Peter Carey — Illywhacker

London, Boston, faber and faber, 1985. First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Peter Carey's award winning novel with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression of Illywhacker by Peter Carey in the original publisher's binding and unclipped dust wrapper.The magical realism novel tells the story of life in Australia in the twentieth century through its protagonist Herbert Badgery. It won many awards including the Age Book of the Year Award for Imaginative Writing and for Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1985. Peter Carey is an Australian novelist who has been awarded the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda (1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (2001). In original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. The inverse of the dust wrapper has some slight spotting. The head and tail of the spine has some very slight bumping. There is some slight spotting to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.