VOSS. A Novel. by WHITE, Patrick - 1957.

Eyre and Spottiswoode. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Faint dust darkening to top text block edge, with very sl stain to bottom text block edge, and a very small scar to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 478 pages .

N.Y. Viking Press., 1957.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 442pp. Dustjacket worn & a little chipped else a very good copy. 1st US ed. Very Scarce.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, in the pictorially decorated dustjacket, designed by Sydney Nolan. 478 pp. A very good copy indeed, the book in very pleasing condition, clean, bright and tight, the jacket with only light rubbing to the extremities. FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER'S FIFTH NOVEL AND KNOWN BY MANY AS HIS BEST. "Its plot is of epic simplicity. In the year 1845 Johan Ulrich Voss sets out to cross the Australian continent for the first time. He collects around himself a small party of settlers and two aboriginals, and pushes inland from the coast. The expedition encounters every kind of obstacle and hardship. At one time the men have to pass through a waterless desert; at another, torrential rains fall unceasingly and they are driven to shelter in a cave where they lie up, week after week...the most important thing in this book is not the external world through which the… Read More