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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
$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
$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
$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
$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)
$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
$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
$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
$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)
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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)
$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)
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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)
$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)
$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)
$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)
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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...