A World That Was. The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia
Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1993 (first edition).
Quarto, xxxii, 624 pages with 36 illustrations, 20 tables and 10 maps plus 20 pages of plates (comprising 45 illustrations from photographs).
Papered boards very lightly rubbed; small ownership signature on the title page; occasional pencilling (minimal underlining and short comments; generally small ticks and NBs in the margins); an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly torn and creased near the front bottom corner, and with trifling surface loss at the rear where a price sticker has been removed.
One of the Miegunyah Press series. 'Material originally collected in the 1940s now appears for the first time in this intricate study of an Aboriginal people who inhabited some of the richest country in Australia at the time of European colonisation'. Hard to find, easy to sell, and increasingly expensive.
Item #110705
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