Redheap, First Edition (8 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Australian Edition. VG, Shelfwear, dealer sticker at foot of inner front board, foxing, browning/G, Price intact, edgewear, chips, tears, creases, fading to spine, abrasion, foxing. Novel of small-town life in Australia, originally issued in 1930 and immediately banned in Australia. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Redheap by Norman Lindsay Australian First Edition. Ure Smith, Sydney, 1959. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A scarce Australian first edition of Redheap, published locally by Ure Smith in December 1959 following the long-standing Australian ban on the novel. Originally published in England in 1930 by Faber & Faber, Redheap was suppressed in Australia for nearly three decades due to its frank treatment of sexuality, hypocrisy, and small-town morality. This 1959 Australian edition marked the first time the novel could be legally purchased by Australian readers, making it a historically important issue within the context of Australian literary censorship. While the text itself remains unchanged from the original publication, this edition represents a pivotal cultural moment: the gradual dismantling of mid-century censorship controls and the delayed homecoming of one of Lindsay's most controversial and discussed novels. Condition Dust jacket: Present and protected in a removable archival sleeve. Shows edge wear, rubbing, creasing, and small losses at the extremities consistent with age and handling. Jacket remains complete and presents well overall. Book: Hardcover with red cloth boards in good, solid condition. Binding firm and square, boards clean and well held. Interior: Pages clean with light, even age toning. No loose pages, inscriptions, or major defects noted. A sound and honest example of the post-ban Australian first edition, increasingly scarce in original dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition (Australia). Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ has small chip to upper front panel. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 318 pages. First published by Faber & Faber in 1930 but was banned in Australia until 1958.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. (sl.chipped) 318pp. Very Good copy. 1st Aust. ed. Scarce. A novel of small-town life in Australia. The original English edition of 1930 was banned in Australia as the setting was a thinly disguised Creswick. This was the first edition available in Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1st American Edition of a book published in Australia in 1930 under the title: Redheap. Ex-library with very few usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. No dust jacket. . . . . . . . . Redheap is a story of life in a country town in Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. Lindsay portrays real characters struggling with the social restrictions of the day. Snobbery and wowserism are dominant themes. In 1930 it became the first Australian novel to be banned in Australia.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Australian. Dated December 1959. F-/VG+. 8vo. original red boards gilt (a trifle rubbed. occ. leaf edge spot, internally clean & crisp) in dustwrapper priced 21s (a little rubbed & nicked, occ. short fray, slight sunning to red pigment on spine); pp. 316. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. original blindstamped red cloth gilt (a little rubbed & bumped, splitting to cloth along spine (lower hinge repaired), a little marked & toned, bookplate to upper pastedown; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 318. A good only copy of the scarce first edition, banned in Australia until 1959.

London : Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, in the rare illustrated dust jacket by L. Lapthorn (not price-clipped, chips with loss to head and foot of spine, tears with old tape repairs verso ); pp. 318; related newspaper clippings loosely enclosed; a good copy of the true first edition (not the Colonial Edition which was stamped as such). The first edition of Norman Lindsay's second published novel. The book was banned in Australia when first published in 1930, making it noteworthy as the first novel by an Australian author to be banned in Australia. 'Redheap is a 1930 novel by Norman Lindsay. It is a story of life in a country town in Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. Lindsay portrays real characters struggling with the social restrictions of the day. Snobbery and wowserism are dominant themes.' - Wikipedia. Lindsay wrote the manuscript in 1918, and - along with his other unpublished novels - he 'tossed them into a drawer and there let them lie. Brian Penton was the imp who seduced me into publishing a novel. That was Redheap, which he read in MS. He had written a couple of novels himself, and was going off to London in quest of a publisher for them, and he nagged me into letting him takeRedheapwith him. I let it go with misgivings, prompted, no doubt, by daemonic annoyance over an intrusion of the written word on its form equivalent, and I daresay the virulence of press attack on that novel in this country was inspired by daemonic spite .' (Norman Lindsay,My Mask, Sydney, 1979, pp. 230-31). Lindsay wrote his novels 'as a release from the stress of work' (ibid., p. 230), and their publication caused something of an identity crisis in Lindsay. 'Possibly it was just as well that I was not tempted by the lure of easy money to be made out of prose fiction, and that most of my later novels were censored by the Gestapo of the Customs bureaucracy. To function as a writer would have confused the public identification of me as an artist . I have no doubt that the daemonic control of my destiny took dashed good care that my novels were debarred from Australian readers (ibid. p. 229). Very rare, with no copies in the dust jacket recorded at auction.