Winbaraku and the Myth of Jarapiri
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1968.
Octavo, xx, 116 pages with 12 illustrations and 65 pages of plates (7 in colour, one folding).
Cloth lightly bumped at the corners; last gathering (pages 105-116) creased before binding (a production flaw); an excellent copy with the slightly chipped and torn dustwrapper.
The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Lady Pauline and Sir | A. Grenfell Price | with much gratitude and | appreciation | fr[om] | Charles P. Mountford'. The outcome of Mountford's '1960 journey into the north-west of central Australia, which included 300 miles of difficult and totally untravelled territory ... the only complete record in Australian literature of an entire aboriginal myth' (dustwrapper blurb). Charles Pearcy Mountford (1890-1976), anthropologist and photographer; Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist.
Item #137429
Price (AUD):
$400.00