Modern Australian Aboriginal Art
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1952 [limited edition]/ 1951 (standard edition).
Quarto, [x], 55 pages plus 12 black and white plates and 23 tipped-in colour plates (two more than in the standard edition).
Publisher's quarter dark green morocco and mid-green buckram; top edge green, others uncut; leather very lightly rubbed at the ends of the spine; endpapers and adjacent leaves foxed; front inner hinge a little cracked (but firm); minimal offsetting and trifling signs of use; a near-fine copy with the original pale green papered slipcase with gilt-lettered title-labels mounted on both sides (now a little foxed, stained, and unevenly discoloured).
Number 27 of only 130 copies signed by the author and the ten artists represented in the book (Albert, Enos, Oscar and Ewald Namatjira; Edwin, Otto and Reuben Pareroultja; Walter Ebatarinja, Henoch Raberaba and Richard Moketarinja). A rarity, especially in this condition.
Item #128632
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