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London: Bloomsbury, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A small but handsome production. First printing in publisher's colour illustrated boards, gold and black lettering to spine, map endpapers, 248 pages. Carey returns to Sydney after ten years in New York and embarks on a 'wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery,'
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30 Days in Sydney: A wildly distorted account
by CAREY, Peter
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Across the Sea Wall
by Koch, Christopher
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London: Heinemann, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Original blue boards with gilt title to spine, 234 pages. Jacket is very slightly faded, very light bump to a top corner, top edge lightly speckled. Clean, tight and attractive copy of Koch's second novel.
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Ahmed, Prince of Ashira
by WILDSMITH, Alan
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A quite neat, very sound copy of the first impression. Octavo in publisher's original tangerine boards with metallic blue lettering to spine. 192 pages including line illustrations by Brian Windsmith. Top edge spotty, light foxing to paste downs. An adventure for young readers set in the wild landscape of the imaginary landscape of Shalandria. A young man must decide whether to fight for the future of his country.
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Any Old Iron
by BURGESS, Anthony
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London: Hutchinson, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A neat, very sound copy. First impression. Octavo in publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to spine, 339 pages. Some small spots to endpapers, inside of dustjacket and edges. A comic journey through the major disasters of the 20th century, beginning with the Titanic and concluding with birth of the state of Israel. All this through the eyes through the eyes of two interconnected families: a family of Manchester Jews and the half Welsh, half Russian Jones family.
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The Archipelago of Another Life
by MAKINE, Andrei
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London: Maclehose Press / Quercus Publishing, 2019. Paperback. Fine. A very neat bright copy. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. Illustrated stiff wrapper, 234 pages. Makine is the first novelist to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist.
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Atomised
by HOUELLEBECQ, Michel
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London: William Heinemann, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, neat and very sound copy. First impression. Small octavo in publisher's original turquoise boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 379 pages. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 'The most controversial and exciting novel to come out of France for decades.'
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Ballerina
by BAUM, Vicki
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London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, bright copy. Octavo in publisher's original navy cloth with title in white and gilt credits and decoration to spine, 414 pages.Slight browning to endpapers, a few small chips, edgewear and very light soiling to dustjacket, light offsetting to endpapers. The story of a Russian prima ballerina, first against the glamourous background of Vienna, and later in the strenuously competitive ballet of New York A brilliant depiction of the world of ballet by the author of 'Grand Hotel' and 'Tale of Bali'.
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The Best Picture
by HILL, Barry
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Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in publisher's black boards, silver lettering to spine, 334 pages. 'A railway station in Queensland. A teenager, Robin, retrieved by her parent from the Centre is going home. So is Will, a man emptied by loss and self-doubt.
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Beyond All Frontiers
by DRUMMOND, Emma
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983. Hardcover. Fine,/Fine,. A very neat, bright copy. Octavo in original blue boards with gilt title and credit to spine, 472 pages. Historical romantic novel based on the letters and diaries of men and women who took part in the fearsome campaign on India's northern frontier with Afghanistan in 1838. Flawless.
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The Bleeding Heart (SIGNED)
by French, Marilyn
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A neat, clean and very sound copy of the first Australian edition. Octavo in publisher's original red boards with gilt title and credits to spine, 412 pages. Signed by Marilyn French on the title page. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper, light shelfwear, dustjacket lightly creased. An erotic novel by the author of 'The Women's Room' that employs flashbacks to reveal the affair between two mature Americans who meet in a train in England.
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The Boat
by LE, Nam
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Camberwell: Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Group Australia, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Fine. A very neat bright copy. Second iimpression. Octavo in publisher's maroon boards with white titles to spine, 313 pages. In 1979 Nam Le's family left Vietnam seeking a new llife. Slight age-toning to paper stock. These seven stories demonstrate Nam Le's extraordinary range of vision and moral courage. Signed by author on title page.
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The Book of Salt
by TRUONG, Monique
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London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Near fine - a bright, neat copy of the first UK edition. Octavo in original publisher's boards with silver title and credits to spine. Paper stock very slightly age-toned. 'A compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo-China to Paris, the Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating story.'
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Botchan
by SOKEKI, Natsume
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Tokyo: Kodansha International. First edition thus. Fine. A very clean neat copy without creases. Stiff illustrated wrapper, 172 pages. Translated by J. Cohn. Like 'Catcher in the Rye', 'Botchan is an hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against 'the system' in a Japanes country school is a classic of its kind.
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Breakfast of Champions
by VONNEGUT, Kurt Jnr.
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London: Jonathon Cape, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine,/Near Fine,. A lovely bright copy. Octavo in brown boards, gilt titles, 295 pages. Neat price stamp to free front endpaper, price-clipped dustjacket. All else fine. 'In a frolic of cartoons and comic outburts against rules and reasons Vonnegut strafes the whole spectrum of American society.'
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Brighton Rock
by GREENE, Graham
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New York: Viking Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in fawn cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 310 pages. A volume of The Collected Edition reissues of Graham Greene's work. A few small light tape marks to boards, all else neat and clean. The protagonist Pinky Pinkie,is a boy gangster in pre-war Brighton, a dark setting of double crossing and razor gangs.
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Bull Fire: A Novel
by Harris, MacDonald
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London: Victor Gollancz & Wildwood House, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Original tangerine boards, gilt title to spine, 276 pages. True first edition. A small closed tear to front panel of dustjacket. A strange and exotic tale set on Crete. Near fine - a tight, bright copy.
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Burden of Proof, The
by TUROW, Scott
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London: Bloomsbury Publishing , 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. A fine tight bright copy. First printing. Octavo in publisher's red boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering to spine, 515 pages. Turow's second novel, exploring the story of a defence lawyer after his wife's death.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
by SOSUKE, Natsukawa
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London: Picador, 2021. First edition. Paperback. Fine. A bright unread copy. First printing in illustrated stiff wrapper, 220 pages, Translator into English by Louise Heal Kawai. A heart-warming story about a boy and a talking cat who go on magical adventures to save maltreated books. Listing with Biblio since 2005, we guarantee our book descriptions, & post the next business day with tracking notification.
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Catriona: A sequel to 'Kidnapped' being the further adventures of David Balfour at home and abroad
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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London: The Folio Society, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good,. A very neat bright copy. Bound in yellow cloth with black lettering and decorations to spine and front panel, black and white line drawings by Annie Newnham, glossary. 272 pages. Very good slipcase.
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The Cauliflower
by BARBER, Nicola
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London: William Heinemann, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A lovely bright copy of the first impression. Octavo in publisher's white boards with silver lettering to spine, afterword and bibliography. 328 pages. A comic and irreverent biography of Sri Ramakrishna through the eyes of his nephew and longtime caretaker.
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