[Rarebooks] FS - Patrick White, Happy Valley 1st

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*WHITE, Patrick. /HAPPY VALLEY/*. Bound in original woven black cloth 
with paper title and spine labels. Top edge sprayed carmine. No dust 
jacket. Published by The Viking Press, New York City. 1940. 1st American 
edition, 8vo, pp. 317. Front board slightly bowed. Spine label faded 
with small chip. Endpapers and 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.

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