CHATTERTON.
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
Prize winning authors
LONGLEG.
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 Age Book of the Year Award and the National Book Council's..... More
THE WHITE TIGER.
Pp. [vi]+522(last blank); dust wrapper, faintly scuffed; slight signs of sticker removal from head of lower free endpaper; HarperCollins Publishers/India Today Group, Uttar Pradesh, 2008. First Indian edition. *Author's first novel; winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More
BERTIE AND THE BEAR.
Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner pp. 31/2; Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1983. First edition. White (Volume 2) 149. *Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award..... More
GRANDMA, FELIX AND MUSTAPHA BISCUIT.
Pp. [24], illustrated in colour throughout; cr. 4to; plain paper wrappers, stapled; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, corners a trifle creased; William Morrow, New York, 1982. First U.S. edition, proof copy? *Victor Ambrus has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, once in 1965 for The Three Poor Tailors, and again in..... More
MISHKA.
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
ENDING UP.
Pp. 176; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black papered boards, the upper board initialled and decorated in gilt, faintly scuffed, top fore-corner slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel faintly soiled; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., New York, 1974. First..... More
A KINDNESS CUP.
Pp. [vi]+154; boards a trifle sprung, corners lightly rubbed, tiny bruise to bottom edge centre of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed, short closed tear to bottom edge of back panel tape repaired on reverse, the front flap lightly creased; top edges of leaves slightly foxed; Nelson..... 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
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
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 AgeBook of the Year for 1980. More
THE SARI SHOP.
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel. 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 UNTOUCHABLE.
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
IF THE INVADER COMES.
Pp. [viii]+374; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; Fourth Estate, London, 2001.First edition. *A novel set in wartime Britain. More
TURN AGAIN HOME.
Pp. [x]+406(last blank); dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Virago Press, London, 2003. First edition. More
THE LEOPARD.
Translated by Gunnar Poulsen. Pp. [vi]+186; bottom fore-corner of upper board bumped; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper, the front flap vertically creased; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper free endpaper; Anthoensen Press, New York, 1975. First U.S. edition. *Originally written for Ethiopian children and first published in East Africa. Cecil..... More
THE TORTILLA CURTAIN.
Pp. [xii]+356, text decorations; med. 8vo; qr. orange cloth, spine lettered in purple, yellow papered boards, corners a trifle worn; dust wrapper; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Viking Press, New York, 1995. First edition. *Winner of the Prix Medicis etranger. More
RATES OF EXCHANGE.
Pp. [x]+310; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly browned on flaps and reverse side; edges of leaves slightly marked; Secker & Warburg, London, 1983. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 1983 Man Booker Prize. More
THE COURT OF THE STONE CHILDREN.
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
JACK MAGGS.
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 Age Book of the Year Fiction Prize, the 1988 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the 1988..... More
OSCAR & LUCINDA.
Pp. xiv+512(last blank); printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges slightly creased and rubbed; text block browned, scattered foxing and occasional slight soiling; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1988. Publisher's Advance Copy. *Winner of the 1988 Man Booker Prize. More
THE TAX INSPECTOR.
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, Queensland, 1991. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. More
THEFT.
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
THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH.
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