Description

• A scarce copy of the author’s second novel, … a hilarious excursion through the strange shadows of the sexual jungles of Catholic Australia in the 1950s
• Flat-signed to the title page by Gerald Murnane
• With the ownership signature of Adelaide literary critic Katharine Wannop [nee England]
• First Edition [William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne, 1976]; [iv], 157, [3 blank]; blue cloth, gold titling to spine, slight lean, spine ends bumped, lightly sunned on top edge, name on ffep, small tape mark from review slip [now present loose], an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, edges rubbed, title v. slightly faded on spine; ISBN 0 85561 040 9 / 0855610409