Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [8] 1-47 [48] : beige paper boards, purple lettering, repeated on dust jacket : bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. : library stamp front free e.p. and half-title page. Age toning to boards and jacket; a few small bumps to board edges;..... More
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1952. First Edition. Octavo : pp. xiv, 15-224 : green cloth lettered in black to the spine : unclipped dust wrapper. Top corner of top board bumped; 4 small worm holes to final leaves, board and wrapper, the deepest tunnelling from the lower board to p.193;..... More
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 188p. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine. Signed by Astley on the title page and inscribed on the half title. Author's fourteenth novel. First printing of the first American edition with both the book and dustwrapper in flawless condition..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [6] 223 [224] : mustard brown paper boards over black cloth spine : bold gilt lettering to spine : jacket design by Joel Avirom : Brodart protective cover. Small bookseller's sticker to front endpaper; minor crease to..... More
Melbourne ; London ; Toronto: William Heinemann, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] 283 [1 blank] : inscribed by author at title page, ''For Sidney Elliot, with best wishes from Dudley'' : purple cloth boards : argent to spine : unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Head and tail of spine..... More
London: Duckworth, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (4) 5-192 : orange cloth boards : lettered in black to spine : INSCRIBED to author's mother. Spine is sunned; three small chips to tail of front joint (2mm and 4mm); edges of top board also sunned; edges of block are toned..... More
London: Cassell, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. (4) 186 (2, blank) : INSCRIBED by the author on the title page : black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine : unclipped jacket designed by Michael Bell. Edges of block lightly flecked; top edge toned; jacket foxed. Dudley Raymond Barker..... More
Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : xvi, 182p. Original illustrated wrappers, frontispiece portrait. First printing in superb condition. More
Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [vi] [3] 175 [176] : cover photograph by Darren Boyd. Light handling wear. Author's second novel. More
London: Printed for Tim. Goodwin at the Maidenhead against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1693. First English Language Edition. Leather bound. Crown 8vo : 2 parts in 1 volume : A-P7 [lacks P8, blank] : pp. [16], 167, [1], 167-278, 221, [1] : portrait frontis. by P. Bouche... More
Sydney: Beacon Hill Press, [1958], 1958. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [6] 47 [48] : pale tan boards and jacket. Small dent to spine and associated section on the jacket's spine; tanned section to endpapers; dust jacket spine tender, darkened and split at ends. "Born in England, Brabazon came to..... More
London ; New York ; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [x] 52 [2 blank] : dust jacket illustrated with the church of La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona. Foxing to covers and block edges. ''A sophisticated tough intelligence saturates the archetypal material. His technique dazzles, and through..... More
Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Presss, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [x] 214: original black boards with silver-blocked lettering on spine : 16 pages of black and white illustrations. First printing with both the book and dustjacket in mint condition. Biography of arguably Australia's finest science fiction writer..... More
London: Calder and Boyers, 1969. First Edition. Post 8vo : pp. [4] 5-[160] : olive boards with gold metallic lettering : dust jacket with photo montage by Carol Burns. Minor foxing to endpapers and edges of the block: jacket lightly creased along top edge, lower cover soiled. Burns' fourth work..... More
[Copenhagen]: Samleren, 2002. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [6] 407 [408] : illustrated wrappers with French flaps : Greg Gatenby signature to sub-title page. Light handling wear. Original Danish edition of Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel. From the Greg Gatenby collection with his signature. Gatenby was the Canadian author..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Krüger, 1999. First German Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : [416]pp. : original red boards : endpaper maps : black ribbon marker. A few minor spots to bottom edge. First German printing in superb dustwrapper. Translated from the English by Regina Rawlinson. More
[Copenhagen]: Samlerens Forlag, 2000. First Danish Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : 290pp. : original illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Chipping to the extremities, internally excellent. An about very good copy of the scarce first Danish translation. From the Greg Gatenby collection with his signature on front free endpaper. Gatenby was..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover : [viii] [3] 4-304 : original cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine : illustrated title page : fore-edge uncut. Slight bumping to the top and tail of the spine and associated slight creasing to the..... More
Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1998. Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Softcover : 304pp. : original orange wrappers : SIGNED by Carey at title : related ephemera. Proof for the Canadian edition using the US sheets with Australian and UK review sheet, color facsimile of jacket and review sheet for 'The..... More
Milsons Point NSW: Knopf Random House Australia, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [viii] 280 : white ribbed boards : pink and red lettering to spine : ribbon marker : pictorial and bright pink endpapers :illustrated jacket designed by Jenny Grigg : untrimmed fore-edge : publisher's promotional postcard for..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [4] 265 [280] : signed by Greg Gatenby (see below) : brown boards : gilt lettering to spine : illustrated jacket. Head of spine gently pressed; scratch line to back of jacket. From the Greg..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [viii] [2] 279 [280] : signed on title page by Carey : black cloth boards : white dust jacket illustrated by Pierre le Tan. Tanning to block edges and page margins; jacket spine ends a little creased. More
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994. First Edition; Publisher's Advance Copy. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [viii] [4] 422 [432] : signed by Peter Carey on the title page : gold cover. Head and tail of spine creased; light handling wear. Publisher's advance copy for the first edition of..... More
