307pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Plain green boards undamaged. Textblock top-edge tinted green, but faded. Leaves unmarked. Art-illustrated (Desmond Digby), loose-plastic protected dustjacket price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and slightly faded on spine. . . . a collection of 'shorter novels and stories' (some of which have been previously published in various forums) by multi-award winning (including the Nobel Prize for Literature 1973) Australian author Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990). Contents include: Prelims., 6 stories, viz: A Woman's Hand; The Full Belly; The Night of The Prowler; Five-Twenty; Sicilian Vespers; The Cockatoos. Book weight approx. 455g.