Search Results: Literature from Lems Bookshop

Translated from the French by Maida Castelhun Darnton. The life of Alexandre Dumas the author of classic literature including the Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. 287 pages with one illustration. Book in very good+ condition with light tanning and cover has some wear to back and the letter B written on the spine.

A short play followed by several short stories. 197 pages with 17 illustrations, one in colour. Book in good+ condition with greeting to previous owners and signature on front endpaper, two illustrations loose, cover split along spine but intact and some wear (see photo).

In a slipcase not dust jacket. What the great raconteurs wrote or what was written about them - humorous anecdotes. 288 pages with drawings throughout. Book and slip case in as new condition.

No publishing date. The author has selected items throughout history that lift the spirit, something noble that the past has given the future - in them are enshrined the yearnings, dreamings and strivings of us all. 352 pages illustrated with 78 Masterpieces of Art. Book in very good+ condition with greeting to previous owners and date on front endpaper and light tanning, and minor wear to cover,

244 pages. Book in very good+ condition with small booksellers sticker inside front cover and minor foxing to first page. Cover has some wear.

Poems and works of Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson selected by David Forsythe. Two volumes both 752 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Both copies in as new condition in slip case. Combined weight 3.5kg but no increase in postage in Australia

42 plays by Bernard Shaw. 1219 pages. Book in very good condition with minor foxing to first six pages and light tanning, back endpaper top 2cm missing, cover has some minor wear. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

In 50 stories and four complete novels are all the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective. 1,122 pages. Book in very good condition with light/medium tanning.

37 Plays, and 7 Poems. 1,229 pages with some black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with some light tanning. This is a larger book but no increase in postage in Australia.

Volume 1 of six volumes and covers Jean Paul Richter, State of German Literature, Life and Writings of Werner, Goethe's Helena, and Goethe. 412 pages. Book in very good- condition with page before title page torn out and some tanning. Cover shows wear (see photos).

No publishing date but Forward dated September 1929, no Edition cited. The life and literary achievements of Irishman Donn Byrne. 179 pages with 15 separate illustrations. Book in very good condition with presentation to previous owner on front endpaper, some foxing to front and back endpapers and leading edges, light tanning.

You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion states the author. With our system of punctuation patently endangered it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. 207 pages. Book and dust jacket in as new condition.

An abundant assortment of verbal and visual images that reveals the universal fascination with fathers and their relationship with children as a subject in literature and art. 160 pages with 86 illustrations of which 45 are in colour. Book in as new condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition.

Milton's work was bound to the events of his time including the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy. Nearly all his poems are mentioned but mostly Paradise Lost. Few poets have produced such conflicting critical opinions as Milton did. 136 pages with colour illustrations on 36 pages and many black and white illustrations. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition with small booksellers sticker first endpaper.

Illustrated by twelve etchings executed by L Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake 1808. This issue is founded on the Edition published by R H Cromek in the year 1808. Twenty pages of preamble followed by 44 pages plus the etchings. Book in good condition despite the stain to cover which extends to bottom of first twelve pages (not poem) and does not impinge on any text or illustration. Light tanning and some wear to cover (see photo).

Two Centuries of Tales, Epics, Ballads, Myths and Legends make up Australia's folklore along with the unique and original Aboriginal component. New, revised and expanded edition. 414 pages with hundreds of drawings and photographs. Book in very good+ condition with minor wear to cover.

Groucho Marx was a prolific letter writer and his wit shines through them. His letters and responses to them are kept in the Library of Congress. 252 pages. Book in very good condition.

Livy translated and edited by John Jackson. In 221 BC Hannibal succeeds to the Carthaginian command in Spain and in 218 BC marches on Italy with the intent to destroy the Roman Empire. 180 pages with illustrations in the text and endpaper map. Book in very good condition with previous owners details on first page, some minor marks, light tanning, and pencil margin notes on three pages, Cover has some wear (see photo).

Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificant, a large and very dangerous dragon. 285 pages . Book in very good condition with some minor bumping top right.

Translated from Homer by E V Rieu and Introduction by Jacquetta Hawkes. Homer's Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus and his return home from Troy to Ithaca - a simple journey that took ten years. The story is told accompanied by photographs showing the magical land and sea-scapes that Odysseus and his companions would have seen in their travels. 255 pages with 14 colour and 86 black and white illustrations and a map. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on title page, stamp on last blank page and back endpaper and borrower sleave remnants inside back cover. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on back.