Author: Peter Carey
Title: Illywhacker
Description: Faber 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing. Gift inscription on front free end paper and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in lightly creased. price-clipped Dust Jacket with a couple of superficial scratches on the rear panel . ¶ ''... and old Australian slang word for a confidence trickster. Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old illywhacker... is perhaps the confidence trickster of all time: funny, deceitful, lusty, and blessed... with the art of disappearing, a trick he picked up from a Chinaman when he was only ten years old, back in the 1890s... Bubbling over with magic, jokes and inventions... ''"

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