Voss: A Novel
by PATRICK WHITE
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 2811000143
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000141
- Seller
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First English Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket, designed by Sydney Nolan. The fifth book of this Nobel Prize winning author, based on the life of the 19 century Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared while on an expedition into the Australian outback. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award & the W. H. Smith Literary Award. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket, with some wear at the spine head and top corner. 8v0. 478 pp. A very nice copy!
Synopsis
PATRICK WHITE (1912-1990), an Australian novelist and playwright, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. His novel The Vivisector was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31563
- Title
- Voss: A Novel
- Author
- PATRICK WHITE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 2811000143
- ISBN 13
- 9782811000141
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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