Happy Valley

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1939. Pp. 328(last blank); tan cloth, spine lettered in blue, the spine and edges of boards a trifle darkened; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips, backstrip and flaps browned (the flaps on reverse), light damp stain to back panel near… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1940. First. hardcover. near fine/very good(-). 8vo, black cloth, paper labels on front cover and spine; top stained rose, d.w. New York: Viking, 1940. First American Edition.<br/> <br/> The Australian novelist's first book. The dust wrapper has a flattened crease on the front cover, light edge-wear and a triangular chip on the backcover, but, has… Read more about this item

Harrap, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. One of a wide selection of Patrick White first editions, some signed, offered on this site. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 328 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1939 First Printing in gilt-stamped cloth boards, no dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, slight shelf wear to boards with softening to spine ends & very slight rounding to corners, book slightly cocked, small stain top page block edge, binding is tight and pages are clean & unfoxed though there is occasional soil/staining to… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap and Co, 1939. Signed by Patrick White on the front free endpaper, inscribed to British art and dance critic Nigel Gosling and dated March 1939. 327 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with blue lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good, boards slightly bowed, a little musty, lacking dust jacket. A rare signed… Read more about this item

Text Classics, Melbourne, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Introduction by Peter Craven – Jackaroo Epic. Photographic end pages sewing a young Patrick white and his dog. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), by W.H. Chong, with red and black coloured titles… Read more about this item

New York City: Viking Press, 1940. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 317. 8vo. Bound in original woven black cloth. Title labels to spine and front board. Publisher's topstain. No dust jacket. Front board very sl. bowed. Spine label faded with small chip. Contents unmarked, binding tight. Good plus condition. Patrick White (1912-1990) was an English-born Australian writer who is widely… Read more about this item

Text Classics, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Text Classics, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. February1939. 1st ed., 2nd impr.,pp.(vii), 327, scattered foxing to page edges, staining to lower edge and to boards both front and rear also affecting several pages towards end, sl. cocked, orig (orange) cl. Bds. This second printing of Happy Valley was published February, 1939, same year as the first edition. White did not… Read more about this item

Text Classics, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Jonathan Cape, 2012-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.1968 in x 21.7834 in x 13.7895 in.

London: Text Publishing, 2012. Hardcover.. Used. Patrick White???s magnificent debut novel???first published 1939, long out of print and now a Text Classic. Based on Patrick White???s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro, near Adaminaby in south-eastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is… Read more about this item

The Text Publishing Company. Melbourne. 2012 (Reprint). 8vo. Hardcover, d/w, fine cond. White's experiences as a jackaroo were the basis of this novel which he did not allow to be reprinted in his life time. First editions are very difficult to come by.

Text Classics, 2012. First printing thus. Fine in fine, faintly soiled dust jacket, in mylar cover..

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Viking Press, 1940. Black buckram, white titles on rose paper labels, & top edges tinted rose; A just very good copy with spine label fade, front fep neatly excised, & red stamp (WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF DETROIT) inside back board; No dust jacket; 317 pages. Size: 5.5"x8". Hardcover.