Search Results: Australian Fiction from Lawrence Jones

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.

Sydney: Doubleday, 1983. 508pp, map. Or boards in jacket. Edges toned, slightly cocked spine. Dust jacket has extremely light edge wear. The 5th volume in the Australians series of Australian historical fiction. . First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

Sydney: Doubleday, 1984. 447pp, maps. Or boards in jacket. Edges toned, one corner bumped, 2 small scrapes on inside edge of rear cover. Dust jacket has light edge wear. The 6th volume in the Australians series of Australian fiction. . First Australian Edition (Adult Edition). Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 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.

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.

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

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: 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: 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.

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.

New York: Columbia University Press., 1968. 296pp, index, bibliography, chronology. Or gray cloth lacking jacket. Ex university library with usual stamps, labels, bookplate etc but otherwise in excellent condition. Study of Japanese imperialism in the Tokugawa period.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1858. xii, 462pp + 3pp ads; bw frontis. Or blue cloth with ornate decoration in black, gilt title block on spine. Covers slightly rubbed with shelf wear at head and foot of spine, pages browned as usual and short tear at bottom of title page. Muir #862. 19th century novel of the Australian bush. No date but preface dated 1858- this edition c1870.. ALTA Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 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.

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; Paper Children; Little Lewis had a Lovely Sleep and The Wall.. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

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.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966. 395pp. Or green cloth in jacket. Small bookseller label on front pastedown. ,Jacket faded on spine, rubbed along front flap fold, small scrape on real panel, short tear and minor edge wear. Autobiography of Australian author Hal Porter, covering the period from 1929-49.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/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.

Melbourne: A. H. Massina & Co., 1911. xv, 354pp, bw ills. Or maroon cloth with title in black. Minor rubbing and edge wear to boards, prev owners name on verso of frontis portrait, joint cracked at same page, some light toning to page edges. Early collected edition of these poems by one of Australia's greatest early poets. Includes Sea Spray and Smoke Drift; Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes; Miscellaneous Works; Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric; and The Roll of the Kettledrum (Illustrated). First Thus. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Melbourne: Penguin, 1999. 254pp. Very slight edge wear to covers. Or card covers. First edition of the author's second book. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page. Out three men together in a stunning Art Deco mansion. Add a next-door neighbour with appetites of her own. Throw in a young lad, country-fresh and curious. And you have a recipe for excess.As passions run riot, mischief leads to mayhem, madness and murder.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.