RESURRECTIONS.
Pp. 120, dual language text (English and an unidentified Slavic dialect); pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 1989. More
Literature
THE MAN IN THE MIRROR.
A novel of espionage. Pp. 224; printed paper wrappers; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed; Gollancz, London, 1965. Proof copy. *Publisher's With Compliments slip loosely inserted. More
LAIR OF THE LIZARD.
Pp. [viii]+248; dust wrapper; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. First edition. *The fourth Tony Lowell mystery. More
THE MIDAS CONSEQUENCE.
Pp. [vi]+214; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition. More
THE HIDING PLACE.
Pp. [vi]+282; dust wrapper; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Picador, London, 2000. First edition. *Author's first novel, winner of The Guardian First Book Prize and shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize. More
ANGEL OF HONOUR.
Pp. [vi]+360; med. 8vo; edges of boards slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed and split; small tape mark near top edge of first page, name in ink on verso of title page, a couple of corners slightly creased; MacMillan Australia, Sydney, 1991. First edition. More
THE SECRET PURPOSES.
Pp. [viii]+408, 4 full page maps; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of boards bumped; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Little, Brown & Company, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's third novel; signed by him on the title page. More
REMAINS SILENT.
Pp. [viii]+232(last colophon); med. 8vo; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, red papered boards, bottom fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005. First edition. *Signed by both authors on the title page. More
CAMOUFLAGE.
Pp. [vi]+86(last blank); f'cap. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2000. First edition. *Two short stories, the second of which (The Seduction of My Sister) was previously published in The Drover's Wife and Other Stories (1998). More
CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS and other stories.
Pp. [x]+184(last blank), one text illustration; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1975. First edition [Library, i.e. hardcover]. *Author's first book, published primarily as a paperback, with only a small number of casebound copies intended for libraries. More
EUCALYPTUS.
Pp. [vi]+256(last blank); two-tone cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board in blind; dust wrapper; text block browned, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998. First edition. *Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 1999. More
HOLDEN'S PERFORMANCE.
Pp. [vi]+354(last blank); edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned at edges; Viking, Melbourne, 1987. First edition. *Winner of the 1988 Victorian Premier's Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. More
HOMESICKNESS.
Pp. 318(last blank); corners of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, National Book Council award winner sticker on front panel; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980. First Australian edition. *Author's first novel; joint winner of The Age Book of the Year for 1980. More
LONGHAND.
A writer's notebook. Pp. [vi]+142; printed stiff paper wrappers, the lower wrapper faintly soiled and a trifle rubbed; text block browned; McPhee Gribble Publishers, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *'In 1968 Murray Bail left Australia for the first time. After living in India, he arrived in London mid-1970. Taken from his..... More
NOTEBOOKS 1970-2003.
Pp. [iv]+305; f'cap. 8vo; dust wrapper; Harvill/Secker, London, 2005. First edition, Australian printing. *'A rare and fascinating glimpse into a writer's life, taken form the working notebooks of Murray Bail when he was an unknown writer living in London from 1970-74 and Sydney 1988-2003 after the publication of Eucalyptus and..... More
THE PAGES.
Pp. [vi]+200(last blank); 'wood' patterned papered boards; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2008. First edition. More
THE VOYAGE.
Pp. [viii]+200; dust wrapper, faint signs of sticker removal near bottom edge of back panel; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012. First edition. More
RHYMING DOODLES.
Pp. x+50; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle marked; Visionvox Titles, 1993. More
THE MASK MAKER.
Pp. 222(last blank); dust wrapper, bottom edge slightly rubbed; production (trimming) fault pp. 93-6; Macmillan, London, 1974. First U.K. edition. Loder, p. 10. *With publisher's review slip tipped-in at front. More
THE SARI SHOP.
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel. More
TO WIN A PRIZE ON SUNDAY.
Pp. 316(last blank); price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn; fore-edges of leaves a trifle soiled; Souvenir Press, London, 1966. First edition. *Author's first novel. More
THE CREATIVE PRESENT.
Notes on contemporary American fiction. Pp. xx+266(last blank), bibliographies; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, small surface graze to front panel, the back panel a trifle soiled; Doubleday , New York, 1963. First edition. *Ten well-known critics describe and evaluate the work of seventeen leading American writers of the..... More
SEA BIRD.
Illustrated by Bev Grazier. Pp. [iv]+72+[4](advertisements), pictorial headpieces and decorations; pictorial paper wrappers; text block slightly browned; Scholastic Australia, Sydney, 2002. First paperback edition. *Inscribed and signed by Margaret Balderson (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) on the half-title page, above another (unidentified) inscription, also to Ullin. In 1969 Margaret Balderson..... More
THE FIRE NEXT TIME.
Pp. 112; boards slightly sprung; bottom fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, the front panel slightly scratched; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves slightly soiled, including a tiny damp stain; Michael..... More
THE CALLED AND THE CHOSEN.
The Diary of Sister Ursula Auberon, Enclosed Nun at the Abbaye de la Sainte Croix, Framleghen. Pp. 358(last blank); boards a trifle canted; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, the back panel slightly soiled; a little light foxing; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1957. First U.K. edition. More