Signed by Author. Inscribed 8th Feb 1998 by Archie Weller, Helen Weller, John Harper-Nelson. First Edition. Archie Weller grew up on a farm called Woonenup in the south-west of Western Australia and later attended Guildford Grammar School near Perth as a boarder. His grandfather’s influence and encouragement were important in Weller’s desire to write. He worked in a variety of mostly labouring jobs before writing his first novel, The Day of the Dog. It was written ‘within a period of six weeks in a spirit of anger after his release from Broome jail for what he regarded as a wrongful conviction.’ Ten years later, the novel was made into the AFI award winning film Blackfellas and the novel republished to coincide with the opening of the film. pp. 378 #0117