Patrick White — The Burnt Ones

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition copy of this volume of eleven brilliant short stories by Patrick White. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An anthology of eleven short stories by Patrick White, of which seven of them are set in Australia, and the rest in Greek, or concerning Greek migrants. The tales concern isolation and self-examination, titles including 'Dead Roses', 'Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight', 'A Glass of Tea', and 'The Woman who wasn't Allowed to Keep Cats.White was an Australian author who was influenced by the modernists. He is the only Australian to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is smart, lightly edge worn, with a closed tear to the head of the rear wrap/ Wraps are lightly age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.