Wild Cat Falling
(Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1965).
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. First edition. A small bookstore stamp on the front pastedown and a short tear to the edge of one page, else fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, with the very scarce wraparound band. Long considered the first novel written by an Australian Aborigine, Johnson became a dominant figure in Aboriginal literature. However, an article in 1996 revealed that, perhaps unbeknownst to the author, he was probably not an Aborigine at all (according to the article his mother was Irish-English and his father was African-Irish).
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