Or man as he is not. Drawings by Cecil Keeling. Pp. x+262, frontispiece and 9 plates printed in lilac & black, pictorial endpapers; qr. black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges lilac (faded); tiny chip to bottom edge pp. 259/260... More about HERMSPRONG
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 about EUCALYPTUS
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 AgeBook of the Year for 1980. More about HOMESICKNESS
Pp. x+50; printed paper wrappers, stapled, a trifle marked; Visionvox Titles, 1993. More about RHYMING DOODLES
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 about THE MASK MAKER
Pp. 288; boards slightly soiled, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, several corners lightly creased, occasional slight soiling; Hutchinson, London, 1968. First edition. *The author's second novel, signed by her on the title page. More about ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel. More about THE SARI SHOP
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 about TO WIN A PRIZE ON SUNDAY
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 about THE CREATIVE PRESENT
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 about THE FIRE NEXT TIME
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 about THE CALLED AND THE CHOSEN
Pp. 94(last blank); super roy. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, with French folds; Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 1996. First edition. More about THE BALLAD OF FOOTROT FLATS
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 about DROLL STORIES
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 about 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 about EUGENIE GRANDET
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 about OLD GORIOT
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 about PROMETHEUS
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 about A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX:
Pp. [viii]+390; med. 8vo; fore-edge of lower board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Little, Brown & Company, London, 2007. First edition. More about THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE
A novel. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 252+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, 7 full page illustrations, pictorial tailpiece, 3 full page maps; impl. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, the top fore-corners slightly bruised; t.e.g., others... More about THE AMAZONS
Pp. [vi]+214; spine a trifle bruised at extremities; dust wrapper, slightly damp stained on reverse; Picador, London, 2000. First edition. *Banville's fourteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005. More about ECLIPSE
Pp. [vi]+408(last blank); dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Picador, London, 1997. First edition. *Banville's fourteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005. More about THE UNTOUCHABLE
Pp.[30](including final blank); pictorial glazed paper wrappers with flap folds, slightly soiled; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed;Delta Canada, Montreal, 1971. Buckbook series. *From the library of Australian writer Thomas Shapcott, with the author's signed presentation inscription to him (dated 1980) on the half-title page. More about LAND FALL
Pp. [34]; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the lower wrapper slightly silverfished; a little light foxing; The Quarry Press, Ontario, 1971. *Inscribed and signed by the author, to Australian poet Judith Rodriguez, on Dedication page. More about A POEM AS LONG AS THE HIGHWAY
Pp. 56, decorations; printed paper wrappers, the edges and backstrip faintly faded;Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1979. *Inscribed and signed by the author, to Australian writer Thomas Shapcott, on half-title page. More about SHORE LINES