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
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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
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
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
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
HOTEL DU LAC.
Pp. 184; boards a trifle canted, fore-corners lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed, Booker Prize sticker below title on front panel, the laminate occasionally slightly wrinkled; cancelled bookplate of Australian journalist and critic Neil Jillett (designed by Spooner), on the upper pastedown, another owner's inked..... 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
OSCAR & LUCINDA.
Pp. xiv+512(last blank); edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; text block browned (as often), pp. 197/8 slightly creased at top edge, the endpapers and edges a trifle foxed; University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1988. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Carey's first Booker..... More
PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA.
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
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG.
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
THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH.
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
QUARANTINE.
Pp. [vi]+244(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Viking, London, 1997. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 1997 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 1997 Whitbread Novel Award. More
INNOCENCE.
Pp. 224; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in red; dust wrapper, edges faintly creased; fore-edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1986. First U.S. edition. *The author won the Booker Prize in 1979 for her third novel, Offshore. More
THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS.
Pp. [viii]+294, pictorial endpapers; dust wrapper; Virago Press, London, 2008. First edition.*Shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More
THE ELECTRIC MICHELANGELO.
Pp. [iv]+340; pictorial paper wrappers; dust wrapper; Faber & Faber, London, 2004. First edition, as issued. *Signed by the author on title page. Shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. More
NOTES ON A SCANDAL.
Pp. [vi]+246; dust wrapper; Viking, London, 2003. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Basis for the 2006 film of the same name, staring Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy. More
CARRY ME DOWN.
Pp. [x]+338(last blank); pictorial glazed paper wrappers with flap folds; Canongate, London, 2006. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. More
SCHINDLER'S ARK.
Pp. 432, 3 full page maps, glossary; dust wrapper, faintly scuffed, the backstrip a trifle faded; a couple of spots of foxing; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1982 Man Booker Prize; the basis for the 1993 film..... More
ATONEMENT.
Pp. [viii]+376(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; name in red ink at head of half-title page, edges of leaves faintly marked; Jonathan Cape, London, 2001. First Australian edition. *Shortlisted for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. *The basis for a 2007 film starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave. More
ON CHESIL BEACH.
Pp. [vi]+170(last blank); edges of boards slightly chipped, fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper, the front panel faintly soiled, edges a trifle creased; tiny spot of foxing to fore-edge of a couple of leaves; Jonathan Cape, London, 2007. First trade edition. *Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. More
A BEND IN THE RIVER.
Pp. [viii]+278+[2](last blank, colophon); black cloth, lettered in gilt, with publisher's device in blind at foot of lower board, the cloth faintly scuffed; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges lightly rubbed and split; lower pastedown slightly soiled, a little light foxing; Alfred A. Knopf..... More
A BEND IN THE RIVER.
Pp. 296; bottom fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly foxed, the backstrip slightly browned; inked ownership inscription (dated 1979) on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Andre Deutsch, London, 1979. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize. V. S...... More
THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL.
A novel in five sections. Pp. 318; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel slightly scuffed; commercial bookplate with name added in ink on upper pastedown, tiny stain near bottom fore-corner of pages 106 & 107; Viking, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1987. First edition. More