Voss.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Penguin Books (1960). Small 8vo. Original orange colour wrapper with front cover illustration by Sidney Nolan (cover slightly aged). (448pp.). First Penguin Edition bearing the autograph of the author on half title-page. Desirable thus. NOTE: Patrick White remains the only Australian Nobel laureate. White's epic novel inspired by the tragic story of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared without a trace in the Australian interior in 1848. Voss was the winner of the inaugural Miles Franklin Literary Award.