Patrick White — The Burnt Ones

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Australian author Patrick White. First UK edition. A collection of eleven short stories haunted by feelings of isolation, self-examination, and the awareness of difference. Titles include: Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight, The Evening at Sissy Kamara's, and The Woman Who Wasn't Allowed to Keep Cats. Written by Patrick Victor Martindale White, a British-born Australian writer. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine and panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small handling mark. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.