Pp. [iv]+340(last blank); head and foot of spine lightly bruised; dust wrapper; endpapers faintly offset, top edges of leaves a trifle soiled, tiny graze at foot of upper hinge; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990. First edition. *Winner of the 1990 The Age Book of the Year Award and the National..... More
Pp. 400; dust wrapper, lightly foxed on reverse, lower edge of front panel slightly worn; outer leaves lightly foxed, lower edges lightly shelf soiled; The Bodley Head, London, 1954. First edition. O'Brien (Lawrence bibliography) F0014a. *The empty view of the title is 'the desert of the Arab nomad; the desert..... More
Pp. 264; dust wrapper, faintly foxed on reverse, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1950. First edition. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pp. [vi]+200(last blank); 'wood' patterned papered boards; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2008. First edition. More
A wildly distorted account. Pp. vi+250, endpaper map; f'cap. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of lower board; dust wrapper; Bloomsbury, London, 2001. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
Short stories. Pp. 142(last blank); fore-corners of boards faintly rubbed; dust wrapper (featuring a painting by Jeffrey Smart), backstrip a trifle faded, edges slightly rubbed; text block browned (as usual), edges slightly foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1974. First edition [Library, i.e. hardcover]. *Author's first book, signed by..... More
Pp. [vi]+270+[4](blank, colophon); med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards; clear dust wrapper, printed in red; 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. [vi]+44(last blank), printed in red & black; small f'cap. 4to; beige papered boards, the upper board blocked in light brown and lettered & ruled in silver, bottom fore-corner of upper board bruised; matching dust wrapper, the back panel faintly marked; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1994. First edition..... More
Pp. [viii]+280, pictorial pastedowns, pink free endpapers; med. 8vo; textured white papered boards, spine lettered in pink & red; ribbon marker; fore-edges uncut; textured dust wrapper; text block browned; Knopf/Random House, Sydney, 2003. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. The plot is partly based on the..... 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. More
Pp. [viii]+280(last blank); boards slightly foxed, spine a trifle faded; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1991. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
A Love Story. 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 first edition was simultaneously..... More
Pp. [xii]+402(last blank), double page map; qr. light brown leather, cream papered boards, upper board lettered and ruled in silver, a couple of tiny bruises to top edge of upper board; fore-edges uncut; acetate dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; text block faintly browned, small faint surface graze..... 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
