Search Results: riders in the chariot a novel by white patrick

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition. 552 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961.. 552pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, near-fine.. First edition.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London., 1961. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 552 pages.Covers a little faded at extreme edges. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper, designed by Sidney Nolan, slightly creased at top edge.

1961. First British Edition. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1961. 20.6cm x 13.8cm. 552 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, near Fine condition. The dustjacket illustration is taken from a painting by Sydney Nolan. Four people and the vision that is the centre of each of their lives but which they keep hidden from the world/ a strange woman, whom all the neighbours think mad, living in a vast, crumbling house where a wall may crack away or a tree invade the room and hardly be noticed/ a Jew who has escaped the gas chambers of Germany/ a simple, kind person, a laundress, married to a drunkard/ an aboriginal with an obsessive gift for painting which is his only contact with the world/ a vision of that world of which the Chariot is the symbol/ each of them, in some way, has been chosen/ dramatic, strange and moving events. Author Patrick White also wrote "The Tree of Man".