PERDITA Tapa blanda - 1992

McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. second-hand copy, clean, no annotations, no damage to describe. A novel set in the Elwood Women's and small persons' Refuge – in fact, a notorious brothel. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [14], 209, [5] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0869142399. ISBN/EAN: 9780869142394. Inventory No: 0277059. . 9780869142394

Ringwood, VIC, Australia: McPhee Gribble (Penguin Books), 1992. 209pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, small, soft corner crease to several. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to lower front panel. From the rear cover: "On a winter's night, a dishevelled child, Perdita, is left bound with barbed wire to the cast-iron fence of a Melbourne orphanage. Her only succour is a solitary boiled egg and a pair of gherkins . . . Unfortunately Perdita is abducted from the orphanage and incarcerated in the Elwood Women's and Small Persons' Refuge - in fact, a notorious brothel . . . A novel of all-round human devolution yet still studded with humour, pith and irony." Book weight approx. 195g. *Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Impression.. Softcover. Very Good +.