Literary Criticism from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song (Revised and Expanded)
by Perlman, Jim; Folsom, Ed & Campion, Dan  Editors
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1998
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- Softcover
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- 9780930100780
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, Minnesota, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. Acknowledgements, table of illustrations, preface by editors, "Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction" by Ed Folsom, the poets respond: a bibliographic chronology and notes on contributors. Illustrated title page, showing a very young Walt Whitman; and, throughout the book there… Read more about this item Item Price
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Meanjin: On Love, Sex and Desire,Volume 66, Number 1, 2007
by Britain, Ian -- Editor
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- Used - Good Condition
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- First Edition
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- 2007
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- Softcover
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 11.48
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Macmillan, Melbourne, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour photographic front cover, of Robert Dessaix (and Leigh Redhead to the rear panel), with white and pale peach coloured titles to the front panel and white and blue coloured titles to the back strip. In this edition of Meanjin puts all the… Read more about this item Item Price
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dangerous pilgrimages  trans-Atlantic mythologies and the novel
by Bradbury, Malcolm
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- reprint
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- 1996
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- Softcover
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- 9780140243475
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 13.54
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Penguin, London, 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. second-hand copy, reading creases on the spine, internally clean, no annotations. "So this is a book about fictions: fictions that are in history and are about real things, but which have been raised up a little apart from them, as have the very ideas of America… Read more about this item Item Price
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Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet
by Greer, Germaine
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- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9780670849147
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Viking, London, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. acknowledgement, notes and index between pages 264 and 265 there are 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations (and one photograph). Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cambridge Guide to English Literature
by Stapleton, Michael [ Nicolas Barker -- Consultant Editor ]
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780521256476
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 27.07
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Cambridge University Press/ Newnes Books, Cambridge, England, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 1.835 kg.; XIV, 994 pages, last page blank, preface by author, foreword by Nicholas Barker, publisher's note. Pale gray coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with over 300 black-and-white illustrations across the entire time line of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern Irish Drama; A Norton Critical Edition
by Harrington, John P. -- Editor
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
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- Reprint
- Published
- 1997
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780393960631
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 590 g.; XIV, 578 pages, last page blank, preface by editor, chronology and selected bibliography Black-and-white photographic front cover, showing The Abby Theatre, Dublin, with a green background and green, black and white titles to the front panel and… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of English Literature
by Quennell, Peter
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1973
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780905746432
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Ferndale Editions, London, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. VI, 7-512 pages, preface by author, bibliography and index. Brown coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations and black-and-white photographs from throughout English literature's history. Brown coloured cloth boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Angry Eye
by Harris, Maxwell Henley
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- ISBN
- 9780080173733
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Pergamon Press, Australia, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. (10), 254 pages, in original Brown papered boards, with dust jacket illustrated, based on a painting by Sidney Nolan. Max Harris was the founder of Mary Martin's bookshops, and one of the original Angry Penguins. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Australian Tradition; Studies in a Colonial Culture
by Phillips, A. A
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1958
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 13.54
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F. W. Cheshire for Australian Book Society, Melbourne, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VI, 138 pp., preface by author. Grey coloured boards with ochre coloured illustration on front panel and ochre coloured writing on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, with grey background and black and white writing on front panel and on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Australian Tradition; Studies in a Colonial Culture
by Phillips, A. A
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1958
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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F. W. Cheshire for Australian Book Society, Melbourne, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VI, 138 pp., preface by author. Grey coloured boards with ochre coloured illustration on front panel and ochre coloured writing on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, with grey background and black and white writing on front panel and on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Angry Eye
by Harris, Maxwell Henley
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
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- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
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- 9780080173733
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 22.56
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Pergamon Press, Australia, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Sidney Nolan  Dust Jacket. (10), 254 pages, in original Brown papered boards, with dust jacket illustrated, based on a painting by Sidney Nolan. Max Harris was the founder of Mary Martin's bookshops, and one of the original Angry Penguins. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Theatre of Aristophanes
by McLeish, Kenneth
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780800876302
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. with a preface by author, chronological table, list of figures, notes to the text, select bibliography, index of lines referred to in the text, and general index. The text is illustrated by nine black-and-white figures within the text. Red coloured… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Cambridge Guide to English Literature
by Stapleton, Michael [ Nicolas Barker -- Consultant Editor ]
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780521256476
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 27.07
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Cambridge University Press/ Newnes Books, Cambridge, England, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. bound in original light blue hardcover binding, with an illustrated dustjacket. Preface by author, foreword by Nicholas Barker, publisher's note. Pale gray coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with over 300 black-and-white illustrations set across the entire… Read more about this item Item Price
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Roman Laughter; t\The Comedy of Plautus
by Segal, Erich
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- Used - Good
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First American Paperback
- Published
- 1971
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- Softcover (Stiff Boards)
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 11.48
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Harper Torchbooks/Harper & Rowe, Publishers, New York, 1971. First American Paperback. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good/No Dust Jacket. 350 g.; (11), 2-229, (1) pages, preface and introduction by author, abbreviated titles, notes, index of passages from Plautus and general index. Plain green card cover with white titles to the front panel and green titles to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Second unto None ; Marlowe and Early Drama
by Hilton, Della
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1997
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9781900838061
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Durham Academic Press, Durham, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 300 g; (6), 186 pages, indexed. Bound in illustrated softcover binding. The book, apart from the author's signature on the title page, shows no damage. The author has explored the growth of staging from its Classical origins through the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Literature of Western Australia
by Bennett, Bruce -- Editor
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1979
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780855641528
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 18.04
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University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 1.0 kg; XVI, 304 pages, illustrated with facsimiles of artwork and cartoons from historical sources, and contemporary black-and-white photography. This book is a guided tour through the imaginative literature of Western Australia. It consists of a series… Read more about this item Item Price
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Patrick White; Australian Writers and Their Work
by Dutton, Geoffrey
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
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- 4th Edition
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Card
- ISBN
- 9780195500356
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. 4th Edition. Card. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 60 g; 48pp., selected bibliography. Original paperback binding. The book and binding show no sign of damage. Part of the Australian Writers and Their Work Series, this time dealing with Patrick White and his books to time of writing. Size: 8vo -… Read more about this item Item Price
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Meanjin: Volume 63, Number 3, 2004
by Britain, Ian -- Editor
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- First Edition
- Published
- 2004
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- Softcover
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 12.30
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Macmillan, Melbourne, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Colour photographic front cover, of Bill Collins, with red and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges. Meanjin; Volume 63, Number 3,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Notebooks Memoirs Archives; Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing
by Taylor, Jenny -- Editor
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- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1982
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780710090331
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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SGD 14.76
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Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 500 g; XII, 252pp., last blank, biographical notes, acknowledgements, select bibliography of Lessing criticism and index. Black coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Plain text dustwrapper, with black and yellow background with black writing on the front panel… Read more about this item Item Price
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Adaptations; From Short Story To Big Screen, 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films
by Harrison, Stephanie
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- Used - Very Good Condition
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- No Dust Jacket
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- Second Impression
- Published
- 2005
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9781400053148
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- 1
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melbourne, Victoria, AUS
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Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005. Second Impression. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 750 g; XX, 620 pages, in original photographic illustrated paperback binding. Showing no damage, the book is categorised by genre, and features movies by master directors, offering insight into the process of turning a short story into a screenplay, one… Read more about this item Item Price
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