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Patrick White : a life / by David Marr
Bib ID 2638489
Format BookBook [text, volume]
Author
Marr, David, 1947- author
 
Description Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 1991 
©1991 
727 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, 1 genealogical table ; 25 cm 
ISBN 9780091825850 (hardback)
0091825857 (hardback)
Series

Robert Darby collection.

Full contents
  • part 1. Out and back
  • part 2. Letters of introduction
  • part 3. Sarsaparilla
  • part 4. The pavement and the crowd.
 
Notes

Available also in a deluxe edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.

NLA's Petherick copy is no. 48 of a limited edition of 100 copies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [657]-715) and index.

Subjects White, Patrick, 1912-1990.  |  Novelists, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.  |  Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.  |  Australian

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    SR A 823.3 W587M
    Copy: Limited ed. no. 48
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