WHITELEY, Brett and Michael DRISCOLL

Native Rose

Cammeray, Richard Griffin, 1986.

Large quarto, [61] pages with numerous black and white and colour illustrations by Whiteley.

Cloth; front cover very slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the Whiteley-illustrated dustwrapper lightly creased, with a short tear to the bottom edge of the front panel expertly sealed.

'"Native Rose" is an intense fusion of Brett Whiteley's surreal imagery with poetry and narration inspired by the Olgas in Central Australia and the journals of Ernest Giles. Michael Driscoll ... wrote a series of poems based ... upon "Australia Twice Traversed" ... Extracts from the journals preface each poem and image' (dustwrapper blurb). This edition in cloth is most uncommon.