In excellent condition, As new
// 275 pages, 216mm x 139mm x 23mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1992 Penguin Classics, Translated from the Russian by D.M. Thomas // Light age wear on cover, In otherwise excellent condition // An acclaimed collection of lyrical poems that - even translated - evoke the distinctive early-20th century Russian milieu // 147 pages, 126g, 198mm x 129mm x 11mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 Chatto & Windus, Edited by Susanna Pinney and William Maxwell //Slight overall wear on dust jacket, Small tear on bottom of dust jacket spine //A collection of short stories featuring Warner's irreverent love for the unusual, See photos #4 and 5 for story list // 440 pages, 223mm x 146mm x 36mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2011 Penguin Modern Classics, // Lightest overall wear, In excellent condition // An introspective, character-driven reflection on the life lived and to live at the point of midlife // 248 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 16mm // 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

1962 Atlantic Little Brown, Eagerly awaited by readers for 22 years // Well-loved dust jacket with well-worn edges, Minor wear along hard cover edges, Light foxing on the lovely deckle edge, Previous owner's name Gwen Kelly written next to title page // A dense grandiose tapestry of character portraits set on a Germany-bound ship in 1931 from a master short story writer// 497 pages, 713g, 220mm x 154mm x 43mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988The Women's Press, Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt //Light overall wear, Previous owner's name written on top right of first page // A collection of women who struggling for their own autonomy against societal pressures, from the celebrated, prizes-winning Tsushima //138 pages, 196mm x 125mm x 11mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1989Virago, Selected and Introduced by Hermione Lee // Lightest overall wear // 490 pages, 213mm x 134mm x 38mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2018 Bloomsbury Publishing, Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, #2 Bois Sauvage series // Lightest raise on spine, In excellent condition //Complexities of the American South and the legacy of slavery and racism, all intensely compacted into this contemporary character-driven portrait of a Black family in Mississippi //289 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1974 Picador Fiction // Light rubbing along cover edges Slight tanning of cover and pages,Previous owner's name scribbled out on top right of first page //A semi-autobiographical bildungsroman in Kavan's trademark vivid trance // 190 pages, 197mm x 130mm x 15mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1985 Angus & Robertson // Overall age tanning, Slight rubbing along edges // The enchanting Australian children's bush classic // No page numbers, 199mm x 129mm x 13mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2011 Birlinn // Slightest wear on cover , Lightest crease on spine // An evocative memoir of crofting in the Scottish Highlands during WII // 195 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 18mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2016 Ballantine Books, Winner of the 1996 James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award //Gentle rubbing along edges, In otherwise excellent condition // A philosophical spec-fic about faith, ethics, morality and religion //516 pages, 211mm x 140mm x 30mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2003Faber and Faber//Light rubbings and liftings along edges //A story of love and loss set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat // 312 pages, 198mm x 128mm x 22mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1974 Angus & Robertson, Edited by Edward Burns, Introduction by Gilbert Harrison // Gentle age wear on dust jacket, Light foxing along top page edge, Original review request card from A&R included, Book in excellent condition // The much vaunted yet elusive partner of Gertrude Stein, Toklas' personality shines for the first time in her own words, through her letters after Stein's death // 426 pages, 234mm x 161mm x 37mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1970 Penguin, #7 of the John Putnam Thatcher series// Gentle overall wear, Light age tanning of pages around edges // A legal-medical mystery... // 205 pages, 180mm x 110mm x 13mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW