The fat man in history. (Signed copy)

A$1,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Signed

St. Lucia, Qld. : U.O.Q. Press, 1974. First edition. Signed in full by the author on the title-page. Octavo, brown cloth-covered boards in dust jacket (a little chipped at edges, spine a trifle sunned), reproducing Jeffrey Smart s oil painting Cahill Expressway ; pp. 141; pages slightly browned (as usual), small crease to inner corners of pp. 7-10 from bindery. A fine signed copy of the rare first edition of Carey s first book. Peter Carey hast been awarded the Booker Prize twice, first in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda , and for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang .

• Binding: Hardcover

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