Forbush and the Penguins

Some foxing to page edges. Previous owner's rubber stamp on rear endpaper. Some fading and foxing to dust-jacket. A 30mm tear at lower corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy signed by the author on front endpaper "Graham Billing / Octover 19, 1965". 191, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 194 x 133mm. A novel. New Zealand author. The author's first novel. Set in Antarctica. "Forbush is a young scientist who has volunteered to spend a full Antarctic summer along at Cape Royds, studying the penguin colonies there. He lives in the huts erected by the Shackleton Expedition of 1906-08, and his solitary thoughts are powerfully influenced by the aura of those original builders and occupants of the place." - from dust-jacket blurb. "Its intense exploration of the character's inner world sets the pattern for the early novels" - Richard Corballis, in Robinson and Wattie (1998) "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature". ; 8vo

Product Info

Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed

Year: 1965

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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