PATRICK WHITE, VOSS, 1957
In 1957 Patrick White decided that Nolan's explorer series captured exactly what he was aiming for in Voss, his fifth novel based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback. They had never met, but White had the sense they were both exploring the same territory, and he wrote to Nolan to invite him to do design the dust jacket. Nolan’s response painted in ink, wash, wax crayon, and pen and ink depicts a figure in black, below a blue sky with yellow lettering. He posted it to White who described the figure as ''thin and prickly,'' though in the in the final version used he thought his publishers had turned Voss into a ''fat, amiable botanist.' White later invited Nolan to design the dust jackets for his subsequent novels The Aunt's Story (1958), and Riders in the Chariot (1961).
Author: Patrick White (dust jacket illustrated by Sidney Nolan)
Publisher: Etre and Spottiswoode / Book Society, London
Date: Published in 1957. 1958 reprint of the 1st Edition
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 478pp.
ISBN-10: does not apply
Condition: Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacket in fragile and very poor condition with major losses. Inscribed with the former owner’s signature and dated 58 in blue ballpoint pen on the front endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Other minor issues present such as mild cracking, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.
In 1957 Patrick White decided that Nolan's explorer series captured exactly what he was aiming for in Voss, his fifth novel based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback. They had never met, but White had the sense they were both exploring the same territory, and he wrote to Nolan to invite him to do design the dust jacket. Nolan’s response painted in ink, wash, wax crayon, and pen and ink depicts a figure in black, below a blue sky with yellow lettering. He posted it to White who described the figure as ''thin and prickly,'' though in the in the final version used he thought his publishers had turned Voss into a ''fat, amiable botanist.' White later invited Nolan to design the dust jackets for his subsequent novels The Aunt's Story (1958), and Riders in the Chariot (1961).
Author: Patrick White (dust jacket illustrated by Sidney Nolan)
Publisher: Etre and Spottiswoode / Book Society, London
Date: Published in 1957. 1958 reprint of the 1st Edition
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 478pp.
ISBN-10: does not apply
Condition: Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacket in fragile and very poor condition with major losses. Inscribed with the former owner’s signature and dated 58 in blue ballpoint pen on the front endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Other minor issues present such as mild cracking, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.
In 1957 Patrick White decided that Nolan's explorer series captured exactly what he was aiming for in Voss, his fifth novel based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt who disappeared whilst on an expedition into the Australian outback. They had never met, but White had the sense they were both exploring the same territory, and he wrote to Nolan to invite him to do design the dust jacket. Nolan’s response painted in ink, wash, wax crayon, and pen and ink depicts a figure in black, below a blue sky with yellow lettering. He posted it to White who described the figure as ''thin and prickly,'' though in the in the final version used he thought his publishers had turned Voss into a ''fat, amiable botanist.' White later invited Nolan to design the dust jackets for his subsequent novels The Aunt's Story (1958), and Riders in the Chariot (1961).
Author: Patrick White (dust jacket illustrated by Sidney Nolan)
Publisher: Etre and Spottiswoode / Book Society, London
Date: Published in 1957. 1958 reprint of the 1st Edition
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 478pp.
ISBN-10: does not apply
Condition: Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacket in fragile and very poor condition with major losses. Inscribed with the former owner’s signature and dated 58 in blue ballpoint pen on the front endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Other minor issues present such as mild cracking, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.
