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The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOn the windswept Cobb at Lyme Regis, a respectable Victorian gentleman named Charles Smithson glimpses a solitary, enigmatic figure staring out to...
The Flesheaters

The Flesheaters

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedA darkly comic and unsettling descent into the underbelly of suburban Australian life, The Flesheaters by David Ireland presents a world where...
The Cut-Rate Kingdom (SIGNED)

The Cut-Rate Kingdom (SIGNED)

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedSet against the turbulent backdrop of wartime Australia in the early 1940s, The Cut-Rate Kingdom is a sharp, satirical novel...
Burn

Burn

$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedFrom one of Australia's most provocative literary voices comes Burn, a raw and visceral novel that plunges readers into the...
Fly Away Peter

Fly Away Peter

$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. In the tranquil marshlands of coastal Queensland, a young man named Jim Saddler discovers his calling...
Season In Purgatory (SIGNED)

Season In Purgatory (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II, Season in...
A Family Madness (SIGNED)

A Family Madness (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhat happens when the sins of one generation reach across decades to consume the next? A Family Madness is a haunting,...
Poems

Poems

$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodJohn Fowles — celebrated author of The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus — reveals an altogether different creative dimension in Poems, a rare...
The Playmaker (SIGNED)

The Playmaker (SIGNED)

$60.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedIn the raw, unforgiving wilderness of colonial New South Wales in 1789, a young Royal Marine lieutenant named Ralph Clark receives...
A Dutiful Daughter (SIGNED)

A Dutiful Daughter (SIGNED)

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn the humid, claustrophobic world of rural New South Wales, Thomas Keneally's A Dutiful Daughter presents one of Australian literature's...
Barabbas

Barabbas

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed., 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens to the man who was spared so that another...
Lively Ghosts: Tales of the Sea and New Zealand

Lively Ghosts: Tales of the Sea and New Zealand

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st edition in book form. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThe short story collection "Lively Ghosts" by Olaf Ruhen gathers tales drawn...
Holden's Performance

Holden's Performance

$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe novel "Holden's Performance" by Murray Bail traces the life of Holden Shadbolt, an ordinary and largely passive...
Deep of the Sky: An Essay in Ancestor Worship

Deep of the Sky: An Essay in Ancestor Worship

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1at aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. DJ with...
Year Of The Golden Ape

Year Of The Golden Ape

$45.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text. A gripping Cold War thriller,...
Avalanche Express

Avalanche Express

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text. A gripping Cold...
The Stone Leopard

The Stone Leopard

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping Cold War thriller, The Stone Leopard chronicles a race against time as a shadowy assassin known...
Storm Of Time

Storm Of Time

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Glue residue on endpapers. Internally sound. A sweeping...
Daniel Martin

Daniel Martin

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA sweeping literary novel of self-examination and identity, Daniel Martin chronicles the life of a successful...
Scan the Dark Coast

Scan the Dark Coast

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe adventure novel "Scan the Dark Coast" by Olaf Ruhen draws on the author's deep knowledge of the...
The Flockmaster

The Flockmaster

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThe novel The Flock-Master chronicles the arduous life of a sheep drover navigating the unforgiving Australian...
An Afternoon Of Time

An Afternoon Of Time

$35.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text. A reflective and quietly moving work of autobiographical...
White Topee

White Topee

$15.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsWhite Topee chronicles the extraordinary journey of two sisters, Steve and Blue, as they traverse the Australian bush...
Wild Cat Falling

Wild Cat Falling

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian literature, Wild Cat Falling chronicles the restless, directionless life of a young half-caste Aboriginal...
Edens Lost

Edens Lost

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA deeply personal and elegiac work of literary fiction, Eden's Lost chronicles the dissolution of an...
Madman's Bend

Madman's Bend

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis classic Australian crime novel sends the half-Aboriginal detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte — known as Bony...
Red Rover All Over: An Autobiographical Collection 1952-1986

Red Rover All Over: An Autobiographical Collection 1952-1986

$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA celebrated work of Australian fiction, Red Rover All Over presents a vivid and...
30 Days In Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (SIGNED)

30 Days In Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (SIGNED)

$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedPart travel memoir and part love letter to one of the world's most iconic cities, this vivid...
The Fat Man In History (SIGNED)

The Fat Man In History (SIGNED)

$100.00 AUD
Edition: later reprintCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedA sharp and darkly comic collection of short fiction, The Fat Man in History presents a series of unsettling,...
By Reef And Palm

By Reef And Palm

$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark collection of South Seas fiction, By Reef and Palm chronicles the raw, sun-scorched...
The Wort Papers

The Wort Papers

$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers chronicles the chaotic misadventures of Jack Wort, a wildly eccentric and...
A Letter To Our Son

A Letter To Our Son

$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA deeply personal and emotionally resonant work of creative nonfiction, A Letter to Our Son chronicles the harrowing experience of...
End Of A Hate: A Sequel To 'The Naked Island' With Which Is Incorporated Song Of War; A Short Story

End Of A Hate: A Sequel To 'The Naked Island' With Which Is Incorporated Song Of War; A Short Story

$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA gripping work of autobiographical war literature, End of a Hate chronicles Australian author Russell Braddon's harrowing experiences as a...
Landtakers: The Story Of An Epoch

Landtakers: The Story Of An Epoch

$30.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian historical fiction, Land-Takers chronicles the brutal and unrelenting struggle of Derek Cabell, a...
Collected Stories (SIGNED)

Collected Stories (SIGNED)

$70.00 AUD
Edition: new ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: N/APages: Yellowed Markings: SignedA landmark collection of short fiction, Collected Stories gathers the full breadth of Peter Carey's early imaginative work, showcasing the...
Water Under The Bridge

Water Under The Bridge

$150.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor stains on boards. Binding remains tight. DJ slightly warped in mylar. A poignant work...
The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian autobiography, The Paper Chase chronicles Hal Porter's vivid and...
The Shiralee

The Shiralee

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsSet against the rugged, sun-scorched landscape of mid-twentieth-century Australia, The Shirallee is a gritty and deeply human...
Mr Butterfry: And Other Tales Of New Japan

Mr Butterfry: And Other Tales Of New Japan

$20.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterful work of short fiction set against the vivid backdrop of post-World War II Japan, this collection chronicles...
A Handful Of Pennies

A Handful Of Pennies

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian autobiographical fiction, A Handful of Pennies chronicles Hal Porter's years spent teaching in...
Sowers Of The Wind: A Novel Of The Occupation Of Japan

Sowers Of The Wind: A Novel Of The Occupation Of Japan

$65.00 AUD
Edition: 1st edCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding tight. A landmark work of Polish modernist fiction,...
Games Of The Strong

Games Of The Strong

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of literary fiction by Australian author Glenda Adams, Games of the Strong presents a sharp and...
Like The Ark: The Story Of Ararat

Like The Ark: The Story Of Ararat

$75.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. A work of regional history and community storytelling, Like the...
Pink Flannel

Pink Flannel

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd impr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsA warm and nostalgic work of autobiographical fiction, Pink Flannel chronicles Ruth Park's early years as a young...
Find A Woman

Find A Woman

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA Australian crime novel, "Find a Woman" tracks a taut investigation through the social underbelly of...
Riverslake

Riverslake

$40.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Set in post-World War II Australia, Riverslake is a gritty...
Short Stories

Short Stories

$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA celebrated collection from one of Australia's most beloved storytellers, Short Stories by Alan Marshall gathers the warmly...
Shake The Golden Bough: A Novel

Shake The Golden Bough: A Novel

$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed,.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of Australian literary fiction, Shake the Golden Bough by T. A. G. Hungerford chronicles the struggles...