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Children's Classics Collection by Various
$80.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Book 1 (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ian Fleming, Joe Berger
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle; Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. Chitty and the ...Show more
Cider with Rosie (Collector's Library) by Laurie Lee
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
"Cider with Rosie" is the first part of the poet Laurie Lee's (1914-1997) autobiographical trilogy. It describes his life in the Gloucestershire village of Slad from his earliest years until he was twenty. He tells of thin winters, fat summers, local legends and ghosts, of neighbours and relations, and ...Show more
Classic Cat Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Becky Brown (ed.)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Collector's Library
Cats, be they much loved pets or inscrutable creatures, lend themselves to stories and literary invention. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited by Becky Brown.C ...Show more
Classic Dog Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by HALLEY, ED. NED
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
From the grit of a frontier man's dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they're all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These be ...Show more
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story ...Show more
Classic Science Fiction Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science-fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies and vividly imagined worlds. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ...Show more
Collectors Library Assorted (Collector's Library) by Various
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
"Kim" (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. Two men - Kim, a boy gr ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this first collected edition of M. R. James's "Complete Ghost Stories" is by the well-known crime writer and eminent Sherlockian, David Stua ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart (AFT) M. R.; Davies James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew o ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more