Peter Carey — Illywhacker & Oscar and Lucinda

London and Boston, Faber and Faber, 1985-1988 . First edition. Cloth. The first editions of these two award winning novels by Peter Carey. First edition of Illywhacker (1985) and Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey, in the original publisher's cloth bindings and dust wrappers. The dust wrapper to Illywhacker is clipped. Both novels were very successful. Oscar and Lucinda won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award, and Illywhacker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was received several other awards including the Age Book of the Year Award twice for Imaginative Writing and Book of the Year. Peter Carey is a prolific Australian novelist who is frequently named a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.  In the original publisher's cloth bindings and dust wrappers. The dust wrapper to Illywhacker is clipped. Externally, excellent. There is some light bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and light spotting to the fore edges. The dust wrapper of Illywhacker has a few small creases to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.