Description

• First Edition [Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1961]; 552 pages; brown cloth, gold titling to spine, lightly marked, v. gently bumped at extremities, penned name on ffep, scorch mark on base bleeding into margins of 50 or so leaves [not affecting text], an excellent copy; in like illustrated, price-clipped dutjacket, bumped & chipped at spine ends, rubbed along edges
• White’s sixth novel was the winner of the 1961 Miles Franklin Award
• Jacket illustration taken from a painting by Sid Nolan
• NB We have two copies of this book of comparable quality – if you order just one book, that which is described above will be sent. Photos of the second are available on request