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White, Patrick.
The Vivisector.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of Publication: 1970
Stock Code: 10479
First edition. Octavo, pp., 642. Publishers’ terracotta cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by Tom Adams. Spine tips lightly creased, and lower board bruised to edge and corner; contents crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly creased with unobtrusive paper tape repair to reverse top edge. A very good copy in like jacket. The eighth published novel by the British-Australian writer (1912-1990), featuring fictional artist Hurtle Duffield and his lifelong creative journey, with themes of artistic suffering and the meaning of life. £40.00