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A romantic tale of heroes, adventure and buried treasure and a fascinating scholarly search into the world of Bronze Age Greece - the complex archaeological, literary, and historical records which make up the tale of Troy. 272 pages with 24 pages of colour illustrations and black and white illustrations in the text and endpaper map. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

Historical fiction, a romance set in the times of Richard the First of England. Volume Nine of the Waverly Novels, Centenary Edition. The text of the novel clean. However the book can only be given Good- as cover has come away as has the first five pages and there is ink stain bottom of first seven pages (avoids any text), some minor foxing and minor tanning. Cover shows wear (see photos).

Kim is a half caste white boy in the Punjab whose Indian mother dies when he is very young and then his father, a former soldier of an Irish Regiment, dies from taking opium, Kim has to fend for himself and avoid being caught by missionaries and charitable societies. 413 pages with 10 illustrations. Book in good+ condition and would have been higher but for the cover which is coming away from the spine (see photo).

Revised translation with an introduction and notes by N J Dawood. Its 114 chapters or surahs form one of the world's most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece and provides the rules of conduct fundamental to the Muslim faith. 456 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners name and date on first page, and light tanning.

Eight Lays and nine Miscellaneous Poems and Appendix. 359 pages. Book in good+ condition with inscriptions on second and title page, drawing on short title page, some red colour from cover on small section of margin on first ten pages, stamp embossed on front endpaper, cover has some wear (see photo).

A playwright, Robertson reformed and elevated the English stage. 320 pages with 5 illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners sticker inside front cover, minor stains to first five and last two pages, otherwise pages clean. Cover has wear/damage (see photos).

Ranging over the whole Classical period (480-330 BC) the author describes daily life, religion, architecture, art, and literature of the Athenians. 192 pages including 99 illustrations. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with minor knocks/wear to edges and small tear on bottom rear.

Produced as an accompany book for a stamp series issue by Australia Post. Apart from any literary value the works of people such as Lawson, Paterson, Kendall and Gordon have a historical significance because it constitutes the first serious attempt to adapt an imported culture to its new home environment. 40 pages with 30 colour and 50 black and white illustrations. Book in near fine condition

Egypt was a highly literate society with a great regard for the written word and an unique genre was developed - instructions or wisdom for the education of the scribal class. 48 pages with colour illustrations. Book and dust jacket in as new condition. This is a small book - contact me for reduced postage in Australia.

Tolkien's work is a blend of epic and fairy-tale, uncanny atmosphere and moral force, it is unique in modern English literature. The author considers Tolkien's fiction as a whole showing the relationship of the short prose and verse narratives to the major works. A valuable guide to the enjoyment of the writings. 247 pages. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition with previous owners name on first page.

Booklet to accompany an Exhibition of May Gibbs work. No page numbers but 24 pages with 6 colour and four black and white illustrations from her books. Booklet in near fine condition.

Fifty of Burns' songs, poems, epistles and letters - grave and gay, religious and frivilous, divine and human - with comment and reference to the original. 160 pages with 24 illustrations. Book in very good condition with some minor wear.

Traditional rhymes, songs and sayings provide links with our past which cannot be matched, and they recall incidents and social conditions in history that may otherwise have been forgotten. 356 pages with 11 illustrations in the text. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on front endpaper, borrowing sleeve remnants inside back cover, minor marks on about six pages, minor notes on three pages. Dust jacket in good condition in clear wrapper, price clipped with sticker on spine and back, small fold to flaps.

Two volumes. Extracts from the author's letters and note-books, extending over eighteen years. Vol 1 295 pages, Vol 2 304 pages. Books in very good condition with minor foxing first and last three pages, Vol 2 binding showing inside front cover and top inside back cover but all intact. Vol 2 cover has some wear and green ?paint on spine. (see photo). Vol 1 has some wear to cover. Price for both.

Full of adventure and peril, joy and longing - a selection of our finest writing about the mystery and majesty of the Australian bush. 347 pages. Book in very good+ condition with booksellers sticker on back.

Signed by Pro Hart. A selection of the most well-known and best-loved of Paterson's poems with accompanying paintings by Pro Hart. 136 pages with 51 colour illustrations. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good+ condition with slight creasing on back.

This edition reset with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by Owen Knowles. The most striking fact about Owen's career as a poet is the astonishing speed of his development. The book prints his work in approximately chronological order and so allows the reader the opportunity to follow this development from the apprentice to the last poems written just before he died in battle a week before Armistice in 1918, he was 25. 110 pages. Book in near fine condition.

Translated with an introduction and commentary by Ian Scott-Kilvert. Pultarch lived for some seventy five years from the mid forties AD. Almost all the major writers had done their work and Pultarch's writings are in many ways a summing up of that culture - in many ways he was a backward looking writer standing on the last range dividing the pagan civilization from the Christian - he was a lover of tradition and his prime object was to cherish and understand the greatness of the past and reassert it as a living ideal. 343 pages with 6 illustrations and 10 maps. Book in near fine condition.

Volume IV of the Waverley Novels (Library Edition). Set in Scotland in early to mid 1700's. 526 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners sticker inside front cover, page before title page cut out, minor foxing and some tanning. Cover has ?water stain bottom front and back and some wear (see photos).

No publishing date. Inscription to previous owner dated 1935. The rousing fictional tale of Robin Hood who battled injustice in England in the time of King Richard and his brother John. 338 pages with 48 colour plates and endpaper colour pictures. Book in very good+ condition.