Australian Fiction from

Adelaide: Rigby Publishers, 1985. 134pp. Paperback. The book examines the anguish of debilitating old age, and the guilt and trauma surrounding it. The author's second novel.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1966. Translated by Rodney Livingstone.128pp, four b/2 plates, notes. Green cloth boards in dust-jacket. This book was written by a German woman in 1793 just five years after the first settlement At Sydney Cove. It is the first novel written with an Australian background.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. viii, 253pp, index, bibliography, notes. Or card covers. Near new with very slight edge wear to covers. A stimulating new approach to the fiction and psyche of Australian author Christina Stead.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2000. 185pp. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Short stories.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1966. 166pp. Book-shop stamp on tinted front flyleaf. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Author's first novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1998. 532pp, decorated end-papers. Or cl boards lightly shelf-worn, in dust-jacket. This is a 'story of glamour, greed, loss and one man's life that charts the path for all of us'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Picador, 1997. 495pp. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. Set in Australia, this is a 'dramatic and powerful novel about friendship, love, betrayal and history: an intimate portrait of a generation of people who belong to a land that does not belong to them'.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1997. 485pp, decorated eps. Small mark on the lower page edges, upper page edges a little tanned. Or cloth boards, lightly shelf-worn, in dust-jacket. SIGNED by the author 'All Fond wishes, cheers, Di Morrissey' on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

Melbourne: Outback Press, 1978. 135pp. Or blue cloth in jacket, Very slight edge wear to jacket. The identity of the author remains a mystery but his literary agent presents his work as that of an Australian aboriginal writer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. 153pp. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Prev owners names on front free endpaper, light toning to pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2001. 459pp. Slight crease to spine, minor mark to top front corner from sticker removal. Scarce first book in this mystery series featuring KC Gordon.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Crime Writers Queensland, 1999. 239pp. Or pictorial card covers. Slight edge wear to covers. In this third collection from Crime Writers Queensland are 19 stories set at the beach. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Collins, 1976. 223pp. Or orange cloth in jacket. Narrow faded band at top of cloth (front & rear). Some light toning to price clipped jacket, spine title faded. SIGNED and inscribed "With warmest regards Christmas 1976 Tom Keneally". Controversial Keneally novel which saw him accused of plagiarism- an accusation that was settled out of court for half the royalties.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin, 1998. 236pp. Or card covers. Minor toning to page edges, prev owners name in texta to review page. . First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970. 181pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Tape stains to endpapers, some light foxing and tonign. Jacket has minor rubbing to rear panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Horwitz, 1965. 194pp, Or pictorial card covers. Pages unifromly toned, spine faded and slanted, covers rubbed and creased. "A novel of Australian occupation troops in Japan..at times shocking, always engrossing in its accurate portrayal of soldiers ona dangerous mission".. First Edition. Paperback. Poor / Fair. 8vo.

Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1963. 48pp, folding bw ills at rear. Or stapled card covers. Prev owners name on first page, some toning to pages and covers. Student's guide to Henry Handel Richardson's Australia Felix.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Currency Press, 1985. xiv, 106pp, bw ills. Slight wear to card covers, prev owners name on first page. The two plays which first brought Nowra to public attention as a playwright.. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Penguin, 1995. xxx, 300pp, bibliography. Card covers. Creased at bottom of front cover. Some toning to page edges and margins. hard to find Jolley title with 9 of her readio plays. Included in this volume are Night Report; The Performance; The Shepherd on the Roof; The Well-bred Thief; And Also...1976-77; Woman in a Lampshade; And Also...1979-80; Two Men Running;… Read more about this item

St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1998. 151pp, bw ills. Or card covers. Small crease at top right front. First prinitng of the screenplay for the movie made from Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.