My Blue-Checkered Corker and Me
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1982 [first edition].
Octavo, viii, 166 pages.
Papered boards; front cover slightly bowed; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Inscribed and signed to 'Beatrice, / See page vii / Thank you - / Paul xxx' - from Paul Radley to Beatrice Davis, the distinguished literary editor. It's difficult to image a more exquisite authorial inscription. Page vii is the acknowledgements page: 'This book could not have been written without the support of my mother, Janice ... without the baton of Beatrice Davis, who deals in truth ... nor without the guidance of Canada Jack, a perennial old bastard'. In 1980 nineteen-year-old Radley received the inaugural Australian/Vogel Literary Award for the manuscript of 'Jack Rivers and me'. The following year, the book was published and Radley was named Young Australian of the Year. In 1985, he published a third novel, 'Good Mates'. In 1996 Paul Radley revealed that the author of all three books was in fact his uncle Jack, who was himself ineligible to apply for the award ... This signed copy is offered together with excellent copies with the dustwrappers of first editions of the other two books, the award-winning 'Jack Rivers and me' (top edge lightly marked, dustwrapper spine lightly sunned) and 'Good Mates' (edges of the papered boards a little rubbed, edges of the leaves slightly foxed).
Item #73956
Price (AUD):
$750.00