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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. [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. [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
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
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. 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
Pp. [x]+470, one full page illustration, headpiece decorations; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; ribbon marker; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; text block lightly browned; Bloomsbury, London, 1996. First U.K. edition. *Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. xviii+524; med. 8vo; two-tone papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle sprung; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, 2000. First U.S. edition. *Winner of the 2000 Man Booker Prize. More
Pp. [x]+422, publisher's device on upper free endpaper; med. 8vo; blue papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board a trifle sprung; dust wrapper; Bloomsbury, London, 1989. First U.K. edition. *Canadian author's seventh novel. Shortlisted for the 1989 Man Booker Prize. More
Occasional writing 1970-2005. Pp. xvi+434(last blank), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; red papered boards, spine lettered in cream; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled; Chatto & Windus, London, 2005. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. x+470; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle canted; ribbon marker; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Bloomsbury, London, 1993. First U.K. edition. *Winner of several awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1994; the basis for a CBC television film in 2007. More
Pp. [x]+420(last blank), headpiece decorations, patterned endpapers; med. 8vo; navy papered boards, spine lettered in white, board decorated in blind, edges faintly rubbed; dust wrapper; Chatto & Windus, London, 2019. First U.K. trade edition, Australian issue. *Booker Prize winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. 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 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
Pp. [vi]+242; dust wrapper; Viking Press, London, 2004. First edition. *Author's first novel. More
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
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
Pp. [viii]+374; dust wrapper, edges lightly creased; Fourth Estate, London, 2001.First edition. *A novel set in wartime Britain. More
Pp. [x]+406(last blank); dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Virago Press, London, 2003. First edition. More
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
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
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
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