441576
- TitleBook jacket design for 'Poor Fellow My Country', 1975 / watercolour by Ray Crooke
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- Call numberSSV/69
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Dateca. 1975
- Type of material
- Reference code441576
- Physical DescriptionDrawings - 1 watercolour drawing - image 16.3 x 17.5 cm., on board 28 x 17.5 cm.
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY'Poor Fellow My Country was published in 1975. The novel by Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) deals with Anglo-Aboriginal relations in the Northern Territory, and was the largest novel published in Australia at the time. It won the Miles Franklin Award for literature in 1975.
- Scope and ContentThis watercolour is a preliminary version of the final published book jacket which featured an Aboriginal figure in the foreground and variations in the landscape.
- General noteThe Library holds several published editions of 'Poor Fellow My Country' (1975, 1983, 1988, 1990), including two book jackets for the later editions.
- Signatures / InscriptionsPoor Fellow My Country Xavier Herbert -- titled in watercolour above and below image.
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