HIS ILLEGAL SELF.
Pp. [vi]+270+[4](blank, colophon); med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; clear dust wrapper, printed in red, edges a trifle creased, with tiny split at head of backstrip; Knopf, Sydney, 2008. First Australian edition. More
Pp. [vi]+270+[4](blank, colophon); med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; clear dust wrapper, printed in red, edges a trifle creased, with tiny split at head of backstrip; Knopf, Sydney, 2008. First Australian edition. More
Pp. 600; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned (as often), fore-edge of a couple of leaves lightly creased; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1985. Second printing. *Winner of The Age Book of the Year for 1985. Signed by the author on the title..... More
Pp. [viii]+392; med. 8vo; boards lightly worn, the spine cloth creased; dust wrapper; text block browned, the endpapers a trifle soiled; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1997. First Australian edition. *Winner of the 1997 The Age Book of the Year Fiction Prize, the 1988 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the..... More
Pp. [viii]+280, pictorial pastedowns; med. 8vo; white boards, spine lettered in pink & dark red; fore-edges uncut; ribbon marker; ribbed dust wrapper; text block browned; Knopf/Random House, Sydney, 2003. First Australian edition. *The plot is partly based on the notorious Ern Malley hoax. More
Pp. [viii]+272(last colophon); med. 8vo; dust wrapper, top edge of front panel a trifle creased; Faber & Faber, London, 2003. First U.K. edition. *The plot is partly based on the notorious Ern Malley hoax. More
Pp. [viii]+456(last blank), a few black & white text illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; dust wrapper; Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2009. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [viii]+280(last blank); qr. red cloth over grey papered boards, spine and upper board lettered in silver, edges of boards faintly faded, a couple of tiny indentations near top fore-corner of lower board; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges slightly creased, the back panel faintly soiled and with a few tiny..... More
Pp. [iv]+272(last blank); cream papered boards, spine and upper board stamped in blind, a trifle bruised at foot of spine; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; ribbon marker; Knopf, Sydney, 2006. First edition, deckle edged issue. *Signed by the author on the title page. The novel was simultaneously published in two issues..... More
Pp. [viii]+422+[10](advertisements, last blank), full page map, glossary; dust wrapper; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1994. First Australian edition, first issue dust wrapper. *Signed by the author on the title page. The dust wrapper was designed by Michael Ward and includes four review quotes on the front flap. (The..... More
Pp. [viii]+422+[10](advertisements, last blank), full page map, glossary; dust wrapper; edges of leaves faintly foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1994. First Australian edition, second issue dust wrapper. *The design for the second issue dust wrapper is based on Seurat's Le Cirque, and the front flap includes different reviews..... More
Pp. [viii]+282; boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper, edges and backstrip slightly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the text block browned, a few leaves faintly creased; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1979. First edition. More