A Waste of Shame
Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1965. Ben Shearer (Jacket Illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover : pp.[x] [222] : original patterned boards : unclipped jacket illustrated by Australian artist Ben Shearer.
A touch of tanning to the page margins; jacket has light edge-wear. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #10883
One of two variant jackets with this one being unpriced. Others have the price "21/-". The unpriced jacket is most likely the secondary issue following the adoption of decimal currency in Australia in February 1966. The third novel in Turner's "Treelake" tetralogy. Turner received a Miles Franklin Award for his novel 'Cupboard Under the Stairs' and was to become one of Australia's leading science fiction writers of the twentieth century.
Price: $45.00