Peter Carey TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG First Edition Signed

First edition first print hardback of TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG by Peter Carey and published by Faber and Faber in 2001. Signed by Carey on the half title page. Full numberline is 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2001.

The book is in near fine condition (brown cloth boards with cream lettering to spine) with light bumping to one corner. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.

True History of the Kelly Gang is the song of Australia, and it sings its protest in a voice at once crude and delicate, menacing and heart-warming. Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank robber, police killer and, by the time of his hanging in 1880, as his country's beloved Robin Hood. 

352 pages plus Acknowledgements and A Note on the Type.

ISBN: 0571192165

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