Patrick White — Voss

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an acclaimed modernist novel following a Prussian explorer in the Outback, written by the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature to date. The first edition of Voss, the acclaimed fifth novel of prolific Australian author Patrick White. In the publisher's original blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Inspired by the life of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian explorer who famously disappeared on an expedition in the Australian outback, the novel is an excellent example of modernist literature. Much of the novel centered around the complex thoughts surrounding Voss and is riddled with religious symbolism throughout. The novel was listed among the one hundred greatest in the English language by the Guardian in 2015, and Patrick would later win the Nobel Prize for Literautre in 1973. In the publisher's original blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with minimal marks. Knocks to the extremities, faint to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is mostly bright and clean, with slight browning and fading to wrapper spine. Slight nicking to wrapper joints, with minor browning to top edges of fly leaves and a couple of minor nicks to wrapper head of spine. Small closed tear to top edge of front wrapper with tape to reverse. Slight offsetting to free end papers, with faint spots to pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Faint browning to fore-edges. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.