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Buy online from Elizabeth's: A bookshop you know you can trust...

 

Since 1973, Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's largest second-hand and discount bookshop operations, with 7 stores in Perth and Sydney.
We deal in second-hand, out-of-print and antiquarian books plus a limited selection of new titles.

ABN 123 292 79545  Talk to a real person: 08 63117030 (Elizabeth's Bookshops Warehouse & Administration) Email us and get same-day response: admin@elizabethsbookshop.com.au

Catalogue

The very small (2,500+ titles) Catalogue featured on this website is necessarily only a limited selection of the over 400,000 books that we currently have in stock in our warehouse and retail branches.

Our website search engine will therefore only search the titles in our website database, not our retail stock. If you are looking for specific titles, we encourage you to register and contact us with your Wants Lists.

Because Elizabeth’s Bookshops are essentially hands-on, "bricks and mortar" retail booksellers rather than website dealers, our internet presence is still quite modest. We encourage you to visit our 7 shops to see our full range of books.

Where possible, we have reduced our online prices and have introduced FREE POSTAGE (Red Parcel Regular Delivery) for Australian orders over $100.00 for registered customers. 

Our postage rates are based on the item(s) being within the Australia Post weight range (up to 3 kgs) and fitting in the standard post bags. Some books may be too large or too heavy for standard Australia Post and we will need to contact you re extra postage costs. We will always contact you to get your approval before debiting your credit card.

Note: Our online prices are not always available in our retail shops. Our website operation is conducted separately from our retail bookshops and online prices are only available to online customers.

WE PROMISE TO SHIP TO YOU WITHIN 24 HOURS!

So do try us first, in case we have a secondhand or discounted copy of the title. If we don't have it, there are a number of reputable new booksellers on the web who will probably be able to find it for you.

At Elizabeth's Bookshops, our motto is: "It's not so much about the books you are looking for, it's about the books you find!"

Our catalogue works on the same principle... Happy browsing!

Registering as an online customer

You can purchase from our website as a "Guest" without registering.

However, there are several advantages to becoming a "Registered Customer":

  • You qualify for FREE POSTAGE (Australia Post Red Parcel Regular Delivery) for orders over $100.00 (averages out at an additional 20% saving!)
  • You will be the first to know about Sales, Discounts and New Arrivals
  • You can track your purchases, including Australia Post Express tracking numbers
  • You have a record of past purchases
  • You can submit 'Wants Lists' for titles you are seeking
  • You can indicate specific areas of interest
  • You will qualify for Online Loyalty Reward Discounts (to be introduced)
  • You will qualify for our Elizabeth's Bookclub Membership at our retail stores (to be introduced)

Please click here to Register.

Shop Online at Elizabeth's Bookshop

Browse our Categories. Some have 100’s of titles, others only a handful...
We aim to reach 10,000 titles over the next few months, so please do check us out again soon.

When you browse a category, you can choose to view as few as 12 titles per page to as many as 100 titles (or even ALL titles) in the category. In some of our larger categories (e.g. Fiction, Erotic Fiction, Children’s Books, etc.) that saves a lot of ‘page by page’ clicking!

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ART DESIGN Art Theory, Criticism, Aesthetics
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better". Andre Gide.   Also check out our PHOTOGRAPHY Category   Link to Rory's (Elizabeth's younger son) exhibition in Berlin   ART THEORY, HISTORY & CRITICISM; AESTHETICS Category

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ASTERIX (Goscinny & Uderzo): The Adventures of Asterix (New)
Asterix below rec retail prices, in stock and shipped the same day! Affcionados should visit: http://www.asterix.com     Currently we have a selection of Secondhand Asterix titles on the website.  

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AUSTRALIANA & WEST AUSTRALIANA
Australian Literature, History and Collectibles.   Also check out our AUSTRALIANS AT WAR sub-category in Military History

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AUSTRALIAN ART
"Wherever you are in the world, there's always something about the Australian light. There's something about the sharpness of it, something about the clarity of it, something about the colours of Australia. And, hopefully, something optimistic about Australian painting too." Ken Done

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BOATS Yachting Ships Sea
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. (The Wind in the Willows – by Kenneth Grahame)

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BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, Memoirs
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory". Benjamin Franlin

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BODY MIND SPIRIT : Astrology, Supernatural, Occult, Psychology, Self-Help, New Age, Health, Medicine
From Astrology to Zen, via Sigmund and Carl. Not forgetting DIY Brainsurgery.

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BOOKS ANTIQUARIAN & COLLECTABLE
    Antiquarian and Modern Collectible titles.

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BOOKS on BOOKS, BOOKSHOPS and BOOKSELLERS
"Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read". Groucho Marks

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BRITISH ISLES and IRELAND (Heritage)
"The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it". James Agate

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BUILDING & ARCHITECTURE
"Architecture begins where engineering ends". Walter Gropius

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BUSINESS COMMERCE WEALTH MOTIVATION
"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you." Charles Dickens.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
    "I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me". Winnie the Pooh  

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COLLECTING ANTIQUES
Collecting Antique Furniture, Collectibles, Stamps, etc.

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COOKBOOKS & WINE
"Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one." L. M. Boyd

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COMICS CARTOONS GRAPHIC NOVELS
     “True, comics are a popular art, and yes, I believe their primary obligation is to entertain, but comics can go beyond that, and when they do, they move from silliness to significance.” Bill Waterson

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DRAMA ACTING PLAYS PERFORMING ARTS CINEMA
 We have 1000's of plays and cannot list them all... Please email us if you are looking for a particular title.   Link to Elizabeth's eldest son Toby Schmitz, Actor and Playwright in Sydney, Australia. "Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington". Noel Coward  

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EDUCATION
"When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, 'As much as the living are to the dead.' Diogenes Laetius

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EROTICA SEX FICTION Art Memoirs Photography Fetish
If you find these Erotic Books cheaper anywhere in Oz, we'll probably kill ourselves! "Sex is only dirty if it's done right."- Woody Allen HINT: Click on 'ALL' in items box in bottom right hand corner to see all 500+ titles at once! HINT: Order $100 worth, register and get FREE POSTAGE (adds up to a further 20% savings!) Also check out our PLAYBOY MAGAZINE (Vintage Playboys) Category on this website for wonderful birthday presents - the month and year of his birth in an ORIGINAL Playboy Magazine!

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FASHION COSTUME DESIGN ACCESSORIES STYLE
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” Coco Chanel

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FAUNA : ANIMALS & PETS
"The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long".

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FICTION : (Literature and Bestsellers)
  "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today". Herman Wouk (The fiction shelves in our Elizabeth's Fremantle Mall branch)

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FICTION : JAMES BOND
"Bond, James Bond"."Vodka Martini - Shaken Not Stirred." "A nice little nothing - you are almost wearing" - Bond to Tiffany Case. "Relax darling I am on top of the situation" - Bond    

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FICTION : CRIME (Classic Titles and Bestsellers)
"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge." John D MacDonald

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FICTION : SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY, HORROR
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."

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FLORA & GARDENING
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration". Lou Erickson

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES & DICTIONARIES
  " Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages" Dave Barry

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GAMES : CHESS BRIDGE GAMBLING
     "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing". Emo Philips

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GIFT VOUCHERS (Giftpacked)
Great looking gift vouchers in a stylish black bag with ribbon.

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GUNS and SHOOTING Firearms Rifles Pistols Revolvers Snipers Hunting
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” Mae West

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HISTORY: Ancient, 11th to 19th C, Britain, 20th C, USA
         “God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians” Samuel Butler Also check out our MILITARY HISTORY Category for Napoleon, Wellington, Third Reich, Espionage, Australians at War, etc

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HUMOUR WIT LITERARY PARODY
 "A pun is the lowest form of wit, especially if you didn't think of it first." Oscar Levant

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LITERARY THEORY BIOGRAPHY CRITICISM LINGUISTICS
Discipline concerned with philosophical, descriptive, and evaluative inquiries about literature, including what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth.

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MILITARY HISTORY Napoleonic, Naval, Air Combat, WWI, WWII, Modern, Australians at War
  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte Also check out our GUNS and SHOOTING Category

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MUSIC : Classic & Modern
    "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem". George Bernard Shaw

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MYTHOLOGY Folklore
The term mythology can refer to either the study of myths, or to a body of myths

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PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY
"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100". Woody Allen

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PHOTOGRAPHY
"People say photographs don't lie, mine do". - David LaChapelle

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PLAYBOY MAGAZINE Collectable Vintage Playboys. A perfect birthday present: Give him the original, genuine Playboy magazine published in the month of his birth!
Vintage Playboy magazines have become increasingly collectable! We will combine postage on multiple orders to keep down the cost. All Playboy Magazines listed have been checked and centrefolds are included. A perfect Birthday Present: Give him the original, genuine Playboy magazine published in the month of his birth! We are very happy to GIFT WRAP it, add your MESSAGE and send it DIRECT to the recipient (without the usual invoice). Just request it in the COMMENTS box.

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POETRY POETS
    We have 1000's of poetry titles and cannot list them all...  Please email us if you are looking for a particular title.

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REFERENCE : Dictionaries, Creative Writing Skills
     "At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction".  Elizabeth Browning  

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SCIENCE ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

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SOCIAL THEORY : Anthropology, Sociology
“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.” H G Wells

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SPORT
"Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts."

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TINTIN (Herge) : The Adventures of Tintin
We sell below rec. retail prices, have Tintin in stock and do same day dispatch. Tintin fans should visit http://www.tintin.com/en/

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TRANSPORT: AVIATION AEROPLANES Civil Aviation
TRANSPORT : CARS Vintage General Racing
TRANSPORT: MOTORCYCLES
TRANSPORT: TRAINS Railways
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

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TRAVEL EXPLORATION
"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel." Fran Lebowitz Our buyer's travel blog: Platinum Simply Means You Fly Too Much

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TRUE CRIME & LAW
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies". Woody Allen

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Astreix Childrens Books Military History Cook Books Art Books Literary Fiction Philosophy Erotic Adult Fiction New Age Gift Vouchers