| Australian fiction.Outlaw Ned Kelly (George Mackay) slings his guns in True History of the Kelly Gang. | Australia - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction. | Self-actualization (Psychology) - Fiction. | Automobile rallies - Australia - Fiction. REDeX Reliability Car Trials (Race) - Fiction. Letterpress design label (dotted map of Australia with tracks above and below) to front of portfolio and solander box. The book and portfolio is housed in a solander box covered in Dubletta 3274 blue green cloth with dark blue velvet on the interior top and bottom. The portfolio is covered in orange cloth.
Letterpress design label to both front boards.Ĭopies i to xxv are fully bound in Harmatan Orange 19 leather, orange top edge, blue head and tail bands, gold foil blocking to the spine. The book and portfolio is housed in a slipcase covered in Dubletta 3274 blue green cloth. xiv of the 25 roman numeral numbered copies.Ĭopies 1 to 50 are quarter bound in Harmatan Orange 19 leather with Dubletta 3274 blue green cloth sides, orange top edge, blue head and tail bands, gold foil blocking to the spine. National Library of Australia's SR copy is no. London Review Bookshop Limited Editions." -Preliminary leaf.Ĭopies 1 to 50 contain a portfolio of four facsimile pages of draft/corrected text and a photograph.Ĭopies i to xxv contain a portfolio of eleven facsimile pages of textual and photographic ephemera together with some of the author's research correspondence. The books have been designed by Andrew Stilwell and Patrick Roe and produced by the Logan Press, Finedon.
#A LONG WAY FROM HOME PETER CAREY PLUS#
"A special signed limited first edition of A Long Way from Home printed on 120gsm Logan book wove paper, of which fifty copies have been quarter bound in Harmatan leather with a portfolio of ephemera, slip-cased and numbered 1 to 50 and twenty-five fully bound in the same leather with a portfolio of ephemera, housed in a solander box and numbered i to xxv plus five copies for private circulation. Little of this found its way into the final version of the novel but provides a fascinating insight into the author's preoccupation with how ink pigments change colour when separating (see image).įirst published in Australia in 2017 by Penguin Random House. Correspondence between the author and Narayan Khandekar, Harvard Art Museum's Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Also pictured are the anthropologist Catherine Wohlan, and Carolyn Davey, David "Bullen" Rogers and their daughter Natalie Davey, who all feature prominently in the author's acknowledgements.
A selection of photographs of the author taken by Frances Coady © in or near Fitzroy Crossing (the fictional "Mardowarra"). Typescript with notes and corrections from chapter 8 (A Fork in the Road). Typescript with corrections from chapter 23 (Bacchus Marsh).
Two pages of typescript with corrections from chapter 22 (Bacchus Marsh). Two pages of typescript with corrections from chapter 1 (Bacchus Marsh) Early draft of opening chapter - "very close to being my first step in Imagining the novel."
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