First edition. 8vo. 192 pp. Black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, with author's photograph to back panel by noted photographer, social essayist and public performer, William Yang. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London. Preceding the Australian issue printed with green boards at the Griffin Press in Adelaide.
Page edges moderately tanned, else Fine.
Author's last novel, recounting the eccentric, often fantastical recollections of a late leading lady, purportedly written in the first person and "edited" by White himself, a frequent target of her scorn. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature", according to the Swedish Academy's citation. "A tour de force of the imagination." –New Statesman
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