signed
1939 · London
by White, Patrick
London: George G. Harrap and Co, 1939. Signed by Patrick White on the front free endpaper, inscribed to British art and dance critic Nigel Gosling and dated March 1939. 327 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with blue lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good, boards slightly bowed, a little musty, lacking dust jacket. A rare signed copy of the Australian author's first book, which he later repudiated and would not allow to be republished in his lifetime. In 1973 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(Inventory #: 140945338)