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Pp. [vi]+234; med. 8vo; tiny bruise to fore-edge of lower board; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First trade edition. *Shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [vi]+234; med. 8vo; tiny bruise to fore-edge of lower board; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First trade edition. *Shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. 24, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial papered boards, edges faintly rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle marked; Oxford University Press, London, 1975. First edition. *Victor Ambrus has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, once in 1965 for The Three Poor Tailors, and again in 1975 for two..... More
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
Pp. [vi]+256(last blank); two-tone black cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board in blind; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998. First edition. *Winner of the Miles Franklin Award for 1999. More
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel, long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004, and winner of the Commonwealth Award in 2005 and India's Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. More
Pp. [x]+194(last blank), title and headpiece decorations; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper (illustration by Trina Schart Hyman), slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves lightly foxed; E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1973. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on..... 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]+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. 286(last blank); med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Collins, London, 1987. First edition. Loder p. 56; Hubin p. 169. *The 4th Scobie Malone novel. The author received the 1996 Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award..... More
Pp. [vi]+266; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in purple; dust wrapper; leaves lightly browned; Knopf, Sydney, 2009. First Australian edition.*The final volume of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth. Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003. More
Pp. [vi]+298(last blank); dust wrapper;Phoenix House, London, 2000. First edition. *Winner of The Kerry Ingredients Irish Novel of the Year 2000, and shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; square 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards with Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book sticker near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the upper board featuring several die-cuts in the style of a kaleidoscope viewer which reveal the title on the page beneath; Lothian, Melbourne..... More
Pp. xiv+80(last blank), full page portrait at end; small med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; a couple of pages faintly creased; Penguin Poets, New York, 2010. First edition. Penguin Poets series. *American poet Carl Dennis was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. More
Pp. xiv+276(last blank), pictorial endpapers; pictorial papered boards with bookseller's 'signed by author' sticker on upper board, slightly scuffed; ribbon marker; inked gift inscription [not from author] dated 2004 at head of title page; Picador/Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2004. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of..... More
Pp. [iv]+524(last blank); med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, bottom fore-corner of front panel faintly creased; Picador, London, 2007. First edition. *Author's second novel, long-listed for the Man-Book Prize in 2007 and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2007. More
Pp.[vi]+502; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Macmillan, London, 2005. First edition. *The author's first book, signed by him on the title page. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award; winner of the Spectrum and Tahtivaeltaja Awards. A sequel, Ink, was published in 2007. More
Pp. [vi]+282(last blank); dust wrapper; FourthEstate, London, 2004. First edition. *Winner of the Whitbread First Novel prize in 2004 and the 2005 Betty Trask Prize. More
Pp. [x]+146; grey cloth, spine lettered in white, boards a trifle canted, spine creased, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1987.First edition. * Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction by the American Academy and Institute of..... More
Pp. [iv]+282(last blank); demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1987. First edition. *Gekoski & Grogan A18a. *Second of the To the Ends of the..... More
Pp. [iv]+278; demy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, with slight signs of sticker removal at foot of same, the free endpapers lightly offset, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1980. First edition. Gekoski..... More
Pp. viii+424(last blank); med. 8vo; top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2012. First U.S. edition. *The Nobel Prize winner's last published novel during her lifetime. More