Sydney, Australia: Ure Smith, (1960). Hardcover first edition - The author's second humorous book under this pseudonym: Nino brings two of his Aussie workmates on a visit to his father at his old home in Piedmont, via Dublin, Liverpool, London, Paris and Frankfurt. "Joe and Dennis's struggle with the Continental way of life enables Nino to get his own back." Illustrated with drawings by "WEP." 220 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Australian writer's fourth novel, sixth book. Set against the backdrop of the Australian bush, this is a story of scientists and environmentalists, Aborigines and whites, predators and prey, all in dramatic conflict. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-671-620053.

Sydney & London: Aurora Press, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Australian author's first novel, set in Indonesia in 1966. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Striking dustjacket illustration by Donald Friend. ISBN: 0-86748-001-7.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Australian writer. Thomas Keneally said 'this brilliant story of a young woman's odyssey in the tormented and self-doubting Isreal of the present is continuously engaging and full of fascinating detail, deftly related.' Winner of the Australian prize in the Commonwealth Literature Award in 1987. ISBN: 0-671-498088.

New York: Macmillan, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the more difficult titles to find by this prize-winning Australian novelist. This is set in the days just following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Queensland Australia:, University of Queensland Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Australian author's first book, a collection of twenty-one short stories. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- with love and best wishes from Marian, Ken and family" and also SIGNED with her full name and dated in 1985. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-7022-17840.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful moving novel by this writer who was born in Australia - the story of a large Australian family (6 boys, 1 girl, with outwardly conventional, but truly bizarre parents) and its gradual disintegration, beginning with the years just before the first World War and continuing through the decades after. Set in Sydney. 247 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon,. ISBN: 0-06-0157976.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel (fourth book) by this award-winning writer who was born in Australia, one which builds up an unexpected portrait of a man. 282 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon,. ISBN: 0-06-0111836.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2000). First edition - Prize-winning Australian author's second novel, a story of war, migration and the search for beginnings in a new land. Winner of the Australian Booksellers Book of the Year Award. 425 pp. ISBN: 0-871138026.

New York: Grove Press, (2000.). First edition - Tasmanian author's very highly praised and prize-winning first novel, originally published in Australia in 1994: 'Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears... In the rainforest waters that rush over him he sees those lives stripped of their surface realities, and finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking.' Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for first fiction and the South Australian Premier's Award. In 2014 Flanagan won the Man-Booker Award. 326 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel, winner of the British Man Booker Prize for Best Novel in 2014. A gripping story, the story of an Australian surgeon in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1943, but one which moves from the wartime years to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of the POWs to the Japanese guards. In a first issue dust jacket without the award medallion. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0385352857.

New York: George Braziller, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth book by this New Zealand author, but her first novel to be set in America- in New York, where Frame lived off and on for many years - the story of a young doctor who choses to study death. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-0657x.

New York: George Braziller, (1990). The twelfth book by this New Zealand author, but her first novel to be set in America- in New York, where Frame lived off and on for many years - the story of a young doctor who choses to study death. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-12847.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2009). First edition - A novel written in 1963, when Frame was living in London, but not published during her lifetime since she considered it too personal. 203 pp.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, (1994). Contains three complete books by this New Zealand writer - her first novel, her first book of poems, and a volume of her autobiography. Introduction by George Braziller. Each is paginated separately - 211, 121, 195 pp. respectively.

New York: George Braziller, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth novel by this award-winning New Zealand author. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-807609269.

New York: Virago Press / Penguin, (1967). Novel by the author of "My Brilliant Career." It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Introduction by Jill Roe. A title in the Virago Modern Classics series. xix , 347 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0161317.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002). First edition - Australian author's second novel (his first was a NY Times Notable Book), a tale of true love set in rough-and-tumble late 19th century Sydney. 198 pp.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel, set in the Australian Outback - the story of several generations of the Carlyon family, founders of Murranji Station, and also an account of the inexorable encroachment of civilization and of the destruction of the wilderness. 461 pp. ISBN: 0-698110749.

New York & London: Viking, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Grenville's first novel and her first book to be published in the US. Winner of the Australian /Vogel Literary Award. Highly recommended - one review called this "breathtaking and her novel is a miracle of characterization...this is a rare and beautiful book" - a judgment with which I agree. ISBN: 0-670-809292.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Powerful novel based on a fragment of history: an unsolved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-374-118892.

New York: Viking, (1983, c 1982). dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-670-411140.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Australian writer to appear in the US - set in the near future, this is a long and complex novel, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes farcical, on the seduction of power and its transformation of character. 622 pp. ISBN: 0-374181586.

New York: Viking, (1983, c 1982). dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) 502 pp. ISBN: 0-670-411140.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel of a man's exile from his homeland. Set in the early 19th century, it tells the story of a young British convict sent to Australia and of his escape into the bush and the spiritual journey that ensues. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-374-256683.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Powerful novel based on a fragment of history: an unsolved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-374-118892.

New York: Viking, (1983, c 1982). dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.). ISBN: 0-670-411140.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press (1984). A novel which tells of one girl's childhood and adolescence in 1950s Australia. 156 pp. Cover art by the author/artist. ISBN: 0-701127597.

Saint Lucia: University of Queensland Press, (1982). First edition - A novel by one of Australia's most highly praised authors, a portrait of one woman from her portentous birth in the 1880s through to her thirties in the early years of the Depression. 203 pp. Cover art by the author/artist. ISBN: 0-702218901.

Adelaide: Rigby, Limited, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a thoroughly researched account of the "brutal annihilation" of the traditional way of life of the thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales. They have dwindled to a mere handful, mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is "an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia" between 1829 to 1940. While explorers like Charles Stuart and Edward John Eyre treated the Barkindji with kindness and received loyal friendship in return, this did nothing to stop the slide into humiliating dependence. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 246 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-72700008X.