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MALOUF**,DAVID: : REMEMBERING BABYLON

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1993.

ISBN 0701158832.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustration and design by Jeff Fisher, illustrated dw/dj with author's capitalised black bordered white-lettered name and title to front,similarly coloured+lettered author name + title repeated to spine/backstrip and publisher's b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with continuation of front's illustration - and no critic's reviews. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - head+foot with miniscule,gentle pushing and top edge with light creasing - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges exceptionally clean and bright without ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread apart from ny own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,unblemished, sharp-cornered,original dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain grey endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-202pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,poetry epigrams [The Four Zoas, William Blake and 2 verses, John Clare] and to the rear,pp201 a blank and unpaginated, whilst it's reverse is numbered pp202 and has author's Acknowledgements to it.                 See also my book IDs' rja23606 for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn of 'The CONVERSATIONS at CURLOW CREEK' and rja1147424 for a [UK], Uncorrected Proof copy of the same title respectively.                                     See also my book IDs' rja23606 for UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn of 'The CONVERSATIONS at CURLOW CREEK' and rja1147424 for a [UK],Uncorrected Proof copy of the same title respectively.      Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 25+ year-old age. It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of age-acquired detracting faults.  In the mid 1840's,a thirteen-year-old boy is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines.Sixteen years later,when settlers reach the area,he moves back into the world of Europeans,men and women who are staking their small patch of home in an alien place, hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to them. Given shelter by the McIvors,the family of the children who originally made contact with him, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement,but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air.To everyone he meets - from George Abbot,the romantically aspiring young teacher,to Mr Frazer,the minister.whose days are spent with Gemmy recording the local flora; from Janet McIvor, just coming to adulthood and discovering new versions of the world,to the eccentric Governor of Queensland himself - Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge,as a force which both fascinates and repels. And Gemmy himself finds his own whiteness as unsettling in this new world,as the knowledge he brings with him of the savage,the aboriginal.  Internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest contemporary writers,having written novels -'Johnno','An Imaginary Life', 'Harland's Half Acre' and 'The Great World'- an autobiography,some poetry and a libretto ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'.The author won City of Dublin International IMPAC Literary Award with this novel.It also won the NSW Premier's Prize for Fiction and went on to win the Los Angeles Times Award for Fiction later in 1994 as well as being shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and (1993) Booker awards. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.