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Ceremony Of The Innocent

Ceremony Of The Innocent

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the tenements of Pennsylvania to the glittering, treacherous corridors of Washington D.C., Ceremony of the Innocent chronicles the tragic life of Ellen Porter, a...
The Mimic Men

The Mimic Men

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most unflinching literary voices comes The Mimic Men, a searing portrait of displacement, political disillusionment, and the fractured...
Ladies Of The Rachmaninoff Eyes

Ladies Of The Rachmaninoff Eyes

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the refined world of an elderly Black matriarch collides with the turbulent social upheaval of 1960s America? Ladies of the Rachmaninoff...
The Novel Of Adultery

The Novel Of Adultery

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew transgressions have proven as irresistible to the literary imagination as adultery, and Judith Armstrong's The Novel of Adultery presents a rigorous and captivating...
Life & Times Of Michael K

Life & Times Of Michael K

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary...
The Grandmothers: Victoria And The Staveneys; The Reason For It; A Love Child (SIGNED)

The Grandmothers: Victoria And The Staveneys; The Reason For It; A Love Child (SIGNED)

$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFour masterfully crafted novellas, bound together under the title The Grandmothers, present Doris Lessing at the height of her...
The Wort Papers

The Wort Papers

$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a seemingly chaotic collection of notes, letters, and fragments soon reveals itself to be one...
The Coup

The Coup

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched, famine-ravaged nation of Kush — a fictional sub-Saharan African state — Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû, a devout Muslim and fiercely anti-American head...
Spy Line

Spy Line

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the crumbling facade of Cold War Berlin, secrets are currency and trust is a luxury no one can afford — and in Spy Line,...
Hector's Folly (SIGNED)

Hector's Folly (SIGNED)

$30.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionSome men are defined by their ambitions; Hector is defined by the spectacular wreckage of his. Hector's Folly...
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Call For The Dead; A Murder Of Quality; The Looking-Glass War; A Small Town In Germany

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Call For The Dead; A Murder Of Quality; The Looking-Glass War; A Small Town In Germany

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFew names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral gravity of John le Carré, and this definitive omnibus — complete and unabridged — gathers...
The Vivisector

The Vivisector

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to sacrifice everything — love, morality, human connection — on the altar of art?...
Master Of The Game

Master Of The Game

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the glittering diamond mines of nineteenth-century South Africa to the gleaming boardrooms of twentieth-century New York, Master of the Game chronicles the ruthless rise...
Concluding

Concluding

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the twilight of a crumbling English estate on a single summer's day, Concluding presents one of twentieth-century literature's most...
The Good Companions

The Good Companions

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingA restless Yorkshire farmer, a spinster escaping her dreary small-town life, and a schoolmaster with...
Hotel Mamie Stover

Hotel Mamie Stover

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodSet against the smoke and urgency of wartime Honolulu, Hotel Mamie Stover chronicles the audacious rise of Mamie Stover, a young woman expelled from San Francisco...
The Joyful Condemned

The Joyful Condemned

$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the raw, unforgiving underbelly of mid-twentieth-century Australia, The Joyful Condemned chronicles the lives of those society has cast aside — the destitute, the wandering, and...
Downriver

Downriver

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory...
The Devil's Advocate; The Second Victory; Daughter Of Silence; The Salamander; The Shoes Of The Fisherman

The Devil's Advocate; The Second Victory; Daughter Of Silence; The Salamander; The Shoes Of The Fisherman

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew authors captured the moral complexity of the modern Catholic world with the same unflinching authority as Morris West, and this complete and unabridged...
Franny And Zooey

Franny And Zooey

$40.00 AUD
Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Price clipped, chipping and spotting to DJ, minor foxing to page edges.In the...
Prelude To Waking: A Novel In The First Person And Parentheses

Prelude To Waking: A Novel In The First Person And Parentheses

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Moderate marks and flecks on boards. Unclipped dj, worn with some loss. Beneath the...
On Dearborn Street

On Dearborn Street

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedSet against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth-century Chicago, On Dearborn Street presents the vivid experiences of an ambitious young Australian woman...
The Shoes Of The Fisherman (SIGNED)

The Shoes Of The Fisherman (SIGNED)

$100.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat if the most powerful spiritual office in the world were thrust upon a man shaped not...
The Devil's Alternative (SIGNED)

The Devil's Alternative (SIGNED)

$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ; unclipped, in mylar. Binding: remains tight. When every option leads to catastrophe, there is no good choice...
Ocean Of Story: The Uncollected Stories Of Christina Stead Edited With An Afterword By R. G. Geering

Ocean Of Story: The Uncollected Stories Of Christina Stead Edited With An Afterword By R. G. Geering

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFew writers of the twentieth century possessed Christina Stead's fearless capacity to render the full, turbulent sweep of human experience — and...
The Multiple Effects Of Rainshadow

The Multiple Effects Of Rainshadow

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA remote island off the Queensland coast becomes the stage for a haunting moral reckoning in Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of...
A Descant For Gossips

A Descant For Gossips

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: unclipped dj with small tears. Name penned on fep, small ink tick on verso of half-title...
A Descant For Gossips

A Descant For Gossips

$45.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the cloistered world of a small Queensland town, where conformity is currency and difference is punished with devastating precision, Thea Astley's A Descant...
A Boat Load Of Home Folk

A Boat Load Of Home Folk

$30.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Set against the sweltering backdrop of a small Pacific island in the 1960s,...
Beachmasters

Beachmasters

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the lush yet volatile backdrop of a fictional South Pacific island, Beachmasters...
It's Raining In Mango

It's Raining In Mango

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom the steamy, storm-laden tropics of north Queensland, It's Raining in Mango chronicles five generations of the Luce family, whose story is inseparable from...
Reaching Tin River

Reaching Tin River

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the sun-scorched landscape of rural Queensland, Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River chronicles the restless inner journey of Belle, a woman consumed by an...
Vanishing Points

Vanishing Points

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated and uncompromising literary voices comes Vanishing Points, a collection of stories that tears back the comfortable...
Second Generation

Second Generation

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerRaymond Williams's Second Generation is a quietly powerful novel of class, identity, and the painful friction between where...
Sydney Royal: Divertissement

Sydney Royal: Divertissement

$130.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Worn spine; rubbed cover. Light creasing on corners. Internally sound; no loose pages.Set against the...
Cotters' England

Cotters' England

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the grimy industrial heartland of post-war northern England, Christina Stead's Cotters' England presents a world...
Jack Maggs (SIGNED)

Jack Maggs (SIGNED)

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London, a dangerous man has returned from the far edges of the...
The Tax Inspector (SIGNED)

The Tax Inspector (SIGNED)

$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: faded dj. A searing portrait of suburban dysfunction, The Tax Inspector plunges the reader into the decaying world of the...
The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)

The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith (SIGNED)

$90.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat does it mean to be born different in a world obsessed with conformity and spectacle? Peter Carey's The Unusual Life...
Miss Herbert: (The Suburban Wife)

Miss Herbert: (The Suburban Wife)

$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the respectable facade of a pretty English woman lies a life of quiet delusion and relentless self-deception — Miss Herbert...
The Little Hotel

The Little Hotel

$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. Nestled on the shores of Lake Geneva in postwar Switzerland, The Little Hotel draws...
Early Promise

Early Promise

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA landmark in Australian literary fiction, Early Promise by D. R. Burns is a work that captures the restless spirit...
Mr Brain Knows Best

Mr Brain Knows Best

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when the most confident organ in the room is the one inside your skull — and it has...
Robots, Androids, And Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction Of Philip K. Dick

Robots, Androids, And Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction Of Philip K. Dick

$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew authors have so thoroughly redefined the boundaries of speculative fiction as Philip K. Dick, and Robots, Androids,...
Lolita

Lolita

$70.00 AUD
Edition: 5th impressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some tears along spine now repaired with non-acidic tape.Few novels in the twentieth century have provoked...
Lucinda Brayford

Lucinda Brayford

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn into the privileged world of Melbourne's colonial elite, Lucinda Brayford is a woman of rare beauty, intelligence, and quiet resilience — a character...
Shuttlecock

Shuttlecock

$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Light foxing on book block. What does it mean to live in the shadow of a hero...
An Open Swimmer

An Open Swimmer

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA young man adrift between youth and adulthood, between the pull of the sea and the weight of the world — Tim...