Peter Carey — Illywhacker
London and Boston, Faber and Faber, 1985 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition of the second novel by Peter Carey, a work of magical realism set across sixty years through the twentieth century. This picaresque novel follows Herbert Badgery, a trickster who encounters many colourful characters between the late 1910s and the early 1980s.Peter Carey is an Australian novelist and double Booker Prize winner; indeed, this work was shortlisted for the prize.Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.An excellent first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has just the slightest edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are just a touch age-toned to the extremities. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.
