London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [xii], [306] [2] (adverts) : original green decorated boards : top edge green, other edges uncut. Light scattered foxing. Inscribed by the author for Lady Helen Hamilton in December 1924. First and very scarce novel by..... More
![Item #7242 An Ordinary Lunacy [Australian Issue, Presentation Copy]. Jessica Anderson](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7242.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787898135)
Melbourne & Sydney: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Post octavo : pp. [4] [252] : original red cloth with gilt lettering : striking red and pink jacket design by Lacey Everett. Signed inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper and title page is also..... More
![Item #13536 Coda [Signed]. Thea ASTLEY](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13536.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1788585198)
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Hardcover. Post octavo : pp. [iv] 188 : original cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine : jacket illustration by Drew Aitken. From the collection of Colin Steele formerly University Librarian at the Australian National University. Signed by Astley on blank slip pasted to..... 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: Edward A. Vidler, n/d [1923]. First Edition. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [5] 94 [96] : all edges uncut : not opened : address card for Mrs Rupert Anderson (Fairlie House, South Yarra) loosely inserted : pale blue wrappers with dark blue lettering : protective plastic cover. Block edges..... More
![Item #7372 Eucalyptus [Signed]. Murray BAIL](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7372.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784097549)
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp.[6] 255 [3] (blank) : green endpapers : original cloth-backed boards, silver lettering to spine. Signed by Bail on the title page. A fine first printing. The novel won the Miles Franklin and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Newspaper review clipping from..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company [1914?], 1914. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [iv] 307 [9] (blank) : original green illustrated boards. Partly autobiographical novel set in the South Seas and regarded the best of his novels; "...a rattling account of what a young man of energy and alertness..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : 220pp. : original maroon boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine : author's facsimile signature on title page : top edge dyed, other edges speckled. Attractive bookplate for a John Stanton on front endpaper. Title is trimmed with some..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1903], 1903. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : 288p. : original green illustrated boards with black lettering. Uniform Edition printed in the U.K. for the U.S. market in the same year as the U.K. first edition. Attractive bookplate (The Heathcotes) on front endpaper and small..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : vii, [332]p., [12]pp adverts. First Colonial Edition. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Stamp of M. Martin Lending Library on a few pages, endpapers browned, edges spotted, light flecking. With what appears to be Louis Becke's signature on rear endpaper..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1907. J. Finnemore. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo : [240]p., [16]pp adverts. : frontispiece : two other black and white plates : top edge gilt : original pictorial boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Head and tail of spine bruised; corners lightly abraded;..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [iv] [1] 389 [397] 47 [48] pages of adverts : red cloth boards : gilt device to top boards : gilt lettering to spine. Spine stained dark; lean; block edge tanned; endpapers foxed; spine ends pushed and split; corners pressed..... 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
Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929. Savile Lumley. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo : 158pp. : colour frontispiece, 12 black and white illustrations : original orange and black patterned boards. Neat owner inscription on front free endpaper, tiny dent on top edge of front board: edges foxed. Illustrations by..... More
London: Henry Frowde Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. Cyrus Cuneo. First Edition. Hardcover. Med. octavo : pp. [xii], 308 : original blue cloth with pictorial onlays on front board and spine, gilt lettering, coloured frontispiece and five other coloured plates, all page edges dyed. Muir, 836. The coloured oval pictorial onlay..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover : pp. [vi] [2] 439 [442] : green cloth boards with red lettering : jacket illustration by Barye Phillips : red dye to top edge : fore-edge untrimmed. Slight dip to spine; head and tail of spine pushed and tanned;..... 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 and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d. H. Coller. Hardcover. Octavo : pp. [4] 5-256 : frontispiece and three other black and white plates : original yellow cloth : illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped jacket lacking a small piece on front panel and a little grubby on lower cover. A..... 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
![Item #9803 Die Steurfahnderin [The Tax Inspector]. Peter CAREY](https://archivesfinebooks-au.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9803.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709708771)
Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1995. Soft cover. Softcover : [376]p., [7]pp publisher's adverts : original illustrated wrappers : inscribed and signed by Carey and with Greg Gatenby's ownership signature on the first leaf. Very minor creases to covers. German translation by Peter Torberg of The Tax Inspector. From the Greg Gatenby collection..... More
London: Belmont Press, 2002. Eileen Hogan. Limited Edition. Hardcover : pp. [iv] [1] 66 [67] : illustrated by Eileen Hogan : this edition consists of 26 de luxe copies lettered A to Z, 100 special copies numbered 1 to 100 and 100 standard copies numbered 101 to 200 of which..... More
Taibei shi (Taiwan): Huang guan wen hua chu ban, 1999. Soft cover. Softcover : pp. [4] 5-420 [4, advertisements] : original illustrated wrappers. Chinese translation of 'Jack Maggs'. Author's sixth novel and winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and Carey's third Miles Franklin. From the Greg Gatenby collection with his..... 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