Abdullah Mena Mathew Ray (20 results)

Hardcover. vg/vg, mylar covered dj, ex-lib. Australia; 14353.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Imprint Classics ed.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

[viii]+114pp. 8vo. Original cloth with slightly browned dustwrapper, a very good copy. First softcover edition.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Stories of an Indian family living in rural Australia. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#116268).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.(viii)+114. 21.5cm. Hard cover in dust jacket. Slight edge wear to the jacket. A good clean copy. (Stories of India and Australia).

[viii]+114pp. 8vo. Original cloth with slightly browned dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Hardback. Mena Abdullah And Ray Mathew, Angus and Robertson. Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA celebrated work of Australian short fiction, The Time of the Peacock chronicles the lives of an Indian Muslim family navigating the complexities of identity, belonging, and cultural displacement in rural New South Wales. Through a series of interconnected stories narrated largely through the eyes of a young girl named Nimmi, the collection illuminates the joys and quiet sorrows of living between two worlds - the rich traditions of South Asian heritage and the vast, unfamiliar landscape of mid-twentieth-century Australia. The prose carries a lyrical, tender warmth that transforms everyday moments - a festival, a friendship, a family gathering - into profound meditations on difference and acceptance. Groundbreaking at the time of its 1965 publication, the work remains a landmark in multicultural Australian literature, presenting voices and experiences that had been largely absent from the national literary conversation. Hardback.…

Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. Dustjacket. 114pp. Dustjacket covered in plastic. Bookplate affixed to ffe. Very good copy. 1st US ed. Inscribed by Ray Mathew. A selection of twelve short stories that recount the experiences of a Punjabi Indian family living in Australia. Dark-faced, foreign, their children must emerge from the shelter of the family garden.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Some minor rubbing; crease to front flap.; Signed and Inscribed By Author; Signed by Author. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Imprint Classics ed.

First Edition. Pp. [viii]+114; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle sprung, the edges lightly rubbed and with a couple of tiny bruises; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, edges slightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, minor production (trimming) fault to top edge of a couple of leaves, a little light foxing; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1965. First edition. *Short stories originally published in the Bulletin, Quadrant, and Hemisphere.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 106.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 106.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 106.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThese stories re-create a strange and fascinating world, where a child may look through squares of lattice enclosing a garden of Indian jasmine and Kasmiri roses to the sheepyards and paddocks of the Australian countryside. They a.…