Skip to content

St. Arnaud Books

Australian Books for Worldly Folks

Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog
    • Current
    • Archive
  • Shop
  • Cart
Menu

Garner, Helen. Monkey Grip

“Higgs, Kerryn. All That False Instruction” has been added to your cart. View cart
Garner, Helen. <em>Monkey Grip</em>

$130.00

Out of stock

Category: FICTION Tags: Helen Garner, McPhee Gribble, Monkey Grip
  • Description

Description

Monkey Grip
by Helen Garner.

McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1977.

First Edition hardback. 245 pp.

Jacket design: Keith Robertson.
Photograph by Ponch Hawkes.

Winner of the 1978 Age Books of the Year Award.

Garner’s first novel, a love story set in the counterculture of the 1970s, became an instant classic.

Condition: Protected in plastic sleeve. Inscription to former owner, slight rubbing to bottom boards, back flap has minor curl and there is small mark on back cover from a price sticker. Otherwise, a near fine copy. Includes a clipping of the London Times review of the film version. Can send more photos if interested.

Related products

  • Elliott, Sumner Locke. <em>Fairyland</em>

    Elliott, Sumner Locke. Fairyland

    $10.00
    Add to cart
  • Garner, Helen. <em>The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power</em>

    Garner, Helen. The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power

    $12.00
    Add to cart
  • Clark, Paige. <em>She is Haunted</em>

    Clark, Paige. She is Haunted

    $17.00
    Add to cart
  • Ahmad, Michael Mohammed. <em>The Lebs</em>

    Ahmad, Michael Mohammed. The Lebs

    $27.99
    Add to cart

1 thought on “Garner, Helen. Monkey Grip”

  1. Geoffrey Cains says:
    March 24, 2021 at 4:16 am

    Hullo Jane.
    Interested to buy Monkey Grip; is the inscription by HG?
    Interested to buy the Tomasetti
    How does postage work out?
    Cheers
    Geoff

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Featured


Gerald Murnane, Landscape with Landscape, Norstrilia, 1985. Signed by the author. Sold.


Mal Morgan (Ed.), La Mama Poetica, Melbourne University Press, 1989.


Tony Birch, Shadowboxing, Scribe, 2006.


John Tranter, Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger, 1982.


Tara June Winch, The Yield, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2019.


Coordinating Collective: Di Brown, Heather Ellyard and Barbara Polkinghorne, Angry Women: Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, Hale & Iremonger, 1989.


Helen Garner, Monkey Grip, McPhee Gribble, 1977.


Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, University of Queensland Press, 1997.


Frank Moorhouse, The Electrical Experience, Angus & Robertson, 1974. Signed by the author.


Janine Burke, Joy Hester, Greenhouse Publications, 1983. Sold.

Painting, Ania Walwicz, by Gary Willis, February 2020.

Click here
to read our tribute.

1 raglan street, st. arnaud victoria, australia

Phone: 0421 554 229
E-mail: janegrant@starnaudbooks.com
@starnaudbooks

 

© 2025 St. Arnaud Books | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme