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Published by Random House, 2012
ISBN 10: 0224097881ISBN 13: 9780224097888
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Text Classics, 2013
ISBN 10: 1921922915ISBN 13: 9781921922916
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
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Published by Vintage, 2014
ISBN 10: 0099583674ISBN 13: 9780099583677
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
ISBN 10: 1922182419ISBN 13: 9781922182418
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 a jagged and restless study of small-town and country life.White was twenty-seven when Happy Valley was published by George C. Harrop in London. This mesmerising first novel gives us a prolonged glimpse of literary genius in the making. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941, but White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Its appearance now in the Text Classics series is a major literary event.Happy Valley is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of White's work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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First printing thus. Fine in fine, faintly soiled dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Paris, Gallimard 1951., 1951
354pp. 8vo. Original wrappers in French bookseller's dustwrapper, Leaves yellowed. A very good copy. Second French edition. The last edition of Happy Valley to be published before White banned its re-issue.
Published by George G Harrap, London, 1939
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. (327p). Covers lightly dusted, fore-edge, top edge, fore-edge and bottom edge dusted and lightly fxed, light reading lean, else clean unmarked. 2nd Printing February 1939 Size: Octavo. Hardcover.
Published by Harrap. 1939, 1939
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Half title; prelims a little spotted. Orig. ochre cloth; v. sl. dusted. Issued the same month as the first printing. Though he never allowed it to be reprinted in his lifetime, Happy Valley displays the beginnings of White's enormous talent for weaving together disparate voices in a hostile landscape.
Published by Paris, Gallimard 1951., 1951
First Edition
354pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. Leaves a touch yellowed as always. A very good copy. First French edition.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1940
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. A lovely 1st Edition copy of White's scarce 1st novel. 'Happy Valley' won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime and it would not be until the 21st century before another edition appeared. Original publisher's black cloth, with red title label to spine and front board. This copy is in excellent condition. Square tight binding. Clean interior, save for previous owner name and date to front end paper. The spine is somewhat sunned, including the title label, making the title, printed in white, difficult to read. There is a linear light discoloration to the rear board. Lacking the rare dust jacket. Overall and excellent example of White's entry into the literary world.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First U.s. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 317. Original publisher's black cloth, with red title label pasted to spine and front cover, lettered white. Patrick White's first published book, 'Happy Valley' won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime. Not until 2012 would the book come back into print. Including a typed sgned letter from Anthony Neville Bookseller, Rye confirming the provenance of this book, 'I purchased this copy from White's former literary agent, Miss O'Hea, a director of Curtis Brown. White gave this copy to Miss O'Hea and this same copy that was lent to Tom Maschler of Jonathan Cape, before Cape started publishing White's books'. Two pencilled proof corrections in the text possibly done at Cape, with page numbers of these noted on the front endpaper. Spine label tanned and somewhat faded, otherwise sound, very good with clean text.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co February 1939, London, 1939
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
First Edition
Cloth Boards. 1st Edition, second issue. 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 allow the book to be reprinted, however, Gallimard, a publisher in Paris, was given permission by the author to issue a French translation of this work in 1951. The novel received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and White remains the only Australian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Vg black cloth. Spine faded. Ink ownership sig. Elusive first novel by Australia's only (I think) Nobel laureate.
Hardcover. 1st edition. 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 regarded as one of the most important English language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935, until his death, he published twelve novels, three short story collections and eight plays. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Australian to win that prize.'Happy Valley' is the author's first novel, first published by George G. Harrap (London) in 1939. Our offering is the first American edition. 'Happy Valley' won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White would not allow it to be re-published during his lifetime, as he feared an action for defamation might be brought by the descendants of some of the characters described in the book. A new printing did not appear until 2012, long after his death.
317pp. 8vo. Original cloth. A very good copy. No dustwrapper, though the front flap is loosely inserted. First US edition , very scarce.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1940
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition of Author's First Novel. Large Octavo. Original black cloth over boards with paper title plate at cover and spine, red top edge. Very scarce title. Very good, spine and spine label heavily faded, scrape at the bottom of front with loss to cloth front edge, spot at bottom edge, top edge faded, pages slightly agetoned.
Published by The Viking Press, NYC, 1940
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Buckram. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First American Edition. With fading of the pasted spine label, otherwise a near fine, unmarked, hardcover first U.S. edition in black buckram with pasted labels on cover & spine, top edge tinted. Alas, no DJ. Photos on request.
Published by Viking, New York, 1940
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). First. 8vo, black cloth, paper labels on front cover and spine; top stained rose, d.w. New York: Viking, 1940. First American Edition. 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 the original $2.50 price, & in all is an excellent of a scarce book.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1940
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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".
Published by Harrap, 1939
Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 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 intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Australia; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 30265. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co, London, 1939
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 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 edges of the first 75 or so pages with a former stuck-page situation to 36-37 with some loss of text at inner margins, else a clean tight nice first issue copy of White's first novel - quite scarce; sm 8vo; 327pp.
Published by George G. Harrap and Co, London, 1939
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
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 copy of the Australian author's first book, which he later repudiated and would not allow to be republished in his lifetime. In 1973 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1939
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
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 fore-edge; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1939. First edition. Hubber & Smith C1a. *Patrick White's scarce first novel.
Published by Harrap, London., 1939
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Octavo. 327 pages. The author's first novel. On the front free endpaper is the ownership signature of the literary critic Bonamy Dobrée. In the publisher's blurb on the dustwrapper there is an admiring quotation from Herbert Read who was a colleague and friend of Dobrée, so it is possible that it was at the recommendation of the former that the latter acquired this copy.Slight scuff to tail of spine. Near fine in very good, slightly rubbed dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine and with a couple of small chips to the top edge. A bright copy.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. London, 1939
Seller: AlmostAll1stEditions, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Advance Proof Copy as started on front cover, First edition First printing 1939, extremely rare book in very good condition with no writing no marks. Tight binding. Issued without a jacket in simple tan covers with very light foxing.