Peter Carey — Oscar and Lucinda
London, Faber and Faber , 1988. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first UK edition, first printing, of this Booker Prize winning novel by Peter Carey. The first UK edition, first impression of this novel, preceded by the true first Australian edition of the same year. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1988 and shortlisted for The Best of the Booker, it follows the story of Oscar Hopkins and Lucinda Leplastrier. Together, they create and are created by a spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. By Peter Carey, Australian novelist. Complete with its dust wrapper, price clipped. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. The dust wrapper is price clipped and very smart with only minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are clean with only a touch of age toning, as usual due to the type of paper used. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
