Murray Life Progress by Alexander Peter (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 391 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 391 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

8vo, 391pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Secondhand, Hardback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.Author: Peter Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets--a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured the harshest and most anti-intellectual of childhoods to develop into one of the most famous poets writing in English today. Secondhand, Hardback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 2000 near fine hardback, page edges and page margins browned, in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's adress label at the top of front free endpaper. 391 pages with index. Illustrations. Bibliography.…

xii+392pp. Large 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. B/w plates. A near fine copy. First edition.

Hardback. From the publication of his first book in 1965, Les Murray has been the central figure in Australian literature. Scholars have faulted his proposals for an Australian canon; writers have bristled after receiving his brisk critiques of their work on the backs of postcards; feminists have scolded him for his traditional views on religion and morality. Yet when Murray, already mired in depression -- the black dog, he calls it -- suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, the whole nation awaited news of his recovery.Peter F. Alexander reveals in this eloquent biography the source and stimulus for Murray's poetry, a life that has been, from the beginning, an alternating sequence of exhilaration and calamity. His mother died of injuries sustained when she gave birth to him; his father, a farmer, withdrew into grief, in some ways neglecting his young son. Even so, by the time Murray reached university in Sydney he was recognized as an odd genius. He could not add -- he remains practically innumerate -- but could learn languages overnight and wrote stunning poetry. Though prone to depression, which led him to live hand-to-mouth for long stretches, he gathered many friends around him, married a beautiful Italian expatriate, and fathered four children, one stricken with autism. Les Murray: A Life in Progress tells the fascinating story of the lifework of a beloved poet. 2000, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very light rubbing at the spine ends and a faint hint of tanning of the page edges. The d/w is also near fine with only very light edge rubbing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated endpapers, xii, 391pp., b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Age toned text block. Spotting to fore and bottom edge. Browned edges. Slightly rubbed Dustjacket. "In 1995, at the suggestion of his publishers, he set foot on the ever-treacherous ground of Les Murray studies. It was a dangerous move; he had not previously written about a still-living subject, and he was aware of what a divisive figure Murray was. It's likely that his being entrusted with an authorized biography, coupled with his South African origins and his devout Anglicanism, may have made Murray's multiple enemies among the Australian literary citizenry suspicious. Early copies of the book were released, and immediately, a week after the sudden death of the Alexanders' daughter, threats of legal action began. The publishers did a volte face, the book was withdrawn, and it was not until a year later that a new edition was released." Gerard Windsor- Obituary The Sydney Morning Herald 29.01.2015.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor tanning to page edges.

Hardback, 16x24cm, 391pp. Good condition (light edge wear; slightly cocked spine; tanned, foxed page edges) in very good dustwrapper (light wear and scuff marks). ISBN: 0195535014.

8vo (24x16cm), hardback, xiv + 391pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (light wear, front flap creased, bumped, scuff marks, light creasing). Bumped, foot of spine a little worn and chipped, a tad age-toned. Light wear. Pictures available on request.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xii + 391pp., b/w pls., map, bibliog., index, Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardback book (near fine) in dust jacket (near fine). The pages are unmarked, in very good condition and fully bound. Hint of a bruise at the top corner of the front board but this corner, like all the others, is still square. No other knocks on the boards. Occasional light shelf wear on the jacket which has no chips or tears. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xii + 391pp., b/w pls., map, bibliog., index.

First Edition. Pp. xiv+392(last blank), 24 plates, full page map, full page family tree, printed endpapers, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in white, a couple of tiny bruises to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000. First edition. …