The Fat Man in History.

First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author "For Philip Murray, with my west wishes, Peter Carey, Sydney 22/8/88" on the title page. The Fat Man in History and Other Stories was Carey's first book to be published outside Australia, and collects stories from his earlier collections, The Fat Man in History (1974) and War Crimes (1979). Dr Philip Murray is an Irish bibliophile and author of Adventures of a Book Collector (2011).

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