The Plains

New York: Braziller, (1985). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 126 pp. Original light blue paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($12.95) dust-jacket. Light wear to to panels and edges, jacket rubbing and handling wear. A few small tears to top rear panel edge. General toning throughout. Protected in archival mylar. Mild shelf wear to edges with rubbing along the panels - particular to spine crown and foot. Top panel edge sunned. Panels with considerably thick foxing - mostly to rear panel. Page edges lightly toned. Interior clean and unmarked. A few bumps to panel edges and corners.

Dust Jacket: Very Good-

Hardcover: Good

“Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel The Plains (1982). The New York Times, in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of". In 1982, he attained his mature style with The Plains, a short novel about an unnamed filmmaker who travels to "inner Australia", where he endeavours to film the plains under the patronage of wealthy landowners. The novel has been termed a fable, parable or allegory. The novel is both a metaphysical parable about appearance and reality, and a parodic examination of traditions and cultural horizons.”