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
Literature
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 from 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
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 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
DROLL STORIES.
Collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honore de Balzac. Translated into modern English by Alec Brown. With drawings by Mervyn Peake. Pp. viii+408, frontispiece plus 23 plates printed in two colours; roy. 8vo; brown canvas, lettered in gilt and decorated in darker brown &..... More
EUGENIE GRANDET.
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. With an Introduction by Richard Aldington and illustrations by Rene ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+272(last blank), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 plates (1 double page), and text illustrations; roy. 8vo; qr. green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, patterned cloth boards; within card..... More
EUGENIE GRANDET.
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by Frederic R. Jameson. Pp. xxxvi+238(last blank)+[4](advertisements, last blank), series patterned endpapers, notes, select bibliography, chronology; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered & ruled in gilt; partial dust wrapper (as issued, comprising a front panel and flap only, with no..... More
OLD GORIOT.
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with an Introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+318(last colophon), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (some full page); narrow impl. 8vo; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, corners a...... More
PROMETHEUS.
The Life of Balzac. Translated by Norman Denny. Pp. 574 frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, bibliography, chronological list of works, index; bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with stains from several tape repairs on reverse; bookseller's sticker at foot..... More
A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX:
Being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades. Pp. [viii]+172(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 7 plates; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial olive green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, red & black, lightly worn; inked ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, the upper hinge starting, tiny ink..... More