New York: Grove Press, (2003). First edition - A biography of one of America's most celebrated and exploited painters. In 1916, his haunting landscape, Brook by Moonlight, was sold at auction for $20,000, a record price for a painting by a living American artist. Yet at the time of his triumph, Blakelock was confined in a psychiatric hospital. His landscapes anticipated abstract expressionism but he who ended his life insane, in the care of a con artist, a young socialite, who siphoned off any money he earned, while his wife and children were penniless. Source notes, selected bibliography. x, 345 pp.

New York: Norton, (1929) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final and best- known novel (although it stands alone) in the 'Fortunes of Robert Mahoney trilogy by this Australian author. The first two volumes had very modest sales and the UK publisher balked at this one - but when it appeared, it very quickly became a best seller in the US - the dust jacket announces a first printing of 80,000 copies - and it was hailed as a masterpiece and one of the greatest novels in the English language. Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. 314 pp.