Careful, He Might Hear You
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Very Good + / Very Good. Item #29510
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin retaining original price ($4.95); [6],339pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, small patch of fading at jacket spine foot, brief soil to front flap and top textblock edge, else a Very Good and sound copy.
The Australian author's first novel, an autobiographical bildungsroman based on his childhood growing up an orphan with his feuding aunts. From Harper Lee's blurb on rear jacket panel: "...one of those hard-to-come-by novels you will want to read slowly, the more to savor its many delights."
Price: $85.00