928 pages. There is a neat ownership signature on the front end paper as well as an Australian postage stamp celebrating Henry Handel Richardson. It worst fault is that the hinge is cracked along the title page and along pp 926-927, both expose the webbing, but neither affects the binding, which remains solid.A clean, unmarked copy. Stated first Australian edition. "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel by Australian writer Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson under her pen name, Henry Handel Richardson. It consists of Australia Felix (1917), The Way Home (1925), and Ultima Thule (1929). It was collected in 1930 under the title by which it is now best known. Its publisher, William Heinemann Ltd, claimed on the jacket to the 1965 edition, "This is now recognized as one of the greatest novels in the English language."