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Riders in the Chariot
by WHITE, Patrick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover : pp. [x] [2] 532 [534] : dark blue cloth covered boards : blind stamped author's initials to top board and gilt lettering to spine : top edge tinted blue : illustrated mostly blue jacket designed by George Salter : [Hubber/Smith, H1a]
Very faint mark to top board and tail edge; light scratch to fore-edge of block; jacket edge a little creased. The true first printing published several weeks prior to the UK edition. The novel won White his second Miles Franklin Award.
Very faint mark to top board and tail edge; light scratch to fore-edge of block; jacket edge a little creased. The true first printing published several weeks prior to the UK edition. The novel won White his second Miles Franklin Award.
Synopsis
Riders in the Chariot is the sixth published novel by Australian Author Patrick White, Nobel Prize winner of 1973. It was published in 1961 and won the Miles Franklin Award in that year. It also won the 1965 Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Archives Fine Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13545
- Title
- Riders in the Chariot
- Author
- WHITE, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- FICTION, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN NOVELS, FIRST EDITIONS, MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD, NOISBN
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Archives Fine Books
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Brisbane, Queensland
About Archives Fine Books
Archives Fine Books has been serving readers, collectors and institutions since 1985. Located in a heritage listed building in the heart of Brisbane's business district, it boasts a large inventory of fine second hand, collectible and rare books.
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- Fine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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