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Sydney, Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2001. first edition - hard cover in dust jacket. 'Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer & forger, condemed to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and ordered to paint fish.' 237 x 138mm., pp. 8, 404, 12 col. plates. Bottom board 'bumped'. AUTHOR SIGNED. VG/VG